Elections to the European Parliament took place in

Slovakia Slovakia, officially the Slovak Republic, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east, Hungary to the south, Austria to the west, and the Czech Republic to the northwest. Slovakia's m ...

on 24 May 2014. It was the third European election which took place in Slovakia. Thirteen

MEPs A member of the European Parliament (MEP) is a person who has been elected to serve as a popular representative in the European Parliament. When the European Parliament (then known as the Common Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Comm ...

were elected from Slovakia using a proportional list system joining the other candidates elected as part of the wider

2014 European Parliament election The 2014 European Parliament election was held in the European Union (EU) between 22 and 25 May 2014. It was the 8th parliamentary election since the first direct elections in 1979, and the first in which the European political parties field ...

The 'faster processing of interim results' was promised by the Slovak Office for Statistics because of a new electronic counting system.Vo voľbách 2014 už bude použitý nový systém spracovania výsledkov
Teraz.sk (Slovak) Turnout, at 13% of registered voters, was the lowest across the EU.

Main contesting parties

Results

Elected deputies

Winning party

left-wing populist Left-wing populism, also called social populism, is a Ideology#Political ideologies, political ideology that combines left-wing politics with populist rhetoric and themes. Its rhetoric often includes elements of anti-elitism, opposition to the E ...

Smer-SD won 4 seats (

Monika Beňová Monika Beňová (born 15 August 1968) is a Slovak politician who has been a member of the European Parliament since 2004. She is a member of the centre-left Direction-Social Democracy party SMER-SD. SMER-SD is a member of the Party of European ...

Vladimír Maňka Vladimír Maňka (born 19 September 1959) is a Slovak politician and Member of the European Parliament (2004–2019) with the Direction, part of the Socialist Group. In parliament, Maňka sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Budgets. ...

Monika Smolková Monika Smolková (born 6 October 1956) is a Slovak politician. Since 2009 she has been a Member of the European Parliament, where she is a member of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats The Progressive Alliance of Socia ...

Boris Zala Boris Zala is a Slovak politician for the parliamentary party SMER-SD, a member of the Slovak parliament, and the current Chairman of the parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee. He is also Assistant Professor at Constantine the Philosopher Un ...

, leader of Smer-SD in this election -

Maroš Šefčovič Maroš Šefčovič (; born 24 July 1966) is a Slovak diplomat and politician serving as European Commissioner for Trade and Economic Security; Interinstitutional Relations and Transparency (2024–2029) in the Von der Leyen Commission II. Prior t ...

became again European commissioner from Slovakia),

Christian democratic Christian democracy is an ideology inspired by Christian social teaching to respond to the challenges of contemporary society and politics. Christian democracy has drawn mainly from Catholic social teaching and neo-scholasticism, as well ...

KDH with 2 seats (

Anna Záborská Anna Záborská (born 7 June 1948) is a Slovakia, Slovak politician of the Christian Union (Slovakia), Christian Union party, living in Bojnice. From 2004 to 2019 she was a Member of the European Parliament, where she was a member of the Group o ...

, Miroslav Mikolášik ), also

liberal conservatives Liberal conservatism is a political ideology combining conservative policies with liberal stances, especially on economic issues but also on social and ethical matters, representing a brand of political conservatism strongly influenced by libe ...

from SDKÚ-DS had 2 seats (

Eduard Kukan Eduard Kukan (26 December 1939 – 10 February 2022) was a Slovakian politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs (Slovakia), Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1998 to 2006. He was a candidate in the 2004 Slovakia presidential election, p ...

Ivan Štefanec Ivan Štefanec (born 30 September 1961 in Považská Bystrica) is a Slovak politician and business manager, former member of the Slovak Parliament and current member of the European Parliament for Christian Democratic Movement. Early life and ...

), and 1 seats won

conservative Conservatism is a cultural, social, and political philosophy and ideology that seeks to promote and preserve traditional institutions, customs, and values. The central tenets of conservatism may vary in relation to the culture and civiliza ...

coalition NOVA-KDS-OKS (

Jana Žitňanská Jana Žitňanská (born 17 May 1974) is a Slovak journalist and politician. She has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2014 as well as the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR). Žitňanská worked as a member of the Broadcasti ...

, leader of united list of conservatives was Jozef Kollár but he wasn't elect),

populist Populism is a contested concept used to refer to a variety of political stances that emphasize the idea of the " common people" and often position this group in opposition to a perceived elite. It is frequently associated with anti-establis ...

OĽaNO (

Branislav Škripek Branislav Škripek (born 30 August 1970) is a Slovak politician. He has served as Member of parliament, Member of the National Council of Slovakia since 2023, having previously served as an MP from 2012 to 2014. From 2014 to 2019 he served as a M ...

, leader of list OĽaNO was Jozef Viskupič but he wasn't elect), liberal SaS (

Richard Sulík Richard Sulík (; born 12 January 1968) is a Slovak politician, economist and businessman. He is the leader of the political party Freedom and Solidarity and served as Deputy Prime Minister for Economy and Minister of Economy in Government of ...

, Ján Oravec as leader of list SaS wasn't elect), Hungarian minority

party SMK-MKP (

Pál Csáky Pál Csáky (born 21 March 1956) is a Slovak politician, a member of Hungarian minority in Slovakia and the country's former Deputy Prime Minister for European affairs, human rights and minorities. Csáky was an activist for the Hungarian minori ...

) and also Hungarian minority but more liberal and anti- Orbán party Most-Híd ( József Nagy, Zsolt Simon as leader wasn't elect). By European parliamentary group:

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