Elections for the

2019 European Parliament election The 2019 European Parliament election was held in the European Union (EU) between 23 and 26 May 2019. It was the ninth parliamentary election since the first direct elections in 1979. A total of 751 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) we ...

took place in Slovakia on 25 May 2019. Thirty-one parties featured on the electoral list. The election was won by alliance of

Progressive Slovakia Progressive Slovakia (, PS) is a liberal and social-liberal political party in Slovakia established in 2017. The party is led by Michal Šimečka, a former Vice President of the European Parliament. It is a member of the Renew Europe group and ...

and TOGETHER - Civic Democracy. It was the first election since 2006 that was won by some other party than

Direction – Social Democracy Direction – Social Democracy (, Smer–SD), also commonly referred to as Smer, is a left-wing nationalism, left-wing nationalist and left-wing populism, left-wing populist political party in Slovakia led by the incumbent Prime Minister of Slov ...

Main contesting parties

Results

European groups

Elected members

PS – ALDE #

Michal Šimečka Michal Šimečka (born 10 May 1984) is a Slovak politician, journalist, and researcher, who served as a Vice-President of the European Parliament between 2022 and 2023. He also became a Member of the European Parliament between 2019 and 2023. In ...

, by 81,735 preferential votes #

Martin Hojsík Martin Hojsík (born 27 January 1977) is a Slovak activist, an environmental expert and a politician elected as a Member of the European Parliament in 2019. In addition to his committee assignments, Hojsík is a member of the European Parliament ...

, by 27,549 preferential votes SPOLU – EPP # Michal Wiezik, by 29,998 preferential votes (now he is member of PS and Renew Europe) # Vladimír Bilčík, by 26,202 preferential votes Smer – S&D #

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 ...

, by 89,472 preferential votes # Miroslav Číž, by 51,362 preferential votes # Robert Hajšel, by 13,773 preferential votes ĽSNS – APF #

Milan Uhrík Milan Uhrík (born 21 December 1984) is a Slovakia, Slovak politician, Member of the European Parliament, MEP and the leader of the Republic Movement. A former Non-Inscrits, non-inscrit, he is now a part of the Europe of Sovereign Nations Group, ...

, by 42,779 preferential votes (now he is leader of movement Republika) # Miroslav Radačovský, by 42,276 preferential votes (now he is leader of Slovak patriot) KDH – EPP # Ivan Štefanec, by 33,128 preferential votes # Miriam Lexmann, by 27,833 preferential votes SaS – AECR #

Lucia Ďuriš Nicholsonová Lucia Ďuriš Nicholsonová (; born 28 November 1976) is a Slovakia, Slovak politician who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2019. A former journalist, she previously served as State Secretary of the Ministry of Labor ...

, by 52,331 preferential votes (now she left SaS and she became independent on slovak national level, on EU level she became member of Renew Europe) # Eugen Jurzyca, by 33,540 preferential votes OĽaNO – EPP # Peter Pollák, by 23,815 preferential votes

Post-election changes of European political parties

On 5 June, Peter Pollák announced that he is switching from AECR to EPP.Peter Pollák sa pridáva k frakcii Európskej ľudovej strany (EPP)
/ref> Lucia Ďuriš Nicholsonová switched from ECR to Renew Europe. Michal Wiezik switched from EPP to Renew Europe.

Opinion polls

Parties

# SMER # ''Kresťanská demokracia'' (Christian Democracy) #

Kotleba – People's Party Our Slovakia Kotlebists – People's Party Our Slovakia (, ĽSNS) is a far-right, neo-Nazi political party in Slovakia. The party claims to derive its origin from the legacy of Andrej Hlinka and Jozef Tiso. Positioned on the far-right of the political spect ...

# ''Korektúra'' #

Slovak National Party The Slovak National Party (, SNS) is an ultranationalist political party in Slovakia. The party characterizes itself as a nationalist party based on both social and European Christian values. Since 1990 SNS has won seats in every Slovak pa ...

# We Are Family #

Ordinary People ''Ordinary People'' is a 1980 American Tragedy, tragedy film directed by Robert Redford in his List of directorial debuts, feature directorial debut. The screenplay by Alvin Sargent is based on the Ordinary People (Guest novel), 1976 novel by ...

# ''Starostovia a nezávislí kandidáti'' # ''Strana práce'' # ''Strana tolerancie a spolunažívania'' # ''Hlas ľudu'' # ''Maďarská kresťanskodemokratická aliancia'' # ''Doprava'' #

Christian Democratic Movement The Christian Democratic Movement (, KDH) is a Christian democratic political party in Slovakia that is a member of the European People's Party (EPP) and an observer of the Centrist Democrat International The Centrist Democrat International ...

# Slovak Green Party # Most–Híd # ''PRIAMA DEMOKRACIA'' # ''Strana rómskej koalície - SRK'' #

Slovak Conservative Party The Slovak Conservative Party (, abbreviated SKS), formerly known as Network (, self-styled #SIEŤ), was a centre-right political party in Slovakia. It was established by Radoslav Procházka, a former member of Christian Democratic Movement (KDH). ...

# ''Slovenská národná jednota'' # Party of the Hungarian Community # ''Doma dobre'' #

Communist Party of Slovakia The Communist Party of Slovakia (, KSS) is a communist party in Slovakia, formed in 1992 through the merger of the Communist Party of Slovakia – 91 and the Communist League of Slovakia. The party is observer of the Party of the European Lef ...

and VZDOR # ''EURÓPSKA DEMOKRATICKÁ STRANA'' #

Freedom and Solidarity Freedom and Solidarity (, SaS), also called Saska, is a Centre-right politics, centre-right political party in Slovakia. Established in 2009,. SaS was founded by economist Richard Sulík, who designed Slovakia's flat tax system. It generally hol ...

# ''Slovenská ľudová strana Andreja Hlinku'' # ''NAJ – Nezávislosť a Jednota'' # ''Kresťanská únia'' #

and TOGETHER – Civic Democracy # ''Demokratická strana'' # ''Národná koalícia''

Sources

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