2024 European Parliament election in Slovenia

2024 European Parliament election in Slovenia

9 June 2024
All 9 Slovenian seats to the European Parliament
Turnout	41.18% ( 12.29%)
First party Second party Third party   Leader Romana Tomc Irena Joveva Vladimir Prebilič Party SDS Svoboda Vesna Alliance EPP RE G/EFA Last election 2 seats, 26.25%[a] New[b] New Seats won 4 2 1 Seat change 2 New New   Fourth party Fifth party   Leader Matjaž Nemec Matej Tonin Party SD NSi Alliance S&D EPP Last election 2 seats, 18.66% 1 seat, 11.12% Seats won 1 1 Seat change 1 0
SDS   20-30%   30-40%   40-50% Svoboda   30-40%   40-50% Vesna   40-50%

The 2024 European Parliament election in Slovenia was held on 9 June 2024 as part of the 2024 European Parliament election. This was the fifth European Parliament election held in Slovenia, and the first to take place after Brexit.^[1]

Electoral system

Compared to last election, Slovenia is entitled to one more MEP assigned in 2023 after a pre-election assessment of the Parliament composition based on the most recent population figures.^[2] The 9 members are elected through semi-open list proportional representation in a single nationwide constituency with seats allocated through D'Hondt method and no electoral threshold.^[3]

Both Slovenian and other non-Slovenian EU citizens residing in the country are entitled to vote in the European elections in Slovenia. No registration is needed for Slovenian citizens, while other EU citizens residing in Slovenia are required to register with the Ministry of Interior no later than 15 days before the election day. Slovenian citizens residing abroad can choose to vote by post, in the closest diplomatic or consular representation of Slovenia, or in a special polling station in Slovenia. In addition, those eligible to vote must turn 18 years old by election day at the latest.^[4]

Outgoing delegation

The table shows the detailed composition of the Slovenian seats at the European Parliament as of 27 March 2024.

EP Group		Seats	Party		Seats	MEPs
	European People's Party	4 / 8		Slovenian Democratic Party	2	Romana Tomc Milan Zver
				Slovenian People's Party	1	Franc Bogovič
				New Slovenia – Christian Democrats	1	Ljudmila Novak
	Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats	2 / 8		Social Democrats	2	Milan Brglez Matjaž Nemec
	Renew Europe	2 / 8		Freedom Movement	1	Irena Joveva
				Greens of Slovenia	1	Klemen Grošelj
Total					8
Source: European Parliament

Running parties

Party			European Party	Group	2019 result	Top candidate
	SDS	Slovenian Democratic Party	EPP	EPP	26.3	Romana Tomc[5]
	SLS	Slovenian People's Party	EPP	EPP		Peter Gregorčič[6]
	SD	Social Democrats	PES	S&D	18.7	Matjaž Nemec
	NSi	New Slovenia – Christian Democrats	EPP	EPP	11.1	Matej Tonin[7]
	Levica	The Left	PEL	−	6.4	Nataša Sukič
	DeSUS + DD	Democratic Party of Pensioners of Slovenia & Good State	EDP	−	5.7	Uroš Lipušček
	ZS	Greens of Slovenia	−	RE	2.2	Klemen Grošelj
	GS	Freedom Movement	−	RE	−	Irena Joveva
	Vesna	Vesna – Green Party	EGP	−	−	Vladimir Prebilič[8]
	Resni.ca	Resni.ca	−	−	−	Zoran Stevanović
	NOT	None of the Above	−	−	−	Violeta Tomić

Opinion polling

See also: Opinion polling for the 2024 European Parliament election

Fieldwork date	Polling firm	Publisher(s)	Sample size	SDS EPP	SLS (Gregorčič) EPP	ZS NI	SD S&D	NSi EPP	Levica Left	DeSUS EDP	DD NI	GS Renew	Resni.ca NI	PPS G/EFA	Vesna (Prebilič) G/EFA	NOT NI	Logar NI	Rupar NI	Others	None	Und.	Abst.	Lead	Source
3–6 Jun 2024	Ninamedia	Dnevnik	629	25.1	6.4	2.1	10.3	6.8	4.8	4.4		19.5	5.4	–	13.1	2.1	–	–	–	–	–	–	5.6	[9]
3–5 Jun 2024	Mediana	Delo	734	20.5 3	6.0 0	1.5 0	6.5 1	7.8 1	4.4 0	1.9 0		18.4 3	3.9 0	–	7.7 1	1.5 0	–	–	19.9				2.1	[10]
21–24 May 2024	Mediana	POPTV	713	17.9 4	3.0 0	2.6 0	9.1 1	6.0 1	4.1 0	1.4 0		12.8 2	5.5 0	–	8.1 1	0.9 0	–	–	0.1 0	4.0	14.7	6.2	5.1	[11]
13–16 May 2024	Ninamedia	Dnevnik	1,000	27.4 3	4.4 0	3.6 0	11.5 1	7.9 1	5.7 0	2.8 0		17.6 2	3.2 0	–	14.0 1	1.7 0	–	–	–	–	–	–	9.8	[12]
23–25 Apr 2024	Mediana	POPTV	723	21.7	3.3	–	5.7	7.1	3.0	2.6		15.5	3.1	2.8	7.1	0.9	–	–	0.2	4.3	14.7	4.2	6.2	[13]
22–25 Apr 2024	Parsifal	Nova24TV	863	24.5	2.8	–	6.8	6.3	4.3	1.7		12.5	4.5	2.2	2.7	–	–	–	0.1	5.7	18.7	7.2	12.0	[14]
5–7 Mar 2024	Mediana	Delo	723	20.7	2.4	–	6.4	6.2	4.5	–	–	13.0	4.1	3.3	3.3	–	–	2.7	1.7	6.4	18.6	4.3	7.7	[15]
4–7 Dec 2023	Ninamedia	–	700	14.6	3.7	–	11.4	6.3	4.0	–	–	11.6	–	–	8.3	–	12.4	0.9	–	–	19.7	7.1	2.2	[16]
24 April 2022	2022 parliamentary election	–	–	23.48	3.41		6.69	6.86	4.46	0.66	1.70	40.23[c]	2.86	1.63	1.35	—	—	—	6.13	(29.04)			16.75
26 May 2019	2019 election	–	–	26.25		2.22	18.66	11.12	6.43	5.67	0.53	19.46[d]	—	—	—	—	—	—	9.67	(71.11)			6.79

Results

Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Slovenian Democratic Party	206,368	30.61	4	+2
	Freedom Movement	149,200	22.13	2	New
	Vesna – Green Party	71,023	10.54	1	New
	Social Democrats	52,390	7.77	1	–1
	New Slovenia – Christian Democrats	51,182	7.59	1	0
	Slovenian People's Party	48,637	7.21	0	–1
	The Left	32,436	4.81	0	0
	Resni.ca	26,767	3.97	0	New
	Democratic Party of Pensioners − Good State	14,980	2.22	0	0
	Greens of Slovenia	10,865	1.61	0	0
	None of the Above [sl]	10,263	1.52	0	New
Total		674,111	100.00	9	+1
Valid votes		674,111	95.58
Invalid/blank votes		31,182	4.42
Total votes		705,293	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		1,689,586	41.74
Source: [1]

Notes

1. Percentage for joint 2019 SDS+SLS list. Seats for SDS only.
2. In 2022, the List of Marjan Šarec, which received 15.44% of the votes and 2 seats, and the Party of Alenka Bratušek, which received 4.02% of the votes and 0 seats, merged into the party.
3. Compared with the 2022 results of GS + LMŠ and SAB which have both merged with GS
4. Compared with the 2019 results of LMŠ and SAB which have both merged with GS

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