1994 Slovak parliamentary election

1994 Slovak parliamentary election
30 September–1 October 1994
All 150 seats in the National Council
76 seats needed for a majority
Turnout75.65% ( 8.52 pp)
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Vladimír Mečiar Peter Weiss Béla Bugár
Party HZDS SDĽ MKDM/MKDH
Alliance SV MK
Last election 74 seats, 37.3% 29 seats, 19.8% 14 seats, 9.7%
Seats won 61 18 17
Seat change 13 11 3
Popular vote 1,005,488 299,496 292,936
Percentage 35.0% 10.4% 10.2%
Swing 2.3 pp 9.4 pp 0.5 pp
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Ján Čarnogurský Jozef Moravčík Ján Ľupták
Party KDH DEÚS ZRS
Last election 18 seats, 8.9 % Did not exist Did not exist
Seats won 17 15 13
Seat change 1 New New
Popular vote 289,987 246,444 211,321
Percentage 10.1% 8.6% 7.4%
Swing 1.2 pp New New
  Seventh party
 
Leader Ján Slota
Party SNS
Last election 15 seats, 8.0%
Seats won 9
Seat change 6
Popular vote 155,359
Percentage 5.4%
Swing 2.5 pp
Prime Minister before election

Jozef Moravčík
DEÚS

 Elected Prime Minister

Vladimír Mečiar
HZDS

Parliamentary elections were held in Slovakia on 30 September and 1 October 1994. The early elections were necessary after the Vladimír Mečiar 1992 government had been recalled in March 1994 by the National Council and a new temporary government under Jozef Moravčík had been created at the same time.

The governing Movement for a Democratic Slovakia (HZDS) lost seats, but remained the largest party in the National Council with over three times as many seats as the second-placed Common Choice, a left-wing alliance, which almost failed to enter the parliament despite its good performance in pre-election opinion polls. After the election, the HZDS formed a coalition with the Union of the Workers of Slovakia and the Slovak National Party.

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