Slovak parliamentary election, 2006

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All 150 seats to the Národná rada
76 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Robert Fico	Mikuláš Dzurinda	Ján Slota
Party	Smer–SD	SDKÚ-DS	SNS
Last election	25 seats	28 seats	0 seats
Seats won	50	31	20
Seat change	25	3	20
Popular vote	671,185	422,815	270,230
Percentage	29.14%	18.35%	11.73%

	Fourth party	Fifth party	Sixth party

Leader	Béla Bugár	Vladimír Mečiar	Pavol Hrušovský
Party	SMK	ĽS–HZDS	KDH
Last election	20 seats	36 seats	15 seats
Seats won	20	15	14
Seat change	0	21	1
Popular vote	269,111	202,540	191,443
Percentage	11.68%	8.79%	8.31%

PM before election

Mikuláš Dzurinda
SDKÚ-DS

Elected PM

Robert Fico
Smer–SD

Mikuláš Dzurinda
SDKÚ-DS

Robert Fico
Smer–SD

Parliamentary elections were held in Slovakia on 17 June 2006.Direction – Social Democracy emerged as the largest party in the National Council, winning 50 of the 150 seats. Its leader Robert Fico was appointed Prime Minister on 4 July 2006, leading a three-party coalition.

Originally the election was planned for 16 September 2006. However, on 8 February the government proposed calling an early election after the Christian Democratic Movement left the coalition government. This proposal was passed by the Parliament on 9 February and signed by the President on 13 February. For the first time Slovak citizens living abroad could vote, using absentee ballots. A total of 21 parties contested the elections.

On 28 June Fico announced that the government coalition would consist of his Direction - Social Democracy party, together with the Slovak National Party and People's Party - Movement for a Democratic Slovakia. The Party of European Socialists criticized this decision because of nationalist statements of the leader of the Slovak National Party and subsequently suspended Direction's membership.

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