Slovak parliamentary election, 2010

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All 150 seats to the Národná rada

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Robert Fico	Iveta Radičová	Richard Sulík
Party	Smer–SD	SDKÚ-DS	SaS
Last election	50	31	0
Seats won	62	28	22
Seat change	+12	–3	+22
Percentage	34.79%	15.42%	12.14%

	Fourth party	Fifth party	Sixth party

Leader	Ján Figeľ	Béla Bugár	Ján Slota
Party	KDH	Most-Híd	SNS
Last election	14	0	20
Seats won	15	14	9
Seat change	+1	+14	–11
Percentage	8.52%	8.12%	5.07%

Prime Minister before election

Robert Fico
Smer–SD

Prime Minister

Iveta Radičová
SDKÚ-DS

Robert Fico
Smer–SD

Iveta Radičová
SDKÚ-DS

A parliamentary election took place in Slovakia on 12 June 2010. The elections were contested by eighteen parties, six of which passed the 5% threshold for sitting in parliament. Despite the incumbent Smer of Prime Minister Robert Fico winning a plurality, the new government consisted of a coalition led by the Slovak Democratic and Christian Union – Democratic Party's Iveta Radičová and included KDH, SaS and Most-Hid. However, her government fell on 11 October 2011 following a vote of no confidence with a new election called for 10 March 2012.

A total of 2,401 candidates applied to contest the 150 seats.

Polls in February 2010 had indicated that the current governing party Smer-SD (Direction – Social Democracy) would win a plurality with a margin of 25%. However the five opposition right-wing parties – the Slovak Democratic and Christian Union (SDKÚ-DS), the Christian Democratic Movement (KDH), the Party of the Hungarian Coalition (SMK-MKP), Most–Híd, and Freedom and Solidarity (SaS) – could together gain a majority. There were conflicting reports during the campaign as to whether some of these parties would consider joining with Fico. During pre-election campaigning, reports indicated that the "Christian Democrats and the two ethnic Hungarian parties had not ruled out working with Fico." Rumours were reported that prime minister Robert Fico might have secretly agreed not to enter a coalition with the Slovak nationalists again, unless he had no other choice. A later poll by of the Czech News Agency suggested that the governing coalition would lose its majority, and that one of Fico's allies (HZDS) would struggle with the 5% barrier.

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