I am going to bed as Slovakia is waking up. The result tonight is a big win for Smer, bigger than expected. Smer did what it set out to do in this election: avoid mistakes, avoid scaring people, letting the other side self destruct.
Party | Votes | Seats |
Smer | 44.85 | 84 |
KDH | 8.76 | 16 |
OL | 8.46 | 16 |
Most-Hid | 6.94 | 13 |
SDKU | 5.79 | 11 |
SaS | 5.56 | 10 |
Totals | 80.36 | 150 |
None of the parties of the right did as well as they polling would have suggested except for the not-really-a-party-at-all (and it’s built into the name) OLaNO. So we have 1 large left party and 5 small right parties. There are no explicitly Slovak national parties, for the first time in Slovakia’s history, and three of the parties did not exist 3 years ago. And nearly 20% of the vote went to parties receiving less than 5%.
How this story fits together will have to wait until (my) tomorrow (and probably a lot longer than that).
Waw! So exact estimations! More exact than both Slovakian Agencies MVK and POLIS. I think we’ll see in 4 years again by your forecasts.