2008 Slovenian Parliamentary Election

17 parties filed to run in the election, including all nine parliamentary parties. The election was won by the Social Democrats (SD), who then went on to form a government together with Zares, Liberal Democracy of Slovenia (LDS) and the Democratic Party of Pensioners of Slovenia (DeSUS).

2008 Slovenian parliamentary election

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All 90 seats in the National Assembly
Turnout	63.10% ( 2.46 pp)
First party Second party Third party   Leader Borut Pahor Janez Janša Gregor Golobič Party SD SDS Zares Last election 10 seats 29 seats New Seats won 29 28 9 Seat change 19 1 New Popular vote 320,248 307,735 98,526 Percentage 30.45% 29.26% 9.37%   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Karl Erjavec Zmago Jelinčič Bojan Šrot Party DeSUS SNS SLS Last election 4 seats 6 seats 7 seats Seats won 7 5 5 Seat change 3 1 2 Popular vote 78,353 56,832 54,809 Percentage 7.45% 5.40% 5.21%   Seventh party   Leader Katarina Kresal Party LDS Last election 23 seats Seats won 5 Seat change 18 Popular vote 54,771 Percentage 5.21%
Prime Minister before election Janez Janša SDS Prime Minister after election Borut Pahor SD

Exit polls

According to exit polls, conducted by the Interstat agency for Radiotelevizija Slovenija, Social Democrats (SD) won the most votes, 32.02%. Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS) finished second with 28.04%. Other parties followed: Zares 10.05%, Democratic Party of Pensioners of Slovenia (DeSUS) 6.74%, Slovenian National Party (SNS) 5.58%, Liberal Democracy of Slovenia (LDS) 5.21%, and Slovenian People's Party (SLS) with Youth Party of Slovenia (SMS) 4.28%. New Slovenia (NSi) and Lipa, the parliamentary parties before the elections, did not reach the 4% limit.

According to exit polls, conducted by the Mediana agency for POP TV, the results are following: SD 31.5%, SDS 27.7%, Zares 9.7%, DeSUS 7.6%, LDS 6.1%, SNS 5.8%, SLS-SMS 4.2%. The margin was not reached by NSi (2.6%) and Lipa (2.3%).

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