2019 Slovak presidential election

2019 Slovak presidential election

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Turnout48.74% (first round) Increase 5.35pp
41.80% (second round) Decrease 8.67pp
 
Nominee Zuzana Čaputová Maroš Šefčovič
Party PS Independent[a]
Popular vote 1,056,582 752,403
Percentage 58.41% 41.59%


President before election

Andrej Kiska
Independent

Elected President

Zuzana Čaputová
PS

Presidential elections were held in Slovakia in March 2019. Incumbent President Andrej Kiska did not run for a second term.

Fifteen candidates contested the first round on 16 March, of which two later formally withdrew their bids before voting took place, but their names still had to remain on the ballot papers. Zuzana Čaputová of the Progressive Slovakia party finished ahead of the other candidates, receiving 40.6% of the votes, but failed to achieve the necessary threshold of 50%+1 vote from all registered voters to avoid a run-off. Maroš Šefčovič, the vice president of the European Commission for the Energy Union, who was running as an independent supported by the Direction – Social Democracy (SMER–SD) party, came in as the runner-up with 18.7% of the vote and earned a place in the run-off as well.

In the second round on 30 March, Čaputová was elected with 58.4% of the vote to Šefčovič's 41.6%. She became the first woman to be elected to the presidency and became Slovakia's youngest-ever president upon her inauguration which took place on 15 June 2019.
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