Petőcz Kálmán (szerk.): National Populism and Slovak - Hungarian Relations in Slovakia 2006-2009 (Somorja, 2009)

Kálmán Petőcz: National Populism and Electoral Behaviour

Kálmán Petőcz

districts are plagued by serious socio-economic problems, high unemployment and generally lower standard of life.

The following two maps illustrate election results of SMER-SD in the 2006 parliamentary elections. The first taken from the official website of the Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic illustrates the party’s aggregated results by constituency. The second illustrates the party’s election results broken down to the set of Slovak voters only (i.e. voters who did not vote for SMK-MKP).

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Election results of SMER-SD in the 2006 parliamentary elections - aggregated data by electoral constituency

Share of the popular vote (%)

Source: Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic: www.statistics.sk

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