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FOCUS Poll: Smer Would Have Won October Election With 40% Support
Thursday 21 Octtber 2010 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava, October 21 (TASR) - Had a parliamentary election been held in October 2010, the main opposition Smer-SD party would have recorded a landslide victory with 40 percent of the vote, according to a FOCUS agency poll out on Thursday.
The survey, which was conducted between October 5-11 on a representative sample of 1,033 respondents, showed that the leading coalition SDKU-DS party would have come second with 18-percent backing, followed by the co-governing Freedom and Solidarity (SaS) party on 8.5 percent.
Next came the opposition Slovak National Party (SNS) supported by 7.8 percent, closely followed by the co-governing Christian Democrats (KDH) on 7.4 percent and Most-Hid on 6.8 percent.
The figures mean that Smer would have won 68 seats, while SDKU and SaS would have been represented by 31 and 14 legislators, respectively. SNS and KDH would have had 13 MPs each, with Most-Hid securing 11 seats.
Among the parties that would have failed to reach the 5-percent threshold needed to win representation in Parliament was the ethnic-Hungarian SMK (4.6 percent), LS-HZDS (3.7 percent) and SDL (1.4 percent).
A total of 16 percent of those questioned would have given an election a miss, while another 13.7 percent were undecided as to whom to vote for.
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