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Poll: Smer-SD Well Ahead, with SDKU, SaS and KDH Nearly Neck and Neck
Wednesday 28 April 2010 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava, April 28 (TASR) - Leading governing Smer-SD party would have won a general election on 35.1 percent of votes had the vote taken place in the latter half of April, with leading Opposition SDKU-DS party coming in second on 11.7 percent of votes, results of a poll out by MVK agency on Wednesday show.
The survey, carried out between April 16-23 on a sample of 1,022 respondents, placed extra-parliamentary Freedom and Solidarity (SaS) party and Christian Democrats in close succession (11.6 and 11.4 percent, respectively).
The fifth place would have been occupied by co-governing Slovak National Party (SNS) party on 6.2 percent, followed by ethnic-Hungarian SMK party (6 percent) and LS-HZDS party (5.2 percent). The 5-percent threshold needed to win representation in Parliament would also have been broken by Most-Hid party (5.1 percent).
A total of 9.6 percent of those questioned said they wouldn't vote at all, while another 15.2 percent said they're undecided as to whom to vote for or whether to take part in the vote.
If the results of the latest poll were extrapolated into the distribution of seats if the House, Smer-SD would have occupied 57 seats, with SDKU-DS, SaS and KDH on 19 votes each. SNS and SMK would have been represented by 10 legislators each, while LS-HZDS and Most-Hid would have had 8 MPs each.
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