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MEDIAN SK Poll: Smer Would Have Won Recent Election on 38.4 percent
Friday 14 May 2010 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava, May 14 (TASR) - If a general election had been held in April, the winner would have been the main coalition party Smer-SD on 38.4 percent of the vote, according to a poll carried out by MEDIAN SK between March 29-April 25 on 2,117 respondents, Jindrich Bardon of the agency told TASR on Friday.
The main opposition party SDKU-DS would have come second on 15.3 percent, with the Christian Democrats (KDH) third on 11.5 percent.
Next came the Slovak National Party (SNS) on 9.1 percent, LS-HZDS on 7 percent, and Freedom and Solidarity (SaS) on 6.2 percent.
No other party would have reached the 5-percent threshold required to gain seats in Parliament. The ethnic-Hungarian SMK would have come closest on 3.3 percent, followed by the Slovak-Hungarian Most-Hid on 2.7 percent. the Slovak Communist Party (KSS) on 1.9 percent, and the Party of the Democratic Left (SDL) on 1.2 percent.
Only 34.7 percent of the respondents said that they would definitely have taken part in the vote, 28.6 percent would have thought about it, while 22.8 percent stated that they definitely wouldn't participate and 10.1 percent that they probably wouldn't do so. A total of 3.8 percent said that they didn't know if they would have voted on not.
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