Memo 98
Record Turnout in Slovakia's European Parliament Elections at 34.38%
Turnout in Saturday's European Parliament elections reached 34.38 per cent It was the highest ever in the history of Slovakia's five European elections.
This was stated by members of the State Commission for Elections and Control of Political Party Financing and the Statistical Office (SO).
Voters in the Bratislava region, which recorded the highest turnout - 44.53 percent, contributed the most to the overall result. On the contrary, the lowest turnout was recorded in the Košice region, where it reached 28.33 per cent.
"Among the districts, the highest turnout was in the Bratislava I district, i.e. in Bratislava's Old Town (52.03 per cent), the lowest in the Revúca district (22.50 per cent)," Martin Nemky, chairman of the SO, told at a press conference.
Within the municipalities, the highest voter turnout was recorded in the municipality of Potok in the Ružomberok district, where it reached 90 percent. The smallest share of voters came to vote in the village of Lomnička in the Stará Ľubovňa district, where the turnout reached only 1.03 percent.
Nemky also reported that the total tallying time took six hours and 40 minutes. "It was more than three hours shorter than five years ago," he pointed out. The first minutes were processed on Saturday 17 minutes after 10 p.m., the last on Sunday at 4.25 a.m. This was in the Palárikovo precinct, where voting was extended due to an incident - the discovery of white powder in the first hours of the election.
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