Slovenian presidential election, 1997
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Presidential elections were held in Slovenia
on 23 December 1997. The result was a victory for incumbent Milan Kučan
, who won 55.54% of the vote. Voter turnout was 68.65%.
Slovenia
Slovenia , officially the Republic of Slovenia , is a country in Central and Southeastern Europe touching the Alps and bordering the Mediterranean. Slovenia borders Italy to the west, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north, and also has a small portion of...
on 23 December 1997. The result was a victory for incumbent Milan Kučan
Milan Kucan
Milan Kučan is a Slovenian politician and statesman. He was the first President of Slovenia.-Early life and political beginnings:...
, who won 55.54% of the vote. Voter turnout was 68.65%.
Results
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Milan Kučan Milan Kucan Milan Kučan is a Slovenian politician and statesman. He was the first President of Slovenia.-Early life and political beginnings:... |
Independent | 578,925 | 55.54 |
| Janez Podobnik Janez Podobnik Janez Podobnik is a Slovenian conservative politician.He was born in the small town of Cerkno in western Slovenia, in what was then the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He studied medicine at the University of Ljubljana, where he graduated in 1984... |
Slovenian People's Party Slovenian People's Party The Slovenian People's Party is a rural-based conservative political party in Slovenia. Formed in 1988 under the name of Slovenian Peasant Union as the first non-Communist political organization in Yugoslavia, it merged with the Slovene Christian Democrats to form the present-day party in 2000... |
191,645 | 18.39 |
| Jozef Bernik | SDSS Slovenian Democratic Party The Slovenian Democratic Party , known until 2003 as the Social Democratic Party of Slovenia is a Slovenian centre-right liberal conservative and Christian democratic party... -SKD Slovene Christian Democrats The Slovene Christian Democrats was a Christian Democrat political party in Slovenia between 1989 and 2000.It was founded as the Slovene Christian Social Movement in March of 1989. Its first president was Peter Kovačič Peršin... |
98,996 | 19.5 |
| Marjan Cerar | Independent | 73,439 | 7.05 |
| Marjan Poljsak | National Labour Party | 33,477 | 3.21 |
| Anton Persak | Democratic Party of Slovenia Democratic Party of Slovenia The Democratic Party of Slovenia is an extra-parliamentary centrist political party in Slovenia. It was established in March 1994, when the majority of the then existing Democratic Party led by Dimitrij Rupel joined the ruling Liberal Democracy of Slovenia... |
32,039 | 3.07 |
| Bogomir Kovac | Liberal Democracy of Slovenia Liberal Democracy of Slovenia Liberal Democracy of Slovenia is a liberal political party in Slovenia. It is led by Katarina Kresal and is a member of the Liberal International and the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party... |
28,110 | 2.70 |
| Franc Miklavcic | Christian-Social Union | 5,713 | 0.55 |
| Invalid/blank votes | 22,102 | ||
| Total | 1,064,446 | 100 | |
| Source: European Elections Database | |||