Pahor's election victory narrowest to date (statistics)
Ljubljana, 12 November - President Borut Pahor's re-election is the narrowest election victory in independent Slovenia, as none of the presidential candidates since 1992 won with such a slight margin. Apart from Milan Kučan, Pahor is also the only Slovenian politician to win a second presidential term.
Bellow are the election results from all six presidential elections in independent Slovenia.
1992 election results (in %):
candidates 1st round --------------------------------- Milan Kučan 63.90 Ivan Bizjak 21.16 Jelko Kacin 7.30 Stanislav Buser 1.94 Darja Lavtižar Bebler 1.83 Alenka Žagar Slana 1.74 Ljubo Sirc 1.51 France Tomšič 0.63
1997 election results (in %):
candidate 1st round ---------------------------------- Milan Kučan 55.57 Janez Podobnik 18.42 Jožef Bernik 9.39 Marjan Cerar 7.07 Marjan Poljšak 3.22 Anton Peršak 3.08 Bogomir Kovač 2.70 Franc Miklavčič 0.55
2002 election results (in %):
kandidat 1st round 2nd round --------------------------------------------- Janez Drnovšek 44.39 56.52 Barbara Brezigar 30.80 43.48 Zmago Jelinčič 8.49 France Arhar 7.59 Franc Bučar 3.24 Lev Kreft 2.25 Anton Bebler 1.85 Gorazd Drevenšek 0.86 Jure Cekuta 0.54
2007 election results (in %):
candidate 1st round 2nd round --------------------------------------------- Lojze Peterle 28.73 31.97 Danilo Türk 24.47 68.03 Mitja Gaspari 24.09 Zmago Jelinčič 19.16 Darko Krajnc 2.18 Elena Pečarič 0.90 Monika Piberl 0.48
2012 election results (in %):
candidate 1st round 2nd round --------------------------------------------- Borut Pahor 39.87 67.37 Danilo Türk 35.88 32.63 Milan Zver 24.25
2017 election results (in %):
candidate 1st round 2nd round* --------------------------------------------- Borut Pahor 47.21 52.94 Marjan Šarec 24.76 47.06 Romana Tomc 13.68 Ljudmila Novak 7.24 Andrej Šiško 2.21 Boris Popovič 1.80 Maja Makovec Brenčič 1.73 Suzana Lara Krause 0.78 Angelca Likovič 0.59 * early unofficial result
Source: National Electoral Commission