A mere 875 votes decided the election in Košice

How many votes did Marian Kotleba get, how much did the election cost and what was the lowest number of votes sufficient for a regional councillor to be elected?

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Here are some interesting figures from the regional elections:

• A total of 4,499,219 voters were eligible to cast their vote and in the end, 1,347,761 turned out. Of that number, 564 submitted invalid ballot papers.

• The turnover was 29.95 percent.

• The lowest turnout was in the Nitra Region – a mere 24.7 percent. The highest, on the other hand, was in the Banská Bystrica Region with 40.3 percent.

• The ruling Smer party lost4 regions: Trnava, Žilina, Prešov and Košice.

• There will be new regional governors in 6 regions – Bratislava, Trnava, Žilina, Banská Bystrica, Prešov and Košice.

• The opposition OĽaNO party won 2 regional governor’s positions, the Trnava and Žilina regions. This is the most any right-wing party has ever held but the candidates ran with the support of other parties too.

• Other regional governors were elected as follows: the opposition SaS – Juraj Droba in Bratislava, the non-parliamentary KDH - Milan Majerský in Prešov; and two independent candidates, Ján Lunter in Banská Bystrica, and Rastislav Trnka in Košice.

• Erika Jurinová became the first woman elected to be regional governor (Žilina Region).

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• Marian Kotleba got 23,895 votes less than four years ago; he was elected by 47,502 people and received 23.2 percent.

• In total 336 people representing the ĽSNS ran for the regional parliaments, while two were elected as councillors – Marian Kotleba and Milan Uhrík.

• Marian Kotleba received 6,737 votes for councillor, while Milan Uhrík was more popular with 7,246 votes.

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• Only 161 independent candidates were elected as councillor.

• The lowest number of votes sufficient for being elected to a council seat was in one of the boroughs of the Bratislava Region: Dušan Dvoran became a councillor with a mere 840 votes. He is aged 63.

• Peter Oremus in the Nitra Region received the most votes; he was elected by 13,941 voters.

• Only 875 votes decided the outcome in the Košice Region. Rastislav Trnka got 59,599 votes, while Richard Raši got 58,724.

• The election cost €10,199,209; and was the fifth election held for the governance of the “higher territorial units”, i.e. self-governing regions.

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