Peter Pellegrini (left) and Ivan Korčok (right) during a debate ahead of the presidential election. (source: SME - Jozef Jakubčo)
Who did prisoners vote for in presidential elections on Saturday? In which municipalities did candidates gain 100 percent of votes? The Sme daily has compiled a list of several interesting facts from the election, based on data from the Statistics Office.
In the village of Okružná, eastern Slovakia, voting mirrored exactly the national result. Hlas chair Peter Pellegrini got 53.12 percent while former diplomat Ivan Korčok took 46.87 percent of votes. The village has almost 500 residents, turnout was 69 percent.
Out of 700 voters from the third voting district in Liptovský Mikuláš, around 270 didn't return their envelope with a vote. In addition, 166 votes were missing from the third voting district in Ilava, western Slovakia.
Almost 1,900 prisoners - almost 1 in every 5 - voted in the election. Only two prisons in Slovakia have their own voting district: in the town of Leopoldov and in the village of Hrnčiarovce nad Parnou, both Trnava Region. In the former, Pellegrini got 92 percent, and in the latter 89 percent. Some prisoners may find themselves released early from jail under the current government's amendment to the Criminal Code.
Peter Pellegrini gained 100 percent of votes in six villages in total: Kesovce, Martinová and Španie Pole in Rimavská Sobota district, Petrovo in Rožňava district (both districts are in south Slovakia), Potoky in Stropkov district, and Šarbov in Svidník district (both districts in east Slovakia). Ivan Korčok did not achieve such a feat.
Pellegrini claimed the biggest increase in votes between the first and second round in the village of Radnovce, Rimavská sobota district, which has a majority Hungarian Roma population. In the first round, Krisztián Forró who chairs the Hungarian minority party Aliancia, won there with 86 percent of the vote, while Pellegrini took 9 percent. In the second round, the latter got almost 98 percent of votes.
Both Pellegrini and Korčok hail from Banská Bystrica, central Slovakia. Although usually presidents win in their home towns, this was not the case this time. Korčok took 53 percent of votes.
