Smer-SD would not win alone if election was held now, states poll

The governing party Smer-SD had been riding a wave of popularity in the polls since their election in 2012, however if a general election had been held in late March to early April, Smer-SD would only have obtained 37.4 percent of the vote, according to the latest opinion poll carried out by Focus polling agency. The following parties in the polls would be 'Siet' (Network) on 10.9 percent, the Christian Democrats (KDH) on 9.9 percent, Most-Hid on 7.2 percent, Ordinary People (OLaNO) on 7 percent, the Slovak National Party (SNS) on 5.7 percent and Freedom and Solidarity (SaS) garnering 5.3 percent. Conversely, among those who would have fallen under the required 5-percent threshold to make it into the House would be the Hungarian Community Party (SMK) on 4 percent, SDKU-DS (3.2 percent), TIP (2.6 percent), and NOVA (2.3 percent). Extrapolating these results into seats in Parliament, Smer-SD would have 68 seats, which means that it would need at least one coalition partner in order to achieve a majority in the 150-strong House. Siet would have gained 20 seats, KDH 18, Most-Hid 13, OLaNO 12, SNS 10 and SaS 9 seats. The survey was carried out between March 31 to April 8 and canvassed the views of 1,027 respondents. As regards voter turnout, 18.6 percent of the respondents said that they would not go to the polls, while another 13.5 percent claimed that they were unable to decide or didn't want to give an answer as to their participation.