COUNTRY	Republic of Slovenia
ELECTION TYPE	Presidential
DATE	November 10, 2002

• The office of the president of the Republic of Slovenia.

• Chief of State: President Milan KUCAN
• Head of Government: Prime Minister Janez DRNOVSEK
• Assembly: Slovenia has a unicameral parliament which consists of the National Assembly (Drzavni Zbor) with 90 members.

• The president is popularly elected to serve a five-year term.
• In the National Assembly (Drzavni Zbor), 40 members are directly elected while the remaining 50 members are chosen by proportional vote. All members of the National Assembly serve a four-year term.

• Presidential Candidate: Janez DRNOVŠEK
  Party: Liberal Democratic Party (LDS)
  Votes Received: 583,570
  Percentage of Votes Received: 56.54%
  
  
• Presidential Candidate: Barbara BREZIGAR
  Party: Social Democratic Party (SDS) and New Slovenia Party (NSi)
  Votes Received: 448,482
  Percentage of Votes Received: 43.46%
  
  

• Presidential candidate: Janez DRNOVŠEK**
  Party: Liberal Democratic Party (LDS)
  Valid Votes Received: 506,688
  Percentage of Valid Votes: 44.40%
  
  
• Presidential candidate: Barbara BREZIGAR**
  Party: Social Democratic Party (SDS) and New Slovenia Party (Nsi)*
  *BREZIGAR has the support of both parties
  Valid Votes Received: 350,353
  Percentage of Valid Votes: 30.76%
  
  
• Presidential candidate: Zmago Jelinèiè PLEMENITI
  Party: Slovenia Nationalist Party (SNS)
  Valid Votes Received: 97,096
  Percentage of Valid Votes: 8.51%
  
  
• Presidential candidate: France ARHAR
  Party: Independent candidate
  Valid Votes Received: 86,667
  Percentage of Valid Votes: 7.60%
  
  
• Presidential candidate: Franc BUCAR
  Party: Independent candidate
  Valid Votes Received: 39,986
  Percentage of Valid Votes: 3.24%
  
  
• Presidential candidate: Lev KREFT
  Party: United List of Social Democrats (ZLSD)
  Valid Votes Received: 25,649
  Percentage of Valid Votes: 2.25%
  
  
• Presidential candidate: Anton BEBLER
  Party: Independent (but is backed by the Democratic Party of Pensioners of Slovenia)
  Valid Votes Received: 21,091
  Percentage of Valid Votes: 1.85%
  
  
• Presidential candidate: Gorazd DREVENSEK
  Party: New Party
  Valid Votes Received: 9,768
  Percentage of Valid Votes: 0.86%
  
  
• Presidential candidate: Jure CEKUTA
  Party: Independent candidate
  Valid Votes Received: 6,186
  Percentage of Valid Votes: 0.54%
  
  

**DRNOVŠEK & BREZIGAR advanced to the second round on December 1st

• The last presidential election in Slovenia was on November 24, 1997. KUCAN received 56% of the vote.

• Population: 1,930,132 (July 2001 est.)
• Number of registered voters: 1587,430 (Based on the 2000 elections).

• President KUCAN cannot run for the presidency because he has served the maximum two terms under the constitution.
• Because none of the candidates received a majority vote, a second run-off election will be held on December 1st between DRNOVŠEK and BREZIGAR.