SLOVAK REPUBLIC
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF MAY 1999
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Source: Slovak government website

Parties
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* HZDS (Hnutie za Demokraticke Slovensko) Movement for a 
   Democratic Slovakia 
* SDSS (Socialnodemokraticka Strana na Slovensko) Social 
   Democratic Party of Slovakia
* SNS (Slovenska narodna strana) Slovak National Party 
* SOP (Strana obcianskeho porozumenia) Party of Civic 
   Understanding

FIRST ROUND, 15 MAY 1999
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Candidate                  Party       Votes
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Jan Deinkat                                4,537   00.1
Juraj Lazarcik                            15,386   00.5
Vladimir Meciar            HZDS        1,097,956   37.7
Ivan Mjartan                             105,903   03.6
Rudolf Schuster            SOP         1,396,950   47.9
Jan Slota                  SNS            73,836   02.5
Magdalena Vasaryova                       24,077   00.8
Boris Zala                 SDSS          194,635   06.7
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Valid vote                             2,913,280
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Blank or invalid                          35,122
Total                                  2,948,402 
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SECOND ROUND, 29 MAY 1999
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Rudolf SCHUSTER            SOP         1,727,481   57.2
Vladimir Meciar            HZDS        1,293,642   42.8 
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Total                                  3,021,123 
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