2024 Slovak presidential election
23 March 2024 (first round)
6 April 2024 (second round) | |||||||||||||||||
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| Turnout | 51.90% (first round) 3.16pp 61.12% (second round) 19.32pp | ||||||||||||||||
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Presidential elections were held in Slovakia in March and April 2024. Incumbent president Zuzana Čaputová announced in June 2023 that she would not run for a second term.
In the first round held on 23 March, Ivan Korčok led with 43% of the votes followed by Peter Pellegrini with 37%. As no candidate received a majority, a runoff was scheduled between the two on 6 April. However, in the second round, Pellegrini defeated Korčok with 53% of the vote. He was sworn in as president on 15 June.Turnout was the highest in both rounds since the 1999 Slovak Presidential election, and the closest in history of direct presidential elections in Slovakia.
The election was widely regarded as a win for Slovakia's prime minister Robert Fico who saw his ally elected as President.