page_title: 2007 Slovenian presidential election
section_title: First round result and reactions
hierarchical_section_title: 2007 Slovenian presidential election / First round result and reactions
caption_attribution_description: en:Slovenian presidential election, 2007, first round en:Lojze Peterle: 20%–30% 30%–40% en:Mitja Gaspari: 20%–30% en:Zmago Jelinčič: 20%–30%
context_page_description: Presidential elections were held in Slovenia in October and November 2007 to elect the successor to the second President of Slovenia Janez Drnovšek. France Cukjati, the President of the National Assembly, called the elections on 20 June 2007.
  Seven candidates competed in the first round on 21 October 2007; three entered the race as independent candidates, the other four were supported by political parties. Several political events, as well as tension between the Government and the political opposition, overshadowed the campaign. The front runner Lojze Peterle, supported by the governing conservative coalition, won the first round with far fewer votes than predicted by opinion polls. In the second round, held on 11 November 2007, Peterle faced the runner-up, the left-wing candidate Danilo Türk. Türk won the second round in a landslide, with 68.03% of the vote.
  In a referendum called by the National Council, and held on the same day as the second round, the electorate voted to overturn a law providing for the nationalization of citizens' share in the major national insurance company. Nearly three quarters of the votes were cast against the law.
context_section_description: The first round, held on 21 October, brought unexpected results. Contrary to predictions, Peterle won less than 29% of the vote, with Türk and Gaspari finishing a close second and third, respectively. Jelinčič, who according to opinion polls was expected to win around 12% of the vote, actually won almost 20%, finishing first in two of Slovenia's eight electoral units.
  Prime Minister Janez Janša blamed Peterle's poor showing on certain topics that were brought up during the campaign by "hidden centres of power". This was a reference to the journalists' petition, the timing of the Supreme Court's decision on the Rožman case and misinterpretation of Janša's and Minister of Economy Andrej Vizjak's remarks on reasons for Slovenia's high inflation in 2007.
caption: First round winners by electoral unit
   Lojze Peterle: 20–30% (pastel blue), 30–40% (dark blue)
   Mitja Gaspari: 20–30% (yellow)
   Zmago Jelinčič: 20–30% (orange)
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