Jansa's party won 20.13 percent of the vote and 29 seats, while Bajuk's party won 8.98 percent of the vote and nine seats. This means that the SDS will have to look for a coalition partner among other parties, which is the only unknown at the moment since it is clear that President Janez Drnovsek will give Jansa the mandate to form the new government.
The formerly ruling Liberal Democrats (LDS) of incumbent Prime Minister Anton Rop won 22.78 percent of the vote and 23 seats in the parliament. Four years ago, they won 35 percent of the vote.
Rop's coalition partner - the Allied List of the Social Democrats (ZLSD) of Borut Pahor - slightly improved its results in relation to the last elections, winning 10.6 percent of the vote and 10 seats in the parliament. Another coalition partner - the Democratic Party of Pensioners - won 4.02 percent of the vote and four seats.
The Slovene People's Party (SLS) received less support than in the previous elections, winning 6.83 percent of the vote and seven seats. The Slovene National Party of Zmago Jelincic (SNS) won 6.28 percent of the vote, while the Italian and Hungarian minorities won two parliamentary seats at separate elections.
After the announcement of the election results, Jansa cautiously stated that if given the mandate to form the new government, he would not rule out any party as a possible coalition partner, which he said did not refer to the Liberal Democrats (LDS), with whom he said he could not implement his alternative programme.
Apart from Jansa's great election success, which analysts claim is the result of the voters' being weary of "big topics" such the European Union and NATO and their failed expectations of faster progress and higher salaries, another characteristic of this year's elections is the fact that only 60.5 percent of voters went to the polls, which is the lowest turnout since Slovenia gained independence.
Some commentators say that the low turnout is the result of a waning interest in democratic processes, a trend accompanying all elections in the past ten years, as well as of a general strike of journalists on the election day, which caused an all-out media blockade.
According to some commentators, the defeat of the Left, especially Rop's Liberal Democrats, can be ascribed not only to the party's distancing itself from its centrist profile which it had while led by Drnovsek, but also to Drnovsek's distancing himself from the party which he had led up to two years ago.
Rop's government was openly supported only by former Slovene president Milan Kucan, while Drnovsek, arriving at the polling station as late as 5 pm, made it known that it was probably time for political changes and a 'time out' for the party which headed ruling coalitions in the past 12 years.