How is the national electoral register created?

Government Office for Legislation, Electoral Registration Act (ZEVP-2), last amended 9 February 2024, accessed 20 April 2026

Article 13 (data management and acquisition method) 

(1) The administrative units and the ministry that manages the register of voting rights centrally shall be responsible for keeping records of the right to vote. 

(2) Records of the right to vote shall be kept in the Register of Permanent Population and in the Central Register of Population of the Republic of Slovenia. The data referred to in the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th points of the second paragraph of Article 4 of this Act are obtained directly from the Civil Registry, the Permanent Population Register and the Aliens Register. 

(3) Administrative units shall be responsible for entering data from 1 to 7 and 10 and 11 of the second paragraph of Article 4 of this Act. 

(4) The Ministry shall be competent to enter the data referred to in points 8 and 9 of the second paragraph of Article 4 of this Act. The Ministry shall also be competent to enter the data referred to in points 12 to 14 of the second paragraph of Article 4 of this Act, when the ballot paper is issued ex officio pursuant to Article 35 of this Act. 

(5) The State Election Commission or the Election Commission shall be competent to enter the data referred to in points 12 to 14 of the second paragraph of Article 4 of this Act. 

(6) The State Election Commission shall be competent to enter and delete the data referred to in point 15 of the second paragraph of Article 4 of this Act.

OSCE, ODIHR Slovenia, Parliamentary Elections, 22 March 2026: Needs Assessment Mission Report, accessed 20 April 2026

D. VOTER REGISTRATION 

All citizens of Slovenia aged 18 years or older on election day have the right to vote. The January 2024 amendment to the election law enabled passive and active voting rights to all adult citizens, lifting restrictions on suffrage rights from persons under guardianship due to intellectual and psychosocial disabilities, implementing a long-standing ODIHR recommendation to ensure universal suffrage in line with international standards. As of 12 January 2026, the voter register included 1,689,352 voters, including 113,952 voters registered abroad. 

Voter registration is passive and based on the Central Population Register maintained by the Ministry of the Interior (MoI). The register comprises three types of lists: the general voter list, the list of citizens residing abroad, and the lists of members of the Hungarian and Italian national communities. All ODIHR NAM interlocutors expressed confidence in the overall integrity of the voter registration process and did not report specific concerns regarding the accuracy of voter lists. 

The MoI provides final voter lists to election commissions 15 days before election day, and voters may verify their registration at any time at administrative units, diplomatic representations, or online, or request inclusion if not yet registered.