Candidate | Party | First round | Second round
--- | --- | --- | ---
Votes | % | Votes | %
Rudolf Schuster | Party of Civic Understanding | 1,396,950 | 47.4 | 1,727,481 | 57.2
Vladimír Mečiar | Movement for a Democratic Slovakia | 1,097,956 | 37.2 | 1,293,642 | 42.8
Magdaléna Vášáryová |  | 194,635 | 6.6 |
Ivan Mjartan |  | 105,903 | 3.6
Ján Slota | Slovak National Party | 73,836 | 2.5
Boris Zala |  | 29,697 | 1.0
Juraj Švec |  | 24,077 | 0.8
Juraj Lazarčík |  | 15,386 | 0.5
Michal Kováč [a] |  | 5,425 | 0.2
Ján Demikát |  | 4,537 | 0.2
Invalid/blank votes | 36,022 | – | 28,098 | –
Total | 2,984,424 | 100 | 3,049,221 | 100
Registered voters/turnout | 4,038,899 | 73.9 | 4,041,181 | 75.5
Source: Nohlen & Stöver