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