The Smer-SD party won a landslide 44.41 percent of the votes in Slovakia's early general election on Saturday, according to unofficial results released by the Statistics Office on Sunday morning after all votes had been counted.

According to the results, which are set to be announced officially by the Central Electoral Commission (UVK) later in the day, the Smer-SD party would take up 83 seats in the 150-member Parliament.

Aside from Smer, five other parties have cleared the 5-percent threshold needed to win parliamentary representation. The Christian Democrats (KDH) were the runners-up with 8.82 percent, followed by the ORDINARY PEOPLE and Independent Personalities' (OLaNO) party with 8.55 percent. These two parties will both send 16 representatives to parliament.

The largely ethnic-Hungarian Most-Hid party was backed by 6.89 percent of the voters (13 seats), while the erstwhile leading coalition SDKU-DS party received only 6.09 percent, slightly more than the liberal Freedom and Solidarity (SaS) with 5.88 percent. SDKU and SaS will have 11 MPs each.

The Slovak National Party (SNS) and its arch-rival the ethnic-Hungarian SMK fell short of parliament with 4.55 percent and 4.28 percent, respectively.

Among the other parties that received only limited support were 99%-People's Voice with 1.58 percent, Vladimir Meciar's LS-HZDS with 0.93 percent, the Communist Party of Slovakia (KSS) with 0.72 percent, and Anna Belousovova's Nation and Justice with 0.63 percent.

The turnout of the election reached 59.11 percent, higher than expected.