2010 Prague municipal election

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2010 Prague municipal election
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Leader Zdeněk Tůma Bohuslav Svoboda Jiří Dienstbier Jr.
Party TOP 09 ODS ČSSD
Seats won262019
Popular vote1,043,008796,218615,209
Percentage30.2%21.1%17.9%
Mayor before election

Pavel Bém
ODS

Elected Mayor

Bohuslav Svoboda
ODS

The 2010 Prague municipal election was held as part of 2010 Czech municipal elections. It was held on 15 and 16 October 2010. Prague was divided into 7 electoral districts with 9 mandates allocated for each district. It created a "natural threshold." [1]

Contents

Election was won by TOP 09 ahead of Civic Democratic Party. Czech Social Democratic Party came third. [2] Civic Democrats then formed coalition with Social Democrats and Bohuslav Svoboda became Mayor of Prague. [3]

Opinion polling

PublishedCompany TOP 09 ODS ČSSD VV KSČM SZ KDU-ČSL others
15-16 October 2010Election30.221.117.95.76.85.91.9
11 October 2010Factum Invenio [4] 29.024.0
5 October 2010Global PR [5] 25.018.015.012.06.02.01.0
5 October 2010SC&C [6] 25.028.015.08.09.04.0
15 September 2010SANEP [7] 28.122.216.412.2
25 July 2010SANEP [8] 24.123.214.810.96.32.214.6N/A
22 January 2010STEM/MARK [9] 27.527.014.8N/A5.6

Results

PartyVote%VoteSeats
TOP 09 1,043,00830.2626
Civic Democratic Party 796,21821.1020
Czech Social Democratic Party 615,20917.8514
Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia 235,0046.823
Green Party - SNK European Democrats 203,3635.900
Public Affairs 195,1585.660
Common Sense Party84,2822.450
Christian and Democratic Union – Czechoslovak People's Party 65,1271.890
Party of Free Citizens 33,7660.980
Czech Pirate Party 32,9010.950
Others142,8454.140

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