2014 European Parliament election in the Czech Republic

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2014 European Parliament election in the Czech Republic
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21 seats in the European Parliament
Turnout18.19% (Decrease2.svg 10.03pp)
 First partySecond partyThird party
  Pavel Telicka.jpg Ludek Niedermayer.jpg Jan Keller.jpg
Leader Pavel Telička Luděk Niedermayer Jan Keller
Party ANO TOP 09–STAN ČSSD
Alliance ALDE EPP PES
Last election–2.29%, 0 seats22.39%, 7 seats
Seats won444
Seat changeNewIncrease2.svg 4Decrease2.svg3
Popular vote244,501241,747214,800
Percentage16.13%15.95%14.17%
SwingNewIncrease2.svg13.66ppDecrease2.svg8.22pp
 Fourth partyFifth partySixth party
  Katerina Konecna.jpg Pavel Svoboda 2010.JPG JanZahradil.jpg
Leader Kateřina Konečná Pavel Svoboda Jan Zahradil
Party KSČM Lidovci ODS
Alliance GUE/NGL EPP AECR
Last election14.18%, 4 seats7.65%, 2 seats31.45%, 9 seats
Seats won332
Seat changeDecrease2.svg 1Increase2.svg 1Decrease2.svg 7
Popular vote166,478150,792116,398
Percentage10.99%9.95%7.68%
SwingDecrease2.svg3.19ppIncrease2.svg2.30ppDecrease2.svg23.77%
 Seventh party
  Petr Mach (14001188144).jpeg
Leader Petr Mach
Party Svobodní
Alliance ADDE
Last election1.27%, 0 seats
Seats won1
Seat changeIncrease2.svg 1
Popular vote79,540
Percentage5.25%
SwingIncrease2.svg3.98pp
Results by district: ANO 2011 (blue), TOP 09 and STAN (purple), CSSD (orange), KDU-CSL (yellow) and KSCM (red) Evropsky parlament 2014.png
Results by district: ANO 2011 (blue), TOP 09 and STAN (purple), ČSSD (orange), KDU-ČSL (yellow) and KSČM (red)

European Parliament elections were held in the Czech Republic on 23 and 24 May 2014. In total, 21 Members of the European Parliament were elected using proportional representation (single district D'Hondt with a 5% threshold).

Contents

ANO won the election closely followed by the coalition of TOP 09 and STAN, themselves closely followed by ČSSD. A total of 7 parties gained seats, including the non-parliamentary Party of Free Citizens. [1] Election turnout was 18.2%, the second lowest of all participating countries after Slovakia. [2]

Campaign finances

Party ČSSD ANO TOP 09 ODS KSČM SZ ÚSVIT KDU-ČSL
Money spent [3] 25,000,000 Kč18,500,000 Kč10,000,000 Kč10,000,000 Kč8,000,000 Kč7,000,000 Kč5,500,000 Kč5,000,000 Kč

Opinion polls

DatePolling Firm ANO ČSSD KSČM TOP 09 ODS ÚSVIT KDU-ČSL SZ PIRÁTI SVOBODNÍ OthersTurnout
23–24 MayElection16.114.211.016.07.73.110.03.84.85.218.2
24 May iDnes 15.517.011.018.09.52.09.54.53.54.5
Exit polls
9–13 MayData Collect [4] 20.112.512.214.27.27.74.64.94.34.77.6
5–12 May CVVM 25.023.011.08.06.01.06.02.02.02.035.0
14–21 Apr STEM 24.718.511.910.77.42.06.72.01.92.611.6
12–15 Apr Data Collect 22.214.111.19.67.68.93.82.93.44.811.632.4
8–13 Apr Sanep 23.220.114.58.25.43.25.22.93.2n/a14.127.4

Results

European Parliament 2014 Czech result.svg
PartyVotes%+/–Seats+/–
ANO 2011 244,50116.13New4New
TOP 09–STAN 241,74715.95+13.664+4
Czech Social Democratic Party 214,80014.17−8.224−3
Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia 166,47810.99−3.193−1
KDU-ČSL 150,7929.95+2.303+1
Civic Democratic Party 116,3897.68−23.772−7
Party of Free Citizens 79,5405.25+3.981+1
Czech Pirate Party 72,5144.78New0New
Green Party 57,2403.78+1.7200
Dawn of Direct Democracy 47,3063.12New0New
Party of Common Sense 24,7241.63New0New
Communist Party of Czechoslovakia8,5490.56New0New
Right Bloc 8,0280.53−0.4700
SNK European Democrats 7,9610.53−1.1300
DSSS–SPE7,9020.52New0New
Liberal-Environmental Party 7,5140.50New0New
No To Brussels – National Democracy 7,1090.47New0New
National Socialists – Left of the 21st century 7,0990.47New0New
Public Affairs 6,9880.46−1.9400
Moravané 6,6140.44+0.0500
VIZE 2014 3,6980.24New0New
Civic Conservative Party 3,4810.23New0New
Labour Party – Disgruntled Citizens2,8990.19New0New
Czech Party of Regions2,5350.17New0New
Koruna Česká 2,4340.16−0.0300
Club of Committed Non-Party Members 2,3790.16New0New
Republic2,2400.15New0New
Czech Sovereignty 2,0860.14–4.1200
Hnutí Sociálne Slabých1,6850.11New0New
Citizens 2011 1,2990.09New0New
Assets of Independent Citizens1,2420.08New0New
Roma Democratic Party1,1850.08New0New
Republican Party of Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia1,1000.07New0New
Fair Play – HNPD9000.06New0New
Antibursík – stop ekoteroru!7610.05New0New
Party of Equal Opportunities6400.04New0New
Evropani.cz6310.04New0New
Czech National Social Party 5020.03–0.0000
Total1,515,492100.00–21–1
Valid votes1,515,49299.22
Invalid/blank votes11,8750.78
Total votes1,527,367100.00
Registered voters/turnout8,395,13218.19
Source: Volby

European groups

PartySeats+/–
European People's Party 7+5
Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats 4–3
Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe 4+4
European United Left–Nordic Green Left 3–1
European Conservatives and Reformists 2–7
Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy 1New
Total21–1

Elected members

The seats were given out within the parties to the candidates who received the preference votes, if number of preference votes exceeds 5% of votes for party (highlighted by bold), otherwise to the candidates by its order on party candidate list. 8 of 21 elected candidates are non-partisans (4 elected for ANO, 3 for TOP 09 and STAN and 1 for ČSSD).

ANO
  1. Pavel Telička – 50,784 votes
  2. Petr Ježek – 5,301 votes
  3. Dita Charanzová – 8 356 votes
  4. Martina Dlabajová – 4,789 votes
TOP 09 and STAN
  1. Jiří Pospíšil – 77,724 votes
  2. Luděk Niedermayer – 37,171 votes
  3. Jaromír Štětina – 18,951 votes
  4. Stanislav Polčák – 11,997 votes
ČSSD
  1. Jan Keller – 57,812 votes
  2. Olga Sehnalová – 10,955 votes
  3. Pavel Poc – 3,818 votes
  4. Miroslav Poche – 3,692 votes
KSČM
  1. Kateřina Konečná – 28,154 votes
  2. Miloslav Ransdorf – 14 384 votes
  3. Jiří Maštálka – 11,525 votes
KDU-ČSL
  1. Michaela Šojdrová – 22,220 votes
  2. Pavel Svoboda – 21,746 votes
  3. Tomáš Zdechovský – 5,063 votes
ODS
  1. Jan Zahradil – 19,892 votes
  2. Evžen Tošenovský – 16,514 votes
Svobodní
  1. Petr Mach – 13,211 votes

Aftermath

The Green Party and Pirate Party failed to reach 5% threshold. Both parties decided to deliver a complaint to Supreme Administrative Court. They were inspired by Germany, where the threshold was abolished. [5] The court did not decide about the complaint and sent it to the Constitutional Court. [6] Constitutional Court rejected the complaint on 1 June 2015. According to the court, abolishing the threshold would lead to less effective European Parliament as it would be fragmented too much. [7]

If the threshold was abolished for 2014 elections Green Party and Pirate Party would get 1 MEP. Social Democrats and Christian Democrats would have 1 MEP less on the other hand. [8]

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