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2024 Czech regional elections will be held on 20 and 21 September 2024 to elect all 675 members of all 13 Czech regional councils. The regional elections are held together with the first round of the 2024 Czech Senate election. [1]
Elections are held in each region to elect its regional council, which is composed of 45 to 65 regional councilors, whom will elect the governor of the region. Elections are held using open list proportional representation method, with 5% threshold for both parties and coalitions in each region. The minimal age for both voting and candidacy is 18 years. [2] [3]
Pavel Ploc is a Czech former ski jumper who competed for Czechoslovakia, winning two Olympic medals.
Svobodní is a classic liberal and right-libertarian, Eurosceptic political party in the Czech Republic founded in 2009 by Petr Mach, an economist and professor of macroeconomics. Before assuming his position as an MEP, Mach taught economics at VŠFS and VŠEM. The party is led by Libor Vondráček.
Pavel Bělobrádek is a Czech politician who served as leader of KDU-ČSL from 2010 to 2019.
The 2012 Regional Council Elections were held on the 12th and 13th of October in all administrative regions of the Czech Republic, with the exception of Prague. The election was won by the Czech Social Democratic Party (ČSSD), which received the most votes in 9 of the 13 regions despite experiencing a significant drop in voter share overall.
Marian Jurečka is a Czech politician, who has served as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Labour and Social Affairs since 17 December 2021 and Minister of the Environment from November 2022 to March 2023, both in Petr Fiala's Cabinet. He was previously the Minister of Agriculture in Bohuslav Sobotka's Cabinet from 2014 to 2017.
Kateřina Konečná is a Czech politician, who has been a Member of the European Parliament representing the Czech Republic since 2013. Since 23 October 2021 she has been the leader of the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSČM).
Elections to regional councils in the Czech Republic in 13 regions were held on 7 and 8 October 2016.
Regional elections were held in the Czech Republic to elect the Regional Councils in 13 regions on 17 and 18 October 2008. The elections were won by the opposition Czech Social Democratic Party (ČSSD), which won in every region.
Regional elections were held in the Czech Republic to elect the Regional Councils of 13 regions on 5–6 November 2004. They were won by Civic Democratic Party (ODS), whilst the ruling Czech Social Democratic Party (ČSSD) was heavily defeated, finishing third.
Regional elections were held in the Czech Republic to elect the Regional Councils of 13 regions on 12 November 2000. Voter turnout was only 33.6%. The elections were won by the Civic Democratic Party, with Four-Coalition coming second and the ruling Czech Social Democratic Party in fourth.
Martin Netolický is a Czech politician who has served as governor of Pardubice Region since 2012. He has been a member of Regional Assembly of Pardubice Region since 2008 and Member of City Assembly of Česká Třebová since 2006. specialized mainly in the area of budget law and financing of territorial self-governing units.
Plzeň municipal election in 2014 was held as part of 2014 Czech municipal elections. It was held on 10 and 11 October 2014. ANO 2011 received the highest number of votes but Civic Democratic Party (ODS) and Czech Social Democratic Party (ČSSD) won the same number of seats in the City's assembly. Civic Democratic Party ruled in Plzeň more than 20 years but was expected to lose its positions and receive only 10% of votes. In an electoral upset, ODS received more than 17%. Leader of local Civic Democrats Martin Baxa said that he believes that ODS was the actual victor of the election. Voter turnout was 33.73%.
Martin Kupka is a Czech politician who has been a member of the Chamber of Deputies (MP) since 2017. He currently serves as Minister of Transport in the Cabinet of Petr Fiala and previously served as mayor of Líbeznice.
Marcel Kolaja is a Czech software engineer, Internet freedom and digital rights activist and a Czech Pirate Party politician who serves as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since the 2019 election and Quaestor of the European Parliament since 2022. He is a member of the Greens–European Free Alliance parliamentary group along with three other European Pirate Party MEPs.
Elections to regional councils in the Czech Republic in 13 regions were held on 2–3 October 2020.
Marek Ženíšek is a Czech politician and political scientist, who has been serving as the Czech Minister for Science and Research in Petr Fiala's Cabinet since May 2024. From 2009 to 2019, he was the vice-chairman of TOP 09. From 2013 to 2017, he was a Member of the Chamber of Deputies, and has also served as Deputy Minister of Justice, and First Deputy Minister of Health. Since 2020, Ženíšek is a regional assembly member in the Plzeň Region and a Deputy Governor.
Lukáš Černohorský is a Czech politician and IT analyst. He was the chairman of the Czech Pirate Party from August 2014 to April 2016 and a member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament the from 2017 to 2021. In January 2018, he was appointed chairman of the OKD Commission of Inquiry.
Alexander Černý is a Czech politician. He was a member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic from 2002 to 2021 and a councilor of the Olomouc Region from 2000 to 2020. He is a member of the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSČM).
Senate elections for one-third of the Senate of the Czech Republic will be held on 20 and 21 September 2024. The first round will be held alongside regional elections, with a potential second round one week later.
Klára Dostálová is a Czech politician and economist who has been a member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic since 2017. She served as Deputy Minister of Local Development in the Second Cabinet of Andrej Babiš from 2014 to 2017 before being appointed permanently from December 2017 until 2021. In 2020, Dostálová returned to the council of the Hradec Králové region, of which she has been a member from 2016 until 2017. Dostálová is active in politics as a non-party member of the ANO movement.
