Brno municipal election, 2014

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Brno municipal election, 2014
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All 65seats in the Assembly
55 seats needed for a majority

  First party Second party Third party
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Leader Petr Vokřál Roman Onderka Matěj Hollan
Party ANO ČSSD To Live Brno
Seats won 13 11 8
Popular vote 1,175,204 1,042,210 700,919
Percentage 19.9% 17.7% 11.9%
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
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Leader Klára Liptáková František Vižďa Jana Drápalová
Party KDU–ČSL ODS SZ
Seats won 7 5 4
Popular vote 697,671 449,33 435,168
Percentage 11.8% 7.6% 7.4%
Mayor before election

Roman Onderka
ČSSD

Elected Mayor

Petr vokřál
ANO 2011

Brno municipal election in 2014 was held as part of Czech municipal elections, 2014. It was held on 10 and 11 October 2014. 55 Members of Assemby were elected. Election was a victory for ANO 2011. Joke party called To Live Brno was also successful. [1] To Live Brno is inspired by Icelandic Best Party. [2]

ANO 2011 Czech political movement

ANO 2011 is a centrist, populist political party in the Czech Republic founded by Andrej Babiš, the second-richest person in the Czech Republic, owner of the Agrofert conglomerate, and Mafra media group. It is based on the former movement Action of Dissatisfied Citizens. "Ano" means "yes" in Czech.

Best Party Icelandic political party

The Best Party was an Icelandic political party founded by Jón Gnarr on 16 November 2009. The party ran in the 2010 city council election in Reykjavík and won a plurality on the Reykjavík City Council, receiving 34.7% of the vote, defeating the Independence Party which received 33.6%. It was a member of the International Pirate Party, but not associated with Pirate Party Iceland. Jón Gnarr announced that the party was to be dissolved after he stepped down as mayor after the upcoming local elections in May 2014. Many of the Best Party's members have joined Bright Future, although Jón himself stopped political participation.

ANO formed coalition with To Live Brno, Green Party and Christian and Democratic Union – Czechoslovak People's Party. Petr Vokřál became Mayor of Brno. [3]

Green Party (Czech Republic) Czech political party

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Christian and Democratic Union – Czechoslovak Peoples Party Czech political party

The Christian and Democratic Union – Czechoslovak People's Party (Czech: Křesťanská a demokratická unie – Československá strana lidová, KDU–ČSL, often shortened to lidovci is a Christian-democratic political party in the Czech Republic. The party took part in almost every Czech Government since 1990. In the June 2006 election, the party won 7.2% of the vote and 13 out of 200 seats; but in the 2010 election, this dropped to 4.4% and they lost all their seats. The party regained its parliamentary standing in the 2013 legislative election, winning 14 seats in the new parliament, thereby becoming the first party ever to return to the Chamber of Deputies after dropping out.

Results

PartyVotes%Seats
ANO 2011 1,175,204 19.93 13
Czech Social Democratic Party 1,042,210 17.67 11
To Live Brno with support of Pirates 700,919 11.89 7
Christian and Democratic Union – Czechoslovak People's Party 697,671 11.83 7
Civic Democratic Party 449,330 7.62 5
Green Party 435,168 7.38 4
Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia 396,657 6.73 4
TOP 09 387,462 6.57 4
What about Brno? 212,134 3.60 0
Party of Free Citizens 141,827 2.41 0
Mayors and Independents 79,597 1.35 0
Association Moravans for Brno 79,116 1.34 0
Dawn of Direct Democracy 70,850 1.20 0
Workers' Party 11,480 0.19 0
Coalition Republic for Brno 10,988 0.19 0
Conservative Party 5,283 0.09 0
Antibursík 837 0.01 0

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References

  1. ↑ "Staré strany padají, v Brně uspělo ANO a původně recesistické Žít Brno". iDNES.cz. 11 October 2014. Retrieved 10 June 2017.
  2. ↑ s.r.o., NETservis. "Recept na lepší města: Humor, nadsázka i odhodlání". Material Times. Retrieved 10 June 2017.
  3. ↑ "Primátor Onderka odchází. Teď se chce prý věnovat svým nejbližším". Parlamentní Listy. Retrieved 10 June 2017.
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