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Senate elections for a third of chamber were held in the Czech Republic on 13 and 14 November 1998 with a second round on 20 and 21 November. [1]
The Czech Republic, also known by its short-form name, Czechia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west, Austria to the south, Slovakia to the east and Poland to the northeast. The Czech Republic covers an area of 78,866 square kilometres (30,450 sq mi) with a mostly temperate continental climate and oceanic climate. It is a unitary parliamentary republic, with 10.6 million inhabitants; its capital and largest city is Prague, with 1.3 million residents. Other major cities are Brno, Ostrava, Olomouc and Pilsen. The Czech Republic is a member of the European Union (EU), NATO, the OECD, the United Nations, the OSCE, and the Council of Europe.
The result was a victory for the Four-Coalition, which won 13 of the 27 seats up for election. The Coalition was an alliance of the Christian and Democratic Union – Czechoslovak People's Party, the Democratic Union, the Freedom Union and the Civic Democratic Alliance. [2] However, Civic Democratic Party remained the largest Senate fraction. Voter turnout was 41% in the first round and 20.3% in the second. [3]
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The elections were held using the two-round system, with an absolute majority required to be elected.
The two-round system is a voting method used to elect a single winner, where the voter casts a single vote for their chosen candidate. However, if no candidate receives the required number of votes, then those candidates having less than a certain proportion of the votes, or all but the two candidates receiving the most votes, are eliminated, and a second round of voting is held.
Party | First round | Second round | Seats | ||||
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Votes | % | Votes | % | Won | Total | +/– | |
Civic Democratic Party | 266,377 | 27.7 | 210,156 | 39.1 | 9 | 28 | –4 |
Four-Coalition | 255,785 | 26.6 | 166,483 | 31.0 | 13 | 26 [4] | +5 |
Czech Social Democratic Party | 208,845 | 21.7 | 121,700 | 22.7 | 3 | 23 | –2 |
Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia | 159,123 | 16.5 | 31,097 | 5.8 | 2 | 4 | +2 |
Independent Candidate | 38,381 | 4.0 | 7,655 | 1.4 | 0 | 0 | –1 |
Independents and others | 33,600 | 3.5 | – | – | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Invalid/blank votes | 131,564 | – | 4,778 | – | – | – | – |
Total | 1,093,675 | 100 | 541,869 | 100 | 27 | 81 | 0 |
Sources: Nohlen & Stöver |
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