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Senate elections were held in the Czech Republic on 7 and 8 October 2016, with a second round on 14 and 15 of October. The first round was held alongside regional elections [1] and several municipal referendums, notably in a referendum in Brno on the location of the town's train station.
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 governing coalition of the Czech Social Democratic Party (ČSSD), ANO 2011 and the Christian and Democratic Union (KDU-ČSL) retained a majority in the full Senate, with the KDU-ČSL making the largest gains, [2] while the Social Democrats incurred the greatest losses, retaining only two of their twelve seats up for re-election. ANO 2011 won the first round with fourteen candidates advancing, but only three of them were elected, which was a disappointment to the party. [3] The most successful opposition party was the centre-right Civic Democratic Party. It had 6 candidates advancing and four of them elected (including Zdeněk Nytra who ran as independent). [4] [5]
The Czech Social Democratic Party is a social-democratic political party in the Czech Republic. It holds 15 seats in the Chamber of Deputies following the 2017 legislative election, losing 35 seats. The party has been led by Jan Hamáček since 2018. It has been a junior coalition party within a minority cabinet since June 2018, and was a senior coalition party from 1998 to 2006 and from 2013 to 2017.
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.
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.
One third of the 81-member Senate is elected every two years, giving Senators six year terms. The seats are elected in single-member constituencies using the two-round system. [6]
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 [7] | First round | Second round | Seats | |||||
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Votes | % | Votes | % | Won | Not up | Total | +/– | |
ANO 2011 | 151,388 | 17.18 | 92,051 | 21.71 | 3 | 4 | 7 | +3 |
Czech Social Democratic Party | 128,830 | 14.62 | 55,622 | 13.12 | 2 | 23 | 25 | –10 |
Civic Democratic Party | 103,216 | 11.71 | 42,551 | 10.03 | 3 | 6 | 9 | –5 |
Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia | 83,741 | 9.50 | 5,737 | 1.35 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
KDU-ČSL | 74,709 | 8.48 | 78,448 | 18.50 | 6 | 8 | 14 | +4 |
TOP 09 | 70,653 | 8.02 | 30,820 | 7.27 | 2 | 0 | 2 | +1 |
Mayors and Independents | 43,234 | 4.91 | 25,389 | 5.99 | 2 | 3 | 5 | +1 |
Green Party | 18,798 | 2.13 | 12,565 | 2.96 | 1 | 3 | 4 | +1 |
Mayors for Liberec Region | 18,698 | 2.12 | 16,579 | 3.91 | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 |
Nestraníci | 16,172 | 1.84 | 9,849 | 2.32 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Dawn - National Coalition | 16,078 | 1.82 | – | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Severočeši.cz | 14,901 | 1.69 | 13,377 | 3.15 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
Citizens Together – Independent | 12,892 | 1.46 | 10,804 | 2.55 | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 |
Freeholder Party | 11,093 | 1.26 | – | – | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
NEZÁVISLÍ | 9,492 | 1.08 | 5,634 | 1.33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
APAČI 2017 | 8,714 | 0.99 | – | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Czech Pirate Party | 7,352 | 0.83 | – | – | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Patriotic Citizens | 6,424 | 0.73 | 8,966 | 2.11 | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 |
Tábor 2020 | 6,358 | 0.72 | – | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Freedom and Direct Democracy | 5,988 | 0.68 | – | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Moravané | 5,394 | 0.61 | – | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Movement for Prague 11 | 4,702 | 0.53 | 9,639 | 2.27 | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 |
Party of Civic Rights | 4,618 | 0.52 | – | – | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Party of Free Citizens | 4,568 | 0.52 | – | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Změna | 4,515 | 0.51 | – | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
JsmePRO! | 3,432 | 0.39 | – | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Rozumní | 3,325 | 0.38 | – | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Koruna Česká | 3,305 | 0.38 | – | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Koalice | 3,303 | 0.37 | – | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
For Prague | 3,033 | 0.34 | – | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
ALTERNATIVA | 2,709 | 0.31 | – | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Ostravak | 2,147 | 0.24 | – | – | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
New future for the Liberec Region | 2,003 | 0.23 | – | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Independent Candidates to the Senate | 1,962 | 0.22 | – | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Ústecká Citizens' Forum | 1,961 | 0.22 | – | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
SNK European Democrats | 1,882 | 0.21 | – | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
SPR-RSČ | 1,812 | 0.21 | – | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Order of Nation | 1,723 | 0.20 | – | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Association of Independent Candidates 1 | 1,685 | 0.19 | – | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
South City – Our Home | 1,560 | 0.18 | – | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
SaS | 1,296 | 0.15 | – | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Workers' Party | 1,127 | 0.13 | – | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
HOZK | 938 | 0.11 | – | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
National Democracy | 830 | 0.09 | – | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Czech Republic Patriots | 632 | 0.07 | – | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Czechoslovak Community Party | 554 | 0.06 | – | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
New Direction | 551 | 0.06 | – | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
NáS | 380 | 0.04 | – | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
SSPD-SP | 266 | 0.03 | – | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Czech National Socialist Party | 133 | 0.02 | – | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Independents | 6,093 | 0.69 | 6,058 | 1.43 | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 |
Invalid/blank votes | 41,323 | – | 3,434 | – | – | – | – | – |
Total | 922,493 | 100 | 427,523 | 100 | 27 | 54 | 81 | 0 |
Registered voters/turnout [8] | 2,780,706 | 33.17 | 2,780,597 | 15.38 | – | – | – | – |
Source: Volby.cz (results), Volby.cz (turnout) |
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Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
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Alena Dernerová | United Democrats - Association of Independents | 5,933 | 54.90 |
Jiří Šlégr | Czech Social Democratic Party | 1,700 | 15.73 |
Josef Nétek | Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia | 797 | 7.37 |
Roman Ziegler | ANO 2011 | 723 | 6.69 |
Jiří Biolek | Mayors and Independents | 639 | 5.91 |
Libuše Hrdinová | Civic Democratic Party | 444 | 4.10 |
Jiří Maria Sieber | Order of Nation | 246 | 2.27 |
Zbyněk Vodák | TOP 09 | 195 | 1.80 |
Jiří Fiala | Common Sense Party | 128 | 1.18 |
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