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Senate elections were held in the Czech Republic on 5 and 6 October 2018 alongside municipal elections, with a second round held on 12 and 13 October 2018. The Conservative Civic Democratic Party (ODS) won the election with 10 seats. Governing parties ANO 2011 and the Czech Social Democratic Party were heavily defeated, receiving only 1 seat each. The Communist Party lost its last seat in the Senate. The election was considered the first major win for the opposition to Andrej Babiš' Cabinet. Commentators including Josef Kopecký also noted ODS confirmed their position as the main opposition party, ahead of the Czech Pirate Party. [1] [2] [3] [4] . The last remaining senator for KSČM, Václav Homolka, had lost re-election, marking the first time in the history of Czech Republic, when the Communists had completely lost representation in one of the Chambers of Czech Parliament.
Conservatism is a political and social philosophy promoting traditional social institutions in the context of culture and civilization. The central tenets of conservatism include tradition, human imperfection, hierarchy, authority, and property rights. Conservatives seek to preserve a range of institutions such as monarchy, religion, parliamentary government, and property rights, with the aim of emphasizing social stability and continuity. The more extreme elements—reactionaries—oppose modernism and seek a return to "the way things were".
The Civic Democratic Party is a liberal-conservative political party in the Czech Republic. It holds 25 seats in the Chamber of Deputies, and is the second strongest party following the 2017 election.
One-third of the 81-member Senate is elected every two years, giving Senators six year terms. Members of the Senate are elected in single-member constituencies using the two-round system. [5]
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.
Name | Ideology | Leader | Seats | |
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Czech Social Democratic Party | Social democracy | Jan Hamáček | 13 / 27 | |
Civic Democratic Party | Conservatism | Petr Fiala | 4 / 27 | |
KDU-ČSL | Christian democracy | Pavel Bělobrádek | 2 / 27 | |
Mayors and Independents | Localism | Petr Gazdík | 2 / 27 | |
Independents | 2 / 27 | |||
Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia | Communism | Vojtěch Filip | 1 / 27 | |
Pirates | Pirate politics | Ivan Bartoš | 1 / 27 | |
Green Party | Green politics | Petr Štěpánek | 1 / 27 |
District | Incumbent | Standing for reelection |
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2 - Sokolov | Zdeněk Berka (ČSSD) | No |
5- Chomutov | Václav Homolka (KSČM) | Yes |
8 - Rokycany | Milada Emmerová (ČSSD) | Yes |
11 - Domažlice | Jan Látka (ČSSD) | Yes |
14 - České Budějovice | Jiří Šesták (STAN) | Yes |
17 - Prague 12 | Tomáš Grulich (ODS) | No |
20 - Prague 4 | Eva Syková (ČSSD) | Yes |
23 - Prague 8 | Daniela Filipiová (ODS) | No |
26 - Prague 2 | Libor Michálek (Piráti) | Yes |
29 - Litoměřice | Hassan Mezian (ČSSD) | No |
32 - Teplice | Jaroslav Kubera (ODS) | Yes |
35 - Jablonec nad Nisou | Jaroslav Zeman (ODS) | Yes |
38 - Mladá Boleslav | Jaromír Jermář (ČSSD) | No |
41 - Benešov | Luděk Jeništa (TOP 09) | No |
44 - Chrudim | Jan Veleba (SPOZ) | No |
47 - Mladá Boleslav | Lubomír Franc (ČSSD) | No |
50 - Svitavy | Radko Martínek (ČSSD) | No |
53 - Třebíč | František Bublan (ČSSD) | No |
56 - Břeclav | Jan Hajda (ČSSD) | Deceased prior to election |
The Senate election campaign ran parallel to the campaign for the municipal elections. [6]
ANO 2011 launched their campaign on 3 September 2018. Babiš said that ANO was offering many highly-qualified candidates, including Ivan Pilný and Eva Syková. [7]
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.
Ivan Pilný is a Czech politician and former Microsoft executive who briefly served as Finance Minister of the Czech Republic from 24 May 2017 to 13 December 2017. From 2013 to 2017 Pilný was a member of the Chamber of Deputies (MP).
Eva Syková is a Czech neuroscientist whose research focused on the origins, mechanisms and maintenance of ionic and volume homeostasis in the CNS and the role of extrasynaptic transmission, spinal cord injury. She is currently leading several clinical studies, including a Phase I/II study in patients with spinal cord injury as well as ongoing clinical studies of patients with ALS and ischemic leg injury. She was director of Institute of Experimental Medicine and the head of the Center for Cell Therapy and Tissue Repair at Charles University in Prague. Eva Sykova is author of 421 publications and co-holder of 7 patents with an H-index of 50.
The Czech Social Democratic Party launched their campaign on 5 September 2018, focused on social issues.[ which? ] [8]
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.
The Civic Democratic Party (ODS) launched their campaign on 7 September 2018. Petr Fiala stated that the election would be a conflict of two worlds, with ODS representing the world of experienced candidates and ANO 2011 representing the world of repeated restarts. [9]
Petr Fiala is a Czech politician, political scientist and university professor who has been Leader of the Civic Democratic Party (ODS) since 2014. He has served as Member of the Chamber of Deputies since 2013. From 2012 to 2013 Fiala was Minister of Education, Youth and Sports in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Petr Nečas and Rector of Masaryk University in Brno.
Media | Date | ANO | ODS | Piráti | SPD | KSČM | ČSSD | KDU–ČSL | TOP 09 | STAN | Others | Notes |
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Election | 12–13 Oct 2018 | 1 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 6 | |
Referendum [10] [11] [12] | 2 Oct 2018 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 4 | |
Hospodářské noviny [13] | 30 Sep 2018 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 5 | based on betting odds |
Party | Money Spent | Source |
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ANO 2011 | 130,000,000 CZK | [14] |
Civic Democratic Party | 40,000,000 CZK | [14] |
Czech Social Democratic Party | 35,000,000 CZK | [14] |
Freedom and Direct Democracy | 30,000,000 CZK | [14] |
Christian and Democratic Union – Czechoslovak People's Party | 26,000,000 CZK | [14] |
TOP 09 | 20,000,000 CZK | [14] |
Mayors and Independents | 17,500,000 CZK | [14] |
Czech Pirate Party | 14,000,000 CZK | [14] |
Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia | 11,500,000 CZK | [14] |
The Civic Democratic Party (ODS) received most support in the first round with 11 runner-ups. ANO 2011 had 10 runner-upss [15]
Party [n 1] | First round | Second round | Seat totals | ||||||||
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Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | Won | Not up | Total | +/– | ||
Civic Democratic Party | 163,630 | 15.02 | 0 | 116,376 | 27.86 | 10 | 10 | 6 | 16 | +7 | |
ANO 2011 | 147,477 | 13.54 | 0 | 57,500 | 13.75 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 0 | |
Czech Social Democratic Party | 100,478 | 9.22 | 0 | 33,887 | 8.10 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 13 | -12 | |
Christian and Democratic Union – Czechoslovak People's Party | 99,383 | 9.12 | 1 | 34,833 | 8.33 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 16 | +2 | |
Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia | 80,371 | 7.38 | 0 | 3,578 | 0.86 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | |
Mayors and Independents | 79,025 | 7.25 | 1 | 47,317 | 11.31 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 10 | +5 | |
Freedom and Direct Democracy | 70,110 | 6.44 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Czech Pirate Party | 66,281 | 6.08 | 0 | 17,528 | 4.20 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
TOP 09 | 41,980 | 3.85 | 0 | 22,580 | 5.40 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | +1 | |
Senator 21 | 33,860 | 3.11 | 0 | 24,250 | 5.80 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 6 | ||
Marek Hilšer for Senate | 15,045 | 1.38 | 0 | 11,903 | 2.85 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | |
Freeholder Party of the Czech Republic | 12,265 | 1.13 | 0 | 7,176 | 1.72 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
For Health | 11,180 | 1.03 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Realists | 8,407 | 0.77 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Party of Common Sense | 7,186 | 0.66 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Ostravak | 6,178 | 0.57 | 0 | 4,906 | 1.17 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||
Movement for Prague 11 | 4,980 | 0.46 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||
New Future for Liberec Region | 4,744 | 0.44 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
SNK European Democrats | 4,446 | 0.41 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Czech National Social Party | 4,438 | 0.41 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Pévéčko | 3,425 | 0.31 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Czech Sovereignty | 3,300 | 0.30 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Party of Civic Rights | 3,286 | 0.30 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Party of Free Citizens | 2,884 | 0.26 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Moravian Country Movement | 2,641 | 0.24 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Ordinary Citizens | 2,010 | 0.18 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Green Party | 1,818 | 0.17 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 | 1 | 1 | -1 | |
Moravian and Silesian Pirate Party | 1,789 | 0.16 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Moravané | 1,484 | 0.14 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Koruna Česká | 1,443 | 0.13 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Patriots of the Czech Republic | 1,369 | 0.13 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
NE-VOLIM | 1,346 | 0.12 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Order of Nation | 1,172 | 0.11 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
INDEPENDENTS | 1,061 | 0.10 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Club of Committed Non-Party Members | 1,001 | 0.09 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Alternative for Czechia 2017 | 794 | 0.07 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Party of State of Direct Democracy | 499 | 0.05 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Citizens of the Czech Republic | 491 | 0.05 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Alliance of National Forces | 390 | 0.04 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Enough is Enough | 258 | 0.02 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Roma Democratic Party | 216 | 0.02 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Nation Together | 41 | 0.00 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Independents | 95,507 | 8.76 | 0 | 35,938 | 8.59 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 6 | +4 | |
Invalid/blank votes | 46,573 | – | – | 2,151 | – | – | – | – | – | – | |
Total | 1,136,262 | 100 | 2 | 419,923 | 100 | 25 | 27 | 54 | 81 | 0 | |
Registered voters/turnout | 2,743,745 | 41.41 | – | 2,547,488 | 16.48 | – | – | – | – | – | |
Source: Volby |
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