2010 Czech Senate election

Senate elections were held in the Czech Republic for a third of the Czech Senate (27 seats) in October 2010. The first round was held on 15 and 16 October 2010, with a second round on 22 and 23 October 2010.^[1]

The election was a major success for the Czech Social Democratic Party, who gained 12 seats to become the largest party, with 41. The liberal conservative Civic Democratic Party fell 11 seats to 25, while the centre-right group led by TOP 09 lost 4 seats to leave them on 5 seats: equal with the Christian and Democratic Union – Czechoslovak People's Party.

Results

In the first round, a turnout of 44.33% of voters was reached and no candidate gained 50% of the vote in their district, which means the top two in each district advance to the run-off round.^[2] The ČSSD's candidates advanced to the second round in 22 districts despite the fact that they held none of the seats. The ruling ODS, which held 18 of the seats, advanced to the run-off in 19. TOP 09 advanced in 5 seats, KDU–ČSL in 3, the regional Severočeši.cz in 2, Public Affairs in 1, and independent candidates in 2.^[3]


Nominating party		First round			Second round			Seats
Nominating party		Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Won	Not up	Total
	Czech Social Democratic Party	290,090	25.28	0	299,526	44.02	12	12	29	41
	Civic Democratic Party	266,311	23.21	0	225,708	33.17	8	8	17	25
	TOP 09	150,046	13.08	0	41,131	6.04	1	1	0	1
	Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia	117,374	10.23	0				0	2	2
	KDU-ČSL	87,182	7.60	0	42,990	6.32	2	2	4	6
	Public Affairs	57,179	4.98	0	11,973	1.76	0	0	0	0
	Party of Common Sense	40,295	3.51	0				0	0	0
	Severočeši.cz	20,062	1.75	0	23,279	3.42	2	2	0	2
	Party of Civic Rights	17,195	1.50	0				0	0	0
	Mayors and Independents	15,231	1.33	0	10,179	1.50	1	1	2	3
	Independents	10,739	0.94	0	10,707	1.57	0	0	0	0
	Green Party	10,473	0.91	0				0	0	0
	Non-Partisans	8,751	0.76	0	14,944	2.20	1	1	0	1
	Our Beskydy	5,694	0.50	0				0	0	0
	Party of Free Citizens	5,447	0.47	0				0	0	0
	Alternative	4,544	0.40	0				0	0	0
	Mayors for the Region	3,728	0.32	0				0	0	0
	Czech Party of Regions	3,494	0.30	0				0	0	0
	Democratic Party of Greens	3,348	0.29	0				0	0	0
	Doctors (For the Recovery of Society)	1,875	0.16	0				0	0	0
	Czech National Social Party	1,791	0.16	0				0	0	0
	Czech National Socialist Party	1,773	0.15	0				0	0	0
	Workers' Party of Social Justice	1,744	0.15	0				0	0	0
	Moravané	1,738	0.15	0				0	0	0
	Victoria.cz	1,616	0.14	0				0	0	0
	Party for the Open Society	1,289	0.11	0				0	0	0
	Czech Pirate Party	1,131	0.10	0				0	0	0
	Citizens of the City, City of the Citizens	1,069	0.09	0				0	0	0
	SNK European Democrats	964	0.08	0				0	0	0
	Conservative Party	943	0.08	0				0	0	0
	Koruna Česká	828	0.07	0				0	0	0
	State Party Direct Democracy – Labour Party	449	0.04	0				0	0	0
	Folklore and Society	197	0.02	0				0	0	0
	Independents	12,800	1.12	0				0	0	0
Total		1,147,390	100.00	0	680,437	100.00	27	27	54	81

Valid votes		1,147,390	94.57		680,437	99.59
Invalid/blank votes		65,834	5.43		2,834	0.41
Total votes		1,213,224	100.00		683,271	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		2,774,178	43.73		2,774,982	24.62
Source: Volby