2004 Czech regional elections

2004 Czech regional elections
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675 seats
Turnout29.6%
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Mirek Topolánek Miroslav Grebeníček Stanislav Gross
Party ODS KSČM ČSSD
Seats won 291 157 105
Popular vote 769,848 416,807 297,083
Percentage 36.4% 19.7 14.0%
  Fourth party
 
Leader Miroslav Kalousek
Party Lidovci
Seats won 72
Popular vote 226,016
Percentage 10.7%
Chairman of Regional Association before election

Evžen Tošenovský
ODS

Elected Chairman of Regional Association

Evžen Tošenovský
ODS

Regional elections were held in the Czech Republic to elect the Regional Councils of 13 regions (all except Prague) on 5–6 November 2004.[1][2] They were won by Civic Democratic Party (ODS), whilst the ruling Czech Social Democratic Party (ČSSD) was heavily defeated, finishing third.[3][4]

Results

Party Votes % Seats
Civic Democratic Party 769,848 36.36 291
Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia 416,807 19.68 157
Czech Social Democratic Party 297,083 14.03 105
Christian and Democratic Union – Czechoslovak People's Party 226,016 10.67 72
Coalition for Pardubice region 29,384 1.38 12
Association of Independent Candidates 69,591 3.28 11
Party for the Open Society 16,739 0.79 7
Coalition for Central Bohemian region 18,380 0.86 4
European Democrats 14,056 0.66 3
SNK European Democrats 13,699 0.63 3
European Democrats and Independent Mayors for region 8,117 0.38 3
Others 32,595 1.54 4

Opinion polls

Date Polling Firm ODS ČSSD KSČM KDU-ČSL SNK ED NEZ SZ US-DEU Others
24 Oct 2004 CVVM[5] 35.0 24.0 15.5 11.5 3.0 1.5
22 Oct 2004 Factum Invenio[6] 11.7 9.3 8.0 6.5 4.1 3.5 2.1 1.3

References

  1. ^ "Klaus vyhlásil na listopad volby do Senátu". iDNES.cz. 19 July 2004. Retrieved 23 November 2016.
  2. ^ "VOLEBNÍ SPECIÁL: Krajské a senátní volby 2004". Novinky.cz (in Czech). Retrieved 23 November 2016.
  3. ^ "Volby do Senátu a krajských zastupitelstev". iDNES.cz. Retrieved 23 November 2016.
  4. ^ "ODS zvítězila, sociální demokraté propadli". iDNES.cz. 6 November 2004. Retrieved 23 November 2016.
  5. ^ "CVVM: V krajích získá ODS třetinu hlasů". iDNES.cz. 31 October 2004. Retrieved 1 June 2017.
  6. ^ "Průzkum: Preference v krajích jsou těsné". iDNES.cz. 22 October 2004. Retrieved 1 June 2017.