2024 Czech Senate election

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27 of the 81 seats in the Senate
First party Second party Third party   Leader Andrej Babiš Vít Rakušan Petr Fiala Party ANO STAN ODS Seats before 5 15 23 Seats won 8 5 5 Seats after 12 15 18 Seat change 7 5   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Marian Jurečka Markéta Pekarová Adamová Michal Šmarda Party Lidovci TOP 09 SOCDEM Seats before 12 6 1 Seats won 2 2 1 Seats after 12 7 1 Seat change 1   Seventh party Eighth party Ninth party   Leader Václav Láska Martin Půta [cs] Robert Šlachta Party SEN 21 SLK Přísaha Last election – – Seats before 4 2 0 Seats won 1 1 1 Seats after 4 3 1 Seat change 1 1
Results by Senate constituency

Senate elections for one-third of the Senate of the Czech Republic were held on 20 and 21 September 2024.^[1][2] The first round was held alongside regional elections, with a second round held one week later. The result was a victory for the populist ANO party which won a Senate election for the first time in history.^[3]

This Senate election is the second and last election to the Senate happening during the term of Petr Fiala's cabinet. The parties in the government coalition and their allies will defend 22 out of 27 seats. Opposition parties hold only two seats that are up for election, while three seats up for election are held by independents.

Immediately after the 2018 Senate elections, two of the candidates elected as independents joined senate groups of parliamentary parties: Ladislav Faktor joined the group of ODS and TOP 09 and Jitka Chalánková become a member of the KDU-ČSL group. Only Pavel Fisher remained as formally independent.

Only one seat out of the 27 was contested in a by-election in the duration of the term, with the seat being the 32nd district – Teplice, originally held by ODS member and the President of Senate Jaroslav Kubera. Following his death a by-election was held with another ODS member, Hynek Hanza, winning the seat.

Several unsuccessful candidates in the 2018 and 2023 Czech presidential elections will have their seats up for re-election, including Jiří Drahoš, Pavel Fischer and Marek Hilšer. The term of one member of the Fiala Cabinet, the Minister of Education Mikuláš Bek, is ending; Bek however decided not to stand for re-election.^[4][5]

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.^[6] Candidates had to be nominated by one or more registered political parties or collect at least 1,000 signatures in their constituency. There are no term limits for incumbent senators.^[7]

Due to the 2024 Central European floods, the Interior Ministry took direct control of organising elections in five severely affected towns, while voting in some areas was held in tents, containers or in open-air venues.^[8]

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Similar to the 2022 election, several parties have decided to form more or less formal alliances in some or all seats.

Unlike two years prior, parties of the Spolu alliance have not signed any pre-electoral memorandum and are standing candidates mostly individually. Exception is Jiří Drahoš in Prague, who is supported by all parties in the Fiala government and Leopold Sukovský from Ostravak, whose candidacy is also supported by all three parties.

The Czech Pirate Party, SEN 21 and the Green Party have announced cooperation in 10 out of the 27 constituencies.^[9][10] Three candidates will be nominated by SEN 21, five by Pirates, two by Greens and one jointly by SEN 21 and Pirates.^[11]

The coalition of Přísaha and Motorists have agreed to stand the leader of Přísaha as their joint candidate.^[12]

Most seats up for the election, 13 out of 27, are held by the Spolu aliance, with 10 of these being held by ODS, two by KDU-ČSL and one by TOP 09. STAN lead bloc will defend seven seats and progressive pack composed of Pirates, SEN 21 and the Greens will be incumbent in two districts, with Pirates and SEN 21 defending one seat each

The opposition only holds two up the seats up in 2024, including the sole Senate seat held by SOCDEM in Karviná.

Three senators elected as independents will have their seats up for re-election, only two of them have chosen to contest the elections.

In the first round, 19 of the ANO's candidates to the Senate advanced to the runoff, while two others were elected outright, along with one KDU-ČSL candidate, a TOP 09 candidate, and a member of Social Democracy.^[13] Twenty-two seats were to be contested in the second round.^[14]

At the end of the second round, the ANO won a total of eight seats, the party's strongest showing in a Senate election, while Spolu won 15.^[15]

Party		First round			Second round			Seats
		Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Won	Not up	Total	+/–
	ANO 2011	224,350	28.27	2	157,287	40.27	6	8	4	12	+7
	Civic Democratic Party	125,449	15.81	0	92,424	23.66	5	5	13	18	–5
	Mayors and Independents	87,734	11.06	0	53,498	13.70	5	5	10	15	0
	KDU-ČSL	46,518	5.86	1	15,635	4.00	1	2	10	12	0
	TOP 09	44,320	5.59	1	17,457	4.47	1	2	5	7	+1
	Freedom and Direct Democracy	42,733	5.39	0	3,318	0.85	0	0	0	0	0
	Social Democracy	28,479	3.59	1				1	0	1	0
	Czech Pirate Party	21,107	2.66	0				0	1	1	–1
	Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia	14,321	1.80	0	6,097	1.56	0	0	0	0	0
	SEN 21	13,068	1.65	0	6,862	1.76	1	1	3	4	0
	Svobodní	12,352	1.56	0				0	1	1	0
	Mayors for the Liberec Region	8,491	1.07	0	14,299	3.66	1	1	2	3	+1
	Přísaha	8,099	1.02	0	8,614	2.21	1	1	0	1	+1
	Motorists for Themselves	7,664	0.97	0				0	0	0	New
	Tricolour	7,490	0.94	0				0	0	0	0
	Together for the Region [cs]	7,358	0.93	0				0	0	0	New
	Tomáš Magnusek [cs] to the Senate	6,669	0.84	0				0	0	0	New
	Green Party	6,472	0.82	0				0	0	0	0
	Marek Hilšer to the Senate	5,617	0.71	0	5,298	1.36	0	0	0	0	–1
	Ostravak	4,425	0.56	0				0	0	0	–1
	Swiss Democracy	3,859	0.49	0				0	0	0	New
	Liberal-Environmental Party	3,855	0.49	0				0	0	0	New
	Pro Plzeň [cs]	3,778	0.48	0				0	0	0	New
	Bright Signal of the Independents [cs]	3,604	0.45	0				0	0	0	New
	Czech Sovereignty of Social Democracy	3,456	0.44	0				0	0	0	New
	Alliance for the Future	3,139	0.40	0				0	0	0	New
	A Better North [cs]	3,039	0.38	0				0	0	0	New
	Independents	2,940	0.37	0				0	1	1	0
	Choice for the Region [cs]	2,626	0.33	0				0	0	0	0
	Czech National Social Party	2,576	0.32	0				0	0	0	New
	Mayors and Personalities for Moravia [cs]	2,344	0.30	0				0	0	0	New
	Right Choice [cs]	2,048	0.26	0				0	0	0	New
	Law, Respect, Expertise	1,828	0.23	0				0	0	0	0
	Non-Partisans for South Moravia [cs]	1,819	0.23	0				0	0	0	New
	Safe Streets	1,584	0.20	0				0	0	0	New
	Mourek – Political Party [cs]	1,380	0.17	0				0	0	0	New
	Moravian Land Movement	1,170	0.15	0				0	0	0	0
	MÍSTNÍ HNHRM [cs]	833	0.10	0				0	0	0	New
	My Homeland Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia	752	0.09	0				0	0	0	New
	With Heart For... [cs]	743	0.09	0				0	0	0	0
	National Democracy	484	0.06	0				0	0	0	0
	Civic-Political Foundation ReMeK	268	0.03	0				0	0	0	New
	Alliance of National Forces	216	0.03	0				0	0	0	New
	New Direction [cs]	121	0.02	0				0	0	0	New
	Hradec Králové Democratic Club [cs]							–	1	1	0
	ProMOST [cs]							–	1	1	0
	Tábor 2020							–	1	1	0
	Independents	22,311	2.81	0	9,812	2.51	1	1	1	2	–2
Total		793,489	100.00	5	390,601	100.00	22	27	54	81	0
Valid votes		793,489	97.70		390,601	99.48
Invalid/blank votes		18,712	2.30		2,031	0.52
Total votes		812,201	100.00		392,632	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		2,693,038	30.16		2,239,246	17.53
Source: Volby Volby