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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 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]

Electoral system

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]

Results


Nominating party		First round			Second round			Seats
Nominating party		Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Won	Not up	Total	+/–
	ANO 2011	151,388	17.18	0	92,051	21.71	3	3	4	7	+3
	Czech Social Democratic Party	128,830	14.62	0	55,622	13.12	2	2	23	25	–10
	Civic Democratic Party	103,216	11.71	0	42,551	10.03	3	3	6	9	–5
	Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia	83,741	9.50	0	5,737	1.35	0	0	1	1	0
	KDU-ČSL	74,709	8.48	0	78,448	18.50	6	6	8	14	+4
	TOP 09	70,653	8.02	0	30,820	7.27	2	2	0	2	+1
	Mayors and Independents	43,234	4.91	0	25,389	5.99	2	2	3	5	+1
	Green Party	18,798	2.13	0	12,565	2.96	1	1	3	4	+1
	Mayors for the Liberec Region	18,698	2.12	0	16,579	3.91	1	1	1	2	+1
	Nestraníci	16,172	1.84	0	9,849	2.32	1	1	0	1	New
	Dawn – National Coalition	16,078	1.82	0				0	0	0	0
	Severočeši.cz	14,901	1.69	0	13,377	3.15	2	2	0	2	New
	Citizens Together – Independent	12,892	1.46	0	10,804	2.55	1	1	0	1	New
	Freeholder Party of the Czech Republic	11,093	1.26	0				0	1	1	0
	Independents	9,492	1.08	0	5,634	1.33	0	0	0	0	0
	Alternative for the Czech Republic 2017	8,714	0.99	0				0	0	0	New
	Czech Pirate Party	7,352	0.83	0				0	1	1	0
	Patriotic Citizens	6,424	0.73	0	8,966	2.11	1	1	0	1	New
	Tábor 2020	6,358	0.72	0				0	0	0	New
	Freedom and Direct Democracy	5,988	0.68	0				0	0	0	0
	Moravané	5,394	0.61	0				0	0	0	0
	Movement for Prague 11	4,702	0.53	0	9,639	2.27	1	1	0	1	New
	Party of Civic Rights	4,618	0.52	0				0	1	1	0
	Party of Free Citizens	4,568	0.52	0				0	0	0	0
	Change	4,515	0.51	0				0	0	0	New
	JsmePRO!	3,432	0.39	0				0	0	0	New
	Party of Common Sense	3,325	0.38	0				0	0	0	0
	Koruna Česká	3,305	0.38	0				0	0	0	0
	Coalition	3,303	0.37	0				0	0	0	New
	For Prague	3,033	0.34	0				0	0	0	New
	Alternativa	2,709	0.31	0				0	0	0	New
	Ostravak	2,147	0.24	0				0	1	1	0
	New Future for the Liberec Region	2,003	0.23	0				0	0	0	New
	Independent Candidates to the Senate	1,962	0.22	0				0	0	0	New
	Ústecká Citizens' Forum	1,961	0.22	0				0	0	0	New
	SNK European Democrats	1,882	0.21	0				0	0	0	0
	SPR-RSČ	1,812	0.21	0				0	0	0	New
	Order of the Nation	1,723	0.20	0				0	0	0	New
	Association of Independent Candidates 1	1,685	0.19	0				0	0	0	New
	South City – Our Home	1,560	0.18	0				0	0	0	New
	Bystrčáci	1,296	0.15	0				0	0	0	New
	Workers' Party	1,127	0.13	0				0	0	0	New
	HOZK	938	0.11	0				0	0	0	New
	National Democracy	830	0.09	0				0	0	0	New
	Czech Republic Patriots	632	0.07	0				0	0	0	New
	Czechoslovak Community Party	554	0.06	0				0	0	0	New
	New Direction	551	0.06	0				0	0	0	New
	Nation for Itself	380	0.04	0				0	0	0	New
	State Party Direct Democracy – Labour Party	266	0.03	0				0	0	0	New
	Czech National Socialist Party	133	0.02	0				0	0	0	New
	Independents	6,093	0.69	0	6,058	1.43	1	1	1	2	+1
Total		881,170	100.00	0	424,089	100.00	27	27	54	81	0

Valid votes		881,170	95.52		424,089	99.20
Invalid/blank votes		41,323	4.48		3,434	0.80
Total votes		922,493	100.00		427,523	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		2,780,706	33.17		2,780,597	15.38
Source: Volby, Volby

Re-run in Most

On 10 November the results in Most District were annulled due to the illegitimacy of Alena Dernerová's candidature.^[7] A re-run of the vote was organised for 27–28 January 2017, in which Dernerová was elected in the first round.^[8]^[9] Voter turnout was only 12%.^[10]


Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Alena Dernerová	United Democrats – Association of Independents	5,933	54.91
	Jiří Šlégr	Czech Social Democratic Party	1,700	15.73
	Josef Nétek	Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia	797	7.38
	Roman Ziegler	ANO 2011	723	6.69
	Jiří Biolek	Mayors and Independents	639	5.91
	Libuše Hrdinová	Civic Democratic Party	444	4.11
	Jiří Maria Sieber	Order of the Nation	246	2.28
	Zbyněk Vodák	TOP 09	195	1.80
	Jiří Fiala	Party of Common Sense	128	1.18
Total			10,805	100.00

Valid votes			10,805	99.46
Invalid/blank votes			59	0.54
Total votes			10,864	100.00
Registered voters/turnout			90,567	12.00
Source: Volby