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The Czech Republic elects a legislature at a national level. The Parliament (Czech: Parlament České republiky) has two chambers. The Chamber of Deputies (Czech: Poslanecká sněmovna) has 200 members, elected for a four-year term by proportional representation with a 5% election threshold for political parties. The Senate (Czech: Senát) has 81 members in single-seat constituencies, elected by two-round runoff voting for a six-year term, with one third of seats contested every even year in the autumn. The President of the Czech Republic was indirectly elected for five-year terms until 2012; beginning with the 2013 election, the president is elected by direct two-round runoff voting.[1]

There have been municipal elections every four years since 1990 and regional elections every four years starting in 2000. These elections take place in the autumn.

The Czech Republic has a multi-party system.

Voting in Czech elections is normally held over two days, from Friday afternoon until early afternoon on Saturday.

Latest Presidential election

Main article: Czech presidential election, 2018
Candidate Party First round Second round
Votes % Votes %
style=background-color:Template:Party of Civic Rights/meta/color| Miloš Zeman Party of Civic Rights 1,985,547 38.56 2,853,390 51.36
bgcolor=Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color| Jiří Drahoš Independent, with KDU–ČSL and STAN support 1,369,601 26.60 2,701,206 48.63
style=background-color:Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color| Pavel Fischer Independent 526,694 10.23
style=background-color:Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color| Michal Horáček Independent 472,643 9.18
style=background-color:Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color| Marek Hilšer Independent 454,949 8.83
bgcolor=Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color| Mirek Topolánek Independent, with ODS support 221,689 4.30
style=background-color:Template:Realists (political party)/meta/color| Jiří Hynek Realists 63,348 1.23
style=background-color:Template:Party of Common Sense/meta/color| Petr Hannig Party of Common Sense 29,228 0.56
Vratislav Kulhánek Civic Democratic Alliance 24,442 0.47
Invalid/blank votes 29,097 – 13,031 –
Total 5,177,238 100 5,567,627 100
Registered voters/turnout 8,366,433 61.92 8,362,987 66.60
Source: Volby

Latest Chamber of Deputies election

Template:Czech legislative election, 2017

Latest Senate election

Template:Czech senate election, 2006

Past elections and referendums

  • See below

Presidential elections

European elections

Regional elections

Municipal elections

Czechoslovakia-era elections

  • See below

Referendums

The Constitution of the Czech Republic mentions referendum only in context of "referendum concerning the accession of the Czech Republic to the European Union"[2] There are no other provisions concerning referendums. Therefore, the only referendum ever held in the Czech Republic was Czech European Union membership referendum in 2003. The Government of the Czech Republic approved a referendum bill in 2005,[3] but it was never passed by the parliament.

See also

References

  1. ^ http://www.radio.cz/en/section/curraffrs/czech-parliament-passes-direct-presidential-elections
  2. ^ "Constitution of the Czech Republic". Retrieved 2013-11-01.
  3. ^ Lazarová, Daniela (2005-03-10). "Czech government approves referendum bill". Radio Praha. Retrieved 2013-11-01.
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