2014_European_Parliament_election_in_the_Czech_Republic
European Parliament elections were held in the Czech Republic on 23 and 24 May 2014. In total, 21 Members of the European Parliament were elected using proportional representation (single district D'Hondt with a 5% threshold).
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ANO won the election closely followed by the coalition of TOP 09 and STAN, themselves closely followed by ČSSD. A total of 7 parties gained seats, including the non-parliamentary Party of Free Citizens.[1] Election turnout was 18.2%, the second lowest of all participating countries after Slovakia.[2]
| Date | Polling Firm | ANO | ČSSD | KSČM | TOP 09 | ODS | ÚSVIT | KDU-ČSL | SZ | PIRÁTI | SVOBODNÍ | Others | Turnout |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23–24 May | Election | 16.1 | 14.2 | 11.0 | 16.0 | 7.7 | 3.1 | 10.0 | 3.8 | 4.8 | 5.2 | 18.2 | |
| 24 May | iDnes | 15.5 | 17.0 | 11.0 | 18.0 | 9.5 | 2.0 | 9.5 | 4.5 | 3.5 | 4.5 | ||
| Exit polls | |||||||||||||
| 9–13 May | Data Collect[4] | 20.1 | 12.5 | 12.2 | 14.2 | 7.2 | 7.7 | 4.6 | 4.9 | 4.3 | 4.7 | 7.6 | |
| 5–12 May | CVVM | 25.0 | 23.0 | 11.0 | 8.0 | 6.0 | 1.0 | 6.0 | 2.0 | 2.0 | 2.0 | 35.0 | |
| 14–21 Apr | STEM | 24.7 | 18.5 | 11.9 | 10.7 | 7.4 | 2.0 | 6.7 | 2.0 | 1.9 | 2.6 | 11.6 | |
| 12–15 Apr | Data Collect | 22.2 | 14.1 | 11.1 | 9.6 | 7.6 | 8.9 | 3.8 | 2.9 | 3.4 | 4.8 | 11.6 | 32.4 |
| 8–13 Apr | Sanep | 23.2 | 20.1 | 14.5 | 8.2 | 5.4 | 3.2 | 5.2 | 2.9 | 3.2 | n/a | 14.1 | 27.4 |
| Party | Votes | % | +/– | Seats | +/– | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ANO 2011 | 244,501 | 16.13 | New | 4 | New | |
| TOP 09–STAN | 241,747 | 15.95 | +13.66 | 4 | +4 | |
| Czech Social Democratic Party | 214,800 | 14.17 | −8.22 | 4 | −3 | |
| Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia | 166,478 | 10.99 | −3.19 | 3 | −1 | |
| KDU-ČSL | 150,792 | 9.95 | +2.30 | 3 | +1 | |
| Civic Democratic Party | 116,389 | 7.68 | −23.77 | 2 | −7 | |
| Party of Free Citizens | 79,540 | 5.25 | +3.98 | 1 | +1 | |
| Czech Pirate Party | 72,514 | 4.78 | New | 0 | New | |
| Green Party | 57,240 | 3.78 | +1.72 | 0 | 0 | |
| Dawn of Direct Democracy | 47,306 | 3.12 | New | 0 | New | |
| Party of Common Sense | 24,724 | 1.63 | New | 0 | New | |
| Communist Party of Czechoslovakia | 8,549 | 0.56 | New | 0 | New | |
| Right Bloc | 8,028 | 0.53 | −0.47 | 0 | 0 | |
| SNK European Democrats | 7,961 | 0.53 | −1.13 | 0 | 0 | |
| DSSS–SPE | 7,902 | 0.52 | New | 0 | New | |
| Liberal-Environmental Party | 7,514 | 0.50 | New | 0 | New | |
| No To Brussels – National Democracy | 7,109 | 0.47 | New | 0 | New | |
| National Socialists – Left of the 21st century | 7,099 | 0.47 | New | 0 | New | |
| Public Affairs | 6,988 | 0.46 | −1.94 | 0 | 0 | |
| Moravané | 6,614 | 0.44 | +0.05 | 0 | 0 | |
| VIZE 2014 | 3,698 | 0.24 | New | 0 | New | |
| Civic Conservative Party | 3,481 | 0.23 | New | 0 | New | |
| Labour Party – Disgruntled Citizens | 2,899 | 0.19 | New | 0 | New | |
| Czech Party of Regions | 2,535 | 0.17 | New | 0 | New | |
| Koruna Česká | 2,434 | 0.16 | −0.03 | 0 | 0 | |
| Club of Committed Non-Party Members | 2,379 | 0.16 | New | 0 | New | |
| Republic | 2,240 | 0.15 | New | 0 | New | |
| Czech Sovereignty | 2,086 | 0.14 | –4.12 | 0 | 0 | |
| Hnutí Sociálne Slabých | 1,685 | 0.11 | New | 0 | New | |
| Citizens 2011 | 1,299 | 0.09 | New | 0 | New | |
| Assets of Independent Citizens | 1,242 | 0.08 | New | 0 | New | |
| Roma Democratic Party | 1,185 | 0.08 | New | 0 | New | |
| Republican Party of Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia | 1,100 | 0.07 | New | 0 | New | |
| Fair Play – HNPD | 900 | 0.06 | New | 0 | New | |
| Antibursík – stop ekoteroru! | 761 | 0.05 | New | 0 | New | |
| Party of Equal Opportunities | 640 | 0.04 | New | 0 | New | |
| Evropani.cz | 631 | 0.04 | New | 0 | New | |
| Czech National Social Party | 502 | 0.03 | –0.00 | 0 | 0 | |
| Total | 1,515,492 | 100.00 | – | 21 | –1 | |
| Valid votes | 1,515,492 | 99.22 | ||||
| Invalid/blank votes | 11,875 | 0.78 | ||||
| Total votes | 1,527,367 | 100.00 | ||||
| Registered voters/turnout | 8,395,132 | 18.19 | ||||
| Source: Volby | ||||||
European groups
Elected members
The seats were given out within the parties to the candidates who received the preference votes, if number of preference votes exceeds 5% of votes for party (highlighted by bold), otherwise to the candidates by its order on party candidate list. 8 of 21 elected candidates are non-partisans (4 elected for ANO, 3 for TOP 09 and STAN and 1 for ČSSD).
- ANO
- Pavel Telička – 50,784 votes
- Petr Ježek – 5,301 votes
- Dita Charanzová – 8 356 votes
- Martina Dlabajová – 4,789 votes
- TOP 09 and STAN
- Jiří Pospíšil – 77,724 votes
- Luděk Niedermayer – 37,171 votes
- Jaromír Štětina – 18,951 votes
- Stanislav Polčák – 11,997 votes
- ČSSD
- Jan Keller – 57,812 votes
- Olga Sehnalová – 10,955 votes
- Pavel Poc – 3,818 votes
- Miroslav Poche – 3,692 votes
- KSČM
- Kateřina Konečná – 28,154 votes
- Miloslav Ransdorf – 14 384 votes
- Jiří Maštálka – 11,525 votes
- KDU-ČSL
- Michaela Šojdrová – 22,220 votes
- Pavel Svoboda – 21,746 votes
- Tomáš Zdechovský – 5,063 votes
- ODS
- Jan Zahradil – 19,892 votes
- Evžen Tošenovský – 16,514 votes
- Svobodní
- Petr Mach – 13,211 votes
The Green Party and Pirate Party failed to reach 5% threshold. Both parties decided to deliver a complaint to Supreme Administrative Court. They were inspired by Germany, where the threshold was abolished.[5] The court did not decide about the complaint and sent it to the Constitutional Court.[6] Constitutional Court rejected the complaint on 1 June 2015. According to the court, abolishing the threshold would lead to less effective European Parliament as it would be fragmented too much.[7]
If the threshold was abolished for 2014 elections Green Party and Pirate Party would get 1 MEP. Social Democrats and Christian Democrats would have 1 MEP less on the other hand.[8]
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