2014 European Parliament election in the Czech Republic

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21 seats in the European Parliament
Turnout 18.19% (Decrease 10.03pp)
  First party Second party Third party
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Leader Pavel Telička Luděk Niedermayer Jan Keller
Party ANO TOP 09–STAN ČSSD
Alliance ALDE EPP PES
Last election – 2.29%, 0 seats 22.39%, 7 seats
Seats won 4 4 4
Seat change New Increase 4 Decrease3
Popular vote 244,501 241,747 214,800
Percentage 16.13% 15.95% 14.17%
Swing New Increase13.66pp Decrease8.22pp
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
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Leader Kateřina Konečná Pavel Svoboda Jan Zahradil
Party KSČM KDU-ČSL ODS
Alliance GUE/NGL EPP AECR
Last election 14.18%, 4 seats 7.65%, 2 seats 31.45%, 9 seats
Seats won 3 3 2
Seat change Decrease 1 Increase 1 Decrease 7
Popular vote 166,478 150,792 116,398
Percentage 10.99% 9.95% 7.68%
Swing Decrease3.19pp Increase2.30pp Decrease23.77%
  Seventh party
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Leader Petr Mach
Party Party of Free Citizens
Alliance ADDE
Last election 1.27%, 0 seats
Seats won 1
Seat change Increase 1
Popular vote 79,540
Percentage 5.25%
Swing Increase3.98pp
Results by district: ANO 2011 (blue), TOP 09 and STAN (purple), ČSSD (orange), KDU-ČSL (yellow) and KSČM (red)

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).

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]

Campaign finances

Party ČSSD ANO TOP 09 ODS KSČM SZ ÚSVIT KDU-ČSL
Money spent[3] 25,000,000 Kč 18,500,000 Kč 10,000,000 Kč 10,000,000 Kč 8,000,000 Kč 7,000,000 Kč 5,500,000 Kč 5,000,000 Kč

Opinion polls

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 Template:Party shading/TOP 09|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

Results

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European groups

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Elected members

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Further information: List of members of the European Parliament, 2014–19

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
  1. Pavel Telička – 50,784 votes
  2. Petr Ježek – 5,301 votes
  3. Dita Charanzová – 8 356 votes
  4. Martina Dlabajová – 4,789 votes
TOP 09 and STAN
  1. Jiří Pospíšil – 77,724 votes
  2. Luděk Niedermayer – 37,171 votes
  3. Jaromír Štětina – 18,951 votes
  4. Stanislav Polčák – 11,997 votes
ČSSD
  1. Jan Keller – 57,812 votes
  2. Olga Sehnalová – 10,955 votes
  3. Pavel Poc – 3,818 votes
  4. Miroslav Poche – 3,692 votes
KSČM
  1. Kateřina Konečná – 28,154 votes
  2. Miloslav Ransdorf – 14 384 votes
  3. Jiří Maštálka – 11,525 votes
KDU-ČSL
  1. Michaela Šojdrová – 22,220 votes
  2. Pavel Svoboda – 21,746 votes
  3. Tomáš Zdechovský – 5,063 votes
ODS
  1. Jan Zahradil – 19,892 votes
  2. Evžen Tošenovský – 16,514 votes
Svobodní
  1. Petr Mach – 13,211 votes

Aftermath

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]

References

  1. ↑ Czech Statistical Office: Elections to the European Parliament held on the territory of the Czech Republic on 23 – 24 May 2014
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