Czechoslovak parliamentary election, 1990

Parliamentary elections were held in Czechoslovakia on 8 and 9 June 1990, alongside elections for the Czech and Slovak Assemblies. They were the first elections held in the country since the end of Communist rule seven months earlier, and the first free elections since 1946.

The result was a victory for the Civic Forum, which won 68 of the 150 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 50 of the 150 seats in the House of Nations. Its Slovak counterpart, Public Against Violence, won 19 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 33 in the House of Nations. It also won 36% of the vote for the Chamber of Deputies, the most a Czechoslovakian party won in a free election.

The two wings of Václav Havel's movement commanded a strong majority in the legislature, with 87 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 83 in the House of Nations between them. It was the only occasion in which a party or alliance won an outright majority of seats in a free election. Voter turnout was 96.2%. The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, running in an honest election for the first time in 44 years, made a stronger showing than expected, taking 13 percent of the vote in both chambers to finish second behind Civic Forum.

Although Civic Forum and Public Against Violence had more than enough seats between them to govern without the support of other parties, they sought a broader base. They let it be known that they were willing to go into coalition with all parties except the Communists and the Slovak National Party.

Results

Chamber of Deputies

Party	Votes	%	Seats
Civic Forum	3,851,172	36.2	68
Communist Party of Czechoslovakia	1,445,407	13.6	23
Public Against Violence	1,104,125	10.4	19
Christian Democratic Movement	644,008	6.1	11
Christian and Democratic Union	629,359	5.9	9
Movement for Autonomous Democracy–Party for Moravia and Silesia	572,015	5.4	9
Slovak National Party	372,025	3.5	6
Alliance of Farmers and the Countryside	360,779	3.4	0
Social Democracy	342,455	3.2	0
Green Party	332,974	3.1	0
Coexistence–Hungarian Christian Democratic Movement	296,575	2.8	5
Czechoslovak Socialist Party	201,532	1.9	0
Democratic Party	149,310	1.4	0
People's Democratic Party–Rally for the Republic	76,338	0.7	0
Free Bloc	64,070	0.6	0
Freedom Party	49,012	0.5	0
VSZS	47,971	0.5	0
Czechoslovakian Democratic Forum	23,428	0.2	0
Rómovia	22,670	0.2	0
HOS	22,165	0.2	0
Movement of Czechoslovakian Understanding	21,979	0.2	0
Friends of Beer Party	8,943	0.1	0
Invalid/blank votes	136,929	–	–
Total	10,775,125	100	150
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

House of Nations

Party	Votes	%	Seats
Civic Forum	3,613,513	34.0	50
Communist Party of Czechoslovakia	1,452,659	13.7	24
Public Against Violence	1,262,278	11.9	33
Movement for Autonomous Democracy–Party for Moravia and Silesia	658,477	6.2	7
Christian and Democratic Union	633,053	6.0	6
Christian Democratic Movement	564,172	5.3	14
Slovak National Party	387,387	3.6	9
Alliance of Farmers and the Countryside	359,474	3.4	0
Social Democracy	352,678	3.3	0
Green Party	336,310	3.2	0
Coexistence–Hungarian Christian Democratic Movement	287,426	2.7	7
Czechoslovak Socialist Party	210,735	2.0	0
Democratic Party	124,561	1.2	0
Free Bloc	84,553	0.8	0
People's Democratic Party–Rally for the Republic	79,324	0.8	0
VSZS	54,916	0.5	0
Freedom Party	42,111	0.4	0
Czechoslovakian Democratic Forum	32,543	0.3	0
Movement of Czechoslovakian Understanding	25,672	0.2	0
HOS	22,124	0.2	0
Rómovia	20,445	0.2	0
Friends of Beer Party	13,869	0.1	0
Invalid/blank votes	139,731	–	–
Total	10,758,011	100	150
Source: Nohlen & Stöver