European Parliament election, 2009 (Czech Republic)

Czech Republic European Parliament election, 2009
5 June 2009
22 seats to the European Parliament

  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Jan Zahradil Jiří Havel Miloslav Ransdorf
Party ODS ČSSD KSČM
Alliance AECR PES PEL
Seats won 9 7 4
Seat change 0 Steady 5 Increase 2 Decrease
Popular vote 741,946 528,132 334,577
Percentage 31.45 22.38% 14.18%
Swing 1.41% Increase 13.61% Increase 6.08% Decrease
  Fourth party
 
Leader Zuzana Roithová
Party KDU–ČSL
Alliance EPP
Seats won 2
Seat change 2 Steady
Popular vote 180,451
Percentage 8.64%
Swing 1.92 Decrease

The European Parliament election of 2009 in Czech Republic was the election of the delegation from Czech Republic to the European Parliament in 2009. The Civic Democratic Party has won the election with a surprisingly strong lead against the Czech Social Democratic Party. Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia came third and the Christian and Democratic Union – Czechoslovak People's Party became the last party to enter the Parliament.[1]

Two newly founded right-wing parties, the Czech wing Libertas.cz of Declan Ganley's Libertas founded by Vladimír Železný and the Party of Free Citizens, ran in the election.[2]

Campaign

Campaign of Civic Democratic Party (ODS) was launched by electoral leader Jan Zahradil on 13 February 2009.[3] ODS stated that it would inves 40 million CZK to the campaign.[4] Its main rival ČSSD planned to invest 30 million CZK.[5] ODS started negative campaign against ČSSD as response to Social Democratic campaigns from previous years.[6] Civic Democrats founded Blue Team to help the party with campaign.

Czech Social Democratic Party was led by Jiří Havel. Party decided to focus on Financial crisis and domestic issues during its campaign.[5]

Social Democratic Party was considered front-runner as it was leading in polls but the lead narrowed as the election date was getting closer. The Civic Democratic Party was active on internet and used social media during its campaign and eventually. Social Democrats on the other hand underestimated internet campaign and Civic Democrats got to lead as a result.[7]

EP list leaders

Campaign Finances

PartyČSSDODSKSČMKDU-ČSL
Money Spent[8]60,000,000 Kč40,000,000 Kč17,000,000 Kč2,500,000 Kč

Opinion polls

Polling Firm Date ODS KSČM KDU–ČSL ČSSD SZ STAN Others Undecided
CVVM[9] 2 - 9 March 2009 31% 12.5% 5% 29% 6.5% N.A. 3% 13%
CVVM[10] 30 March - 6 April 2009 26% 13% 6% 28% 5.5% N.A. 4.5% 17%
STEM[11] 21 April 2009 27.6% 14.5% 6.6% 30.3% 6.6% 5.3% 9.1% N.A.
STEM[12] 5 May 2009 25% 11.4% 7.2% 30.9% 6% N.A.% 6.4% 13.1%
CVVM[13] 4–11 May 2009 33.0% 13.5% 5.5% 25.5% 5.0% N/A% 6.5% 10.0%
STEM[14] 5–12 May 2009 20.9% 8.9% 5.5% 24.2% 3.1% N.A.% 11.9% 25.5%
UPOL[15] 25 May 2009 29.1% 14.8% 5.5% 29.8% 2.9% 3.3% 3.5%
STEM/SC&C[16] 26 May 2009 31.0% 13.0% 8.0% 27.0% 4.0% 2.0% 15.0%
Election 5 June 2009 31.5% 14.2% 7.6% 22.4% 2.1% 2.3% 19.9% 0%

Media survey

Survey Date ODS SSO DSSS KDU-ČSL DSZ STAN SNK-ED< ČSSD Others
iDnes[17][18] 4 May 2009 24.5 17.2 6.0 4.5 4.3 4.1 2.4 2.3

Results

The Civic Democratic Party (ODS) has won the election with 30% and 9 seats. Party's chairman Mirek Topolánek stated that the election showed that ODS is once again an equal rival to Social Democrats. Czech Social Democratic Party finished second with 22% of votes and 6 seats. Party was dissatisfied with the result as it expected a better result. Chairman Jiří Paroubek stated that party was damaged by low turnout but noted that it is improvement as the party received only 8.8% in 2004 election. Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia considered the result as an improvement from 2006 parliamentary election. Christian and Democratic Union – People's Party was pleased with the result as the party showed stable support. Other parties failed to reach 5% threshold. Green Party received only 2% of votes. Chairman Martin Bursík decided to resign as a result. Czech Sovereignty led by MEP Jana Bobošíková received 4% and narrowly failed to win any seats.[19]

 Summary of the results of the Czech Republic's 5 June 2009 election to the European Parliament
← 2004 • 2009 • 2014 →
National party European party Main candidate Votes % +/– Seats +/–
Civic Democratic Party (ODS) AECR Jan Zahradil 741,946 31.45 1.41 Increase
9 / 22
 0 Steady
Social Democratic Party (ČSSD) PES Jiří Havel 528,132 22.38 13.61 Increase
7 / 22
 5 Increase
Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSČM) PEL (observer) Miloslav Ransdorf 334,577 14.18 6.08 Decrease
4 / 22
 2 Decrease
Christian and Democratic Union – People's Party (KDU–ČSL) EPP Zuzana Roithová 180,451 7.64 1.92 Decrease
2 / 22
 0 Steady
Sovereignty Jana Bobošíková 100,514 4.26 —
0 / 22
 0 Steady
European Democratic Party (EDS) None Jana Hybášková 68,152 2.88 —
0 / 22
 0 Steady
Public Affairs (VV) Kateřina Klasnová 56,636 2.40 —
0 / 22
 0 Steady
Mayors and Independents – Your Option Jaromír Štětina 53,984 2.28 —
0 / 22
 0 Steady
Green Party (SZ) EGP Jan Dusík 48,621 2.06 1.10 Decrease
0 / 22
 0 Steady
SNK European Democrats (SNK ED) Lukáš Macek 39,166 1.66 9.36 Decrease
0 / 22
 3 Decrease
Party of Free Citizens (Svobodní) Jiří Payne 29,846 1.26 —
0 / 22
 0 Steady
Workers' Party (DS) Tomáš Vandas 25,368 1.07 0.89 Increase
0 / 22
 0 Steady
Right Bloc (PB) Petr Cibulka 23,612 1.00 0.17 Decrease
0 / 22
 0 Steady
Libertas.cz Libertas.eu Vladimír Železný 22,243 0.94
0 / 22
 0 Steady
Party for Dignified Life Stanislav Jaš 17,061 0.72
0 / 22
 0 Steady
Democratic Green Party Olga Zubova 14,761 0.63
0 / 22
 0 Steady
INDEPENDENTS IN/DEM Roman Škrabánek 12,824 0.54 7.64 Decrease
0 / 22
 2 Decrease
Moravané Jiří Novotný 9,086 0.39
0 / 22
 0 Steady
Coalition for Republic – Republican Party of Czechoslovakia Miroslav Sládek 7,492 0.32 0.35 Decrease
0 / 22
 0 Steady
Nejen hasiči a živnostníci s učiteli do Evropy - www.hnpd.cz, www.sdzp.cz Jan Szotkowski 6,904 0.29
0 / 22
 0 Steady
National Party Petra Edelmannová 6,263 0.27
0 / 22
 0 Steady
Humanist Party Jan Tamáš 4,584 0.19 0.02 Increase
0 / 22
 0 Steady
Freeholder Party of the Czech Republic Jiří Pekárek 4,544 0.19
0 / 22
 0 Steady
Koruna Česká Václav Srb 4,449 0.19 Steady
0 / 22
 0 Steady
GREENS Neela Winkelmannová 3,717 0.16
0 / 22
 0 Steady
Balbín Poetic Party Jiří Hrdina 3,711 0.16 0.43 Decrease
0 / 22
 0 Steady
Czech National Socialist Party Ivan Šterzl 3,269 0.14
0 / 22
 0 Steady
Liberals.cz Milan Hamerský 1,775 0.08
0 / 22
 0 Steady
United Democrats - Association of Independents 1,501 0.06
0 / 22
 0 Steady
Party of Free Democrats Petr Plaček 1,423 0.06
0 / 22
 0 Steady
Democracy and Freedom Party Ota Štros 986 0.04
0 / 22
 0 Steady
Czech National Social Party Zdeněk Joukl 791 0.03
0 / 22
 0 Steady
People and Politics Karel Kučera 545 0.02
0 / 22
 0 Steady
Valid votes 2,358,934 99.49
Blank and invalid votes 12,075 0.51
Totals 2,371,009 100.00 —
22 / 22
 2 Decrease
Electorate (eligible voters) and voter turnout 8,401,374 28.22 0.10 Decrease
Source: Czech Statistical Office

Elected MEPs

Num MEP Party Pref. Votes
1. Evžen Tošenovský ODS 104,737
2. Jan Zahradil ODS 65,731
3. Miloslav Ransdorf KSČM 61,453
4. Jiří Havel ČSSD 59,818
5. Zuzana Roithová KDU–ČSL 52,503
6. Richard Falbr ČSSD 44,703
7. Vladimír Remek KSČM 40,650
8. Jan Březina KDU–ČSL 23,154
9. Libor Rouček ČSSD 19,771
10. Hynek Fajmon ODS 16,041
11. Andrea Češková ODS 14,477
12. Oldřich Vlasák ODS 11,744
13. Edvard Kožušník ODS 11,567
14. Miroslav Ouzký ODS 9,869
15. Olga Sehnalová ČSSD 9,386
16. Jiří Maštálka KSČM 8,181
17. Zuzana Brzobohatá ČSSD 7,736
18. Milan Cabrnoch ODS 7,143
19. Ivo Strejček ODS 6,071
20. Jaromír Kohlíček KSČM 5,719
21. Pavel Poc ČSSD 4,814
22. Robert Dušek ČSSD 4,042
Source:[20]

References

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