Senate election in 2016
Terms of the Senate election in 2016
- 1 st round
- - Friday, October 7th and Saturday, 8th, 2016
(is announced by the President of the Czech Republic according to the Article 63, 1 f), Article 16 ,2 and with regard to the Article 17 ,1 of the Constitutional Act No. 1/1993 Coll., Constitution of the Czech Republic, and according to the § 1 Article 3 of the Act No. 247/1995 Coll.) - 2 nd round
- - Friday, October 14th and Saturday, 15th, 2016
(takes place on the 6th day after the 1st round according to the §76 article 1 of the Act No. 247/1995 Coll., on the Election to the Parliament of the Czech Republic)
Constituencies with election in 2016
| constituency number |
capital | senator before the election | senator elected in 2016 election |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Karlovy Vary | Jan Horník (STAN) | Jan Horník (STAN) |
| 4 | Most | Alena Dernerová (BEZPP) | The Supreme Administrative Court has declared the election void; there will be a new election. |
| 7 | Plzeň-jih | Dagmar Terelmešová (ČSSD) | Václav Chaloupek (OPAT) |
| 10 | Český Krumlov | Tomáš Jirsa (ODS) | Tomáš Jirsa (ODS) |
| 13 | Tábor | Pavel Eybert (ODS) | Jaroslav Větrovský (BEZPP) |
| 16 | Beroun | Jiří Oberfalzer (ODS) | Jiří Oberfalzer (ODS) |
| 19 | Praha 11 | Milan Pešák (ODS) | Ladislav Kos (HPP 11) |
| 22 | Praha 10 | Ivana Cabrnochová (SZ) | Renata Chmelová (BEZPP) |
| 25 | Praha 6 | Petr Bratský (ODS) | Jiří Růžička (BEZPP) |
| 28 | Mělník | Veronika Vrecionová (ODS) | Petr Holeček (BEZPP) |
| 31 | Ústí n. Labem | Jaroslav Doubrava (S.cz) | Jaroslav Doubrava (S.cz) |
| 34 | Liberec | Přemysl Sobotka (ODS) | Michael Canov (SLK) |
| 37 | Jičín | Josef Táborský (ČSSD) | Tomáš Czernin (TOP 09) |
| 40 | Kutná Hora | Jaromír Strnad (ČSSD) | Jaromír Strnad (ČSSD) |
| 43 | Pardubice | Miluše Horská (BEZPP) | Miluše Horská (BEZPP) |
| 46 | Ústí n. Orlicí | Petr Šilar (KDU-ČSL) | Petr Šilar (KDU-ČSL) |
| 49 | Blansko | Jozef Regec (ČSSD) | Jaromíra Vítková (KDU-ČSL) |
| 52 | Jihlava | Miloš Vystrčil (ODS) | Miloš Vystrčil (ODS) |
| 55 | Brno-venkov | Jan Žaloudík (BEZPP) | Jan Žaloudík (BEZPP) |
| 58 | Brno-město | Stanislav Juránek (KDU-ČSL) | Jiří Dušek (BEZPP) |
| 61 | Olomouc | Martin Tesařík (ČSSD) | Lumír Kantor (BEZPP) |
| 64 | Bruntál | Jaroslav Palas (ČSSD) | Ladislav Václavec (BEZPP) |
| 67 | Nový Jičín | Zdeněk Besta (ČSSD) | Petr Orel (SZ) |
| 70 | Ostrava-město | Antonín Maštalíř (ČSSD) | Zdeněk Nytra (BEZPP) |
| 73 | Frýdek-Místek | Petr Gawlas (ČSSD) | Jiří Cieńciała (BEZPP) |
| 76 | Kroměříž | Miloš Malý (ČSSD) | Šárka Jelínková (KDU-ČSL) |
| 79 | Hodonín | Zdeněk Škromach (ČSSD) | Anna Hubáčková (BEZPP) |
Note: Click on the constituency number and you will get a summary of the constituency (in Czech only).
Abbreviations of political parties and movements:
- ČSSD
- Czech Social Democratic Party
- HPP 11
- Movement for Prague 11
- KDU-ČSL
- Christian Democratic Union - Czechoslovak People’s Party
- ODS
- Civic Democratic Party
- OPAT
- Občané patrioti
- S.cz
- Severočeši.cz
- SLK
- Mayors for Liberec Region
- STAN
- Mayors and Independents
- SZ
- Green Party
- TOP 09
- TOP 09
- BEZPP
- no party affiliation
Summary according to party affiliation (before election):
| Czech Social Democratic Party Caucus | 10 |
| Civic Democratic Party Caucus | 8 |
| Christian-Democratic Union – Czechoslovak People's Party and Independents Caucus | 3 |
| Caucus Party of Citizens' Rights + Communist Party + Northern Bohemians | 3 |
| Mayors and Independents Caucus | 1 |
| Caucus ANO + Northern Bohemians | 1 |
| Independent senators | 1 |
| altogether | 27 |
List of candidates (on CZSO’s Election Server)
Constitutional Act No. 1/1993 Coll., Constitution of the Czech Republic
Article 16
(2) In the Senate there shall be eighty-one Senators, who are elected to a six-year term of office. Every second year elections for one-third of the Senators shall be held.
Article 17
(1) Elections to both chambers shall be held during the period commencing thirty days prior to the expiration of each electoral term and ending on the day of its expiration.
Article 63
(1) In addition, the President of the Republic:
f) calls elections to the Assembly of Deputies and the Senate;
Act No. 247/1995 Coll., on the Election to the Parliament of the Czech Republic
§ 1 article 3
The election to the Parliament of the Czech Republic is announced by the President no later that 90 days before the election day. The decree of announcement of the election is published in the Collection of Laws. The day when the part of the Collection of Laws comprising the decree of announcement of the election is circulated is considered the day of announcement of the election.
§ 76 article 1
In case that no candidate obtains the quorum required to the election according to the § 75, the District Authority in the constituency capital arranges the 2nd round which is to take place on the 6th day after the end of voting in 1st round.