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Result by district (ODS Blue, ČSSD orange)

The 2009 European Parliament election 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]

Background

Previous election was held in 2004. It was won by the Civic Democratic Party that won 30% of votes ahead of the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia which received 20% of the votes. Czech Social Democratic Party of Prime Minister Vladimír Špidla was heavily defeated receiving only 9% of votes finishing fourth.[3] Špidle resigned after the election.[4]

Civic Democrats joined European People's Party group after the election as a member of European Democrats.[5] ODS the cooperated with British Conservative Party to establish new Eurosceptic faction within European Parliament.[6]

2004 Seats

Party EP Group Seats
ODS EPP-ED 9
KSČM GUE-NGL 6
SNK ED EPP-ED 3
ČSSD S&D 2
KDU-ČSL EPP-ED 2
NEZÁVISLÍ IND/DEM 2

Procedure

The 22 of Czech delegation in the European parliament are elected using open list proportional representation, in which they can give preferential votes for up to two candidates on their chosen list. Seats are allocated using the d'Hondt method, with an electoral threshold of 5% nationwide for single parties. Candidates who receive preferential votes from more than 5% of voters are moved to the top of their list, and in cases where more than one candidate receives over 5% of the preferential votes, they are ranked in order of votes received.

Campaign

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Politician rallyes in the central part of Prague few days before elections of European Parliament for 2009–2013 term

Civic Democratic Party

First candidates were introduced on 9 February 2009. Jan Zahradil became electoral leader. Other candidates included Evžen Tošenovský, Oldřich Vlasák etg. Party also launched its election website on the same day. Zahradil stated that ODS will be forced to use negative campaign as reaction to strateg of its opponents.[7] Remaining candidates were introduced on 16 March 2009.[8]

Campaign of Civic Democratic Party (ODS) was launched by electoral leader Jan Zahradil on 13 February 2009.[9] ODS stated that it would invest 40 million CZK to the campaign.[10]

ODS started negative campaign against ČSSD as response to Social Democratic campaigns from previous years.[7][11] Civic Democrats founded Blue Team to help the party with campaign.

The Civic Democratic Party was active on internet and used social media during its campaign while its main rival and election front-runner Social Democratic Party underestimated internet campaign and Civic Democrats got to lead as a result.[12]

Czech Social Democratic Party

ČSSD planned to invest 30 million CZK.[13] Czech Social Democratic Party was led by Jiří Havel. Party decided to focus on Financial crisis and domestic issues during its campaign.[13] 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.[14]

Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia

Miloslav Ransdorf was announced as electoral leader on 18 September 2008.[15]

Christian and Democratic Union – People's Party

Christian Democrats launched election campaign on 9 March 2009.[16] They introduced their candidates on 20 March 2009.[17]

Green Party

Greens voted Jan Dusík as its electoral leader on 28 February 2009.[18]

EP list leaders

Campaign Finances

Party ČSSD ODS KSČM KDU-ČSL
Money Spent[19] 60,000,000 Kč 40,000,000 Kč 17,000,000 Kč 2,500,000 Kč

Debates

2009 European Parliament election in the Czech Republic debates
Date Organisers Шаблон:Colors Шаблон:SmallШаблон:Colors Шаблон:Small
ODS ČSSD KSČM KDU–ČSL
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Opinion polls

Polling Firm Date ODS KSČM KDU–ČSL ČSSD SZ STAN Others Undecided
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CVVM[21] 2 – 9 March 2009 Шаблон:Party shading/Civic Democratic Party (Czech Republic)| 31% 12.5% 5% 29% 6.5% Шаблон:N/A 3% 13%
STEM[22] 12–13 March 2009 23% 10% Шаблон:N/A Шаблон:Party shading/Czech Social Democratic Party| 30% Шаблон:N/A Шаблон:N/A Шаблон:N/A Шаблон:N/A
CVVM[23] 30 March – 6 April 2009 26% 13% 6% Шаблон:Party shading/Czech Social Democratic Party| 28% 5.5% Шаблон:N/A 4.5% 17%
STEM[24] 21 April 2009 27.6% 14.5% 6.6% Шаблон:Party shading/Czech Social Democratic Party| 30.3% 6.6% 5.3% 9.1% Шаблон:N/A
STEM[25] 5 May 2009 25% 11.4% 7.2% Шаблон:Party shading/Czech Social Democratic Party| 30.9% 6% N.A.% 6.4% 13.1%
CVVM[26] 4–11 May 2009 Шаблон:Party shading/Civic Democratic Party (Czech Republic)| 33.0% 13.5% 5.5% 25.5% 5.0% Шаблон:N/A 6.5% 10.0%
STEM[27] 5–12 May 2009 20.9% 8.9% 5.5% Шаблон:Party shading/Czech Social Democratic Party| 24.2% 3.1% N.A.% 11.9% 25.5%
CVVM[28] 25 May 2009 Шаблон:Party shading/Civic Democratic Party (Czech Republic)| 36.5% 15.5% 6.5% 28.0% 5.5% N.A.% 8%
UPOL[29] 25 May 2009 29.1% 14.8% 5.5% Шаблон:Party shading/Czech Social Democratic Party| 29.8% 2.9% 3.3% 3.5%
STEM/SC&C[30] 26 May 2009 Шаблон:Party shading/Civic Democratic Party (Czech Republic)| 31.0% 13.0% 8.0% 27.0% 4.0% 2.0% 15.0%
Election 5 June 2009 Шаблон:Party shading/Civic Democratic Party (Czech Republic)| 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[31][32] 4 May 2009 Шаблон:Party shading/Civic Democratic Party (Czech Republic)| 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. KDU-ČSL 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.[33]

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European groups

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Elected MEPs

Num MEP Sex Party EP Group Period Pref. Votes
1. Evžen Tošenovský Male style="background-color:Шаблон:Party color; color:white" | ODS style="background-color:Шаблон:Party color; color:white" | ECR 14 July 2009 – 30 June 2014 104,737
2. Jan Zahradil Male style="background-color:Шаблон:Party color; color:white" | ODS style="background-color:Шаблон:Party color; color:white" | ECR 14 July 2009 – 30 June 2014 65,731
3. Miloslav Ransdorf Male style="background-color:Шаблон:Party color; color:white" | KSČM style="background-color:Шаблон:Party color; color:white" | GUE-NGL 14 July 2009 – 30 June 2014 61,453
4. Jiří Havel Male style="background-color:Шаблон:Party color; color:white" | ČSSD style="background-color:Шаблон:Party color; color:white" | S&D 14 July 2009 – 8 July 2012 59,818
5. Zuzana Roithová Female style="background-color:Шаблон:Party color; color:white" | KDU–ČSL style="background-color:Шаблон:Party color; color:white" | EPP 14 July 2009 – 30 June 2014 52,503
6. Richard Falbr Male style="background-color:Шаблон:Party color; color:white" | ČSSD style="background-color:Шаблон:Party color; color:white" | S&D 14 July 2009 – 30 June 2014 44,703
7. Vladimír Remek Male style="background-color:Шаблон:Party color; color:white" | KSČM style="background-color:Шаблон:Party color; color:white" | GUE-NGL 14 July 2009 – 15 December 2013 40,650
8. Jan Březina Male style="background-color:Шаблон:Party color; color:white" | KDU–ČSL style="background-color:Шаблон:Party color; color:white" | EPP 14 July 2009 – 30 June 2014 23,154
9. Libor Rouček Male style="background-color:Шаблон:Party color; color:white" | ČSSD style="background-color:Шаблон:Party color; color:white" | S&D 14 July 2009 – 30 June 2014 19,771
10. Hynek Fajmon Male style="background-color:Шаблон:Party color; color:white" | ODS style="background-color:Шаблон:Party color; color:white" | ECR 14 July 2009 – 30 June 2014 16,041
11. Andrea Češková Female style="background-color:Шаблон:Party color; color:white" | ODS style="background-color:Шаблон:Party color; color:white" | ECR 14 July 2009 – 30 June 2014 14,477
12. Oldřich Vlasák Male style="background-color:Шаблон:Party color; color:white" | ODS style="background-color:Шаблон:Party color; color:white" | ECR 14 July 2009 – 30 June 2014 11,744
13. Edvard Kožušník Male style="background-color:Шаблон:Party color; color:white" | ODS style="background-color:Шаблон:Party color; color:white" | ECR 14 July 2009 – 30 June 2014 11,567
14. Miroslav Ouzký Male style="background-color:Шаблон:Party color; color:white" | ODS style="background-color:Шаблон:Party color; color:white" | ECR 14 July 2009 – 30 June 2014 9,869
15. Olga Sehnalová Female style="background-color:Шаблон:Party color; color:white" | ČSSD style="background-color:Шаблон:Party color; color:white" | S&D 14 July 2009 – 30 June 2014 9,386
16. Jiří Maštálka Male style="background-color:Шаблон:Party color; color:white" | KSČM style="background-color:Шаблон:Party color; color:white" | GUE-NGL 14 July 2009 – 30 June 2014 8,181
17. Zuzana Brzobohatá Female style="background-color:Шаблон:Party color; color:white" | ČSSD style="background-color:Шаблон:Party color; color:white" | S&D 14 July 2009 – 30 June 2014 7,736
18. Milan Cabrnoch Male style="background-color:Шаблон:Party color; color:white" | ODS style="background-color:Шаблон:Party color; color:white" | ECR 14 July 2009 – 30 June 2014 7,143
19. Ivo Strejček Male style="background-color:Шаблон:Party color; color:white" | ODS style="background-color:Шаблон:Party color; color:white" | ECR 14 July 2009 – 30 June 2014 6,071
20. Jaromír Kohlíček Male style="background-color:Шаблон:Party color; color:white" | KSČM style="background-color:Шаблон:Party color; color:white" | GUE-NGL 14 July 2009 – 30 June 2014 5,719
21. Pavel Poc Male style="background-color:Шаблон:Party color; color:white" | ČSSD style="background-color:Шаблон:Party color; color:white" | S&D 14 July 2009 – 30 June 2014 4,814
22. Robert Dušek Male style="background-color:Шаблон:Party color; color:white" | ČSSD style="background-color:Шаблон:Party color; color:white" | S&D 14 July 2009 – 30 June 2014 4,042
Source:[34]

References

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External links

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