At Stake in this Election:        

• 27 members of the Senate of the Czech Republic  

Government Structure: 

• Chief of State: President Miloš ZEMAN 

• Head of Government: Prime Minister Petr FIALA 

• Assembly: Bicameral Parliament consisting of the Senate (Senat) and the Chamber of Deputies (Poslanecká sněmovna). 

Electoral System: 

• The President is directly elected to a five-year term. 

• The Prime Minister is appointed by the President and is generally the leader of the majority party in the Chamber of Deputies. 

• The 200 members of the Chamber of Deputies (Poslanecká sněmovna) are elected by proportional representation from 14 districts with a 5% threshold. They are elected to four-year terms. 

• The 81 members of the Senate (Senat) are elected through a two-round system when the two most successful candidates from the first round face each other again in the second round usually a week later. They are elected to six-year terms with a third of the members being elected every two years.  

Main Parties in this Election:  

• Mayors and Independents / Starostové a nezávislí (STAN) 

• Leader: Vít RAKUŠAN 

• Seats won in last election: 10 

• Civic Democratic Party / Občanská demokratická strana (ODS) 

• Leader: Petr FIALA 

• Seats won in last election: 5 

• KDU-ČSL / Křesťanská a demokratická unie – Československá strana lidová 

• Leader: Marian JUREČKA 

• Seats won in last election: 3 

• TOP 09 / Tradice Odpovědnost Prosperita 

• Leader: Markéta PEKAROVÁ ADAMOVÁ 

• Seats won in last election: 2 

• Senátor 21 

• Leader: Václav LÁSKA 

• Seats won in last election: 2 

• Action of Dissatisfied Citizens / Akce nespokojených občanů (ANO) 

• Leader: Andrej BABIŠ 

• Seats won in last election: 1 

Population and Registered Voters: 

• Population: 10,705,384 (2022 est.)¹ 

• Registered Voters: 8,275,752 (2021)² 

Gender Data: 

• Female Population: 5,433,211 (2022 est.)³ 

• Is the Czech Republic a signatory to CEDAW: No 

• Has the Czech Republic ratified CEDAW: Yes (Succession) (22 Feb 1993)⁴ 

• Gender Quota: None 

• Number of Female Legislators: 51 out of 200 in Chamber of Deputies (25.5%); 12 out of 81 in Senate (14.8%)⁵ 

• Human Development Index (HDI) Position: Rank 32 at 0.889⁶ 

• Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) Categorization: Very Low (0.0283) (2014)⁷ 

Disability Data: 

• Is the Czech Republic a signatory to CRPD: Yes (30 Mar 2007)⁸ 

• Has the Czech Republic ratified CRPD: Yes (28 Sept 2009)⁹ 

• Population with a disability: 1,596,726 (2022 est.)¹⁰ 

IFES Resources: 

• Does IFES have a presence in the Czech Republic: The Regional Europe Office is based in Prague.   

 

1. https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/czechia/#people-and-society

2. https://www.idea.int/data-tools/country-view/91/40

3. https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/czechia/#people-and-society

4. https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/15/TreatyBodyExternal/Treaty.aspx?Treaty=CEDAW&Lang=en 

5. https://data.ipu.org/women-ranking?month=6&year=2022

6. https://hdr.undp.org/data-center/specific-country-data#/countries/CZE

7. https://www.genderindex.org/country/czech-republic-2014-results/ 

8. https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/15/TreatyBodyExternal/Treaty.aspx?Treaty=CEDAW&Lang=en 

9. https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/15/TreatyBodyExternal/Treaty.aspx?Treaty=CEDAW&Lang=en 

10. http://electionaccess.org/en/resources/countries/?q=czech#tab