Statistická ročenka kraje Vysočina

Suffrage and way of fulfilment, questions about election preparations, their accomplishment and interpretation of voting results were set by Act No. 491/2001 Coll. on council elections and changes and additions to some other acts. The right to vote for the municipality council had every citizen of the Czech Republic that at least the second day of the elections reached 18 years of age, was on the day of the elections registered as a permanent resident in the municipality and was not prevented from the exercise of the right to vote by impediment pursuant. Also a citizen of another country, which at least the second day of the elections reached at least 18 years of age, was on the day of the elections registered as a permanent resident in the municipality and had the right to vote granted by an international agreement.

A total of 181 political parties, political movements, their coalitions and their associations with independent candidates stood for elections, apart from these more than 11 100 of individual independent candidates stood for elections and more than 7 300 of different local associations of independent candidates. In five military districts there the municipality councils are not elected and the council was not elected in 19 municipalities as a consequence of not submitting the candidate list or insufficient number of candidates per stated number of elected members of the council.

Published data are based on data presented during the processing of the CZSO and on the overall election results released by the National Election Committee on 24 October 2006. It concerns overall statistical data on regular elections to municipalities, city districts, city parts and the Prague City Assembly, therefore there are no changes resulting from new or repeated elections, possibly repeated voting, given. In the overviews of reached results (Table 12-3 and 12-4) parliamentary parties are arranged in an ascending sequence according to their numerical code. For the reason of clear arrangement of the election results, votes for the individual independent candidates are unified under “Independent candidates” and similarly votes for individual local associations of independent candidates. In compliance with the methodology of processing the election results, relative data on the number of obtained votes are calculated without rounding to two decimal places.

Along with the local elections, based on the same Decision of the President of the CR, election to the Senate of the Parliament of the CR took place on the same date. The election was conducted under Act No. 247/1995 Coll. as amended. Under the same Act, on 27-28 October the second round of the election was held. Elections took place in all 27 electoral districts, where election period had finished. Election to the Senate of the Parliament of the CR was conducted in single-seat election districts set in the annex of the Act by secret ballot on the basis of universal, equal and direct suffrage, pursuant to the principle of the first-past-the-post system of voting.

Any citizen of the Czech Republic who had attained at least the age of 18 on the second day of the election at the latest and no legal impediment to the exercise of his/her right to vote occurred was entitled to vote. The same rule was applied in the second round of the election. The voter could exercise the right to vote on the basis of a voter pass in whichever electoral ward in the electoral district, if electoral ward, where the voter was entered in the electoral roll, territorially belonged into this electoral district. Each voter could be entered in only one electoral roll. Also citizens of the Czech Republic who had not their permanent residence in the country and came to a polling station in the CR in electoral districts where elections were held on the election days were entitled to vote using the voter pass.

Senator could be elected every voter who had attained at least the age of 40 on the second day of the election at the latest and no legal impediment to the exercise of his/her right to vote occurred for reasons of legal disqualification. Candidates for election to the Senate could have been registered by political parties and political movements registered at the Ministry of Interior or their coalitions, the application could have been submitted also by an independent candidate himself.

In the first round, no senator was elected and therefore the second round of the election was held in all of the electorat districts one weak later. Only the two candidates who received the highest number of valid votes in the first round were through to the second round. A candidate winning the most valid votes was returned to the Senate. The presented election results (Table 12-5 and 12-6) are shown for 27 electoral districts where election took place in OctobeR 2006.

The complete election results to local councils and to the Senate broken down by territorial administrative units can be found on www.volby.cz and in related publications published by the CZSO according to the Catalogue of Publications.