Voters decided about the new composition of the Senate

“In the first round, which took place along with elections to local councils, 43.31% of voters showed their interest in the senatorial elections; in the second round of the elections, it was 21.12%. Two years ago, 30.47% of voters showed their interest in the senatorial elections in the first round and in the second round it was 17.54% of voters. Six years ago, when the last senatorial elections took place in the given electoral districts, the turnout in the second round reached 16.74%. In this year’s senatorial elections, the turnout is thus in both rounds the highest since the year 2010,” Eva Krumpová, First Vice President of the Czech Statistical Office, notes.    

The highest turnout was in the Plzeň město electoral district, in which 27.24% of voters came to the elections. The lowest interest in the second round of the senatorial elections was recorded in the Karviná electoral district, where the turnout reached 13.15%.

In the second round of the senatorial elections, the smallest difference between the numbers of votes was in the Karviná electoral district. The difference between the winner and the loser was 648 votes there. The smallest number of votes necessary to win a seat in the Senate in the second round of the elections, 5,836, was sufficient for the winner also in the Karviná electoral district.

The average age of newly elected male and female senators is 56.1 years. The youngest elected senator is 40 years old and he is the 14th senator elected at this youngest possible age. The two oldest elected senators are 69 years old.

Data for the last electoral ward were processed on Saturday at 5:09 p.m. On Monday morning, the State Electoral Committee will negotiate the voting results and after their approval they will be published in the Collection of Laws of the Czech Republic.

For complete data on the senatorial elections see the election website of the CZSO.

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