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Czechia 2002 parliamentary election

Final results from ParlGov, read : Czech Social Democratic Party won 70 of 200 seats with 30.2% of the vote; 57.9% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 15.9 points on 1998.

Result

Seats and votes by party

PartySeats± seats%± pointsVotes
Czech Social Democratic Party70−430.2−2.11,440,279
Civic Democratic Party58−524.5−3.31,166,975
Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia41+1718.5+7.5882,653
KDU-ČSL22+214.3+5.3680,671
SNK European Democrats02.8132,699
Green Party002.4+1.2112,929
Freedom Union – Democratic Union9−10

± is the change against the Czechia 1998 parliamentary election, party by party.

Votes by party
  • Czech Social Democratic Party 1,440,279
  • Civic Democratic Party 1,166,975
  • Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia 882,653
  • KDU-ČSL 680,671
  • SNK European Democrats 132,699
  • Green Party 112,929
  • Freedom Union – Democratic Union

ParlGov lists parties with at least 1 percent of the vote or 2 seats, so the rows do not add up to the valid votes. How we read it.

Share of the vote

Turnout

57.9% of the 8,264,484 registered voters cast a ballot (4,789,145 ballots), down 15.9 points on 1998. 4,768,006 of them were valid votes. The lowest turnout of this kind in our data, which begins in 1990. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

  • Czech Social Democratic Party30.2% of votes35.0% of seats
  • Civic Democratic Party24.5% of votes29.0% of seats
  • Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia18.5% of votes20.5% of seats
  • KDU-ČSL14.3% of votes11.0% of seats
  • SNK European Democrats2.8% of votes0.0% of seats
  • Green Party2.4% of votes0.0% of seats
Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 6.8 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 4.8 by votes and 3.8 by seats; Czech Social Democratic Party led Civic Democratic Party by 5.7 points of the vote. How these are computed.

Sources and licence

Sources and licence

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