Turnout: 36.45%
About this election
The 2024 European Parliament election in Czechia, held on 7–8 June 2024, was again won by Andrej Babiš's ANO movement, now in opposition, which finished ahead of the governing SPOLU coalition. The result confirmed ANO's recovery and front-runner status going into the following year's legislative election, while a clutch of populist and protest lists made gains.
As in every European election, Czechia chose its 21 MEPs in a single national constituency by D'Hondt proportional representation, with a 5% threshold and preferential voting. Because there are no regional constituencies, the vote functions as a nationwide popularity test. The 2024 contest was the first major electoral test of Petr Fiala's centre-right government since 2021, after a difficult term dominated by the energy crisis, high inflation and austerity, and was watched for signs of whether ANO's lead in the polls would translate into votes.
ANO campaigned against the government's record and its support for Ukraine, adopting an increasingly Eurosceptic and anti-migration tone, and announced it would leave the liberal Renew group to help form the new nationalist Patriots for Europe. SPOLU defended the government's pro-Western course. Several smaller lists drew attention: an alliance of the anti-establishment Přísaha and the libertarian Motorists, the hard-left Stačilo! led by the Communists, and the far-right SPD–Trikolóra bloc all competed for protest votes.
ANO won 26.14% and seven of the 21 seats. The SPOLU coalition (ODS, TOP 09 and KDU-ČSL) took 22.27% and six seats — two fewer than its parties had won in 2019. The Přísaha–Motorists alliance surprised with 10.26% and two seats, the Communist-led Stačilo! took 9.56% and two, and the Mayors (STAN) 8.70% and two. The Pirates fell back to 6.20% and a single seat, and the far-right SPD–Trikolóra won 5.73% and one. Turnout was 36.45%, well up on 2019.
The movement between the two European elections mapped the reshaping of Czech politics. ANO improved from 21.18% to 26.14% and from six seats to seven — this time as an opposition party rather than a party of government. The Pirates suffered the steepest fall, from 13.95% and three seats in 2019 to 6.20% and one, a collapse that prefigured the party's marginalisation and its stormy exit from the Fiala coalition later in 2024. The SPD, at 9.14% five years earlier, was squeezed to 5.73% by the newer protest lists Přísaha–Motorists and Stačilo!, which between them took nearly a fifth of the vote from a standing start. Turnout of 36.45% — up almost eight points on 2019's 28.72% — was the highest Czechia had recorded at a European election.
The European result confirmed ANO as the clear front-runner and underlined the erosion of support for Fiala's coalition, foreshadowing the government's defeat in the October 2025 legislative election. The strong performance of the Motorists pointed to a realignment on the Czech right that would reshape coalition arithmetic the following year, when the Motorists entered Babiš's new governing majority.
Compiled and reviewed by Bartłomiej Paruzel, Election Data Analyst, from official results. See our data methodology.