Czechia Legislative election 2021 — Results
Election day: October 9, 2021
- SPOLU (ODS–KDU-ČSL–TOP 09): 27.79%, 71 seats
- ANO 2011: 27.13%, 72 seats
- Pirates and Mayors (PirSTAN): 15.62%, 37 seats
- Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD): 9.56%, 20 seats
- Přísaha: 4.68%, 0 seats
- Social Democrats (ČSSD): 4.65%, 0 seats
- Communist Party (KSČM): 3.60%, 0 seats
Turnout: 65.43%
About this election
How the country is governed
Members of the 200-seat Chamber of Deputies are elected by D'Hondt proportional representation across the 14 regions for four-year terms, with a 5% threshold for single parties and higher bars for coalitions — a rule that loomed large in 2021. The President formally names the prime minister, and a government must win the Chamber's confidence. The election was the first held under a revised allocation formula after the Constitutional Court struck down parts of the previous system as disproportionate, slightly improving the chances of smaller parties.
Compiled and reviewed from official results by ElectioMap. See our data methodology.
In numbers
- 0.66 points separated SPOLU (ODS–KDU-ČSL–TOP 09) from ANO 2011 — 35,765 votes.
- SPOLU (ODS–KDU-ČSL–TOP 09) converted 27.79% of the vote into 71 of 200 seats (35.50%), 7.71 points more than its vote share.
- The top two shared 54.92% of the vote between them, and 4 lists cleared 5%.
- Support for SPOLU (ODS–KDU-ČSL–TOP 09) ranged from 40.00% in Hlavní město Praha to 19.80% in Ústecký kraj — a spread of 20.20 points across 14 regions, and it led in 8 of 14.
- Turnout was 65.43%, up 4.59 points on 2017.
Calculated from the official figures on this page and from the other elections of this type in our archive.
Understanding this election
- D’Hondt vs Sainte-Laguë — how a divisor formula turns vote shares into seats
- How Electoral Systems Work Around the World — first-past-the-post, proportional and mixed systems, with real numbers
- Why Election Maps Look Different From the Popular Vote — why a map can look one-sided when the vote was close