2018 Prague municipal election

2018 Prague municipal election

5 and 6 October 2018

All 65 seats in the Assembly
33 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Bohuslav Svoboda Zdeněk Hřib Jan Čižinský
Party ODS Pirates Prague Together
Last election 8 seats, 11.0% 4 seats, 5.3% Did not contest
Seats won 14 13 13
Seat change 6 9 13
Popular vote 4,527,920 4,326,041 4,197,578
Percentage 17.9% 17.1% 16.6%
Swing 6.9% 11.8% New party

  Fourth party Fifth party
 
Leader Jiří Pospíšil Petr Stuchlík
Party TOP 09 ANO
Alliance UFP
Last election 16 seats, 20.1% 17 seats, 22.1%
Seats won 13 12
Seat change 3 5
Popular vote 4,127,063 3,893,968
Percentage 16.3% 15.4%
Swing 3.8% 6.7%

Mayor before election

Adriana Krnáčová
ANO 2011

Elected mayor

Zdeněk Hřib
Pirates

The 2018 Prague municipal elections were held in Prague in on 5 and 6 October 2018 as part of nationwide municipal elections. All 65 seats of the Prague Assembly were up to elect. Full results were presented a day later, on 7 October 2018.

The result was a narrow victory of conservative Civic Democratic Party (ODS), which received 17.9 per cent of votes and 14 seats. The ODS won for the fifth time in Prague. Followed by liberal Czech Pirate Party (Pirates), receiving 17.1 per cent (almost 12 per cent more than in 2014 election), and 13 seats. Praha sobě ("Prague Together", 16.6 per cent) and the United Forces for Prague (16.3 per cent) won 13 seats as well. Centrist populist ANO, the strongest party of the Czech Republic at that time, as well as the strongest party in Prague, lost 5 seats and 6.7 per cent of votes, receiving 12 seats and 15.4 per cent of votes. The Freedom and Direct Democracy received only 3.5 per cent, failed to reach 5% threshold. The Communist Party received 3.3 per cent, and the Czech Social Democratic Party received 2.9 per cent, both failed to reach the threshold for the first time. Pirate Party's Zdeněk Hřib was elected as mayor with the support of Prague Together and UFP.