# 2008 Czech Senate election

Senate elections were held in the Czech Republic on 17 and 18 October 2008, with a second round on 24 and 25 October 2008, electing one-third of the members of the Senate. A total of 200 candidates contested the 27 seats, and more than two-thirds of the incumbents ran for another term – only seven retired.
Governing parties (ODS and KDU-CSL; the Greens had no open seats) suffered massive losses – only 3 candidates (all ODS) were elected. The Opposition Czech Social Democratic Party won the election with 23 out of the 27 seats contested. The Civic Democratic Party lost its majority in the Senate (which was used to delay ratification of the Lisbon Treaty in the Czech Republic).

## Results

| Nominating party | Nominating party | First round | First round | First round | Second round | Second round | Second round | Seats | Seats | Seats |
| Nominating party | Nominating party | Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | Won | Not up | Total |
| | Czech Social Democratic Party | 347,759 | 33.20 | 1 | 459,829 | 55.92 | 22 | 23 | 6 | 29 |
| | Civic Democratic Party | 252,827 | 24.14 | 0 | 266,731 | 32.44 | 3 | 3 | 32 | 35 |
| | Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia | 147,186 | 14.05 | 0 | 20,900 | 2.54 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| | KDU-ČSL | 83,674 | 7.99 | 0 | 42,225 | 5.13 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 7 |
| | Green Party | 41,836 | 3.99 | 0 | | | | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| | SNK European Democrats | 39,995 | 3.82 | 0 | 24,974 | 3.04 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| | Party for the Open Society | 14,848 | 1.42 | 0 | | | | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| | Freedom Union – Democratic Union | 12,016 | 1.15 | 0 | | | | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| | Bloc Against Islamisation – Home Defence | 10,545 | 1.01 | 0 | | | | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | Independent Democrats | 10,519 | 1.00 | 0 | | | | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | Liberal Reform Party | 9,063 | 0.87 | 0 | | | | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | Public Affairs | 8,634 | 0.82 | 0 | | | | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | Independent Mayors for the Region | 7,881 | 0.75 | 0 | | | | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| | HNHRM | 7,542 | 0.72 | 0 | | | | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | Independents | 6,108 | 0.58 | 0 | | | | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | Non-Partisans | 5,270 | 0.50 | 0 | | | | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | Club of Committed Non-Party Members | 4,896 | 0.47 | 0 | | | | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | Severočeši.cz | 4,557 | 0.44 | 0 | | | | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | Party of Common Sense | 3,607 | 0.34 | 0 | | | | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | Czech National Socialist Party | 3,289 | 0.31 | 0 | | | | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | Fair Play – HNPD | 1,866 | 0.18 | 0 | | | | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | Right Bloc | 1,832 | 0.17 | 0 | | | | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | National Democracy | 1,328 | 0.13 | 0 | | | | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | Workers' Party | 1,095 | 0.10 | 0 | | | | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | Mayors and Personalities for Moravia | 973 | 0.09 | 0 | | | | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | Civic Self-Defence Party | 934 | 0.09 | 0 | | | | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | Koruna Česká | 917 | 0.09 | 0 | | | | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | Head Up – Electoral Bloc | 885 | 0.08 | 0 | | | | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | Independents | 15,476 | 1.48 | 0 | 7,694 | 0.94 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Total | Total | 1,047,358 | 100.00 | 1 | 822,353 | 100.00 | 26 | 27 | 54 | 81 |
| Valid votes | Valid votes | 1,047,358 | 93.86 | | 822,353 | 99.74 | | | | |
| Invalid/blank votes | Invalid/blank votes | 68,510 | 6.14 | | 2,137 | 0.26 | | | | |
| Total votes | Total votes | 1,115,868 | 100.00 | | 824,490 | 100.00 | | | | |
| Registered voters/turnout | Registered voters/turnout | 2,852,506 | 39.12 | | 2,764,218 | 29.83 | | | | |
| Source: Volby, IPU |||||||||||