| Election Name: | 1993 Czech presidential election |
| Country: | Czech Republic |
| Type: | presidential |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Next Election: | 1998 Czech presidential election |
| Next Year: | 1998 |
| Election Date: | 26 January 1993 |
| 1Blank: | Nominators |
| Nominee1: | Václav Havel |
| Party1: | Independent (politician) |
| 1Data1: | ODS, KDU–ČSL, ODA |
| Electoral Vote1: | 109 |
| Percentage1: | 54.5% |
| Nominee2: | Marie Stiborová |
| Party2: | Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia |
| 1Data2: | KSČM, SDL |
| Electoral Vote2: | 49 |
| Percentage2: | 24.5% |
| Nominee3: | Miroslav Sládek |
| Party3: | Rally for the Republic – Republican Party of Czechoslovakia |
| Electoral Vote3: | 14 |
| Percentage3: | 7.0% |
| President | |
| After Election: | Václav Havel |
| After Party: | Independent (politician) |
Indirect presidential elections were held in the Czech Republic on 26 January 1993 to elect the first president of the newly independent country. The president was elected by the members of the Czech Republic Parliament, with Václav Havel emerging as the winner.[1] [2] The election was complicated only by attacks of Republicans against Havel and by bomb threat to the Parliament.[3]
| Date | Agency | Someone else | Undecided | None | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 1992 | IVVM | 25.7 | 1.6 | 38.4 | 25.8 | 8.5 |
| align=left colspan=7 | Source: Nesstar | |||||
| Party | Chamber of Deputies | Endorsed candidate | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Civic Democratic Party (ODS) | Václav Havel | ||
| Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSČM) | Marie Stiborová | ||
| Czech Social Democratic Party (ČSSD) | |||
| Christian and Democratic Union – Czechoslovak People's Party (KDU–ČSL) | Václav Havel | ||
| Rally for the Republic – Republican Party of Czechoslovakia (SPR–RSČ) | Miroslav Sládek | ||
| Civic Democratic Alliance (ODA) | Václav Havel | ||
| Movement for Autonomous Democracy–Party for Moravia and Silesia (HSD–SMS) | |||
| Christian Democratic Party (KDS) | Václav Havel | ||
| Agrarian Party (ZS) | |||
| Czechoslovak Socialist Party (ČSS) | |||
| Green Party (SZ) | |||
| Party of the Democratic Left (SDL) | Marie Stiborová | ||
All 200 Members of Parliament voted. Six of them submitted invalid ballots while 22 submitted empty ballots. Havel received 109 votes and thus won the election in the first round. Communist candidate Stiborová received only 49 votes and Republican candidate Sládek only 14 votes. This is the only presidential election in which the president was voted and elected only by Chamber of Deputies.[4] Havel received 109 votes. It was expected that Havel will receive much more votes because governing coalition had 105 votes and part of opposition promised support to Havel. It is very likely that he didn't receive some votes from Civic Democrats and Christian Democrats (from KDS). Havel was inaugurated on 2 February 1993 and became the first president of the Czech Republic.[5]