By-elections for Prague 4 and Znojmo District Senate seats were held in the Czech Republic in October 2004. Elections were held after incumbent senators became members of European parliament.[1]
Election Name: | 2004 Czech senate by-election |
Country: | Czech Republic |
Type: | parliamentary |
Ongoing: | no |
Election Date: | 8–18 October |
Turnout: | First Round: 20.0% Second Round: 15.2% |
Candidate1: | František Příhoda |
Party1: | Civic Democratic Party (Czech Republic) |
Popular Vote1: | 8,078 |
Percentage1: | 60.1% |
Candidate2: | Erazim Kohák |
Party2: | Czech Social Democratic Party |
Popular Vote2: | 5,358 |
Percentage2: | 39.9% |
Election in Prague 4 was won by František Příhoda who defeated Erazim Kohák by landslide. Příhoda's victory was generally expected.[2]
Candidate | Party | First round | Second round | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Votes | % | Votes | % | |||
6,663 | 37.82 | 8,078 | 60.12 | |||
3,547 | 20.13 | 5,358 | 39.87 | |||
Tomáš Ježek | 2,859 | 16.22 | ||||
Jan Vávra | 2,176 | 12.35 | ||||
Karel Skoupil | 2,023 | 11.48 | ||||
Vladimír Němec | 251 | 1.42 | ||||
Petr Švec | 97 | 0.55 | ||||
Overall | 17,738 | 100 | 13,491 | 100 |
Election Name: | 2004 Czech senate by-election |
Country: | Czech Republic |
Type: | parliamentary |
Ongoing: | no |
Election Date: | 8–18 October |
Turnout: | First Round: 19.5% Second Round: 14.0% |
Candidate1: | Milan Špaček |
Party1: | Christian and Democratic Union – Czechoslovak People's Party |
Popular Vote1: | 6,734 |
Percentage1: | 53.3% |
Candidate2: | Jaroslav Pařík |
Party2: | Civic Democratic Party (Czech Republic) |
Popular Vote2: | 5,896 |
Percentage2: | 46.7% |
Znojmo election was unexpectedly won by Milan Špaček. He faced Jaroslav Pařík who was considered front-runner due to his results in the first round.[3]
Candidate | Party | First round | Second round | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Votes | % | Votes | % | |||
4,995 | 28.37 | 6,734 | 53.31 | |||
5,161 | 29.32 | 5,896 | 46.68 | |||
4,735 | 26.90 | |||||
1,656 | 9.40 | |||||
1,054 | 5.98 | |||||
Overall | 17,680 | 100 | 12,630 | 100 |