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Legislative elections: House of Representatives, 4-year term, 5% threshold, party-list proportional representation system
           · President: Václav Klaus · Prime Minister: Jan Fischer · Government: ODS, ČSSD (interim)

Party Ideology, Affiliation, Founding 2010 Seats 2006 Seats
Občanská Demokratická Strana (ODS)
Civic Democratic Party
Conservatism; Economic liberalism, Euroscepticism AECR, IDU 
1991
    35,4% 81
Česká Strana Sociálne Demokratická (ČSSD)
Czech Social Democratic Party
Social democracy
 
PES, SI
1990
(orig. 1893)
     32,3% 74
Komunistická Strana Čech a Moravy (KSČM)
Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia
Communism
 
ELo
1990
(pred. 1921)
     12,8% 26
Krest’anská a Demokratická Unie (KDU-ČSL)
Christian and Democratic Union
Christian democracy
 
EPP, CDI
1919
     7,2% 13
Strana Zelených (SZ)
Green Party
Green politics; Centrism
 
EGP, GG
1989
    6,3% 6
Tradice Odpovědnost Prosperita (TOP09)
Tradition Responsibility Prosperity
Conservatism
 
-
2009
    - -
Others - -     6,0% -
Total - -     - 200
Turnout - -    64,5%

 © 2009 Wolfram Nordsieck. Source: CZSO (http://www.volby.cz). Archive: Elections 1990-2002.