Czech legislative election, 2010

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28–29 May 2010

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200 seats in the Chamber of Deputies
101 seats were needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Jiří Paroubek	Petr Nečas	Karel Schwarzenberg
Party	ČSSD	ODS	TOP 09
Leader's seat	Ústí nad Labem	Zlín	Prague
Last election	74 seats	81 seats	split from KDU–ČSL
Seats won	56	53	41
Seat change	18	28	41
Popular vote	1,155,267	1,057,792	873,833
Percentage	22.08%	20.22%	16.70%

	Fourth party	Fifth party

Leader	Vojtěch Filip	Radek John
Party	KSČM	Public Affairs
Leader's seat	South Bohemia	Prague
Last election	26 seats	Did not stand
Seats won	26	24
Seat change	0	24
Popular vote	589,765	569,127
Percentage	11.27%	10.88%

Prime Minister before election

Jan Fischer
Independent

Elected Prime Minister

Petr Nečas
ODS

Jan Fischer
Independent

Petr Nečas
ODS

A legislative election in the Czech Republic took place on 28–29 May 2010. The election had been expected to take place some time before the end of 2009 (originally set for 9–10 October 2009, see below) to elect the members of the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic. Before the election, the country had been governed by a caretaker administration.

The election saw a loss of support for the Social Democratic Party (ČSSD), although they still received the highest number of votes. The conservative Civic Democratic Party (ODS) and TOP 09 followed in second and third, while the Communist Party finished fourth. Social Democrat leader Jiří Paroubek resigned after the election, conceding that a conservative coalition government appeared likely, with the rise of two new right-wing parties—TOP 09 and Public Affairs. In June, centre-right coalition of Civic Democratic Party, TOP 09, and Public Affairs was formed, with Petr Nečas becoming the prime minister.

Incumbent PM Mirek Topolánek had lost a no-confidence vote on 24 March 2009. After four failed earlier attempts, the opposition Social Democrats succeeded in leading the lower house of the Czech parliament to a no confidence vote in Topolánek's government. The measure passed with 101 votes to 96, largely due to several members of Topolánek's own party voting with the opposition.

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