1999 Prague 1 by-election - Misplaced Pages

1999 Czech senate by-election

Turnout

33.7%

	First party	Second party	Third party

Candidate	Václav Fischer	Jiřina Jirásková	Ivan Medek
Party	Independent	ODS	Four-Coalition
Popular vote	22,461	3,844	2,948
Percentage	71.2%	12.2%	9.35%

	Fourth party	Fifth party

Candidate	Stanislav Fischer	Karel Srp
Party	KSČM	ČSSD
Popular vote	1,725	327
Percentage	5.47%	1.04%

Politics of the Czech Republic



Constitution Constitutional acts Charter of Fundamental Rights and Basic Freedoms
Executive President (list) Petr Pavel Government Prime Minister (list) Petr Fiala
Parliament Senate Chamber of Deputies
Judiciary Constitutional Court Supreme Court Supreme Administrative Court High Courts Regional Courts District Courts
Recent elections Legislative: 2006 2010 2013 2017 2021 Senate: 2014 2016 2018 2020 2022 European: 2009 2014 2019 2024 Presidential: 2008 2013 2018 2023
Administrative divisions Regions Districts Municipalities
Foreign relations Czech Republic–Germany relations Czech Republic–France relations Czech Republic–United Kingdom relations Czech Republic–United States relations Czech Republic–China relations Czech Republic–Poland relations Czech Republic–Russia relations Czech Republic–Ukraine relations Politics of the European Union
Czech Republic portal Other countries
v t e

A by-election for the Prague 1 Senate seat was held in the Czech Republic on 27 and 28 August 1999. Václav Fischer was elected a member of Senate with over 70% of votes in the first round of voting. Fischer then became the most popular politician in polls.

Opinion polls

Agency	Date	Fischer (NK)	Medek (4K)	Jirásková (ODS)	Fischer (KSČM)	Srp (ČSSD)	Tomášková (Rural)	Knot (NEI)	Tyl (RU)
iDnes.cz	20 August	68.1	16.5	11.8	1.2	1.1	1.0	0.2	0.1
Sofres-Factum	18–19 August	51.1	10.1	18.2	4.2	4.1	N/A	N/A	N/A

Results

Candidate	Party	Votes	%
Václav Fischer	Independent	22,461	71.24
Jiřina Jirásková	Civic Democratic Party	3,844	12.19
Ivan Medek	Four-Coalition	2,948	9.35
Stanislav Fischer	Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia	1,725	5.47
Karel Srp	Czech Social Democratic Party	327	1.04
Elvíra Tomášková	Rural Party	130	0.41
Richard Knot	Independent Initiative (NEI)	48	0.15
Otakar Tyl	Republican Union	46	0.15
Source: CZSO

References

"Cesky a slovensky svet". Czsk.net. Retrieved 29 October 2016.
"VIDEO: Fischer už nechce být Čechem!". Nova.cz. 13 August 2007. Retrieved 29 October 2016.
"Čtenáři iDNES: Do Senátu patří Fischer". iDNES.cz. 20 August 1999. Retrieved 29 October 2016.
"Senátorem bude podle průzkumu Václav Fischer". iDNES.cz. 20 August 1999. Retrieved 22 March 2017.

v t e Elections and referendums in the Czech Republic
Presidential elections	2013 2018 2023 Next
Parliamentary elections	1968 1971 1976 1981 1986 1990 1992 1996 1998 2002 2006 2010 2013 2017 2021 2025
Senate elections	1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 2016 2018 2020 2022 2024 by-elections
Regional elections	2000 2004 2008 2012 2016 2020 2024
Municipal elections	1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022
European elections	2004 2009 2014 2019 2024
Referendums	2003
See also: Elections in Austria-Hungary Czechoslovakia

v t e Elections in Prague
Municipal elections	1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022
Senate districts	17 – Prague 12 19 – Prague 11 20 – Prague 4 21 – Prague 5 22 – Prague 10 23 – Prague 8 24 – Prague 9 25 – Prague 6 26 – Prague 2 27 – Prague 1
Senate by-elections	Prague 1 (1999) Prague 4 (2004) Prague 10 (2014) Prague 9 (2019)
Czech elections

Categories: