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Senate elections for a third of chamber were held in the Czech Republic on 13 and 14 November 1998 with a second round on 20 and 21 November.^[1]

The result was a victory for the Four-Coalition, which won 13 of the 27 seats up for election. The Coalition was an alliance of the Christian and Democratic Union – Czechoslovak People's Party, the Democratic Union, the Freedom Union and the Civic Democratic Alliance.^[2] However, Civic Democratic Party remained the largest Senate fraction. Voter turnout was 41% in the first round and 20.3% in the second.^[3]

The elections were held using the two-round system, with an absolute majority required to be elected.

Results


Party		First round			Second round			Seats
Party		Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Won	Not up	Total	+/–
	Civic Democratic Party	266,377	27.69	0	210,156	39.13	9	9	19	28	–4
	Four-Coalition	255,785	26.59	0	166,483	31.00	13	13	13	26	+5
	Czech Social Democratic Party	208,845	21.71	0	121,700	22.66	3	3	20	23	–2
	Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia	159,123	16.54	0	31,097	5.79	2	2	2	4	+2
	Green Party	7,803	0.81	0				0	0	0	0
	Independents	7,415	0.77	0				0	0	0	0
	Czech Right	3,436	0.36	0				0	0	0	0
	Moravians	3,167	0.33	0				0	0	0	New
	Party of Conservative Accord	3,113	0.32	0				0	0	0	New
	Democratic Regional Party	2,585	0.27	0				0	0	0	New
	Czech National Social Party	2,302	0.24	0				0	0	0	0
	Coexistence	1,419	0.15	0				0	0	0	0
	Democratic League	992	0.10	0				0	0	0	New
	Communist Party of Czechoslovakia	716	0.07	0				0	0	0	New
	Right Alternative	452	0.05	0				0	0	0	0
	Republican Union	200	0.02	0				0	0	0	New
	Independents	38,381	3.99	0	7,655	1.43	0	0	0	0	–1
Total		962,111	100.00	0	537,091	100.00	27	27	54	81	0

Valid votes		962,111	87.97		537,091	99.12
Invalid/blank votes		131,564	12.03		4,778	0.88
Total votes		1,093,675	100.00		541,869	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		2,666,398	41.02		2,665,043	20.33
Source: Nohlen & Stöver, Volby

References

^ Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p471 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
^ Nohlen & Stöver, p477
^ Nohlen & Stöver, p472

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