The 2022 Prague municipal election was held in September 2022 as part of the
nationwide municipal elections to elect members of the
Prague City Assembly. It was a victory for
Spolu which received the highest number of votes and seats ahead of
ANO 2011 in second place. The
Czech Pirate Party led by incumbent Mayor
Zdeněk Hřib finished third.
New coalition was formed 5 months after election and it consists of Spolu, Pirates and STAN. Bohuslav Svoboda became the new mayor.
Background
The
Civic Democratic Party received the highest number of votes in the
2018 Prague municipal election
The 2018 Prague municipal elections were held in Prague in on 5 and 6 October 2018 as part of 2018 Czech municipal elections, nationwide municipal elections. All 65 seats of the Prague Assembly were up to elect. Full results were presented a day la ...
but remained in opposition as a coalition was formed by the
Czech Pirate Party, Prague Together,
TOP 09 and
Mayors and Independents.
Zdeněk Hřib became the new mayor.
Preparations for the next municipal election started following the
2021 Czech legislative election
Legislative elections were held in the Czech Republic on 8 and 9 October 2021. All 200 members of the Chamber of Deputies were elected, with the leader of the resulting government to become the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic. Following th ...
which resulted in a victory for the
Spolu alliance, consisting of the
Civic Democratic Party,
KDU-ČSL and
TOP 09. Leaders of those three parties then discussed continuing their cooperation in the upcoming municipal election. TOP 09 was also approached by Mayors and Independents, who had run on a joint list with TOP 09 in the 2018 municipal election.
On 25 January 2022 the
Civic Democratic Party,
KDU-ČSL and
TOP 09 agreed to continue cooperation under the SPOLU platform for the 2022 municipal election.
The Pirate Party decided to nominate incumbent mayor Zdeněk Hřib for reelection.
On 21 March 2022
Bohuslav Svoboda was reported to be the electoral leader of SPOLU as the Prague organisation of ODS confirmed his nomination. Other parties in SPOLU had previously expressed their support for Svoboda.
Svoboda's nomination as a mayoral candidate was confirmed on 4 April 2022.
Seznam Zprávy reported on 28 April 2022 that might become the ANO 2011 nominee for Mayor. Leader of Prague organisation Ondřej Prokop and MP Patrik Nacher both confirmed the party's interest in her nomination, although both Prokop and Nacher were also mentioned as potential candidates.
On 7 July 2022 Nacher was confirmed to be ANO's mayoral nominee.
SPOLU launched its campaign on 1 May 2022.
Parties and coalitions
The following parties announced their candidacy and have been registered in opinion polls:
Pre-election composition of assembly
Opinion polls
Results
References
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Prague municipal election
Municipal election, 2022