European Parliament elections were held in the

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on 23 and 24 May 2014. In total, 21

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were elected using

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(single district D'Hondt with a 5% threshold). ANO won the election closely followed by the coalition of

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and STAN, themselves closely followed by

ČSSD The Czech Social Democratic Party ( cs, Česká strana sociálně demokratická, ČSSD, ) is a social-democratic political party in the Czech Republic. Sitting on the centre-left of the political spectrum and holding pro-European views, it is a ...

. A total of 7 parties gained seats, including the non-parliamentary

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.Czech Statistical Office: Elections to the European Parliament held on the territory of the Czech Republic on 23 – 24 May 2014
/ref> Election turnout was 18.2%, the second lowest of all participating countries after

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Campaign finances

Opinion polls

Results

European groups

Elected members

The seats were given out within the parties to the candidates who received the preference votes, if number of preference votes exceeds 5% of votes for party (highlighted by bold), otherwise to the candidates by its order on party candidate list. 8 of 21 elected candidates are

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s (4 elected for ANO, 3 for TOP 09 and STAN and 1 for ČSSD). ;ANO #

Pavel Telička Pavel Telička (born 21 August 1965) is a Czech lobbyist, politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from the Czech Republic. He previously served as European Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection from May 2004 to November ...

– 50,784 votes # Petr Ježek – 5,301 votes #

Dita Charanzová Dita Charanzová (born 30 April 1975) is a Czech Republic, Czech politician and diplomat who has served as Vice President of the European Parliament since 2019, and as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 2014 for the ANO 2011 party. S ...

– 8 356 votes # Martina Dlabajová – 4,789 votes ;TOP 09 and STAN # Jiří Pospíšil – 77,724 votes # Luděk Niedermayer – 37,171 votes #

Jaromír Štětina Jaromír Štětina (born 6 April 1943) is a Czech journalist, writer and politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament from 2014 to 2019 for the Czech Republic, representing TOP 09. He is also known as a war correspondent from t ...

– 18,951 votes # Stanislav Polčák – 11,997 votes ;ČSSD # Jan Keller – 57,812 votes # Olga Sehnalová – 10,955 votes # Pavel Poc – 3,818 votes # Miroslav Poche – 3,692 votes ;KSČM # Kateřina Konečná – 28,154 votes # Miloslav Ransdorf – 14 384 votes # Jiří Maštálka – 11,525 votes ;KDU-ČSL # Michaela Šojdrová – 22,220 votes # Pavel Svoboda – 21,746 votes # Tomáš Zdechovský – 5,063 votes ;ODS #

Jan Zahradil Jan Zahradil (born 30 March 1963) is a Czech politician for the Civic Democratic Party (ODS) who has been Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since the Czech Republic entered the European Union in 2004. Zahradil also served as Member of t ...

– 19,892 votes # Evžen Tošenovský – 16,514 votes ;Svobodní #

Petr Mach Petr Mach (born 6 May 1975) is a Czech economist and former Member of the European Parliament. He is the founder of the Party of Free Citizens which he led until 2017 when he was replaced by Tomáš Pajonk. Early career In 1997, Mach became c ...

– 13,211 votes

Aftermath

The

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and Pirate Party failed to reach 5% threshold. Both parties decided to deliver a complaint to Supreme Administrative Court. They were inspired by Germany, where the threshold was abolished. The court did not decide about the complaint and sent it to the Constitutional Court. Constitutional Court rejected the complaint on 1 June 2015. According to the court, abolishing the threshold would lead to less effective European Parliament as it would be fragmented too much. If the threshold was abolished for 2014 elections Green Party and Pirate Party would get 1 MEP. Social Democrats and Christian Democrats would have 1 MEP less on the other hand.

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