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Czech Senate election first round concludes with five candidates winning seats outright

The political party of Prime Minister Andrej Babis faced a key vote as five senators won seats in the first round of the Czech Senate election.

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Voters in the Czech Republic cast ballots on Friday and Saturday in local elections and a vote for one third of the seats in the Senate. Euronews and FTMQ News reported that the vote was viewed as a popularity test for Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis and his administration. Euronews stated that 154 candidates stood for 27 seats in the Senate. [1][10]

According to the Czech Statistics Office, five senators were elected in the first round. Euronews reported that this result equals a historic record set in 2024. None of the five candidates who won seats outright were from the ANO movement led by Andrej Babis. [1]

Outlets offered differing assessments on the initial overall result. Euronews and Yahoo News Australia reported that the ANO movement faced a strong challenge in the voting. The Washington Times and GazetteXtra reported that the ruling party of the prime minister led in the first round of the Senate election. [1][2][3][4]

Andrej Babis founded the ANO party in 2012. He currently serves as the prime minister of the Czech Republic, having returned to office in December 2025 after previously holding the post from 2017 to 2021, as FTMQ News reported earlier. [7][10]

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In short

  • Five candidates were elected to the Czech Senate in the first round of voting.
  • None of the five candidates elected outright in the first round belonged to the ruling ANO party.
  • The election covered 27 Senate seats with 154 candidates standing.

Sources

Every paragraph above points to the numbered items it rests on. Read the originals here.

  1. [1]Czech PM Babiš's ANO faces strong challenge in first round of Senate electionEuronews, 1h ago (the report this story comes from)
  2. [2]The ruling party of the populist Czech prime minister leads in 1st round of Senate electionWashington Times, 15h ago
  3. [3]Czech PM Babiš's ANO faces strong challenge in first round of Senate electionYahoo News Australia, 1h ago
  4. [4]The ruling party of the populist Czech prime minister leads in 1st round of Senate electionGazetteXtra, 15h ago
  5. [5]Czech local and Senate elections put Babiš government to the testTVP World, 1d ago
  6. [6]Czechs vote in Senate and local elections in first test for populist PM BabišWRAL, 1d ago

Background

  1. [7]Andrej Babiš on Wikipedia
  2. [8]2026 United States Senate elections on Wikipedia
  3. [9]Senate on Grokipedia
  4. [10]Voters in the Czech Republic cast ballots in local and senate elections FTMQ News, 1d ago
  5. [11]Thousands protest Flavio Bolsonaro in Rio ahead of Brazil runoff election FTMQ News, 3d ago

Our newsroom writes these reports with the help of software, from the 11 sources listed and nothing else, and checks them against those sources. Facts can still be wrong or move on; the originals are the record. Spotted a mistake? Write to daniel@monsterkong.com.

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