The 2026 municipal elections are the elections to municipal councils in the Czech Republic. The State Election Commission approved their results on 12 October 2026 [1]. The results were due to take official form on 13 October 2026 through publication in the Collection of Laws, together with the results of Senate elections in five districts where a senator had already been elected in the first round [1][3].
Results
Turnout in the municipal elections reached 48 percent [1][2]. As usual, the most seats went to local associations of independent candidates, 50,084 seats in all, 2,352 more than in the municipal elections four years earlier [1][2]. Among political parties, the most seats went to KDU-ČSL, STAN, ODS and the ANO movement [1][2][3]. ANO won in six of the thirteen regional capitals: Karlovy Vary, Olomouc, Ostrava, Pardubice, Zlín and, together with independent candidates, Plzeň [1][2][3]. Four years earlier, ANO had won in eight regional capitals [1][2][3]. In Prague, the STAN movement won [1][2][3].
In the Senate elections, whose first round took place at the same time as the municipal ones, candidates in the districts of Děčín, Strakonice, Rychnov nad Kněžnou, Trutnov and Vyškov won or defended their seats already in the first round [1][2][3]. The remaining 22 Senate seats were to be decided a weekend later [1][2][3]. Turnout in the first round of the Senate elections was 43.31 percent [1][2][3].
Voting and technology
Tomáš Jirovec, head of the elections department at the Ministry of the Interior, said the ministry had not encountered systemic problems during the elections [1]. Eva Krumpová, first vice-president of the Czech Statistical Office, said the office had recorded no complications in the counting of votes or the processing of results, and had received the last results on Sunday at 7:01 [1].
Deputy Interior Minister Lukáš Kluček said the elections had gone "correctly and without problems" [1]. According to him, QR codes for the visually impaired were used on ballot papers for the first time in the Senate elections, and the ministry recorded no problems with them [1]. The eDoklady app also worked stably, to which, in his words, load tests carried out in the summer of 2026 contributed [1]. During the election weekend the app was updated by 250,000 users, of whom, according to preliminary data, 100,000 proved their identity at the elections through it, and 19,000 users newly registered [1].
Complaints and the disputed case in Moldava
People could file complaints or doubts about the election of any candidate in the municipal elections from 14 October 2026 for ten days, to the regional administrative courts [1][2][3]. Filings concerning the Senate elections were to be received by the Supreme Administrative Court of the Czech Republic [1][2][3].
According to ČTK, the elections in the municipality of Moldava in the Teplice area were likely to end up in court, as the mayor struck several people off the voter list who were seeking the right to vote [1]. According to the mayor, before the elections unknown people had been coming to the office with a newly signed tenancy agreement, wanting to become new residents of the municipality [1]. The struck-off voters called police to the polling station and drew up a document with them confirming that they had been unable to vote [1]. According to Jirovec, the ministry takes the view that a municipal office has no right to strike a voter off, and if it does so, the election commission cannot let the person vote, and a court must decide the matter [1]. Jirovec added that a unified voter register should start operating from 2027, so municipal offices would stop keeping their own lists [1].
Chronology
- — On 12 October 2026 the State Election Commission approved the results of this year's municipal elections, which are to be promulgated in the Collection of Laws on 13 October together with the Senate election results in five districts; complaints about the municipal elections can be filed with administrative courts for ten days from 14 October. → ČTK / České noviny Novinky.cz
Sources
- ČTK / České noviny — 12 October 2026
- Novinky.cz — 12 October 2026
- iDNES.cz — 12 October 2026