Senate district 70 – Ostrava-City is electoral district to the Senate, upper house of the Parliament of the Czech Republic, comprising part of Ostrava-City District. The district is represented by Civic Democratic Senator Zdeněk Nytra.

Senators Term Senator Party 1996-2004 Mirek Topolánek ODS 2004-2010 Liana Janáčková NEZ 2010-2016 Antonín Maštalíř ČSSD Since 2016 Zdeněk Nytra ODS

Election results 1996 election Candidate Party First round Second round Votes % Votes % Mirek Topolánek ODS 9,416 37.9% 12,322 51.3% Jiří Smejkal ČSSD 5,639 22.7% 11,692 48.7% Otakar Podhajský KSČM 4,020 16.2% Ilja Racek KDU-ČSL 2,444 9.9% Miroslav Nejezchleba ODA 1,742 7.0% František Vyhňák Greens 461 1.9% Ladislav Vrchovský ČSNS 358 1.4% Ladislav Kachel DEU 310 1.3% Jozef Facuna ROI 262 1.1%Jan Vozárik SDS 163 0.7%

1998 election Candidate Party First round Second round Votes % Votes % Mirek Topolánek ODS 9,551 39.4% 9,269 63.3% Jiří Grossmann ČSSD 4,858 20.0% 5,375 36.7% Josef Babka KSČM 4,851 20.0% František Hromek 4K 4,022 16.6% Václav Vápeník DL 992 4.1%

2004 election Candidate Party First round Second round Votes % Votes % Liana Janáčková NEZ 5,151 22.6% 7,337 56.7% Hana Heráková ODS 6,066 26.6% 5,594 43.3% Milan Peša KSČM 3,979 17.5% Vojtěch Mynář ČSSD 2,680 11.8% Jiří Hořínek KDU-ČSL 1,964 8,6% Helena Fousková SD-SN 1,729 7.6% Jan Černota SNK 623 2.7% Maxmilián Šimek SSPD-SP 280 1.2% Vladimír Smetana Common Sense 173 0.8% Jaroslav Broulík HNHRM 142 0.6%

2010 election Candidate Party First round Second round Votes % Votes % ' Antonín Maštalíř ČSSD 8,561 23.7% 12,091 53.0% Liana Janáčková NEZ 8,922 24.7% 10,707 47,0% Lukáš Ženatý ODS 5,725 15.9 Justina Kamenná KSČM 4,507 12.5% Tomáš Čermák TOP 09 4 271 11,84 Zbyněk Pražák KDU-ČSL 1,782 4,9% Aleš Dobrozemský VV 1,101 3.1% Zdeněk Pavlíček Common Sense 752 2,10 Radoslav Štědroň ProOstr. 449 1.2%

2016 election The 2016 election was held as part of the 2016 Czech Senate election. Independent candidate Liana Janáčková was considered the front-runner of the election. Social democratic candidate Josef Pravda was considered her main rival. Janáčková was eventually defeated by Zdeněk Nytra, candidate of right wing parties. First candidates appeared in March 2016. Incumbent senator Antonín Maštalíř decided to not run. ODS decided to nominate Chairman of Moravia-Silesian firefighters Zdeněk Nytra. Nytra stated that he wants to geet support from other right wing parties, notably TOP 09. TOP 09 endorsed Nytra in April 2016. Nytra was eventually registered as an independent candidate due to a conflict of his partisan affiliation with a newly passed law that banned him from running as a partisan candidate due to his position as a Chairman of Firefighters. Nytra also received support from Freeholder Party. Christian democrats nominated former Chairman of Czech television Ilja Racek. Communists nominated Ivan Strachoň. Political movement NEZ nominated Liana Janáčková, Mayor of Mariánské Hory. Social democrats were yet to decide their nominee. Social democratic nomination was pursued by Josef Pravda, Vladimír Majer and Marian Starý. In April 2016, Social democrats nominated Josef Pravda. ANO nominated Radim Babinec. Dawn – National Coalition nominated Chairwoman of Czech energetic regulation bureau Alena Vitásková who faced criminal trial for corruption. Janáčková was considered front-runner while Social democratic nominee Josef Pravda was seen as her main rival. Zdeněk Nytra was also considered a serious contender. There were 10 candidates overall. Zdeněk Nytra ran a contact campaign. He was attending meetings with people. Nytra stated that he wants to focus on safety and readability of laws if he is elected. Liana Janáčková also led campaign for regional election. Her campaign gained attention for giving matches to voters. Candidate of Dawn Alena Vitásková focused during campaign on Zdeněk Bakala. She promised to ensure investigation of OKD case. Vitásková herself faced criminal trial which led to suspicion that she wants to get immunity by winning the election. First round was held on 7 and 8 October 2016. Janáčková received highest number of votes. Zdeněk Nytra also advanced to second round. Janáčková stated that she is looking forward to a fair duel with Nytra. Nytra stated that he si glad but also noted that his rival is strong and hard to defeat. He also admitted that he didn't expect that he will advance to the second round. Janáčková was considered front runner for the second round. Second round was held on 14 and 15 October 2016. Nytra eventually defeated Janáčková by a narrow margin.

Janáčková showed disappointment with the result. She stated that she lost because she didn't have support of strong parties and everybody united against her. She also blamed her defeat on low turnout. Nytra was pleased by the result. He stated that result could have been influenced by the fact that Janáčková also ran in regional election which some people take unpleasantly.

NEZ later challenged the result at court. They argued that Nytra wasn't in fact an independent candidate because of his support from ODS and TOP 09. In November, 2016 court declined the complaint. Candidate Party First round Second round Votes % Votes % Zdeněk Nytra NK 4,569 15.44 6,058 51.81 Liana Janáčková NEZ 5,777 19.53 5,634 48.18 Radim Babinec ANO 2011 4,258 14.39 Alena Vitásková Dawn 3,599 12.16 Ivan Strachoň KSČM 2,635 8.90 Ilja Racek KDU-ČSL 2,577 8.71 Josef Pravda ČSSD 2,303 7.78 Tomáš Málek Ostravak 2,147 7.25 Jan Becher Pirates 1,289 4.35 Petr Borna DSSS 423 1.43

2022 election

Candidate Party First round Second round Votes % Votes % Zdeněk Nytra KDU-ČSL, ODS, TOP 09 8,405 25.42 7,215 51.53 Miroslav Antl ANO 2011 7,452 22.53 6,786 48.46 Hana Zelená PRO 2022 4,642 14.03 Peter Harvánek SPD 4,312 13.04 Liana Janáčková PRO Zdraví 4,276 12.93 Patrik Hujdus STAN 3,581 10.83 Radoslav Štědroň SSPD-SP 396 1.19

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