Turnout in Czech municipal elections rose to 48%, but kept falling in the towns with the lowest turnout
48.00% of voters turned out, 1.9 percentage points more than in 2022, and turnout rose in 12 of the 14 regions. But in the quarter of larger towns with the lowest turnout it fell in 18 of 24. Five towns are below 30% this year; four years ago there were none.
10/16/2026
Czechia has the most municipalities per capita in Europe, three times as many as Austria
Next Friday and Saturday, councils will be elected in 6,251 Czech municipalities. Half of them have fewer than 500 inhabitants; in Austria, only one municipality in twenty is that small. Running the smallest municipalities costs almost twice as much per inhabitant, and in nearly half of them only a single list of candidates is standing. Why Czechia has so many municipalities, and what happened when Austria merged its own.
10/2/2026