Social Democrats gain most votes but centre and centre-right parties get majority of seats in lower house.

With counting for elections to the lower house of parliament completed in 99.9 percent of voting districts, the left of centre Social Democrats were in the lead with 22.1 percent followed by the Civic Democrats on 20.2 percent, according to the Czech Statistical Office. The recently created TOP 09 party was third with 16.7 percent followed by the Communists with 11.3 percent and the Public Affairs party with 10.9 percent. The Christian Democrats and the party of former Social Democrat prime minister Miloš Zeman were both just under the 5.0 percent threshold to entry to the lower house with around 4.5 percent. The turnout was seen at just over 62.5 percent.

Czech Television predicted that these figures would translate into 57 seats in the 200-seat lower house for the Social Democrats. The Civic Democrats would gain 51 seats, TOP 09 41 seats, the Communists 26 seats and Public Affairs 25 seats. The Social Democrats appear to have won seats in most regions of the country apart from the Liberec, Hradec Králové and Central Czech regions won by the Civic Democrats. TOP 09 won in the former Civic Democrat bastion, Prague, with around 27 percent of the vote.