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Mayors and Independents

Czech political party

Summary

Czech political party

Field	Value
country	the Czech Republic
founder	Petr Gazdík
name	Mayors and Independents
native_name	Starostové a nezávislí
leader	Vít Rakušan
leader1_title	Deputy Leaders
leader1_name	Lukáš Vlček
Jan Farský
Michaela Šebelová
Pavel Čížek
Karel Dvořák
leader2_title	Chamber of Deputies Leader
leader2_name	Michaela Šebelová
leader3_title	Senate Leader
leader3_name	Jan Sobotka
foundation
youth_wing	Young Mayors and Independents
colorcode
logo	Logo STAROSTOVÉ.svg
logo_size	250px
ideology	{{ublist
Localism<ref name	"Nordsieck"/
Liberalism{{refn	<ref>{{Cite web	title	STAN zakládá vlastní think-tank!	url=https://www.i-star.cz/2019/01/31/stan-zaklada-vlastni-think-tank/	website=i-star.cz	date=31 January 2019	language=cs}}}}
position	Centre to centre-right
newspaper	STANoviny
membership_year	2025
membership	2092
national	Pirates and Mayors
(2020–2021)
europarl	European People's Party Group
think_tank	Institute of Modern Politics iSTAR
colours	Pink
Yellow
slogan	Staráme se o lidi ()
website
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seats1
seats2_title	Senate
seats2
seats3_title	European Parliament
seats3
seats4_title	Regional councils
seats4
seats5_title	Regional governors
seats5
seats6_title	Local councils
seats6

Jan Farský Michaela Šebelová Pavel Čížek Karel Dvořák | Localism | Liberalism | Pro-Europeanism (2020–2021) Yellow Mayors and Independents (, STAN) is a liberal political party in the Czech Republic, focused on localism, regionalism and subsidiarity. It holds 20 seats in the Chamber of Deputies, and is the third strongest party by number of seats following the 2025 election. In the Senate, STAN is represented by 19 Senators.

The party grew out of four minor parties, including the Independent Mayors for the Region, and the liberal-conservative SNK European Democrats. Until 2016, the party cooperated in national elections with another liberal-conservative party, TOP 09. STAN contested the 2021 Czech parliamentary election as part of the coalition Pirates and Mayors with the Czech Pirate Party.

History

STAN grew out of the Independent Mayors for the Region (Nezávislí starostové pro kraj; NSK), founded in 2004. In 2009, led by its first leader Petr Gazdík and deputy leader Stanislav Polčák, STAN started co-operating with the liberal-conservative TOP 09 at all levels, with Gazdík leading the TOP 09 and STAN parliamentary group. In the 2010 local elections, the party won 1,243 councillors, making it the sixth-largest party on local councils.

In 2013, the co-operation with TOP 09 ended at local and regional levels, and continued only in the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate. In the 2013 election to the Chamber of Deputies, STAN won five seats on the TOP 09 list: Jan Farský, Stanislav Polčák, , and acting leader Petr Gazdík.

In March 2014, , governor of the Liberec Region, was unanimously elected leader of STAN, and Gazdík became the first deputy leader with Polčák as the second deputy. Running a joint list for the 2014 European Parliament election, STAN and TOP 09 received 15.95% of the vote and won four seats, one of which was taken by STAN's Stanislav Polčák. In 2016, Martin Půta was succeeded by Petr Gazdík, who led STAN into the regional and Senate elections. In the 2017 election to the Chamber of Deputies, STAN won six seats: Petr Gazdík, Jan Farský, , Vít Rakušan, (who was replaced by ) and .

In 2019 Vít Rakušan was elected as leader. In 2020 STAN won the Senate elections, taking 11 of the 27 seats contested. The party contested the 2021 Czech parliamentary election as part of the Pirates and Mayors coalition with the Czech Pirate Party. Thanks to preferential voting, STAN took most of the coalition's 37 seats, winning 33 and becoming the third strongest party in the Chamber of Deputies.

Positions

In promoting the principle of subsidiarity, STAN encourages localism, decentralisation, reduced bureaucracy and anti-corruption measures. STAN also promotes European integration, improvements to education, and investment in science.

Election results

Chamber of Deputies

Election	Leader	Vote	Seats	±
Petr Gazdík	873,833	16.71	New	6th
Ran on TOP 09 list, which won 41 seats in total
Petr Gazdík	596,357	12.00	1	8th
Ran on TOP 09 list, which won 26 seats in total
Petr Gazdík	262,157	5.18	2	9th
Vít Rakušan	839,448	15.61	27	3rd
Part of the Pirates and Mayors coalition, which won 37 seats in total
Vít Rakušan	631,512	11.23	11	3rd

Senate

Election	First round	Second round	Seats	Total seats	+/–	Votes	Place
4,460	0.5	25th				New
15,576	1.5	9th	11,099	2.3	9th		2
43,234	4.9	7th	25,389	6.0	6th		3
76,817	7.0	7th	47,317	11.3	3rd		5
122,948	12.3	2nd	104,538	23.1	1st		7
75,406	6.8	5th	6,410	1.3	13th		4
87,734	11.1	3rd	53,498	13.7	3rd

Presidential

Indirect elections

Election	Candidate	First round	Second round	Third round	Votes	%	Result	Votes	%	Result	Votes	%	Result	2008
Czech Social Democratic Party}}" width="2px"		Jan Švejnar	128	49.10		141	47.19		111	44.05

Direct elections

Election	Candidate	First round	Second round	Votes	%	Result	Votes	%	Result	2013	2018
TOP 09}}" width="2px"		Karel Schwarzenberg	1,204,195	23.40		2,241,171	45.20
	Jiří Drahoš	1,369,601	26.60		2,701,206	48.63

European Parliament

Election	List leader	Votes	Seats	+/−
Jaromír Štětina	53,984	2.29 (#8)	New	−
Luděk Niedermayer	241,747	15.95 (#2)	1	EPP
Jiří Pospíšil	276,220	11.65 (#4)
Danuše Nerudová	258,431	8.70 (#5)	1

Regional councils

Election	Vote	%	Seats	+/–
Ran only in coalitions		1	10th
53,462	1.83		13	5th
28,763	1.09		24	5th
101,696	4.02		18	6th
167,459	6.04		35	4th

Prague City Assembly

Election	Leader	Coalition	Seats	+/–	Position	Status
Petr Štěpánek	STAN–KDU-ČSL–Zelení	2,323,976	11.2		2	8th
Petr Hlaváček	STAN–TOP 09–KDU-ČSL–LES–SKN ED	4,127,063	16.3		2	6th
	1,831,696	7.8		1	5th

Leaders

Josef Zicha (2005–2009)
Petr Gazdík (2009–2014)
Martin Půta (2014–2016)
Petr Gazdík (2016–2019)
Vít Rakušan (Since 2019)

Footnotes

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