In the 2017 Czech parliamentary election, the Czech Pirate Party (Pirates) gained 10.79% of the votes – an unprecedented success, compared to most of the pirate parties across Europe. However, as their electoral gain varies widely across the Czech Republic’s territory, this article analyses all (more than 6000) Czech municipalities in the elections of 2010, 2013, and 2017 to explain this variation. Overall, the success of the Pirates was driven especially by obtaining much more support in larger municipalities with younger populations (although not only those aged 18–24 but also older ones), lower unemployment, higher turnout, and lower support for leftist parties. Thus, from a spatial perspective, the patterns of Pirate voting largely resembled long-term spatial support for Czech rightist parties and we can conclude that the Pirates made considerable inroads to regions which had historically been strongholds of the Civic Democratic Party, as the former main party of the right, but also strongholds of minor right-wing (‘liberal centre’) parties of the 1990s and early 2000s. Success of the Pirates thus was based especially on votes from municipalities located in more developed areas, where the Pirates received many more votes than in structurally disadvantaged regions.

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跨越左右党派分歧？了解捷克海盗党在 2017 年议会选举中的选举成功

在 2017 年捷克议会选举中，捷克海盗党（Pirates）获得了 10.79% 的选票——与欧洲大多数海盗党相比，这是前所未有的成功。然而，由于捷克共和国境内的选举收益差异很大，本文分析了 2010 年、2013 年和 2017 年选举中的所有（超过 6000 个）捷克自治市，以解释这种差异。总体而言，海盗的成功主要是因为在人口较年轻（尽管不仅是 18-24 岁的人，还有年龄较大的人）、较低的失业率、较高的投票率以及对左翼政党的支持率较低的大城市获得更多支持。因此，从空间的角度来看，海盗投票的模式在很大程度上类似于对捷克右翼政党的长期空间支持，我们可以得出结论，海盗在历史上曾是公民民主党（作为前右翼主要政党）据点的地区取得了相当大的进展1990 年代和 2000 年代初的小右翼（“自由中心”）政党的据点。因此，海盗队的成功尤其依赖于位于较发达地区的市政当局的选票，在那里海盗队获得的选票比结构劣势地区多得多。