Opinion polling for the 2003 Czech presidential election

This page lists nationwide public opinion polls that have been conducted relating to the 2003 presidential elections in the Czech Republic.

SC&C made in February 2002 a poll among lawmakers to find out who has the highest chance to be elected. Václav Klaus (ODS) had support of 90% Civic Democratic Party lawmakers and 20% of Social democratic lawmakers. He was acceptable for 29% of Social democrats, 14% of Communists and 17% of Four-Coalition lawmakers. Petr Pithart (KDU-ČSL) polled second. He was supported by 67% of Four-Coalition lawmakers. He was acceptable for 50% of Social democrats, 20% of Communists and 12% of Civic Democrats. Miloš Zeman (ČSSD) had strong support in Czech Social Democratic Party and was acceptable for a large part of Civic Democrats and Communists. Independent candidates such as Václav Fischer had no chance according to the poll.^[1]

Date	Agency	Václav Klaus Civic Democratic	Petr Pithart Christian Democratic	Otakar Motejl Social Democratic	Jaroslav Bureš Social Democratic	Miloš Zeman Social Democratic	Miroslav Kříženecký Communist	Jaroslava Moserová Civic Democratic	Jan Sokol Social Democratic
27 February	SC&C[2]	60%	—	—	—	—	—	—	40%
		42%	9%	—	—	12%	—	—	11%
24 January	[3]	48%	—	—	—	36%	—	16%	—
14 January	STEM[4]	33.5%	33.5%	—	23%	—	10%	—	—
10 January	SC&C[5]	50%	49%	—	—	—	—	—	—
		31%	21%	—	16%	—	6%	—	—
6 – 13 January	CVVM[6]	—	37%	37%	—	—	—	—	—
5 January	TNS Factum[7]	34%	17%	13%	10%	8%	—	—	—

Date	Agency	Václav Klaus Civic Democratic	Petr Pithart Christian Democratic	Václav Fischer Independent	Otakar Motejl Social Democratic	Miloš Zeman Social Democratic	Rudolf Zahradník Social Democratic	Ivan Wilhelm Independent	Vladimír Železný Independent	Jiřina Šiklová Independent	Jaroslava Moserová Civic Democratic	Jaroslav Bureš Social Democratic	Miroslav Kříženecký Communist	Martin Potůček Social Democratic
1–5 November	STEM[8]	26%	17%	—	28%	11%	—	—	—	—	3%	8%	4%	3%
15 October	SC&C[9]	27.6%	17.9%	—	21.4%	10.2%	—	—	—	—	9.8%	8.3%	4.2%	0.6%
September	STEM[10]	15%	19%	—	27%	11%	6%	5%	4%	2%	—	—	—	—
29 January	TNS Factum[11]	9.6%	8.0%	5.4%	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—

Date	Agency	Petr Pithart Christian Democratic	Václav Klaus Civic Democratic	Václav Fischer Independent	Tomáš Halík Independent	Petra Buzková Social Democratic	Stanislav Gross Social Democratic	Miloš Zeman Social Democratic	Rudolf Zahradník Social Democratic	Jiřina Šiklová Independent
5–11 November	STEM[12]	23%	17%	27%	12%	—	—	8%	10%	3%
15 March 2001	Sofres-Factum[13]	11.6	7.3%	2.8%	3.6%	2.6%	2.2%	2.1%	—	—

Date	Agency	Václav Klaus Civic Democratic	Petra Buzková Social Democratic	Václav Fischer Independent	Stanislav Gross Social Democratic	Undecided
20 February	Sofres-Factum[14]	11.5%	6.8%	4.1%	2.6%	50%

Date	Survey	Sample	Václav Klaus Civic Democratic	Otakar Motejl Social Democratic	Petr Pithart Christian Democratic	Jaroslav Bureš Social Democratic	Miloš Zeman Social Democratic	Jaroslava Moserová Civic Democratic	Josef Jařab Independent	Miroslav Kříženecký Communist	Don't know
4 February 2003	iDnes[15]	8,224	62.8%	—	—	—	7.9%	22.1%	—	—	7.1%
10 January 2003	iDnes[16]	113 Students	44.2%	3.5%	19.5%	12.4%	—	—	—	6.2%	8.8%
26 September 2002	iDnes[17]	20,445	37.4%	17.6%	12.8%	5.8%	4.9%	3.0%	1.6%	—	16.9%

Date	Agency	Otakar Motejl Social Democratic	Petr Pithart Christian Democratic	Václav Klaus Civic Democratic	Miloš Zeman Social Democratic	Jaroslav Bureš Social Democratic	Jaroslava Moserová Civic Democratic	Miroslav Kříženecký Communist	Martin Potůček Social Democratic
14 January	STEM[4]	—	65.5	47.5	—	57%	—	20%	—
6–13 January 2003	CVVM[18]	45%	37%	35%	29%	25%	16%	13%	4%
25 November - 2 December 2002	CVVM[19]	46%	37%	31%	26%	21%	14%	6%	—

Date	Agency	Direct	Indirect
5 January 2003	TNS Factum[20]	87%	13%
25 November - 2 December 2002	CVVM[19]	65%	26%
September 2002	STEM[21]	85%	15%
April 2002	CVVM[19]	57%	32%
5–11 November 2001	STEM[22]	82%	18%
September 1999	STEM[21]	82%	18%
September 1998	STEM[21]	77%	23%