The populist ANO movement of billionaire Prime Minister Andrej Babis and their Social Democrat coalition partners suffered a crushing defeat in a second round of Senate elections.
The ANO and their CSSD allies won one seat each in the elections held on Friday and Saturday for 27 seats, a third of the members of the upper chamber.
The main opposition rightwing ODS emerged the clear winners with 10 seats.
Turnout was only 16.4 per cent.
The first round was held the previous Friday and Saturday.
The ANO and CSSD now have a total of 20 seats in the 81-member Senate. The ODS has 16 seats.
Babis deplored the "horrible result" and blamed it on the electoral system which he said "allowed other parties to ally themselves against the ANO in the second round."
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