Elections in Lithuania

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Elections in Lithuania gives information on election and election results in Lithuania.

Lithuania elects on national level a head of state—the president—and a legislature. The president is elected for a five-year term by the people. The parliament (Lietuvos Respublikos Seimas) has 141 members, elected to a four-year term, with 71 members elected in single-seat constituencies and 70 members elected by proportional representation. Lithuania has a multi-party system, with numerous parties in which no one party often has a chance of gaining power alone, and parties must work with each other to form coalition governments.

List of elections

Past elections

• Seimas (parliament): 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012
• Local/municipal: 1995, 1997, 2000, 2002, 2007, 2011
• Europarliament: 2004 (13 seats), 2009 (12 seats)
• Referenda: 2003 (EU: yes); 2008 (Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant: not enough votes); 2012 (Visaginas Nuclear Power Plant: no);
• President: 1993 (Algirdas Brazauskas), 1997 (Valdas Adamkus), 2002 (Rolandas Paksas-impeached 2004), 2004 (Valdas Adamkus), 2009 (Dalia Grybauskaitė)

Upcoming elections

• Seimas (parliament): 2016
• Europarliament: 2014
• President: 2014

Latest elections

Summary of Parliamentary elections of Oct. 14 and 28, 2012

Party	Proportional			Constituency seats	Total seats	+/–
	Votes	%	Seats
Social Democrats	251,610	18.37	15	23	38	13
Homeland Union	206,590	15.08	13	20	33	12
Labour Party	271,520	19.82	17	12	29	19
Order and Justice	100,120	7.31	6	5	11	4
Liberal Movement	117,476	8.57	7	3	10	1
Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania	79,840	5.83	5	3	8	5
The Way of Courage	109,448	7.99	7	–	7	New
Peasant and Greens Union	53,141	3.88	–	1	1	2
Liberal and Centre Union	28,263	2.06	–	–	–	8
YES	24,129	1.76	–	–	–	New
Socialist People's Front	16,515	1.21	–	–	–
Christian Party	16,494	1.20	–	–	–	New
For Lithuania in Lithuania	12,854	0.94	–	–	–	New
Young Lithuania	8,632	0.63	–	–	–
Democratic Labour and Unity Party	4,383	0.32	–	–	–	New
Emigrants Party	4,015	0.29	–	–	–	New
Republican Party	3,661	0.27	–	–	–	New
Lithuanian People's Party	3,399	0.25	–	–	–	New
Independents	–	–	–	3	3	1
Invalid/blank votes	57,924	–	–	–	–	–
Total	1,370,014	100	70	70 (1 to go)	140	–
Registered voters/turnout	2,588,418	52.93	–	–	–	–
Source: VRK

 Summary of the 17 May 2009 Lithuanian presidential election results

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Dalia Grybauskaitė	Independent	950,407	69.1
	Algirdas Butkevičius	Social Democratic Party of Lithuania	162,665	11.8
	Valentinas Mazuronis	Order and Justice	84,656	6.2
	Valdemar Tomaševski	Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania	65,255	4.7
	Kazimira Prunskienė	Lithuanian Peasant Popular Union	53,778	3.9
	Loreta Graužinienė	Labour Party	49,686	3.6
	Česlovas Jezerskas	Independent	9,191	0.7
Invalid votes			17,640	—
Total			1,393,278	100
Registered voters/turnout			2,691,603	51.8
Source: VRK

Governing majority

Today, there is a centre-left coalition, led by prime minister Algirdas Butkevicius. It controls 88 of the 141 seats, and consists of

• Social Democrats (40 seats);
• Labour Party (30 seats);
• Order and Justice (10 seats);
• Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania (8 seats).

See also

• Electoral calendar
• Electoral system

External links

• Adam Carr's Election Archive
• Parties and elections
• Central Elections Commission of Lithuania