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
• Local/municipal: 1995, 1997, 2000, 2002, 2007, 2011
• Europarliament: 2004 (13 seats), 2009 (12 seats)
• Referenda: 2003 (EU: yes); 2008 (Ignalina nuclear plant: ?)
• President: 1993 (Algirdas Brazauskas), 1997 (Valdas Adamkus), 2002 (Rolandas Paksas-impeached 2004), 2004 (Valdas Adamkus), 2009 (Dalia Grybauskaitė)

Upcoming elections

• Seimas (parliament): 2012
• Europarliament: 2014
• President: 2014

Latest elections

Summary of the 12 October and 26 October 2008 Lithuanian Seimas election results

Party		Votes (proportional)	%	Seats
				proportional	constituency	total
	Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats	243,823	19.72	18	27	45
	National Resurrection Party	186,629	15.09	13	3	16
	Order and Justice	156,777	12.68	11	4	15
	Social Democratic Party of Lithuania	144,890	11.72	10	15	25
	Coalition Labour Party + Youth	111,149	8.99	8	2	10
	Liberal Movement	70,862	5.73	5	6	11
	Liberal and Centre Union	66,078	5.34	5	3	8
	Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania	59,237	4.79	—	3	3
	Lithuanian Peasant Popular Union	46,162	3.73	—	3	3
	New Union (Social Liberals)	45,061	3.64	—	1	1
	Front	40,016	3.24	—	—	—
	Young Lithuania (Jaunoji Lietuva)	21,589	1.75	—	—	—
	Civic Democratic Party	13,775	1.11	—	—	—
	Union of the Russians of Lithuania	11,357	0.92	—	—	—
	Lithuanian Social Democratic Union (Lietuvos socialdemokratų sąjunga)	10,642	0.86	—	—	—
	Lithuanian Centre Party (Lietuvos centro partija)	8,669	0.70	—	—	—
	Independents	—	—	—	4	4
Invalid/blank votes		73,239	—	—	—	—
Total		1,233,875	100.00	70	71	141
Registered voters/turnout		2,696,090	48.59	—	—	—

 Summary of the 17 May 2009 Lithuanian presidential election results

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Dalia Grybauskaite	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
	Waldemar Tomaszewski	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-right coalition, led by prime minister Andrius Kubilius. It controls 71 of the 141 seats, and consists of

• Homeland Union (46 seats);
• Liberal and Centre Union (13 seats);
• Liberal Movement (12 seats).

See also

• Electoral calendar
• Electoral system

External links

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