List of political parties in Lithuania

This article lists political parties in Lithuania. Lithuania has a multi-party system with numerous political 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. As of 2008, there are 37 political parties registered with the Ministry of Justice.

Major parties

Current parties in the parliament

There are currently eight parties represented in the Seimas.

The current government is a centre-left one, formed between the Social Democratic Party of Lithuania, the Labour Party, Order and Justice and the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania under the leadership of the Social Democrats Algirdas Butkevičius. Together, they have 85 seats: giving them a majority of one in the 141-seat Seimas.

Name			Leader	Ideology	Seimas	MEPs
style="background-color: Template:Social Democratic Party of Lithuania/meta/color" |	Social Democratic Party of Lithuania Lietuvos socialdemokratų partija	LSDP	Algirdas Butkevičius	Social democracy	37	2
width=5px style="background-color: Template:Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats/meta/color" |	Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats Tėvynės sąjunga - Lietuvos krikščionys demokratai	TS-LKD	Andrius Kubilius	Conservatism, Christian democracy	33	2
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (Lithuania)/meta/color" |	Labour Party Darbo partija	DP	Viktor Uspaskich	Centrism, Populism	29	1
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Movement (Lithuania)/meta/color" |	Liberal Movement Liberalų sąjūdis	LS	Eligijus Masiulis	Liberalism	10	2
style="background-color: Template:Order and Justice/meta/color" |	Order and Justice Tvarka ir teisingumas	TT	Rolandas Paksas	National conservatism, Populism	11	2
style="background-color: Template:Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania/meta/color" |	Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania Lietuvos lenkų rinkimų akcija Akcja Wyborcza Polaków na Litwie	LLRA	Valdemar Tomaševski	Polish minority, Conservatism	8	1
style="background-color: Template:The Way of Courage/meta/color" |	The Way of Courage Drąsos kelias	DK	Jonas Varkala	Anti-corruption, Populism	7	0
style="background-color: Template:Party of the Hungarian Coalition/meta/color" |	Lithuanian Peasant and Greens Union Lietuvos valstiečių ir žaliųjų sąjunga	LVŽS	Ramūnas Karbaukis	Agrarianism	1	1

Minor parties

• Civic Democratic Party (Pilietinės demokratijos partija)
• Lithuanian Centre Party (Lietuvos centro partija)
• Lithuanian Nationalist Union (Lietuvių tautininkų sąjunga)
• Lithuanian Union of Russians (Lietuvos rusų sąjunga)
• Russian Alliance (Rusų aljansas)
• Socialist People's Front (Socialistinis liaudies frontas)

Former parties

• Centre Union of Lithuania (Lietuvos centro sąjunga)
• Liberal and Centre Union (Lietuvos liberalų ir centro sąjunga)
• Christian Conservative Social Union (Krikščionių konservatorių socialinė sąjunga)
• Democratic Labour Party of Lithuania (Lietuvos demokratine darbo partija)
• Front (Frontas)
• Christian Democratic Union (Krikščionių demokratų sąjunga)
• Liberal Union of Lithuania (Lietuvos liberalų sąjunga)
• Lithuanian Christian Democrats (Lietuvos krikščionys demokratai)
• Lithuanian Union of Political Prisoners and the Exiled (Lietuvos politinių kalinių ir tremtinių sąjunga)
• Lithuanian Peasants Party (Lietuvos valstiečių partija)
• Modern Christian-Democratic Union (Moderniųjų krikščionių demokratų sąjunga)
• National Resurrection Party ( Tautos prisikėlimo partija)
• New Democracy Party (Naujosios demokratijos partija)
• New Union (Social Liberals) (Naujoji Sąjunga (Socialliberalai)
• Socialist Party of Lithuania ( Lietuvos socialistų partija )

Historical parties

• Lithuanian Democratic Party
• Lithuanian Popular Socialist Democratic Party
• Lithuanian Peasants' Union
• Lithuanian Christian Democratic Party
• Democratic National Freedom League
• Farmers Party

See also

• Politics of Lithuania
• List of political parties by country
• Liberalism in Lithuania