Politics of Lithuania - Political Parties and Elections

Political Parties and Elections

For other political parties see List of political parties in Lithuania. An overview on elections and election results is included in Elections in Lithuania.
e • d 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

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
e • d Summary of the results of Lithuania's 7 June 2009 election to the European Parliament
Party Votes % Seats Change
Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats 147,756 26.16% 4 +2
Social Democratic Party of Lithuania 102,347 18.12% 3 +1
Order and Justice 67,237 11.90% 2 +1
Labour Party 48,368 8.56% 1 −4
Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania 46,293 8.20% 1 +1
Liberal Movement 40,502 7.17% 1 +1
Liberal and Centre Union 19,105 3.38% 0 −2
Centre Party of Lithuania 17,004 3.01% 0
Christian Conservative Social Union 16,108 2.85% 0
FRONTAS 13,341 2.36% 0
Lithuanian Peasant Popular Union 10,285 1.82% 0 −1
Civic Democratic Party 7,425 1.31% 0
Samogitian Party 6,961 1.23% 0
National Resurrection Party 5,717 1.01% 0
National Party Lithuanian Way 1,568 0.28% 0
Total 550,017 100.0 12 −1
Source: Lithuanian Central Electoral Commission

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