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. [edit] List of elections - Past elections
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- Seimas (parliament): 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008
- Local/municipal: 1995, 1997, 2000, 2002, 2007
- Europarliament: 2004 (13 seats)
- Referenda: 2003 (EU: yes); 2008 (Ignalina nuclear plant: ?)
- President: 1993 (Algirdas Brazauskas), 1997 (Valdas Adamkus), 2002 (Rolandas Paksas-impeached 2004), 2004 (Valdas Adamkus)
- Upcoming elections
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- President: 17 May 2009
- Europarliament: early June 2009
[edit] Latest elections v • d • e Summary of the 13 June 2004 Lithuanian presidential election results[1] | Candidates | Nominating party | 1st round | 2nd round | | Votes | % | Votes | % | | Valdas Adamkus | Independent | 387,837 | 30.7 | 723,891 | 52.6 | | Kazimiera Prunskienė | Peasants and New Democratic Party Union | 264,681 | 21.4 | 651,024 | 47.4 | | Petras Auštrevičius | Independent | 240,413 | 19.3 | | — | | Vilija Blinkevičiūtė | New Union Social Liberals | 204,819 | 16.6 | | — | | Česlovas Juršėnas | Social Democratic Party of Lithuania | 147,610 | 11.9 | | — | | Totals | 1,245,360 | 100% | 1,374,915 | 100% | v • d • e Summary of the 12 October and 26 October 2008 Lithuanian Seimas election results[2] | Party | Votes
(proportional) | % | Seats | | proportional | constituency | total | | Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats | 242,939 | 19.69 | 18 | 27 | 45 | | Social Democratic Party of Lithuania | 144,675 | 11.73 | 10 | 15 | 25 | | National Resurrection Party | 186,150 | 15.09 | 13 | 3 | 16 | | Order and Justice | 156,559 | 12.69 | 11 | 4 | 15 | | Liberals' Movement of the Republic of Lithuania | 70,549 | 5.72 | 5 | 6 | 11 | | Coalition Labour Party + Youth | 111,017 | 9.00 | 8 | 2 | 10 | | Liberal and Centre Union | 65,869 | 5.34 | 5 | 3 | 8 | | Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania | 59,222 | 4.80 | — | 3 | 3 | | Lithuanian Peasant Popular Union | 46,109 | 3.74 | — | 3 | 3 | | New Union (Social Liberals) | 44,935 | 3.64 | — | 1 | 1 | | Front | 39,966 | 3.24 | — | — | — | | Young Lithuania (Jaunoji Lietuva) | 21,545 | 1.75 | — | — | — | | Civic Democratic Party | 13,758 | 1.12 | — | — | — | | Union of the Russians of Lithuania | 11,323 | 0.92 | — | — | — | | Lithuanian Social Democratic Union (Lietuvos socialdemokratų sąjunga) | 10,614 | 0.86 | — | — | — | | Lithuanian Centre Party (Lietuvos centro partija) | 8,645 | 0.70 | — | — | — | | Independents | — | — | — | 4 | 4 | | Total (turnout 48.54%) | 1,233,875 | 100.00 | 70 | 71 | 141 | [edit] Governing majority Today, there is a centre-right coalition, led by prime minister Andrius Kubilius. It controls 72 of the 141 seats, and consists of [edit] See also [edit] References [edit] External links
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