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Presidential and Parliamentary Elections in Lithuania, Part I
by Manuel Álvarez-Rivera

The Republic of Lithuania, which held a presidential election on Sunday, May 11, 2014 returns to the polls for a presidential runoff vote and European Parliament elections on Sunday, May 25, 2014.

May 22-25, 2014 European election results will be available here. Lithuania's Central Electoral Commission will also have European election results for the Baltic nation, as well presidential runoff election results in both Lithuanian and English.

The election statistics presented in this space come from reports issued by the Central Electoral Commission of the Republic of Lithuania.

May 11, 2014 Presidential Election Results

   Candidate    Votes    %   
   Dalia Grybauskaitė    612,485    45.9   
   Zigmantas Balčytis    181,659    13.6   
   Artūras Paulauskas    160,139    12.0   
   Naglis Puteikis    124,333    9.3   
   Valdemar Tomaševski    109,659    8.2   
   Artūras Zuokas    69,677    5.2   
   Bronis Ropė    55,263    4.1   

The election had a 52.2% voter turnout rate (1,333,666 voters out of 2,553,335 electors).

October 14-28, 2012 Seimas (Parliament) Election Results

         Single-Member Constituencies    Multi-Member
Constituency		    Total
Seats		   
        
        
         First Round    Second Round         
        
  
  
     
   Party    Votes    %    Seats    Votes    %    Seats    Votes    %    Seats      
   Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP)    222,953    16.3    1    181,160    20.7    22    251,610    18.4    15    38   
   Homeland Union - Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD)    215,257    15.7    0    233,515    26.7    20    206,590    15.1    13    33   
   Labour Party (DP)    217,914    15.9    1    193,563    22.1    11    271,520    19.8    17    29   
   Order and Justice (PTT)    104,997    7.7    0    46,638    5.3    5    100,120    7.3    6    11   
   Liberals' Movement of the Republic of Lithuania (LRLS)    95,166    6.9    0    35,814    4.1    3    117,476    8.6    7    10   
   Lithuanian Poles' Electoral Action (LLRA)    75,686    5.5    1    36,906    4.2    2    79,840    5.8    5    8   
   The Way of Courage (DK)    88,871    6.5    0    44,622    5.1    0    109,448    8.0    7    7   
   Lithuanian Peasant and Greens Union (LVZS)    61,981    4.5    0    11,430    1.3    1    53,141    3.9    0    1   
   Liberal and Centre Union (LICS)    58,792    4.3    0    11,905    1.4    0    28,263    2.1    0    0   
   Independents    43,485    3.2    0    32,173    3.7    3    -    -    -    3   
   Others    106,871    7.8    0    -    -    -    94,082    6.9    0    0   

The voter turnout rate was 52.9% for the first round (1,370,014 voters out of 2,588,418 electors), and 35.9% for the second round (875,681 voters out of 2,438,641 electors). No runoff election was held in the constituency of Zarasai-Visaginas (No. 52), where the outcome of the first round was declared invalid.

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