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Saturday, 12.10.2024, 06:21
Central Electoral Commission: Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats leads in Lithuania's parlt election, Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union comes in 2nd
The results from 1,570 out of 1,989 polling districts show
the HU-LCD got 21% of votes and 19 seats in the parliament. The LFGU gets
almost 20% of votes and 18 seats, followed by the Labor Party with 11% and 11
seats, and the Social Democratic Party of Lithuania with 10% and nine mandates.
Running for parliament for the first time, the Freedom
Party, based on non-final results, received more than 7% of votes and has seven
mandates. The Liberal Movement gets over 6% of votes and six seats.
In the multi-member constituency, parties vie for 70 out of
141 seats in the parliament, and another 71 lawmakers are elected in
single-member constituencies.
It remains to be seen whether the Electoral Action of Poles
in Lithuania – Christian Families Alliance, part of the existing ruling block,
will manage to cross the 5-% election threshold to get into the Seimas as the
party has 4.74% of votes, based on the non-final results.
The Social Democratic Labor Party of Lithuania, also part of
the existing ruling coalition, fails to cross the election threshold with 3.65%
of votes.
A total of 17 political parties nominated their candidate
list in the multi-member constituency.
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