2014 European Parliament election in Lithuania

2014 European Parliament election in Lithuania
Lithuania
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All 11 Lithuanian seats in the European Parliament
Turnout47.35%
Party Leader % Seats +/–
TS–LKD Andrius Kubilius 17.43 2 −2
LSDP Algirdas Butkevičius 17.26 2 −1
LS Eligijus Masiulis 16.55 2 +1
TT Rolandas Paksas 14.25 2 0
DP Loreta Graužinienė 12.81 1 0
LLRA Valdemar Tomaševski 8.05 1 0
LVŽS Ramūnas Karbauskis 6.61 1 +1
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Election campaign poster in Vilnius

The 2014 European Parliament election in Lithuania was an election of the delegation from Lithuania to the European Parliament in 2014. It was part of the wider 2014 European election.

Background

In 2013, Elections to the European Parliament Act introduced public election committees. Prior to these elections, only two public election committees collected signatures, but none of them collected enough signatures to be registered and take part in elections.[2][3]

Results

PartyVotes%Seats
Homeland Union199,39317.432
Social Democratic Party197,47717.262
Liberal Movement189,37316.552
Order and Justice163,04914.252
Labour Party146,60712.811
Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania–Lithuanian Russian Union92,1088.051
Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union75,6436.611
Lithuanian Green Party40,6963.560
Lithuanian Nationalist Union22,8582.000
Liberal and Centre Union16,9271.480
Total1,144,131100.0011
Valid votes1,144,13194.46
Invalid/blank votes67,1485.54
Total votes1,211,279100.00
Registered voters/turnout2,557,95047.35
Source: VRK

Analysis

Although opinion polls and pundits claimed for large Social Democratic Party victory, but elections were won by the Homeland Union by around 2,000 votes.[4][5]

The Homeland Union won only in six municipalities (including Vilnius and Kaunas). The Social Democratic Party came at close second by the number of votes. The Liberal Movement came third, but it won in two municipalities only (Klaipėda and Neringa).[6] The Order and Justice mainly won in northwest of the country.

See also

References

  1. ^ VRK.lt
  2. ^ "XII-588 Lietuvos Respublikos rinkimų į Europos Parlamentą įstatymo pakeitimo įstatymas".
  3. ^ "Rinkimams į Europos Parlamentą pagrįstai atsisakyta registruoti 10 000 rinkėjų palaikymo neturintį kandidatų sąrašą".
  4. ^ "Lithuania's Presidential and European elections may see 'anti-euro' sentiments, but not outright Euroscepticism". 24 May 2014.
  5. ^ "Lithuania: European Parliament results". 30 November 2001.
  6. ^ Lithuania. European Parliament Election 2014