Election Resources on the Internet: Elections to the Lithuanian Seimas (Parliament), Part I

Voters in Lithuania went to the polls on October 14 and 28, 2012, to choose members of the Baltic republic's unicameral parliament, the Seimas. Lithuania's 2008 parliamentary election, published on Global Economy Matters at the time of the previous general election, has an overview of Lithuania's electoral and political party systems.

With 100% of the vote tallied, the results of Lithuania's 2012 parliamentary election stood as follows on October 31, 2012:

	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	232,623	26.6	20	206,590	15.1	13	33

Labour Party (DP)	217,914	15.9	1	193,553	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	44,273	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, and 35.9% for the second round. No runoff election was held in the constituency of Zarasai-Visaginas (No. 52), where the outcome of the first round was declared invalid.