Political Parties and Elections
For other political parties see List of political parties in Lithuania. An overview on elections and election results is included in Elections in Lithuania.| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dalia Grybauskaitė | Independent | 950,407 | 69.1 | |
| Algirdas Butkevičius | Social Democratic Party of Lithuania | 162,665 | 11.8 | |
| Valentinas Mazuronis | Order and Justice | 84,656 | 6.2 | |
| Valdemar Tomaševski | Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania | 65,255 | 4.7 | |
| Kazimira Prunskienė | Lithuanian Peasant Popular Union | 53,778 | 3.9 | |
| Loreta Graužinienė | Labour Party | 49,686 | 3.6 | |
| Česlovas Jezerskas | Independent | 9,191 | 0.7 | |
| Invalid votes | 17,640 | — | ||
| Total | 1,393,278 | 100 | ||
| Registered voters/turnout | 2,691,603 | 51.8 | ||
| Source: VRK | ||||
Summary of the 12 October and 26 October 2008 Lithuanian Seimas election results
| Party | Votes (proportional) |
% | Seats | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| proportional | constituency | total | ||||
| Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats | 243,823 | 19.72 | 18 | 27 | 45 | |
| National Resurrection Party | 186,629 | 15.09 | 13 | 3 | 16 | |
| Order and Justice | 156,777 | 12.68 | 11 | 4 | 15 | |
| Social Democratic Party of Lithuania | 144,890 | 11.72 | 10 | 15 | 25 | |
| Coalition Labour Party + Youth | 111,149 | 8.99 | 8 | 2 | 10 | |
| Liberal Movement | 70,862 | 5.73 | 5 | 6 | 11 | |
| Liberal and Centre Union | 66,078 | 5.34 | 5 | 3 | 8 | |
| Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania | 59,237 | 4.79 | — | 3 | 3 | |
| Lithuanian Peasant Popular Union | 46,162 | 3.73 | — | 3 | 3 | |
| New Union (Social Liberals) | 45,061 | 3.64 | — | 1 | 1 | |
| Front | 40,016 | 3.24 | — | — | — | |
| Young Lithuania (Jaunoji Lietuva) | 21,589 | 1.75 | — | — | — | |
| Civic Democratic Party | 13,775 | 1.11 | — | — | — | |
| Union of the Russians of Lithuania | 11,357 | 0.92 | — | — | — | |
| Lithuanian Social Democratic Union (Lietuvos socialdemokratų sąjunga) | 10,642 | 0.86 | — | — | — | |
| Lithuanian Centre Party (Lietuvos centro partija) | 8,669 | 0.70 | — | — | — | |
| Independents | — | — | — | 4 | 4 | |
| Invalid/blank votes | 73,239 | — | — | — | — | |
| Total | 1,233,875 | 100.00 | 70 | 71 | 141 | |
| Registered voters/turnout | 2,696,090 | 48.59 | — | — | — | |
| Party | Votes | % | Seats | Change | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats | 147,756 | 26.16% | 4 | +2 | |
| Social Democratic Party of Lithuania | 102,347 | 18.12% | 3 | +1 | |
| Order and Justice | 67,237 | 11.90% | 2 | +1 | |
| Labour Party | 48,368 | 8.56% | 1 | −4 | |
| Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania | 46,293 | 8.20% | 1 | +1 | |
| Liberal Movement | 40,502 | 7.17% | 1 | +1 | |
| Liberal and Centre Union | 19,105 | 3.38% | 0 | −2 | |
| Centre Party of Lithuania | 17,004 | 3.01% | 0 | ||
| Christian Conservative Social Union | 16,108 | 2.85% | 0 | ||
| FRONTAS | 13,341 | 2.36% | 0 | ||
| Lithuanian Peasant Popular Union | 10,285 | 1.82% | 0 | −1 | |
| Civic Democratic Party | 7,425 | 1.31% | 0 | ||
| Samogitian Party | 6,961 | 1.23% | 0 | ||
| National Resurrection Party | 5,717 | 1.01% | 0 | ||
| National Party Lithuanian Way | 1,568 | 0.28% | 0 | ||
| Total | 550,017 | 100.0 | 12 | −1 | |
| Source: Lithuanian Central Electoral Commission | |||||
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