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Change of party flags
Edvardas Šalkauskas (67), based in Klaipėda, is running for the Seimas for the third time. This time – with the party “The path of courage”.
It’s true, not in a single-member constituency, but a multi-member list where it’s 21.
E. Šalkauskas first raced to the Seimas in 2000, together with the Union of Moderate Conservatives (47 on the list).
After qualifying, the two positions fell.
The party he represented did not enter the Seimas at the time, as it raised only 2 percent. or 29.6 thousand. votes.
But the politician was not very upset.
2004 In the elections to the Seimas, E. Šalkauskas had already appeared in the Marius single-member constituency, this time as a representative of the Liberal Democratic Party.
Out of ten candidates in the constituency, he remained seventh, 657 Klaipėda residents (4.9%) voted for him at the time, and more than 2.6 thousand had to be collected to advance to the second round. votes.
Then, against Vaclav Stankevičius, Eligijus Masiulis won and entered the Seimas in the second round in the single-member constituency.
I’ll try again
For the first time, Genoveita Krasauskienė (68), former Deputy Minister of Education and Science (2013-2016) and Palanga politician, is also running for the Seimas.
This time he is running with the “Freedom and Justice” party in the one-member electoral district of Courland (according to the multi-member list, G. Krasauskienė is 18 years old).
The last time in 2016 in the elections, the woman ran on the Labor Party list in the single-member constituency of Seaside.
He was then the penultimate of the nine candidates, garnering 547 fan votes (3.7 percent).
And on the party list G. Krasauskienė registered with number 82, after the vote he rose to position 61, but remained well beyond the mandate of a member of the Seimas.
Another representative of the Freedom and Justice party, Lina Šukytė-Korsakė (49), is also running for the first time for the Seimas.
This time, the politician is running in the one-member Baltic constituency.
She was shortlisted for the first time in 2012. 63 in the Seimas elections with the “Order and Justice” party.
After 821 votes, he rose to 39th place. But that was not enough to win the mandate.
Four years later, in the 2016 elections, L. Šukytė-Korsakienė had already run for the Seimas with the same party in the Danish single-member constituency.
Of the nine candidates, the woman was seventh with 643 votes (3.8 percent).
Shone last fall
Gargždai’s conservative Rasa Petrauskienė will also try to enter the Seimas for the third time.
The woman first ran in the Gargždai single-member constituency four years ago, then was the fourth of seven candidates, with 15.5 percent. (2,768 votes).
Political rookies in these elections will face a serious test: fighting inexperienced candidates who repeatedly pulled a lucky ticket in previous elections.
Conservative R. Petrauskienė ran for the Seimas for the second time in 2019. In September, when the seat in parliament became vacant, then-Seimas MP Bronius Markauskas was elected mayor of the Klaipėda district.
The politician then defeated Center Party candidate Kristupas Krivickas by a significant margin.
The representative of the National Christian Democratic Union of Lithuania raised 51.7 percent. votes, and K. Krivickas received 48.3 percent. voter support.
Loyal to Gargždai County
After the first round in 2016. In the Seimas elections in the Gargždai constituency, long-term Seimas member Petras Gražulis (61) was the first to represent the “Order and Justice” party.
Even 10 percent. He had won more votes than the “peasant” candidate B. Markauskas, but in the second round he lost almost 2,000. difference of votes.
On October 11, P. Gražulis will again try his luck in the same single-member constituency of Gargždai, where politicians are running for more than one election.
2012 here she entered the second round with the conservative Agne Bilotaitė (38) and celebrated the victory against her, collecting 58.3 percent. votes.
P. Gražulis has been with the Seimas since 1996. all consecutive terms.
Sometimes he managed to win in a single-member constituency, the last time he returned to parliament on the party list.
This time P. Gražulis was free from the festivities, he himself stood up.
Good luck – party list
Longer than P. Gražulis, there is only one former Social Democrat in the Seimas, now Irena Šiaulienė (65), a “social worker”.
The woman has been elected to parliament since 1992, mostly in the Baltic single-member constituency, but was never elected there and entered the Seimas according to the party’s list.
In the last elections to the Seimas of 2016, of the 12 candidates in the Baltic constituency, he remained in fourth place, winning 7.9 percent. votes.
Later, in this district, the victory was celebrated by the then “peasant” candidate Algimantas Kirkutis (64), who raised 56.8 percent. Conservative A.Bilotaitė, who is running in the single-member constituency of Paneriai-Grigiškė this year.
This time A. Kirkutis is a candidate for the Christian Union and will be elected in the single-member Marius constituency.
His former “peasant” party partner Dainius Kepenis (68) also changed the constituency, but not the party.
In 2016 elections in the Mari constituency, he entered the second round with the liberal deputy Edmund Kveder (44) and won by 221 votes against him.
E. Kvederis remains loyal to Marius’ single-member constituency; you will also try your luck in this election.
Waiting for your time
Another former member of the Seimas (2008-2012), the former conservative Evaldas Jurkevičius (51) will try to re-enter parliament, only this time with the Christian Union and will be elected in the Baltic single-member constituency.
His attempt was the same in 2012. elections.
I wish: all current members of the Seimas, without exception, will seek another term in parliament. / Photo by Paulius Peleckis / Photobank
At that time, E. Jurkevičius was the third of 13 candidates in the same Baltic constituency and failed to advance to the second round. Then “Victoria” Raimundas Paliukas celebrated the victory over the liberal Artūras Šulcas by a majority of 68 votes.
E. Jurkevičius also failed in the 2016 elections, when he was already a candidate in the Mariai constituency with the Anti-Corruption Coalition of N. Puteikis and K. Krivickas.
This time, he remained eighth of eleven candidates, getting 4.4 percent. votes.
Somehow always succeeds
Irina Rozova (62), a member of the Seimas and a member of the Seimas, candidate of the Lithuanian-Polish Electoral Union of Christian Families, who is now running again for the Marius single-member constituency, ranks second on the party’s list.
I. Rozova is already in her third term in the Seimas, but has never been elected in a single-member constituency.
2016 did slightly better than E. Jurkevičius in the elections, remaining fourth in the Mariai electoral district, with 11.8 percent. votes.
Then 1,540 Klaipeda residents voted in favor of this policy.
His party partner Tamara Šuklina (65) will also try his luck again in the Seimas elections, this time in the single-member constituency of Seaside.
2016 was the seventh of twelve candidates in the Baltic constituency, winning 5.8 percent. votes.
Some things are accompanied by success
Liberal, deputy of the Seimas Simonas Gentvilas (36) will be re-elected to the Seimas in these elections, only in the Seaside District.
In 2016, he was elected to the Danish single-member electoral district, where he advanced to the second round and lost by more than 700 votes to Nagli Puteikis (56), who had then risen.
N. Puteikis, now a centrist, is one of the few members of the Seimas who has been elected to the Seimas three times in the same Danish single-member constituency.
His wife Nina Puteikiene (55) is a little worse. In the last Seimas election, she ran in the Seaside constituency and remained fourth out of nine, with 12.5 percent. votes.
Then, in the second round of this constituency, the shoulders of Gintaras Vaičekauskas (59) and the conservative Arūnas Barbšys (59), who lost to G. Vaičekauskas by only 79 votes, shrugged.
And this time they are both back in the elections. Only G. Vaičekauskas is running for the Baltic countries, and A. Barbšys remains in the same single-member Seaside constituency.
Thus, newcomers to politics will have to face a serious test in this election: fighting inexperienced candidates who repeatedly won a lucky ticket in previous elections.
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