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The opposition Lithuanian Christian National-Democratic Union (TS-LKD) leads the Seimas elections in a multi-member constituency, the ruling “peasants” are second, the Labor Party so far third, but the Social Democrats are hot on their heels , according to the Central Electoral Commission (CEC).
After counting votes in 1,570 constituencies since 1989, TS-LKD got 21 percent. votes and receives 19 seats, the Lithuanian Union of Greens and Peasants receives almost 20 percent. votes and 18 seats, the Labor Party – 11 percent. and 11 seats, the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party – 10 percent. and nine terms.
Photo by I. Gelūnas / Fotobankas
According to preliminary data, the Freedom Party, which participated in the parliamentary elections for the first time, raised more than 7%. votes and has seven seats, the Liberal Movement – more than 6 percent. and six terms.
In a multi-member constituency, the parties share 70 seats out of 141. Another 71 parliamentarians are elected in single-member constituencies.
It is not yet clear whether Lithuania’s Polish election campaign, the Union of Christian Families, will increase by 5 percent. electoral barrier – according to preliminary data, it has 4.74%. votes.
The Lithuanian Social Democratic Labor Party, which currently belongs to the ruling coalition, does not cross the electoral barrier with 3.65 percent. votes.
In the multi-member constituency, 17 parties raised candidate lists.
Voter turnout is lower than four years ago
The right to vote in these elections to the Seimas could be exercised by 2 million. 449 thousand 683 voters. Compared to 2016 elections, the number of voters dropped by almost 55,000.
1,754 candidates are requesting 141 seats in the Seimas, of which 1,000 are 170 men and 584 women. Seventeen parties proposed candidates for the Seimas.
In the single-member constituencies, 71 Seimas members were elected by a two-round system, and in a multi-member constituency, 70 Seimas members were elected by a proportional system.
The statistical candidate for the members of the Seimas is a fifty-year-old man with a higher education, named Vytautas, whose assets, values and funds amount to almost 147,000. euros.
According to the CCA, the average age of candidates on Seimas election day is 50 years, 2 months and 3 days. 2016 this average was 48.9 years. In 2012 – 47 years.
More than half of the candidates are people between the ages of 41 and 60. Almost 22 percent. people applying for the Seimas this year are over 61 years old. A similar number, 21 percent, are made up of candidates between the ages of 31 and 40. The lowest, only 6 percent. candidates are those between 25 and 30 years old. The strongest candidate turns 86 this year.
According to the Seimas Elections Law, a candidate is considered elected in a single-member constituency if at least 40% of the candidates have participated in the elections. Voters entered the electoral roll for that constituency and that candidate received more than half of the votes cast in the elections.
If the participation was less than 40%. The candidate who has obtained the highest number of votes, but not less than one fifth of all the votes in the electoral roll for that district, will be considered elected.
If more than two candidates participated in the elections and a member of the Seimas was not elected, a second ballot will be held after two weeks, in which the two candidates who obtained the most votes participate.
The CEC announces the date of the new vote along with the election results. A candidate who receives the most votes, regardless of the number of voters who participated in the election, will be deemed elected on a repeat ballot.
In a multi-member constituency, elections will be considered to have been held if more than a quarter of all voters were present.
The party’s candidate list can receive the mandates of the Seimas members (participate in the distribution of mandates) only if at least 5% of them have voted for it. voters who participated in the elections. The poster is higher for the joint list of candidates: at least 7%.
After the restoration of independence, the highest voter turnout in the multi-member constituency was in 1992, reaching 75.25 percent. At that time, the lowest number of voters reached the parliamentary elections in 2004: 46.8%.
2016 In the Seimas elections held in 2006, participation in the multi-member electorate reached 50.64%.
The second round of the Seimas elections will take place on October 25.
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