Klaipeda decided: two conservatives, a “peasant” and a liberal, are delegates to the Seimas



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In the four electoral districts of the port city: Mariai, Pajūrio, Dane and Baltijos, the second round of elections was held, as no candidate obtained more than 50% in the first round. votes. In the second round in Klaipeda, four conservatives, two “peasants” and two liberals competed for the parliamentary mandate.

Lagoon County

Ligita Griškienė won in the Mariai district, collecting 55.27 percent. votes. Kęstutis Navickas will have to be satisfied with second place, because he collected 40.86 percent. votes.

By the way, L. Girskienė is the only woman from the four one-member constituencies to have advanced to the second round. In the first round, he got 24 percent. 3,019 Klaipėda residents supported the policy.

Well, in the second round of elections, the voters of the Mariai constituency were more favorable to L. Griskienė.

Seaside County

The winner of the coastal district is Simonas Gentvilas. 50.82 percent trusted him in the second round. voters. Arūnas Barbšys was second, with 38.53 percent. votes.

In the coastal constituency, after the first round, S. Gentvilas entered the second round, collecting 20.94 percent. votes, it was supported by 2,710 Klaipeda residents. He had to deal with the Conservative, Klaipėda Deputy Mayor A. Barbšis, for whom he voted 18.72 percent. voters (2,423).

2016 A.Barbšys also participated in the Seimas elections, losing to Liberal representative Gintaras Vaičekauskas in the second round in this constituency by only 79 votes.

Four years later, the conservative again tried his luck. This time success smiled on S. Gentvilas.

Baltic district

The leader of the Baltic district is Audrius Petrošius. He collected 50.72 percent. Voter votes also outscored Mindaugas Bastakis, who received 44.90 percent. votes.

In the single-member Baltic constituency, after the first round, A. Petrošius, a member of the Klaipėda City Council, climbed to the second round, for which 23.29 per cent voted. (2,981) voters and the “campesino” candidate M. Bastakis (13.29 percent or 1,713 votes).

The members of the Seimas – the representative of the liberals G.Vaičekauskas came sixth, with a collection of 9.28 percent. votes (1,188) and the “social worker” Irena Šiaulienė – ninth.

In the Baltic constituency, 12 candidates competed in the first round of the Seimas elections.

Neither G.Vaičekauskas, who remained 22 (there were 19) on the party list, nor I.Šiaulienė entered the Seimas according to their party lists. The Labor Party of Social Democrats stayed at 5% overall. limits and mandates for this period. Long-term member of the Seimas I.Šiaulienė will lose his parliamentary status for the first time after 7 terms.

In the second round in the Baltic constituency, this time A.Petrošius celebrated the victory.

Dane County

The Dane County favorite is Arvydas Pocius, who grossed 50.3 percent. votes. Saulius Budinas, who lagged behind him, raised 41.69 percent. Voter votes.

Saulius Budinas (left) and Arvydas Pocius (right)

Conservative, former diplomat and army general A. Pocius, who was supported by Klaipėda residents with 4,150 votes (27.38%), and liberal member of Klaipėda City Council S. Budinas, who got 14.9, were they met in the Danish single-member constituency in the second round. percent votes. It received the support of 2,258 voters.

Both candidates have not been members of the Seimas, so many were surprised when Naglis Puteikis, a centrist MP and MP who had won laurels in the Danish constituency for more than a term, came fourth. In the first round, he was backed by just 11.09 percent. or 1,681 voters.

N. Puteikis is one of the few members of the Seimas who has been elected to the Seimas in the same Danish single-member constituency for the last three times.

Well this time A.Pocius became the second-round favorite in Denmark’s single-member constituency.

Thus, in Klaipėda, two conservatives, a liberal and a peasant, A.Petrošius, A.Pocius, S.Gentvilas and L.Griškienė, were elected to the Seimas in single-member districts for four years.



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