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Such a portrait of a statistical candidate was compiled by the Central Electoral Commission (CEC), which collected data on the candidates’ education, marital status, declared income, assets, links to legal entities, and information on available convictions.
On Friday, the CEC announced the lists of people registered as candidates for Seimas: a total of 1,755 candidates were registered. Compared to 2016, this year almost three hundred and a half (339) more people are applying for the Seimas. Four years ago, the CEC had registered 1,416 candidates.
As in the previous Seimas elections, this year too, the majority of the candidates are men: they represent 66.7 percent. candidates. About a third, 33.3 percent, participate in women’s elections.
Men dominate the vast majority of political party lists. Lithuania’s only Polish electoral campaign, the Union of Christian Families, has more women than men in its ranks, 63 percent of them are in this party. The National Union has the fewest women in its ranks: their number on the party’s list is 15 percent.
Compared to the data for candidates for the 2016 Seimas elections, this year there are 11 percent more people with higher education running for the Seimas.
This year, when submitting application documents, 83 percent. The candidates indicated in their questionnaires that they had higher education, 72% of those candidates were in the last elections.
4.3 percent of candidates indicated they were 4.1 percent higher. – secondary education with professional qualifications. 7 percent. candidates chose not to indicate which sciences they had completed.
The number of candidates with higher education is on the list of the National Union-Lithuanian Christian Democratic Party (95%), the Union of Peasants and Greens of Lithuania is below one percentage point (94.3%). Third on this list is the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party with 92.1 percent. candidates with higher education.
This year, when submitting application documents, 83 percent. The candidates indicated in their questionnaires that they had higher education, 72% of those candidates were in the last elections.
The lowest number of candidates with higher education is on the Center’s list of nationalists (59.5%). Second, in terms of the lowest number of candidates who have completed higher education, is the “Path of Courage” (70%), in addition, the Lithuanian Green Party with 74.4%. candidates with higher education.
The most popular names of the men running in this year’s Seimas elections are Vytautas, Kęstutis, Saulius, Tomas, Arūnas. Among the women candidates, there are mainly Daiva, Lina, Janina, Kristina and Rasa.
Almost 64 percent. indicated that they were married. 19 candidates (1.1%) declared to be partners. There are 201 or 11.4 percent single. 48 candidates were widowed, representing almost 3 percent.
More than 10 percent. of the candidates (187 people) indicated they were divorced and 185 candidates (10.5%) did not provide data on their marital status.
Candidates were required to indicate their criminal record when submitting application documents to the CEC. Those who concealed this fact were removed from the candidate lists.
Almost 98 percent of the Seimas candidates stated that they had never been tried. 2 percent of the candidates have declared their criminal records and are registered as candidates for members of the Seimas.
The Seimas elections will be held on October 11. 141 parliamentarians will be elected, 70 according to party lists and 71 in single-member districts.
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