by das monde
Mon Oct 29th, 2012 at 04:43:12 AM EST
Lithuania had the second round of Seimas elections yesterday: run-off voting in individual constituencies. The Social Democrats had won 22 seats yesterday, and will be the largest party in the new parliament.
The first round voting took part and was discussed two weeks ago. The voter activity was much lower yesterday: 35.86%, down from 52.93% on October 14.
Here are the results:
Party | List vote
(Oct 14) | Seats
in Seimas | Prior run-off
chances |
|---|
| Votes | Share | Total = | Oct 14+Oct 28 | Likely+toss-up+underdog |
| Social Democrats |
251,610 | 18.37% |
38 = | 15+1+22 |
9+13+6 |
| The Homeland Union |
206,590 | 15.08% |
33 = | 13+20 |
9+22+4 |
| Darbo Partija |
271,520 | 19.82% |
29 = | 17+1+11 |
5+18+12 |
| Order And Justice |
100,120 | 7.31% |
11 = | 6+5 |
2+4+1 |
| The Liberal Movement |
117,476 | 8.57% |
10 = | 7+3 |
2+4+0 |
| The Polish minority party |
79,840 | 5.83% |
8 = | 5+1+2 |
2+4+0 |
| Drąsos Kelias |
109,448 | 7.99% |
7 = | 7+0 |
0+4+5 |
| The Peasants & Green Union |
53,141 | 3.88% |
1 = | 0+1 |
0+2+0 |
| The Center-Liberals |
28,263 | 2.06% |
0 = | 0+0 |
0+0+2 |
| Independents |
- | - |
3 = | 0+3 |
2+1+1 |
One constituency has no representative yet, because first round results there were declared invalid.
Darbo Partija was under pressure from numerous voter buy-off reports.
The government will be formed by the Social Democrats, Darbo Partija and Order & Justice. Here are the faces of the new coalition - Butkevičius, Paksas (O&J), Uspaskich:
