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| Turnout | 84.64% | |||||||||||||||||||||
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This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
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General elections were held in Liechtenstein on 8 February 2009. [1] While polls and pundits predicted few changes, the Christian democratic Patriotic Union (VU) gained an outright majority in the Landtag, whilst the national conservative Progressive Citizens' Party (FBP) and the green social democratic Free List (FL) both suffered losses. [2]
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| Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
| Patriotic Union | 95,219 | 47.61 | 13 | +3 | |
| Progressive Citizens' Party | 86,951 | 43.47 | 11 | –1 | |
| Free List | 17,835 | 8.92 | 1 | –2 | |
| Total | 200,005 | 100.00 | 25 | 0 | |
| Valid votes | 15,126 | 96.64 | |||
| Invalid/blank votes | 526 | 3.36 | |||
| Total votes | 15,652 | 100.00 | |||
| Registered voters/turnout | 18,493 | 84.64 | |||
| Source: Landtagswahlen | |||||
| Electoral district | Seats | Electorate | Party | Candidates | Votes | % | Swing | Seats won | +/– | |
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| Oberland | 15 | 12,105 | Patriotic Union |
| 71,469 | 48.9 |  9.9 | 8 | 2 | |
| Progressive Citizens' Party |
| 61,033 | 41.7 |  5.0 | 6 | 1 | ||||
| Free List |
| 13,733 | 9.4 | 4.9 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Unterland | 10 | 6,388 | Patriotic Union |
| 23,750 | 44.2 | 8.0 | 5 | 1 | |
| Progressive Citizens' Party |
| 25,915 | 54.3 | 6.1 | 5 | 0 | ||||
| Free List |
| 4,102 | 7.6 | 1.9 | 0 | 1 | ||||
| Source: Landtagswahlen | ||||||||||
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