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All 11 Lithuanian seats in the European Parliament | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Turnout | 47.35% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. |
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Party | Votes | % | Seats | |
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Homeland Union | 199,393 | 17.43 | 2 | |
Social Democratic Party | 197,477 | 17.26 | 2 | |
Liberal Movement | 189,373 | 16.55 | 2 | |
Order and Justice | 163,049 | 14.25 | 2 | |
Labour Party | 146,607 | 12.81 | 1 | |
Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania–Lithuanian Russian Union | 92,108 | 8.05 | 1 | |
Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union | 75,643 | 6.61 | 1 | |
Lithuanian Green Party | 40,696 | 3.56 | 0 | |
Lithuanian Nationalist Union | 22,858 | 2.00 | 0 | |
Liberal and Centre Union | 16,927 | 1.48 | 0 | |
Total | 1,144,131 | 100.00 | 11 | |
Valid votes | 1,144,131 | 94.46 | ||
Invalid/blank votes | 67,148 | 5.54 | ||
Total votes | 1,211,279 | 100.00 | ||
Registered voters/turnout | 2,557,950 | 47.35 | ||
Source: VRK |
Although opinion polls and pundits claimed for large Social Democratic Party victory, but elections were won by the Homeland Union by around 2,000 votes. [4] [5]
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