Estonian parliamentary election, 2007

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101 seats in the Riigikogu
51 seats were needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Andrus Ansip	Edgar Savisaar	Tõnis Lukas and Taavi Veskimägi
Party	Reform	Centre	Pro Patria and Res Publica
Last election	19 seats	28 seats	32 seats
Seats won	31	29	19
Seat change	12	1	10
Popular vote	153,044	143,518	98,347
Percentage	27.8%	26.1%	17.9%

	Fourth party	Fifth party	Sixth party

Leader	Ivari Padar	Aleksei Lotman	Ester Tuiksoo
Party	Social Democratic	Greens	People's Union
Last election	6 seats	did not participate	13 seats
Seats won	10	6	6
Seat change	4	6	7
Popular vote	58,363	39,279	39,215
Percentage	10.6%	7.1%	7.1%

Prime Minister before election

Andrus Ansip
Reform

Elected Prime Minister

Andrus Ansip
Reform

Parliamentary elections were held in Estonia on 4 March 2007. It was the world's first nationwide vote where part of the voting was carried out in the form of remote electronic voting via the internet.

The election saw the Estonian Reform Party emerged as the largest faction in the Riigikogu with 31 seats. The Estonian Centre Party finished second with 29 seats, whilst the new Union of Pro Patria and Res Publica lost 16 seats compared to the 35 won by the two parties in the 2003 elections. The Social Democrats gained 4 seats, whilst the Greens entered the Riigikogu for the first time with 7 seats and the People's Union lost seven of its 13 seats.

The Centre Party, led by the mayor of Tallinn Edgar Savisaar, had been increasingly excluded from collaboration, since his open collaboration with Putin's United Russia party, real estate scandals in Tallinn, and the Bronze Soldier controversy, considered as a deliberate attempt to split Estonian society by provoking the Russian minority.

In 2007 Estonia held its and the world's first national Internet election. Voting was available from February 26 to 28. A total of 30,275 citizens (3.4%) used Internet voting.

Electronic voting in Estonia began in October 2005 local elections when Estonia became the first country to have legally binding general elections using the Internet as a means of casting the vote and was declared a success by the Estonian election officials.

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