Lithuanian parliamentary election, 2004

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10 and 24 October 2004

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All 141 seats in the Seimas
71 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party

Leader	Viktor Uspaskich	Algirdas Brazauskas
Party	Labour	Social Democrats
Last election	New party	45 seats
Seats won	39	20
Seat change	39	25
Popular vote	340,035 (proportional)	246,852 (proportional-coalition)
Percentage	28.40% (proportional)	20.65% (proportional-coalition)

Prime Minister before election

Algirdas Brazauskas
Social Democrats

Prime Minister

Algirdas Brazauskas
Social Democrats

Parliamentary elections were held in Lithuania on 10 October 2004, with a second round on 24 October 2004 in the constituencies where no candidate won a majority in the first round of voting. All 141 seats in the Seimas were up for election; 71 in single-seat constituencies elected by majority vote and the remaining 70 in a nationwide constituency based on proportional representation.

The elections were won by the Labour Party with around 28% of the vote in the nationwide constituency and 39 seats in the Eighth Seimas, far short of the 71-seat majority. Outgoing government coalition "Working for Lithuania", consisting of the ruling Social Democratic Party of Lithuania and New Union (Social Liberals), won a total of 31 seats.

Despite finishing behind Labour, the Social Democrats led a coalition government with New Union, Labour and the Peasants and New Democratic Party Union. Algirdas Brazauskas continued as the Prime Minister of Lithuania.

The 2000 parliamentary elections were held on 8 October 2000. Liberal Union of Lithuania ended up as the largest single party in the parliament, with 34 seats in the 141-member Eighth Seimas, followed by New Union (Social Liberals) with 29. The two parties formed a coalition, with Rolandas Paksas of the Liberal Union as the Prime Minister and Artūras Paulauskas of the New Union as the Speaker of the Seimas.

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