Lithuanian parliamentary election, 2016

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9 and 23 October 2016

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

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Ramūnas Karbauskis	Gabrielius Landsbergis	Algirdas Butkevičius
Party	Farmers and Greens	Homeland Union	Social Democrats
Last election	1 seat, 4.05%	33 seats, 15.75%	38 seats, 19.18%
Seats won	54	31	17
Seat change	53	2	21
Popular vote	274,108 (PR)	276,275 (PR)	183,597 (PR)
Percentage	22.45% (PR)	22.63% (PR)	15.04% (PR)
Swing	18.40%	6.88%	4.14%

	Fourth party	Fifth party	Sixth party

Leader	Remigijus Šimašius	Valdemar Tomaševski	Rolandas Paksas
Party	Liberal Movement	Electoral Action of Poles	Order and Justice
Last election	10 seats, 8.95%	8 seats, 6.08%	11 seats, 7.63%
Seats won	14	8	8
Seat change	4	0	3
Popular vote	115,361 (PR)	69,810 (PR)	67,817 (PR)
Percentage	9.45% (PR)	5.72% (PR)	5.55% (PR)
Swing	0.50%	0.36%	2.08%

Prime Minister before election

Algirdas Butkevičius
Social Democrats

Prime Minister

Saulius Skvernelis
Independent

Algirdas Butkevičius
Social Democrats

Saulius Skvernelis
Independent

Parliamentary elections were held in Lithuania on 9 October 2016, with a second round held on 23 October 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-member constituencies elected by majority vote and the remaining 70 in a nationwide constituency based on proportional representation.

The elections were won by the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union, which picked up 22.45% of the popular vote and 54 seats, up from just a single seat in the elections four years prior. The success of the party was attributed to voter dissatisfaction with established parties in light of low wages and persistent emigration. Homeland Union, the largest opposition party in the preceeding Seimas, finished a distant second, with the largest share of the national vote but only 31 seats.

Government parties faced a setback in the elections. The Social Democratic Party of Lithuania, which had been the largest party in the Seimas before the elections, finished third, with 17 seats. Their coalition partners, the Labour Party and Order and Justice, fared even worse, picking up 2 and 8 seats, respectively.

The 2012 parliamentary elections were held on 14 October 2012, with the run-off on 28 October. The elections were won by the Social Democratic Party of Lithuania, which took 38 seats in the 141-member Eleventh Seimas. Social Democrats were joined in the coalition government by Labour, Order and Justice and the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania. The Polish party withdrew from the government in 2014.

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