Next Latvian parliamentary election

← 2014

Not later than October 2018

All 100 seats in the Saeima
51 seats are needed for a majority


Leader	Nils Ušakovs	Arvils Aseradens	Māris Kučinskis
Party	Harmony	Unity	Union of Greens and Farmers
Leader since	27 November 2005	19 August 2017	2014
Leader's seat	Did not participate	Did not participate	Riga
Last election	24 seats, 23.00%	23 seats, 21.87%	21 seats, 19.74%
Current seats	24	23	21
Seats needed	27	28	30


Leader	Raivis Dzintars	Mārtiņš Bondars	Inguna Sudraba
Party	National Alliance	Latvian Association of Regions	For Latvia from the Heart
Leader since	23 July 2011	13 March 2014	5 May 2014
Leader's seat	Vidzeme	Vidzeme	Riga
Last election	17 seats, 16.61%	8 seats, 6.66%	7 seats, 6.85%
Current seats	17	7	7
Seats needed	34	44	44

Incumbent Prime Minister

Māris Kučinskis
Union of Greens and Farmers

The next Latvian parliamentary elections will be called following the dissolution or expiry of the current Saeima, and must not be held later than 6 October 2018.

The 2014 elections saw Social Democratic Party "Harmony" emerge as the largest party. Although the largest party, Harmony has not participated in the government. A coalition was formed by Unity, the Union of Greens and Farmers and the National Alliance with Laimdota Straujuma as Prime Minister. On 7 December 2015 she resigned after increasing tensions within the ruling coalition. Following her resignation and several scandals around the Unity leader Solvita Āboltiņa, opinion polls showed a rapid decrease of support for Unity. On 13 January 2016 Māris Kučinskis of the Union of Greens and Farmers was nominated to be the next Prime Minister by President Raimonds Vējonis.His government was approved by the Saeima on 11 February.

The 100 members of the Saeima are elected by open list proportional representation from five multi-member constituencies (Kurzeme, Latgale, Riga (in which overseas votes are counted), Vidzeme and Zemgale) between 13 and 32 seats in size. Seats are allocated using the Sainte-Laguë method with a national electoral threshold of 5%.

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