2014 European Parliament election in Lithuania

2014 European Parliament election in Lithuania

25 May 2014[1]
All 11 Lithuanian seats in the European Parliament
Turnout	47.35%
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/– TS–LKD Andrius Kubilius 17.43 2 −2 LSDP Algirdas Butkevičius 17.26 2 −1 LS Eligijus Masiulis 16.55 2 +1 TT Rolandas Paksas 14.25 2 0 DP Loreta Graužinienė 12.81 1 0 LLRA Valdemar Tomaševski 8.05 1 0 LVŽS Ramūnas Karbauskis 6.61 1 +1 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

Election campaign poster in Vilnius

The 2014 European Parliament election in Lithuania was an election of the delegation from Lithuania to the European Parliament in 2014. It was part of the wider 2014 European election.

Background

In 2013, Elections to the European Parliament Act introduced public election committees. Prior to these elections, only two public election committees collected signatures, but none of them collected enough signatures to be registered and take part in elections.^[2][3]

Results

Party		Votes	%	Seats
	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

Analysis

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]

The Homeland Union won only in six municipalities (including Vilnius and Kaunas). The Social Democratic Party came at close second by the number of votes. The Liberal Movement came third, but it won in two municipalities only (Klaipėda and Neringa).^[6] The Order and Justice mainly won in northwest of the country.

See also

• MEPs for Lithuania 2014–2019
• Members of the European Parliament 2014–2019

References

1. VRK.lt
2. "XII-588 Lietuvos Respublikos rinkimų į Europos Parlamentą įstatymo pakeitimo įstatymas".
3. "Rinkimams į Europos Parlamentą pagrįstai atsisakyta registruoti 10 000 rinkėjų palaikymo neturintį kandidatų sąrašą".
4. "Lithuania's Presidential and European elections may see 'anti-euro' sentiments, but not outright Euroscepticism". 24 May 2014.
5. "Lithuania: European Parliament results". 30 November 2001.
6. Lithuania. European Parliament Election 2014