2007 Estonian parliamentary election

2007 Estonian parliamentary election

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All 101 seats in the Riigikogu 51 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party Third party   Leader Andrus Ansip Edgar Savisaar Tõnis Lukas and Taavi Veskimägi Party Reform Centre IRL Last election 19 seats 28 seats 32 seats Seats won 31 29 19 Seat change 12 1 16[a] Popular vote 153,044 143,518 98,347 Percentage 27.8% 26.1% 17.9% Swing 10.11pp 0.70pp 14.06pp   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Ivari Padar Aleksei Lotman Ester Tuiksoo Party SDE Greens People's Union Last election 6 seats – 13 seats Seats won 10 6 6 Seat change 4 New 7 Popular vote 58,363 39,279 39,215 Percentage 10.6% 7.1% 7.1% Swing 3.56pp New 5.93pp
Results by electoral district
Prime Minister before election Andrus Ansip Reform Prime Minister after election Andrus Ansip Reform

Parliamentary elections were held in Estonia on 4 March 2007. The newly elected 101 members of the 11th Riigikogu assembled at Toompea Castle in Tallinn within ten days of the election. 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 emerge 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 6 seats and the People's Union lost seven of its 13 seats. This election would be the last time that the Greens and the People's Union^[b] would enter into parliament. The Riigikogu elected after this election became the only one in contemporary Estonian history to have a single government^[c] last throughout an entire parliamentary term.

After the election, the Centre Party, led by the mayor of Tallinn Edgar Savisaar, had been increasingly excluded from collaboration due to his open collaboration with Putin's United Russia party, real estate scandals in Tallinn,^[1] and the Bronze Soldier controversy, considered a deliberate attempt to split Estonian society by provoking the Russian minority.^[2]

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