2000 Lithuanian parliamentary election

2000 Lithuanian parliamentary election
Lithuania
← 1996 8 October 2000 2004 →

All 141 seats in the Seimas
71 seats needed for a majority
Turnout58.63% Increase 5.71 pp
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/–
SDK[a] Algirdas Brazauskas 31.08 51 +26
NS Artūras Paulauskas 19.64 29 New
LLS Rolandas Paksas 17.25 34 +33
TS Vytautas Landsbergis 8.62 9 −61
KDS Kazys Bobelis 4.19 1 0
LVP Ramūnas Karbauskis 4.08 4 +3
LKDP Zigmas Zinkevičius 3.07 2 −14
LCS Romualdas Ozolas 2.86 2 −12
NKS Gediminas Vagnorius 2.01 1 New
LLRA Valdemar Tomaševski 1.95 2 +1
LLS Vytautas Šustauskas 1.27 1 +1
JL Stanislovas Buškevičius 1.15 1 0
MKD Vytautas Bogušis 1 New
Independents 3 −1
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Prime Minister before Prime Minister after
Andrius Kubilius
TS
Rolandas Paksas
LLS
Ballot papers for nationwide proportional (left) and single mandate constituency (right) voting

Parliamentary elections were held in Lithuania on 8 October 2000. All 141 seats in the Seimas were up for election, 71 of them in single-seat constituencies based on first-past-the-post voting; the remaining 70, in a nationwide constituency based on proportional representation. Altogether, around 700 candidates competed in the single-seat constituencies, while over 1,100 candidates were included in the electoral lists for the nationwide constituency.[1]


Cite error: There are <ref group=lower-alpha> tags or {{efn}} templates on this page, but the references will not show without a {{reflist|group=lower-alpha}} template or {{notelist}} template (see the help page).

  1. ^ "Parliamentary Chamber: Assemblée nationale, Elections Held in 2000". Inter-Parliamentary Union. Retrieved 19 October 2024.