2009 Lithuanian presidential election

2009 Lithuanian presidential election

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Turnout51.76%
 
Nominee Dalia Grybauskaitė Algirdas Butkevičius Valentinas Mazuronis
Party Independent LSDP TT
Popular vote 950,407 162,665 84,656
Percentage 69.09% 11.82% 6.15%

President before election

Valdas Adamkus
Independent

Elected President

Dalia Grybauskaitė
Independent

Presidential elections were held in Lithuania on 17 May 2009. A run-off would have been held on 7 June 2009,[1] but was not necessary as Dalia Grybauskaitė was elected with 69% of the vote, with voter turnout just over the 50% threshold for the result to be validated.[2] Grybauskaitė took office on 12 July as the country's first female president.

This was only the second time since the restoration of independence that a Lithuanian president was elected without the need for a runoff, the first being in 1993, when Algirdas Brazauskas was elected with 61% in the first round.

  1. ^ Usackas pulls out of presidential race Baltic Times, 17 February 2009
  2. ^ Lithuania gets first woman leader BBC News, 18 May 2009