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Legend:
– Gitanas Nausėda
– Ingrida Šimonytė
– Eduardas Vaitkus
– Remigijus Žemaitaitis
Presidential elections were held in Lithuania on 12 May 2024, alongside a referendum on allowing multiple citizenships.[1] Incumbent President Gitanas Nausėda won re-election to a second term. When candidate registrations closed before the election, the Lithuanian Central Election Commission had confirmed fifteen viable registrations; of those, twelve proceeded to collect signatures from the minimum 20,000 voters. Four of those contenders were later repudiated or dropped out,[2] leaving eight on the ballot.[3]
A second round was held on 26 May as no candidate received an absolute majority in the first round.[4] This saw Nausėda and Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė facing off in the runoff, a rematch of the 2019 election in which Nausėda had defeated Šimonytė. Nausėda won re-election, defeating Šimonytė in a second-round landslide with 75% of the vote – the largest margin of victory in a free election for any presidential candidate in the history of Lithuania.
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- ^ "Lithuania to hold multiple citizenship referendum in 2024". LRT. 23 May 2023. Archived from the original on 27 January 2024. Retrieved 14 December 2023.
- ^ Vaišvilaitė-Braziulienė, Justina (8 April 2024). "Eight candidates to vie for president – election watchdog". Delfi (in Lithuanian). Archived from the original on 9 April 2024. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
- ^ "VRK registravo likusius kandidatus prezidento rinkimams: dėl šalies vadovo posto varžysis 8 politikai". Lietuvos rytas (in Lithuanian). ELTA. 9 April 2024. Archived from the original on 27 May 2024. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
- ^ "Lithuanians vote in a presidential election as anxieties rise over Russia and the war in Ukraine". Associated Press. 12 May 2024. Archived from the original on 27 May 2024. Retrieved 12 May 2024.