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Elections in Latvia gives information on election and election results in Latvia.
Latvia elects on national level a legislature. The Saeima has 100 members, elected for a four year term by proportional representation with a 5% threshold. An unmodified Sainte-Laguë method is used to allocate seats. The parliamentary elections are held on the first Saturday of October. Locally, Latvia elects municipal councils, consisting of 7 to 60 members, depending on the size of the municipality, also by proportional representation for a four year term.
Latvia has a multi-party system, with numerous parties in which no one party often has a chance of gaining power alone, and parties must work with each other to form coalition governments.
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2011 Parliamentary election
A parliamentary election was held on 17 September 2011.
Party | Votes | % | Swing | Seats | ± | |
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Harmony Centre | 259,930 | 28.36% | +1.75% | 31 | +2 | |
Zatlers' Reform Party | 190,853 | 20.82% | New | 22 | New | |
Unity | 172,567 | 18.83% | −13.07% | 20 | −13 | |
National Alliance | 127,208 | 13.88% | +6.05% | 14 | +6 | |
Union of Greens and Farmers | 111,955 | 12.22% | –7.90% | 13 | –9 | |
Latvia's First Party/Latvian Way | 22,131 | 2.41% | –5.40% | 0 | –8 | |
For Human Rights in United Latvia | 7,109 | 0.78% | –0.69% | 0 | ±0 | |
Last Party (Pēdējā partija) | 4,471 | 0.49% | –0.41% | 0 | ±0 | |
For a Presidential Republic (Par prezidentālu republiku) | 2,881 | 0.31% | –0.44% | 0 | ±0 | |
People's Control (Tautas kontrole) | 2,573 | 0.28% | –0.14% | 0 | ±0 | |
Latvian Social Democratic Workers' Party | 2,531 | 0.28% | –0.37% | 0 | ±0 | |
Freedom. Free from Fear, Hate and Anger (Brīvība. Brīvs no bailēm, naida un dusmām) | 2,011 | 0.22% | New | 0 | New | |
Christian Democratic Union | 1,994 | 0.22% | –0.15% | 0 | ±0 | |
Invalid | 1,211 | |||||
Total | 917,680 | 100% | 100 | |||
Turnout: 59.49% Source: Central Election Commission of Latvia |
Past elections and referendums
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Past elections: • Saeima (parliament): 1993, 1995, 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010 • Local/municipal: 1994, 1997, 2001, 2005, 2009 • Europarliament: 2004 (9 seats), 2009 (8 seats + 1 in case of Lisbon treaty coming into force) • Referenda: 1998 (citizenship); 1999 (pensions); 2003 (EU); 2007 (national security law); 2008 (pensions) • Presidential: 1993, 1996, 1999, 2003, 2007
See also
External links
- Adam Carr's Election Archive
- Parties and Elections in Europe
- National Elections Commission of Latvia
- OSCE reports on Latvian elections
- NSD: European Election Database - Latvia publishes regional level election data; allows for comparisons of election results, 1990-2010
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