Eleventh Seimas of Lithuania

Eleventh Seimas of Lithuania
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Overview
Jurisdiction	Lithuania
Term	2012—2016

The Eleventh Seimas of Lithuania was a parliament (Seimas) elected in Lithuania. Elections took place on 14 October 2012, with the run-off on 28 October. The Seimas commenced its work on 17 November 2012 and served a four-year term, with the last session taking place on 10 November 2016.

Elections

In the elections in 2012, 70 members of the parliament were elected on proportional party lists and 71 in single member constituencies. Elections took place on 14 October 2012. Run-off elections were held on 28 October in the single-seat constituencies where no candidate secured a seat in the first round.

Party		Proportional			Constituency seats	Total seats	+/–
		Votes	%	Seats
	Labour Party	271,520	20.69	17	12	29	19
	Social Democrats	251,610	19.18	15	23	38	13
	Homeland Union	206,590	15.75	13	20	33	12
	Liberal Movement	117,476	8.95	7	3	10	1
	The Way of Courage	109,448	8.34	7	–	7	New
	Order and Justice	100,120	7.63	6	5	11	4
	Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania	79,840	6.08	5	3	8	5
	Peasant and Greens Union	53,141	4.05	–	1	1	2
	Liberal and Centre Union	28,263	2.15	–	–	–	8
	YES	24,129	1.84	–	–	–	New
	Socialist People's Front	16,515	1.26	–	–	–
	Christian Party	16,494	1.26	–	–	–	New
	For Lithuania in Lithuania	12,854	0.98	–	–	–	New
	Young Lithuania	8,632	0.66	–	–	–
	Democratic Labour and Unity Party	4,383	0.33	–	–	–	New
	Emigrants' Party	4,015	0.31	–	–	–	New
	Republican Party	3,661	0.28	–	–	–	New
	Lithuanian People's Party	3,399	0.26	–	–	–	New
Independents		–	–	–	3	3	1
Invalid/blank votes		57,924	–	–	–	–	–
Total		1,370,014	100	70	70 (1 to go)	140	–
Registered voters/turnout		2,588,418	52.93	–	–	–	–
Source: Central Electoral Commission[1][2]

Activities

Speaker of the Seimas

Vydas Gedvilas (Labour Party)
16 September 2012 – 3 October 2013

Loreta Graužinienė (Labour Party)
Since 3 October 2013

Social Democrats have been the largest party in the Eleventh Seimas and form a coalition government with the Labour Party and the Order and Justice party. Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania was initially a member of the ruling coalition, but left in 2014.^[3]

Vydas Gedvilas of the Labour Party was elected as the Speaker of the Seimas during the first session. He resigned less than a year later and was replaced by Loreta Graužinienė for the rest of the term.

Composition

Parliamentary groups

After the elections, the parliamentary groups were formed in the Seimas, largely on the party lines: Social Democratic Party of Lithuania (LSDPF), Labour Party (DPF), Liberal Movement (LSF), Order and Justice(FTT), Electoral Action of the Poles in Lithuania (LLRAF), Homeland Union - Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TSLKDF), Way of Courage (FDK) and the Mixed Group of Members of the Seimas (MSNG).^[4]

Members

155 members have served on the Eleventh Seimas.^[5] After the resignation of Vytautas Gapšys, Aurimas Truncė qualified for a Seimas seat through the electoral list of the Labour Party but relinquished the seat before taking oath.

References

Seimas of Lithuania
	Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Russian Empire Silent Sejm (1717) Pacification Sejm (1736) Convocation Sejm (1764) Repnin Sejm (1767–68) Partition Sejm (1773–75) Great Sejm (1788–91) Grodno Sejm (1793) Great Seimas of Vilnius (1905)
	First Republic of Lithuania (1918–40) Constituent Assembly (1920–22) First Seimas (1922–23) Second Seimas (1923–26) Third Seimas (1926–27) Fourth Seimas (1936–40)
	Second Republic of Lithuania (since 1990) Reconstituent Seimas (1990–92) Sixth Seimas (1992–96) Seventh Seimas (1996–2000) Eighth Seimas (2000–04) Ninth Seimas (2004–08) Tenth Seimas (2008–12) Eleventh Seimas (2012–16) Twelfth Seimas (2016–20)
See also: Seimas of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania Sejm of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth People's Seimas Supreme Soviet of the Lithuanian SSR