elections

Residents of Joniškis District and Panevėžys City have chosen new mayors as they went to the polls in the runoff election on Sunday.

Residents of Joniškis District and Panevėžys City will need to go the polls one more time to elect new mayors as no contender secured absolute majority in the first round of the early mayoral elections held on Sunday.

Social Democrat leader Vilija Blinkevičiūtė has said she will not be standing for re-election as the party needs a "driven, active and energetic chair" now.

President Gitanas Nausėda extended congratulations to Friedrich Merz, the leader of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU), on victory in the German Bundestag elections, stated the president’s press service.

Lithuanian president and prime minister have congratulated Friedrich Merz, leader of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU), on victory in the Bundestag election held on Sunday.

On 27 January 2025, the Committee on Foreign Affairs adopted a Statement reiterating its non-recognition of the election of Lukashenko as President of Belarus and describing the sham elections held by the Belarusian regime on 26 January 2025 as a "presidential election spectacle", stated the press s...

On Sunday afternoon, Belarusian citizens residing in Lithuania held a rally in Vilnius over the unfair Belarusian presidential election in which Alexander Lukashenko was declared the winner.

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Kęstutis Budrys, who is paying a working visit to Latvia, addressed the situation in Belarus and implied that elections planned there in January will not be free nor fair.

On Friday, the Central Electoral Commission (VRK) registered the Nemunas Dawn party for upcoming early mayoral elections in Jonava, Joniškis and Panevėžys.

The Central Electoral Commission (VRK) has said it spent more than EUR 52.7 million to organise three elections and a referendum held in 2024.

Leader of Democrats For Lithuania, Saulius Skvernelis, argues that the party’s performance in presidential, European and Lithuanian Parliamentary elections this year proved that his party made the right choice a couple of years ago when it split from from the Farmers and Greens Union (LVŽS). Democra...

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Gabrielius Landsbergis calls to examine Russian interference in Moldovan presidential elections and the referendum on membership in the European Union (EU). On Monday, President of Moldova Maia Sandu stated that the country has faced the Kremlin’s unprecedent...

Aušrinė Armonaitė says the Freedom Party has observed a rise in applications to join the party which did not win seats in the first round of elections to the Seimas.

The Central Electoral Commission (VRK) says the incoming votes by post from abroad, a single-member constituency for World Lithuanians, will decide the final election outcome and are particularly important for the Farmers and Greens Union (LVŽS), which barely crossed the threshold of votes for a joi...

The Seimas has decided to hold early mayoral elections in Jonava on 16 March 2025. The town in central Lithuania with a population of some 27,000 seeks a new head after court found ex-mayor Mindaugas Sinkevičius guilty of abuse of office and forgery.

The election outcome has changed in the Utena single-member constituency after ballot recount, with a Social Democrat dropping to the third place from initial results, the Central Electoral Commission (VRK) said Tuesday.

On Wednesday, speaking about 2024 parliamentary elections, leader of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP) Vilija Blinkevičiūtė stated that head of the Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD) Gabrielius Landsbergis „is finished“ and „is in total agony“. The statements have sur...

Seimas Speaker Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen, leader of the Liberal Movement, met with President Gitanas Nausėda in the Presidential Palace on Friday. The meeting centred on the need to have all the branches of government cooperating during the election period, she said afterwards.

Half of Lithuanians intend to vote in elections to the Seimas this October, a poll has revealed.

The pre-election mood may impede the Parliament’s upcoming autumn session, says President Gitanas Nausėda.