2000 Lithuanian parliamentary election

2000 Lithuanian parliamentary election

8 October 2000

All 141 seats in the Seimas
71 seats needed for a majority
Turnout58.63% 5.71 pp
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/–
SDK Algirdas Brazauskas 31.08 51 +26
NS Artūras Paulauskas 19.64 29 New
LLS Rolandas Paksas 17.25 34 +33
TS Vytautas Landsbergis 8.62 9 −61
KDS Kazys Bobelis 4.19 1 0
LVP Ramūnas Karbauskis 4.08 4 +3
LKDP Zigmas Zinkevičius 3.07 2 −14
LCS Romualdas Ozolas 2.86 2 −12
NKS Gediminas Vagnorius 2.01 1 New
LLRA Valdemar Tomaševski 1.95 2 +1
LLS Vytautas Šustauskas 1.27 1 +1
JL Stanislovas Buškevičius 1.15 1 0
MKD Vytautas Bogušis 1 New
Independents 3 −1
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Prime Minister before Prime Minister after
Andrius Kubilius
TS
Rolandas Paksas
LLS

Parliamentary elections were held in Lithuania on 8 October 2000. All 141 seats in the Seimas were up for election, 71 of them in single-seat constituencies based on first-past-the-post voting; the remaining 70, in a nationwide constituency based on proportional representation. Altogether, around 700 candidates competed in the single-seat constituencies, while over 1,100 candidates were included in the electoral lists for the nationwide constituency.