2009 Lithuanian presidential election

2009 Lithuanian presidential election

17 May 2009
Turnout51.76%
 
Nominee Dalia Grybauskaitė Algirdas Butkevičius Valentinas Mazuronis
Party Independent LSDP TT
Popular vote 950,407 162,665 84,656
Percentage 69.09% 11.82% 6.15%

President before election

Valdas Adamkus
Independent

Elected President

Dalia Grybauskaitė
Independent

Presidential elections were held in Lithuania on 17 May 2009. A run-off would have been held on 7 June 2009, but was not necessary as Dalia Grybauskaitė was elected with 69% of the vote, with voter turnout just over the 50% threshold for the result to be validated. Grybauskaitė took office on 12 July as the country's first female president.

This was only the second time since the restoration of independence that a Lithuanian president was elected without the need for a runoff, the first being in 1993, when Algirdas Brazauskas was elected with 61% in the first round.