2024 Lithuanian presidential election

2024 Lithuanian presidential election

12 May 2024 (first round)
26 May 2024 (second round)
Turnout59.95% (first round) 2.58pp
49.74% (second round) 4.14pp
 
Candidate Gitanas Nausėda Ingrida Šimonytė
Party Independent TS–LKD
Popular vote 886,874 291,054
Percentage 75.29% 24.71%


President before election

Gitanas Nausėda
Independent

Elected President

Gitanas Nausėda
Independent

Presidential elections were held in Lithuania on 12 May 2024, alongside a referendum on allowing multiple citizenships. Incumbent President Gitanas Nausėda won re-election to a second term. When candidate registrations closed before the election, the Lithuanian Central Election Commission had confirmed fifteen viable registrations; of those, twelve proceeded to collect signatures from the minimum 20,000 voters. Four of those contenders were later repudiated or dropped out, leaving eight on the ballot.

A second round was held on 26 May as no candidate received an absolute majority in the first round. This saw Nausėda and Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė facing off in the runoff, a rematch of the 2019 election in which Nausėda had defeated Šimonytė. Nausėda won re-election, defeating Šimonytė in a second-round landslide with 75% of the vote – the largest margin of victory in a free election for any presidential candidate in the history of Lithuania.