Public election committee (Lithuania)

In Lithuania, a public election committee (Lithuanian: visuomeninis rinkimų komitetas) is an organized group of voters outside of political parties which participates in local or European Parliament elections.

In 2023, 11 mayors (of 60) and 183 municipal council members (of 1498) were elected from public election committees. 4 of Lithuania's 5 largest cities elected a mayor belonging to a committee. The strongest committee is Vieningas Kaunas, led by Visvaldas Matijošaitis, which has won local elections in Kaunas, Lithuania's second largest city, since the introduction of committees in 2015. Committees also participated in the 2019 European Parliament election in Lithuania, in which one of the seats was won by a public election committee led by Aušra Maldeikienė.

The prominence of public election committees has been described as the result of an ongoing crisis of confidence in political parties in Lithuania.