Bei den Parlamentswahlen in Litauen am 25. Oktober und 15. November 1992 hat die LDLP, die frühere KP Litauens, unter der Führung von Algirdas Brazauskas einen überraschend hohen Sieg errungen. Ausschlaggebend für das Wählerverhalten dürften die sich verschärfende Wirtschaftskrise des Landes und die Hoffnung der Bürger gewesen sein, daß Brazauskas am ehesten in Verbindung mit Rußland eine Verbesserung der Lage erreichen könnte. Die Wahlniederlage der Mitte-Rechts-Parteien, insbesondere von Sajudis, hängt nicht zuletzt mit deren Mißerfogen bei der Durchführung der Wirtschaftsreform zusammen. (BIOst-Srt)
A parliamentary election was held in Lithuania on 14 October 2012, alongside a consultative referendum on a construction of a new nuclear power plant in the country. Where required, runoffs in single mandate districts were held two weeks later, on 28 October 2012. Lithuanian left-wing parties enjoyed strong showings. The winners, the Social Democrats (Lietuvos socialdemokrat partija, LSDP), took 38 out of 141 seats in the Seimas (parliament) and formed a left-of-centre coalition government with the Labour Party (Darbo partija), Party Order and Justice (Partija Tvarka ir teisingumas, TT), and the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania (Lietuvos lenk rinkim akcija, LLRA). The Conservatives, the winners of the 2008 general elections, lost their status as largest party yet ended up with the second largest parliamentary faction of 33 MPs. This was considered by many as a good result for the main party of a government which led the country in the years of economic downturn and hence necessary and unpopular austerity measures. However, the Liberal and Centre Union (Liberal ir centro sjunga), a liberal party which had been in the ruling coalition in 2008-2012, lost its parliamentary representation, and the populist National Resurrection Party (Tautos prisiklimo partija, TPP), which had also joined the government after the 2008 election, crumbled soon after and disappeared from the political landscape. Of the two new parties entering the Seimas, the most popular was the Path of Courage (Drsos kelias), a populist and radical motley crew which won 8% of votes cast (and was thus far from repeating the 2008 success of the earlier newcomer, TPP, which debuted with 15%). Finally, the outcome of the referendum was negative: 62.7% of those who turned out voted against the construction of a new power station. [Copyright Elsevier Ltd.]
