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General elections were held in Liechtenstein on 5 February 2017 to elect the 25 members of the Landtag.
In the 2013 elections the Progressive Citizens' Party lost one seat, and the Patriotic Union lost five seats while The Independents gained four seats, and the Free List gained two seats. This was the first time in Liechtenstein's history that four parties held seats in the Landtag. [1] [2]
The 25 members of the Landtag were elected by open list proportional representation from two constituencies, Oberland with 15 seats and Unterland with 10 seats. The electoral threshold was 8%. [3]
The 2017 general election saw the highest number of candidates running in Liechtenstein's history with 71 candidates. [4]
The Progressive Citizens' Party lost one seat and the Independents gained one seat. Both the Patriotic Union and the Free List retained all their seats. [5] Voter turnout was 77.8%, down from 79.8% in 2013. [6]
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| Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
| Progressive Citizens' Party | 68,673 | 35.24 | 9 | –1 | |
| Patriotic Union | 65,742 | 33.73 | 8 | 0 | |
| The Independents | 35,885 | 18.41 | 5 | +1 | |
| Free List | 24,595 | 12.62 | 3 | 0 | |
| Total | 194,895 | 100.00 | 25 | 0 | |
| Valid votes | 14,768 | 95.82 | |||
| Invalid/blank votes | 645 | 4.18 | |||
| Total votes | 15,413 | 100.00 | |||
| Registered voters/turnout | 19,806 | 77.82 | |||
| Source: Landtagswahlen | |||||
| Electoral district | Seats | Electorate | Party | Candidates | Votes | % | Swing | Seats won | +/– | |
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| Oberland | 15 | 12,814 | Patriotic Union | Christoph Wenaweser Manfred Kaufmann Günter Vogt Thomas Vogt Frank Konrad Rainer Beck [lower-alpha 1] Christine Schädler Rainer Wolfinger Karin Rüdisser-Quaderer Dominik Hemmerle Nils Vogt Alexandra Schädler Ernst Trefzer Jnes Rampone-Wanger Gerald Luchs | 48,789 | 34.4 |  0.2 | 5 | 0 | |
| Progressive Citizens' Party | Wendelin Lampert Albert Frick Daniel F. Seger Eugen Nägele Susanne Eberle-Strub Michael Ospelt [lower-alpha 1] Marcel Gstöhl Clarissa Frommelt Peter Banzer Martina Haas Andrea Häring Adriana Nentwich-Tomasoni | 47,747 | 33.7 | 5.6 | 5 | 1 | ||||
| The Independents | Harry Quaderer Jürgen Beck Thomas Rehak Ado Vogt [lower-alpha 1] Pio Schurti Othmar Züger Pascal Willi Siegfried Sele Isolde Hermann-Jehle Johann Beck Burgi Beck | 26,452 | 18.6 |  3.9 | 3 | 1 | ||||
| Free List | Georg Kaufmann Thomas Lageder Helen Konzett Bargetze [lower-alpha 1] Walter Kranz Conny Büchel Brühwiler Richard Brunhart | 18,882 | 11.8 | 2.1 | 2 | 0 | ||||
| Unterland | 10 | 6,992 | Progressive Citizens' Party | Johannes Kaiser Elfried Hasler Johannes Hasler Daniel Oehry Alexander Batliner Norman Walch Bruno Matt Veronika Hilti-Wohlwend Judith Spalt Elmar Gangl | 20,941 | 39.4 | 2.5 | 4 | 0 | |
| Patriotic Union | Violanda Lanter-Koller Mario Wohlwend Guinilla Marxer-Kranz Peter Frick [lower-alpha 1] Rainer Ritter Dominik Oehri Peter Büchel Elisabeth Stock-Gstöhl Gustav Gstöhl Rainer Batliner | 16,995 | 32.0 | 1.1 | 3 | 0 | ||||
| The Independents | Herbert Elkuch Erich Hasler Peter Wachter [lower-alpha 1] Agnes Dentsch Werner Dolzer-Müssner | 9,449 | 17.8 | 1.0 | 2 | 0 | ||||
| Free List | Patrick Risch Wolfgang Marxer [lower-alpha 1] | 5,715 | 10.8 | 0.4 | 1 | 0 | ||||
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