 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
All 100 seats in the Saeima 51 seats needed for a majority | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Turnout | 59.41% ( 4.83pp) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Parliamentary elections were held in Latvia on 1 October 2022, following the end of the term of the 13th Saeima elected in 2018.
The 100 members of the Saeima are elected by open list, proportional representation from five multi-member constituencies ranging in size from 12 to 36 seats and based on the regions of Latvia, with overseas votes included in the Riga constituency. Seats are allocated using the Sainte-Laguë method with a national electoral threshold of 5%. Voters may cast "specific votes" for candidates on the list that they have voted for. This involves drawing a plus sign (+) next to the candidate's names to indicate preference (positive votes), or by crossing out names to indicate disapproval (negative votes). The number of votes for each candidate is the number of votes cast for the list, plus their number of positive votes, minus their number of negative votes. The candidates with the highest vote totals fill their party's seats. [1]
The Central Electoral Commission is required to determine the number of Members of Parliament (MPs) to be elected using the number of eligible voters four months before the election. On 2 June 2022, the Central Electoral Commission has announced the new distribution of MPs. Rīga and Vidzeme constituencies have both gained one seat compared to the 2018 election, while Latgale and Zemgale constituencies have both lost one. [2]
| June 2022 redistribution | ||
|---|---|---|
| Constituency | Seats | Change |
| Rīga | 36 | 1 |
| Vidzeme | 26 | 1 |
| Latgale | 13 |  1 |
| Zemgale | 13 | 1 |
| Kurzeme | 12 |  |
| Total | 100 | |
Latvia First became the first major party to announce Ainārs Šlesers as its candidate for the position of Prime Minister on 14 August, during the founding congress of the party. [3]
Each of the member parties of the Union of Greens and Farmers proposed their own PM candidate to the party alliance board, and then they would decide on the one candidate for the whole party alliance. The Latvian Farmers' Union nominated MP Viktors Valainis as their candidate, [4] while the Green Party kept its candidate secret. [5] In the end, the Greens left the Union and joined the United List alliance. [6]
The table below lists parties and party alliances represented in the 13th Saeima. [7] [8]
Political parties and party alliances are able to submit their electoral lists to the Central Electoral Commission from 13 July until 2 August. [9] So far, four lists have been submitted to and registered by the CEC. [10]
In the table below, the number in each box indicates the number of candidates standing on the party's electoral list in the indicated constituency. The maximum number of candidates on the electoral list in each constituency equals the number of MPs to be elected plus three.
| MP | Constituency | First elected | Party | Date announced | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mārtiņš Bondars | Latgale | 2014 | AP! | 31 May 2022 [33] | |
| Inga Goldberga | Latgale | 2018 | S | 6 June 2022 [34] | |
| Inguna Rībena | Zemgale | 2002 | Ind. | 14 June 2022 [35] | |
| Reinis Znotiņš | Rīga | 2018 | K | 7 July 2022 [36] | |
| Vladimirs Nikonovs | Latgale | 2010 | S | 18 July 2022 [13] | |
| Dagmāra Beitnere-Le Galla | Vidzeme | 2018 | K | 21 July 2022 [37] | |
| Atis Lejiņš | Zemgale | 2010 | JV | 25 July 2022 [16] | |
| Janīna Jalinska | Latgale | 2018 | AS | 26 July 2022 [19] | |
| Ivars Puga | Rīga | 2018 | NA | 26 July 2022 [20] | |
| Jānis Dūklavs | Latgale | 2010 | ZZS | 27 July 2022 [21] | |
The New Unity party of incumbent prime minister Krišjānis Kariņš received the highest percentage of the vote (19%) and won the most seats (26). In a speech after the election, Kariņš stated that Latvia would continue to support Ukraine against Russia and he stated his preference to maintain the current coalition government. [38] [39] The Union of Greens and Farmers placed second, receiving 13% of the vote, despite leader Aivars Lembergs being sentenced to five years in prison in 2021 and under sanction by the United States. [40] The other parties which placed above the 5% threshold to receive a seat in parliament were the United List with 11%, the National Alliance with 9.3%, For Stability! with 7%, Latvia First with 6%, and The Progressives, who entered parliament for the first time with 6% of the vote. [40] [39]
The wasted vote in this election was 29.09%. Harmony, who had placed first in the previous three general elections, was unable to secure any parliamentary seats, being slightly under the 5% threshold (of all votes, including invalid) with 4.9% of the vote. This has been attributed by many reasons, including internal disputes on the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, pushing away both ethnic Latvians and ethnic Russians. This resulted in much of the ethnic Russian population voting for Stability!, Sovereign Power, and the Latvian Russian Union. [41] [40] [42] The Development/For! alliance, one of the coalition members, also narrowly missed out the 5% threshold by just 0.03% (with 4.97% of all votes). [39] Another coalition member, the Conservatives, also failed to cross the 5% threshold, receiving 3% of the vote. [40]
 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
| New Unity | 173,425 | 19.19 | 26 | +18 | |
| Union of Greens and Farmers | 113,676 | 12.58 | 16 | +5 | |
| United List | 100,631 | 11.14 | 15 | New | |
| National Alliance | 84,939 | 9.40 | 13 | 0 | |
| For Stability! | 62,168 | 6.88 | 11 | New | |
| Latvia First | 57,033 | 6.31 | 9 | New | |
| The Progressives | 56,327 | 6.23 | 10 | +10 | |
| Development/For! | 45,452 | 5.03 | 0 | –13 | |
| Harmony | 43,943 | 4.86 | 0 | –23 | |
| For Each and Every One | 33,578 | 3.72 | 0 | New | |
| Latvian Russian Union | 33,203 | 3.67 | 0 | 0 | |
| Sovereign Power | 29,603 | 3.28 | 0 | New | |
| The Conservatives | 28,270 | 3.13 | 0 | –16 | |
| Republic | 16,088 | 1.78 | 0 | New | |
| Force of People's Power | 10,350 | 1.15 | 0 | New | |
| People's Servants for Latvia | 9,176 | 1.02 | 0 | 0 | |
| Union for Latvia | 2,985 | 0.33 | 0 | –16 | |
| United for Latvia | 1,413 | 0.16 | 0 | New | |
| Progressive Christian Party | 1,379 | 0.15 | 0 | New | |
| Total | 903,639 | 100.00 | 100 | 0 | |
| Valid votes | 903,639 | 98.61 | |||
| Invalid/blank votes | 12,729 | 1.39 | |||
| Total votes | 916,368 | 100.00 | |||
| Registered voters/turnout | 1,542,407 | 59.41 | |||
| Source: Central Electoral Commission [43] | |||||
| Constituency | JV | ZZS | AS | NA | S! | LPV | P |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Riga | 20.59 | 5.51 | 6.91 | 7.14 | 9.15 | 8.59 | 9.05 |
| Vidzeme | 23.46 | 12.10 | 12.62 | 11.39 | 3.04 | 5.14 | 5.95 |
| Latgale | 6.97 | 14.54 | 5.12 | 5.78 | 18.56 | 6.53 | 2.46 |
| Zemgale | 18.75 | 19.55 | 12.42 | 12.16 | 3.02 | 4.56 | 4.35 |
| Kurzeme | 16.44 | 21.10 | 22.05 | 10.25 | 2.17 | 4.27 | 4.80 |
| Total | 19.16 | 12.66 | 11.00 | 9.38 | 6.91 | 6.31 | 6.23 |
| Constituency | JV | ZZS | AS | NA | S! | LPV | P | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Riga | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 36 |
| Vidzeme | 8 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 26 |
| Latgale | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 13 |
| Zemgale | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 13 |
| Kurzeme | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 12 | |
| Total | 26 | 16 | 15 | 13 | 11 | 9 | 10 | 100 |
On 3 October 2022, President Egils Levits authorized Kariņš, the incumbent Prime Minister and leader of New Unity, to form a coalition government. [44] New Unity explored coalition options with Union of Greens and Farmers and the Progressives, but they fell though. [45] [46] Kariņš formed a government with United List and National Alliance, sworn in on 14 December. [47] [48] This government lasted until proposed changes to the make-up of cabinet caused the other parties to pull out and led to Kariņš's resignation as Prime Minister in August 2023. The government was succeeded by a New Unity–Union of Greens and Farmers–Progressives government led by Evika Siliņa, which was sworn in on 14 September 2023. [49]
The Latvian Social Democratic Workers' Party is a social-democratic political party in Latvia and the second oldest existing Latvian political party after the Latvian Farmers' Union. It is currently represented with two seats in the parliament of Latvia as a part of the Union of Greens and Farmers alliance after an absence of 20 years. The party tends to hold a less Russophilic view than fellow social-democratic party "Harmony".
Parliamentary elections were held in Latvia on 2 October 2010. It was the first parliamentary election to be held in Latvia since the beginning of the economic crisis during which Latvia had experienced one of the deepest recessions in the world.
Parliamentary elections were held in Latvia on 6 October 2018. Following the elections, a coalition government was formed by Who owns the state?, the New Conservative Party, Development/For!, the National Alliance and New Unity. Despite being from the smallest elected party, Arturs Krišjānis Kariņš of New Unity was chosen as prime minister.
The New Unity is a centre-right political alliance in Latvia. Its members are Unity and four other regional parties, and it is orientated towards liberal-conservatism and liberalism.
The Latvian Association of Regions or Latvian Regional Alliance is a centrist political party in Latvia.
The Liepāja Party is a localist political party in Latvia. It operates in the city of Liepāja, where its chairman, Uldis Sesks, was mayor from 1997 to 2018. The party has an agreement with the Union of Greens and Farmers allowing party members to be elected in the Saeima, including current members Māris Kučinskis, Valdis Skujiņš and Aija Barča.
United for Latvia is a populist and economically liberal political party in Latvia. It was founded in 2011 in Rēzekne and in 2013 Ainārs Šlesers became party chairman. Šlesers has been dubbed one of the three "oligarchs" prominent in Latvian politics, and United for Latvia marks his return to electoral politics. He was previously leader of Latvia's First Party/Latvian Way and has served in several governments of Latvia including as Deputy Prime Minister in the government of Aigars Kalvītis and Minister of Transport in the second government of Ivars Godmanis, both of whom are party members. Other formerly prominent Latvian politicians who are now party members include Jānis Jurkāns and Jānis Straume. The party is yet to win seats in the Saeima or the European Parliament. Šlesers and several other party members have been in the past among the Latvian politicians most willing to cooperate with Harmony and other Russian parties in Latvia.
The New Conservative Party, known as The Conservatives from February 2022 to October 2023, is a liberal-conservative political party in Latvia.
Development/For! was a liberal political alliance in Latvia. It was formed in 2018 and was composed of Movement For! (Par), For Latvia's Development (LA) and Izaugsme.
Aldis Gobzems is a Latvian politician and lawyer. He first rose to prominence as a lawyer who represented victims of the 2013 Zolitūde shopping centre roof collapse, and was the prime ministerial candidate for the Who Owns the State? party in the 2018 Latvian parliamentary elections.
Centre Party is a political party in Latvia. It was founded on 11 November 2005 under the name "All-Latvian Party 21st Century", renamed the Latvian movement "SOLIDARITY" in 2009, in 2016 became the Latvian Centrist Party, but since November 7, 2018 has been operating under the current name. The party advertises itself as a "patriotic, Christian-conservative party representing the majority of Latvian society."
In the run-up to the 2022 Latvian parliamentary election, various organisations carried out opinion polling to gauge voting intentions in Latvia. Results of such polls are displayed in this list.
The Fourteenth Saeima of Latvia was elected in the 2022 Latvian parliamentary election held on 1 October 2022.
Parliamentary elections are scheduled to be held in Latvia no later than 3 October 2026, following the end of the term of the fourteenth Saeima elected in 2022.
Juris Jakovins is a Latvian doctor and politician. He is currently a member of the 14th Saeima, representing the Latvian Farmers' Union and the Union of Greens and Farmers. Previously, he was a member of the Valmiera City Council (2013–2021) and Valmiera Municipality (2021–2022).
Glorija Grevcova is a Latvian politician. She was elected to the 14th Saeima in 2022 as a member of For Stability! from which she later switched to the Alliance of Young Latvians.
Daiga Mieriņa is a Latvian politician who has been serving as the Speaker of the Saeima since 20 September 2023.
Andris Sprūds is a Latvian foreign policy researcher, lecturer, and politician. He is a professor at Rīga Stradiņš University, a member of the 14th Saeima, and the Minister of Defence of Latvia. He represents the Progressives party.
Andris Morozovs is a Latvian entrepreneur and politician, representing the Harmony party. He served as a member of the 12th Saeima and is currently a member of the Riga City Council.
Force of People's Power is a minor conservative populist Latvian political party founded in 2007 under the name Force in Unity which operated under the name Alternative from 2012 to 2022.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)| Parliamentary | |
|---|---|
| European | |
| Municipal | |
| Referendums | |
