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A presidential election was held in Lithuania on 17 May 2009. A run-off election would have been held on 7 June 2009 had one been necessary. [1] European Commissioner Dalia Grybauskaitė was elected with 69 percent of the valid vote and took office on 12 July as the country's first female president.
Lithuania, officially the Republic of Lithuania, is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. Lithuania is considered to be one of the Baltic states. It is situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, to the east of Sweden and Denmark. It is bordered by Latvia to the north, Belarus to the east and south, Poland to the south, and Kaliningrad Oblast to the southwest. Lithuania has an estimated population of 2.8 million people as of 2019, and its capital and largest city is Vilnius. Other major cities are Kaunas and Klaipėda. Lithuanians are Baltic people. The official language, Lithuanian, along with Latvian, is one of only two living languages in the Baltic branch of the Indo-European language family.
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Candidates confirmed for election with more than 20 thousands signatures.
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According to the opinion polls Dalia Grybauskaitė was the undisputed leader in the race for the Presidency. [4] [5]
Candidate | Party | Votes | % | |
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Dalia Grybauskaitė | Independent | 950,407 | 68.21 | |
Algirdas Butkevičius | Social Democratic Party of Lithuania | 162,665 | 11.68 | |
Valentinas Mazuronis | Order and Justice | 84,656 | 6.08 | |
Valdemar Tomaševski | Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania | 65,255 | 4.68 | |
Kazimira Prunskienė | Lithuanian Peasant Popular Union | 53,778 | 3.86 | |
Loreta Graužinienė | Labour Party | 49,686 | 3.57 | |
Česlovas Jezerskas | Independent | 9,191 | 0.66 | |
Invalid votes | 17,640 | 1.27 | ||
Total | 1,393,278 | 100 | ||
Registered voters/turnout | 2,691,603 | 51.76 | ||
Source: Central Election Commission |
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