Presidential election in Lithuania 2009

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Dalia Grybauskaitė in the 2009 Lithuanian presidential election

The 2009 presidential election in Lithuania took place on May 17, 2009. In the first ballot, the former EU Commissioner Dalia Grybauskaitė was elected as the new head of state of Lithuania .

Candidates

The election commission registered a total of 14 candidates, seven of which were eliminated in advance, partly because the required 20,000 supporter signatures were not achieved. The entrepreneur Vladimiras Romanovas was turned down as a candidate because he was not born in Lithuania.

Retired candidates

• Arūnas Valinskas ( President of Parliament ; Tautos prisikėlimo partija ; candidacy withdrawn)
• Algirdas Pilvelis (required supporter signatures not reached)
• Algimantas Matulevičius (required supporter signatures not obtained)
• Zigmas Vaišvila (required supporter signatures not reached)
• Vidmantas Sadauskas (required supporter signatures not reached)
• Vytautas Kundrotas (required supporter signatures not reached)
• Jonas Jankauskas (required supporter signatures not reached)
• Vladimiras Romanovas ( Russian Vladimir Romanov ; rejected by the electoral commission).

Candidates who came up

• Dalia Grybauskaitė ( EU Commissioner for Finance and Budget )
• Valentinas Mazuronis
• Kazimiera Prunskienė (former Prime Minister)
• Česlovas Jezerskas
• Valdemar Tomaševski ( Polish Waldemar Tomaszewski )
• Loreta Graužinienė
• Algirdas Butkevičius

Survey results

According to the survey results, Dalia Grybauskaitė was the undisputed favorite of the election beforehand. It was therefore supported by around three quarters of the Lithuanian citizens.

Election result

Result of the 2009 presidential election

candidate		Political party	be right	%
	Dalia Grybauskaitė	independent	950.407	69.09
	Algirdas Butkevičius	LSDP	162,665	11.82
	Valentinas Mazuronis	TT	84,656	6.15
	Valdemar Tomaševski	LLRA	65,255	4.74
	Kazimira Prunskienė	LVLS	53,778	3.91
	Loreta Graužinienė	DP	49,686	3.61
	Česlovas Jezerskas	independent	9,191	0.67
total			1,375,638	100.00
Valid votes			1,375,638	98.73
Invalid votes			17,640	1.27
voter turnout			1,393,278	51.76
Eligible voters			2,691,603	100.00
Source: Central Electoral Commission

Web links

• Official website of the Central Electoral Commission (Lithuanian, English)
• Official website of the President of the Republic of Lithuania (Lithuanian, English, French, Russian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from September 6, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ D. Grybauskaitė sieks prezidento posto ( Memento of the original from September 6, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Po D.Grybauskaitės apsisprendimo politologai nemato jai konkurencijos ( Memento of the original from March 1, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Official result of the 2009 presidential election ( Memento of the original from May 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Central Electoral Commission (Lithuanian, English)