Presidential elections were held in Lithuania on 11 May 2014, with a second round held on 25 May between the top two candidates from the first round. In the second round, incumbent

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was re-elected with 58% of the vote.

Electoral changes

Since these elections all potential voters, living permanently or temporarily outside of

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, had to submit documents to Central Election Commission's register.

Participating candidates

Initially 12 candidates were officially confirmed to participate, but only 7 fulfilled the criterion of 20,000 supporting signatures. *

Zigmantas Balčytis Zigmantas Balčytis (born 16 November 1953 in Šilutė district municipality) is a Lithuanian politician who briefly served as acting Prime Minister of Lithuania in 2006. He took office on 1 June 2006 following the resignation of Algirdas Brazaus ...

(

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, incumbent

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(2009–2014) *

Artūras Paulauskas Artūras Paulauskas (born 23 August 1953 in Vilnius) is a Lithuanian politician. He was the Speaker of Seimas, the parliament of Lithuania, from 2000 to 2006, and he served as List of Presidents of Lithuania, Acting President of Lithuania from 6 ...

( Labour Party), member of

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* Naglis Puteikis, member of

* Bronis Ropė (

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), Mayor of

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* Valdemar Tomaševski,

* Artūras Zuokas ( YES), Mayor of

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Grybauskaitė was supported by the

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and Liberal Movement. Unsuccessful candidates include:

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, Linas Balsys,

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Opinion polls

Results

References

External links

2014 Lithuanian presidential elections
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