Lithuanian presidential election, 2009

The presidential election in Lithuania in 2009 took place on 17 May 2009. Already in the first round while the former EU Commissioner Dalia Grybauskaite was elected the new head of state of Lithuania.

Candidates

The Election Commission registered a total of 14 candidates, of which seven were eliminated in advance, partly because the necessary 20,000 signatures of supporters were not met. The entrepreneur Vladimiras Roma Novas was rejected as a candidate because he was not born in Lithuania.

Retired candidate

  • Arūnas Valinskas ( Parliament President; Tautos prisikėlimo partija; candidacy withdrawn)
  • Algirdas Pilvelis ( required Supporter signatures not reached)
  • Algimatas Matulevičius ( required Supporter signatures not reached)
  • 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 Roma Nova (Russian Vladimir Romanov; rejected by the Electoral Commission ).

Attempted candidates

  • Dalia Grybauskaite ( EU Commissioner for Financial Programming and Budget )
  • Valentina Mazuronis
  • Casimire PRUNSKIENE ( former Prime Minister )
  • Česlovas Jezerskas
  • Valdemar Tomaševski (Polish Waldemar Tomaszewski )
  • Loreta Graužinienė
  • Algirdas Butkevičius

Survey results

According to the survey results was Dalia Grybauskaite undisputed favorite in advance of the election. It was supported accordingly by about three -quarters of Lithuanian citizens.

Election result

Turnout was with 1,386,965 votes cast at 51.67 %.

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