Electoral results of AWLP and other Lithuanian parties

After counting up the votes from 2010 districts (there are 2017 in total) 7 parties get to the Seym. The results of the Liberal Movement, the conservatists and AWLP are slowly going higher, and the difference between social-democrats and the Labour Party is becoming smaller. The score of Mr Paksas’ party is falling.

The first position is still belonging to the Labour Party (19,87%), the second one— to social-democrats (18,44%) and the third one to conservatists (15,02%)

For now, the fourth place is belonging to the Liberal Movement (8,55%), “The Way of Courage” is on the fifth position (7,94%) and the results of Rolandas Paksas’ “Order and Justice” are falling down. Currently they have 7,33% of votes.

AWLP’s result is 5,81% better. With the present arrangement, the Labour Party will have 17 MPs in the Seym, social-democrats—16, conservatists—12, liberals and “The Way of Courage”—7 MPs each, “The order and Justice”—6 and AWLP—5.

Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania’s (AWPL) electoral statistics

AWLP won unbeatably in Vilnius-Šalčininkai district, where it had about 67% of support. The second one is Vilnius-Trakai district—40%. In the third district, Širvintos-Vilnius, AWLP received 30% of votes. The results were between 25% and 10% in districts: Varėna-Eišiškės, Trakai-Elektrėnų, Pomeranian (Marių), Baltic (Baltijos) and Naujoji Vilnia.

The results in all Vilnius districts are similar. In the following districts: Old Town (Senamiestis), Antakalnis, Žirmūnai, Fabijoniškės— around 10% of the electorate voted for AWLP, in Naujamiestis district—over 7%, Karoliniškės and Justiniškės gave over 13% of votes each, and Lazdynai over 14%.

Ranking of candidates from AWLP’s list in multimandatory constituencies

The most spectacular jump in the ranking belongs to the manager of the Department of Culture, Sport and Tourism of the Administration of The Vilnius Region Self-Government, Edmunt Szot, who, from the last position, 141, went up to 34^th.

Five candidates who ran for a seat from AWLP’s list will become MPs: Waldemar Tomaszewski, who was the first one on the list, Wanda Krawczonek who moved from 5^th to 2^nd position, Józef Kwiatkowski (from 7^th to 3^rd position), Zdzisław Palewicz (from 13^th to 4^th) and Michał Mackiewicz who fell from the 3^rd to the 5^th position.

6^th and 7^th positions, respectively, belong to Zbigniew Jedziński (with no changes) and Irina Rozova (from 2^nd position to 7th).

Six AWLP’s candidates will fight in runoff

Leonard Talmont won the election in the Vilnius-Šalčininkai single-member constituency in the first round, gaining 64% of votes. In six other constituencies AWLP’s candidates ended up in a runoff, which takes place on 28^th October. Jarosław Narkiewicz, MP, will fight in the Vilnius-Trakai constituency with Mingailė Binkauskaitė from the Labour Party. The deputy manager of the Administration of The Vilnius Region Self-Government, Rita Tamašunienė, in the Širvintos-Vilnius constituency will compete with Živilė Pinskuvienė from the Labour Party; the councillor in the Vilnius region self-government Tadeusz Andrzejewski has a chance to win a seat in—dominated by Poles and Russians— Naujoji Vilnia district, in which he will compete with the Labour Party’s candidate, Sergiej Ursul. The headmaster of the kindergarten and school “Willa” Zofia Matarewicz in Justiniškės will fight with the conservatist, Paulius Saudargas; the mayor of the Šalčininkai district, Zbigniew Palewicz, will fight for a seat in Varėna-Eišiškės constituency with Algis Kašėta from the Liberal Movement; the headmaster of the junior high school in Niemież, Zbigniew Maciejewski in Šeškinės will compete with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the conservatist Audronius Ažubalis.

Source: http://pl.delfi.lt/aktualia/litwa/wyniki-wyborcze-awpl-i-innych-partii-litewskich.d?id=59763951

Tłumaczenie Emilia Zawieracz w ramach praktyk w Europejskiej Fundacji Praw Człowieka, www.efhr.eu. Translated by Emilia Zawieracz the framework of a traineeship programme of the European Foundation of Human Rights, www.efhr.eu.