2024 Lithuanian presidential election
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Presidential elections were held in Lithuania on 12 May 2024, alongside a referendum on allowing multiple citizenships.[1] Incumbent President Gitanas Nausėda won re-election to a second term. When candidate registrations closed before the election, the Lithuanian Central Election Commission [lt] had confirmed fifteen viable registrations; of those, twelve proceeded to collect signatures from the minimum 20,000 voters. Four of those contenders were later repudiated or dropped out,[2] leaving eight on the ballot.[3]
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Turnout | 59.95% (first round) 2.58pp 49.74% (second round) 4.14pp | |||||||||||||||
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A second round was held on 26 May as no candidate received an absolute majority in the first round.[4] This saw Nausėda and Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė facing off in the runoff, a rematch of the 2019 election in which Nausėda had defeated Šimonytė. Nausėda won re-election, defeating Šimonytė in a second-round landslide with 75% of the vote – the largest margin of victory for any presidential candidate in the history of Lithuania.