2015 Estonian parliamentary election

2015 Estonian parliamentary election

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101 seats in the Riigikogu 51 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	64.23% (0.70pp)
First party Second party Third party   Leader Taavi Rõivas Edgar Savisaar Sven Mikser Party Reform Centre SDE Last election 28.56%, 33 seats 23.32%, 26 seats 17.09%, 19 seats Seats won 30 27 15 Seat change 3 1 4 Popular vote 158,970 142,458 87,189 Percentage 27.69% 24.81% 15.19% Swing 0.87pp 1.49pp 1.90pp   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Urmas Reinsalu Andres Herkel Mart Helme Party IRL Free EKRE Last election 20.52%, 23 seats – 2.12%, 0 seats Seats won 14 8 7 Seat change 9 New 7 Popular vote 78,699 49,882 46,772 Percentage 13.71% 8.69% 8.15% Swing 6.81pp New 6.03pp
Results by electoral district
Prime Minister before election Taavi Rõivas Reform Prime Minister after election Taavi Rõivas Reform

Parliamentary elections were held in Estonia on 1 March 2015. Advance voting was held between 19 and 25 February with a turnout of 33 percent.^[1] The Reform Party remained the largest in the Riigikogu, winning 30 of the 101 seats. Its leader, Taavi Rõivas, remained Prime Minister. The newly elected 101 members of the 13th Riigikogu assembled at Toompea Castle in Tallinn within ten days of the election. Two political newcomers, the Free Party and the Conservative People's Party (EKRE) crossed the threshold to enter the Riigikogu.

In January 2015, the National Electoral Committee announced that ten political parties and eleven individual candidates had registered to take part in the 2015 parliamentary election. Individuals from contesting political parties also participated in multiple organised debates in January and February 2015.

Following this election, Reform successfully negotiated with the Triple Alliance parties SDE and IRL afterwards, forming a second government headed by Rõivas in April. This coalition fell after a vote of confidence in the following year, bringing about the first government to not feature Reform since 1999 due to the collapse of the cordon sanitaire around the Centre Party after it elected a new leader, ending the long-lasting leadership of Edgar Savisaar, who had been perceived as too Russophilic.^[2][3]