2009 Lithuanian presidential election

2009 Lithuanian presidential election

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Nominee Dalia Grybauskaitė Algirdas Butkevičius Valentinas Mazuronis Party Independent LSDP TT Popular vote 950,407 162,665 84,656 Percentage 69.09% 11.82% 6.15%

President before election Valdas Adamkus Independent Elected President Dalia Grybauskaitė Independent

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Presidential elections were held in Lithuania on 17 May 2009. A run-off would have been held on 7 June 2009,^[1] but was not necessary as Dalia Grybauskaitė was elected with 69 percent of the vote, with voter turnout just over the 50% threshold for the result to be validated.^[2] This is the largest margin of victory in a direct presidential election in Lithuania. Grybauskaitė took office on 12 July as the country's first female president.

This was only the second time since the restoration of independence that a Lithuanian president was elected without the need for a runoff, the first being in 1993, when Algirdas Brazauskas was elected with 61 percent in the first round.