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Latvia 2010 parliamentary election

Final results from ParlGov, read : Unity won 33 of 100 seats with 31.9% of the vote; 64.7% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 3.7 points on 2006.

Result

Seats and votes by party

PartySeats± seats%± pointsVotes
Unitywith New Era Party, Civic Union and Society for Political Change3331.9301,429
Harmony29+1226.6+12.2251,400
Union of Greens and Farmerswith Latvian Green Party, Latvian Farmers' Union, For Latvia and Ventspils and Liepaja Party22+420.1+3.4190,025
For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK807.8+0.974,029
For a Good Latviawith Latvia's First Party/Latvian Way and People's Party87.873,881
For Human Rights in a United Latvia0−61.5−4.613,847

± is the change against the Latvia 2006 parliamentary election, party by party.

Votes by party
  • Unity 301,429
  • Harmony 251,400
  • Union of Greens and Farmers 190,025
  • For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK 74,029
  • For a Good Latvia 73,881
  • For Human Rights in a United Latvia 13,847

ParlGov lists parties with at least 1 percent of the vote or 2 seats, so the rows do not add up to the valid votes. How we read it.

ParlGov counts an alliance's votes and seats under its first party: such a row names the allies it counts.

Share of the vote

Turnout

64.7% of the 1,491,735 registered voters cast a ballot (965,538 ballots), up 3.7 points on 2006. 944,841 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

  • Unity31.9% of votes33.0% of seats
  • Harmony26.6% of votes29.0% of seats
  • Union of Greens and Farmers20.1% of votes22.0% of seats
  • For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK7.8% of votes8.0% of seats
  • For a Good Latvia7.8% of votes8.0% of seats
Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 2.5 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 4.4 by votes and 3.9 by seats; Unity led Harmony by 5.3 points of the vote. How these are computed.

Sources and licence

Sources and licence

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