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Results of Lithuanian Parliament Elections To Come Sunday Night

© AP Photo / Mindaugas KulbisA man with a child casts his ballot during the elections in Vilnius, Lithuania (File)
A man with a child casts his ballot during the elections in Vilnius, Lithuania (File) - Sputnik International
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The first results of the second round of the Lithuanian parliamentary elections should be released at 21:30 (local time).

Lithuania's Social Democrat party leader and Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevicius votes at a polling station during parliamentary elections in Vilnius, Lithuania, Sunday, Oct. 23, 2016 - Sputnik International
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VILNIUS (Sputnik) — The first results of the second round of the Lithuanian parliamentary elections that finished at 20:00 local time, should be released at 21:30, Chairman of the Central Electoral Commission Zenonas Vaigauskas said Sunday.

"As we have seen, when the stations were counting votes in the first round, we hope that the votes (election results — Delfi) will come in at 21.30," Vaigauskas said, as quoted by the Lithuanian Delfi news outlet.

After the first round the elections, Homeland Union — Lithuanian Christian Democrats party was leading with with 42 candidates in the second round and the Lithuanian Peasant and Greens Union was in the second place with 40 candidates, whereas the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (SDP) had only 21.  The Lithuanian parliament sits 141 members.

​In the previous parliamentary elections in 2012, the SDP won 38 seats and was able to form coalition with three other parties, propelling Butkevicius to the prime minister position.

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