Lithuanian presidential election, 2002–2003

Lithuanian presidential election, 2002-2003

22 December 2002 and 5 January 2003



Nominee	Rolandas Paksas	Valdas Adamkus
Party	Order and Justice	Nonpartisan
Popular vote	777,769	643,870
Percentage	54.71	45.29

President before election

Valdas Adamkus

Elected President

Rolandas Paksas

Presidential elections were held in Lithuania during December 2002 and January 2003. In the first round on December 22, 2002, Valdas Adamkus held a large lead over Rolandas Paksas of the Liberal democratic party. Paksas defeated Adamkus in the second round held on January 5, 2003.

Results

**Summary of the 22 December 2002 Lithuanian presidential election results**
Candidates		Nominating party	1st round		2nd round
Candidates		Nominating party	Votes	%	Votes	%
	Valdas Adamkus	Independent	514,154	35.06	643,870	44.83
	Rolandas Paksas	Liberal Democratic Party	284,559	19.40	777,769	54.15
	Artūras Paulauskas	New Union (Social Liberals)	120,238	8.20		-
	Vytautas Šerėnas	Independent	112,215	7.65		-
	Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis	Social Democratic Party	105,584	7.20		-
	Kazimira Danutė Prunskienė	Peasant Popular Union	72,925	4.97		-
	Juozas Edvardas Petraitis	Independent	54,139	3.69		-
	Eugenijus Gentvilas	Liberal Union of Lithuania	44,562	3.04		-
	Julius Veselka	Lithuanian People's Union	32,293	2.20		-
	Algimantas Matulevičius	Independent	32,137	2.19		-
	Kazys Bobelis	Lithuanian Christian Democrats	27,613	1.88		-
	Vytautas Matulevičius	Independent	26,888	1.83		-
	Kęstutis Glaveckas	Centre Union of Lithuania	7,554	0.52		-
	Vytautas Šustauskas	Lithuanian Liberty Union	5,372	0.37		-
	Vytautas Bernatonis	Independent	3,546	0.24		-
	Algirdas Pilvelis	Independent	2,074	0.14		-
	Rimantas Dagys	Social Democracy 2000	1,264	0.09		-
Invalid votes			19,419	1.32	14,683	1.02
Total			1,447,117	100%	1,421,639	100%
Registered voters/turnout			2,719,608	53.92%	2,727,805	52.65%
Source: Central Election Commission, Central Election Commission

Elections and referendums in Lithuania

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European elections	2004 2009 2014

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See also: Elections in the Klaipėda Region • Elections in Central Lithuania

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