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Parties and
Elections
in Europe |
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| Legislative elections: Saeima, 4-year term, 5%
threshold, party-list proportional representation system |
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· President:
Valdis Zatlers · Prime Minister: Valdis Dombrovskis (JL) ·
Government: TP, ZZS, JL, PS |
| Party |
Ideology, Affiliation,
Founding |
2010 |
Seats |
2006 |
Seats |
 |
Tautas Partija
(TP) 
People's Party |
Liberal conservatism
|
EPP
1998 |
|
|
19,6% |
23 |
 |
Zaļo un Zemnieku
Savienība (ZZS)
Union of Greens and Peasants |
Centrism;
Agrarianism, Green politics
|
-
2002 |
|
|
16,7% |
18 |
 |
Centriska Partija - Latvijas
Zemnieku Savienība (LZS)
Centre Party - Latvian Peasants' Union |
Agrarianism; Centrism
|
-
1990 (orig. 1917) |
|
|
-
|
14 |
 |
Latvijas Zaļā Partija
(LZP)
Latvian
Green Party |
Green politics; Centrism
|
EGP, GG
1990 |
|
|
-
|
4 |
 |
Jaunais Laiks
(JL)
New Era |
Conservatism
|
EPP
2001 |
|
|
16,4% |
18 |
 |
Saskaņas
Centrs (SC)
Harmony Centre |
Russian minority
politics; Social democracy, Communism |
-
2005 |
|
|
14,4% |
17 |
 |
Tautas
Saskanas Partija (TSP)
People's Harmony Party (incl. JC/DPP in 2006) |
Russian minority politics;
Social democracy
|
-
2009 |
|
|
- |
13 |
 |
Latvijas Sociālistiskā Partija (LSP)
Latvian Socialist Party |
Communism;
Marxism-Leninism, Russian minority politics |
-
1994 |
|
|
- |
4 |
 |
Latvijas Pirmā Partija
- Latvijas Ceļš
(LPP/LC)
Latvia's First
Party - Latvia's Way |
Conservative liberalism; Social conservatism |
ELDR
2007 |
|
|
8,6%
|
10 |
 |
Tēvzemei
un Brīvībai/LNNK (TB/LNNK)
Fatherland and Freedom |
National conservatism
|
AECR
1997 |
|
|
6,9% |
8 |
 |
Par Cilvēka Tiesībām Vienotā Latvijā
(PCTVL)
For Human Rights in United Latvia
|
Russian minority politics;
Democratic
socialism |
-
2007 |
|
|
6,0% |
6 |
 |
Latvijas Sociāldemokrātiska
Stradnieku Partija (LSDSP)
Latvian Social Democratic Workers' Party
|
Social democracy
|
PES, SI
1999 (orig.
1904) |
|
|
3,5% |
- |
 |
Pilsoniskā Savienība (PS)
Civic Union |
Conservatism
|
-
2008 |
|
|
- |
- |
| Others |
- |
- |
|
|
8,9% |
- |
| Total |
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100 |
| Turnout |
- |
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62,3% |
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