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Legislative elections: Saeima, 4-year term, 5% threshold, party-list proportional representation system
           · 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 - -     - 100
Turnout - -   62,3%

 © 2009 Wolfram Nordsieck. Source: CVK (http://www.cvk.lv). Archive: Elections 1993-2002.