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2026 Latvian parliamentary election: United List largest, no majority

Voters went to the polls on 3 October 2026. Andris Kulbergs became Prime Minister. Andris Kulbergs' United List took the most seats, 41 of 100, short of the 51 needed for a majority. Ainārs Šlesers' Latvia First came second with 17.

Seats:
100 seats in the Saeima
Turnout:
51.79%

51 for a majority

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The result

Seats, change and vote share as the results table of 2026 Latvian parliamentary election gives them; the change is against the seats it lists for the previous election.

Readers: each leader's busiest day around the vote, against their own usual readership. A leader the record names whose busiest day falls in the vote's days was read for the vote.

The small line: each leader's readers over these days. The figure: their busiest day against usual.

  1. United ListAndris Kulbergs26 more than last time35.76%30× usual41 seats
    Andris Kulbergs: readers a day, peak 17.8K on 4 Oct · 30× usual

    See Andris Kulbergs

  2. Latvia FirstAinārs Šlesers8 more than last time13.25%17 seats
    Ainārs Šlesers: readers a day, peak 4.2K on 4 Oct

    See Ainārs Šlesers

  3. SV-AJJūlija Stepaņenko15 more than last time11.87%15 seats
  4. National AllianceIlze Indriksone3 fewer than last time9.02%10 seats
    Ilze Indriksone: readers a day, peak 1.9K on 4 Oct

    See Ilze Indriksone

Results: 2026 Latvian parliamentary election, Wikipedia

How it unfolded

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Readers a day, Andris Kulbergs17.8K at the peak

Languages, not countries.

70 days have to pass before we can say whether a rise lasted. This one has not had them yet.

The rise showed up in the Wikipedia editions in German, English and Russian.

19 September 2026 - 16 October 2026

  1. Once it settled

    Andris Kulbergs: 691 readers a day, 1.2× usual

  4. Election day

    Voting for all 100 seats in the Saeima.

Also named in the election's article

The article names them too. Each peaked on 4 October, around the vote; we do not say why. They are not in the result above.

Andris Kulbergs, Ainārs Šlesers, Jūlija Stepaņenko and Ilze Indriksone are in the result above.

  1. Evika Siliņa12× usual

Also there

The record names them too. We measured no unusual readership for any of them.

Ainārs ŠlesersIlze Indriksone