2009 Liechtenstein general election

General elections were held in Liechtenstein on 8 February 2009.[1] While polls and pundits predicted few changes, the Christian democratic Patriotic Union (VU) gained an outright majority in the Landtag, whilst the national conservative Progressive Citizens' Party (FBP) and the green social democratic Free List (FL) both suffered losses.[2]

2009 Liechtenstein general election
8 February 2009 (2009-02-08)
All 25 seats in the Landtag
Party Leader % Seats ±
Patriotic Union Adolf Heeb 47.61 13 +3
FBP Ernst Walch 43.47 11 -1
Free List Wolfgang Marxer 8.92 1 -2
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Popular vote and seat totals by constituency. As this is a PR election, seat totals are determined by popular vote in each constituency.
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Results
PartyVotes%Seats+/–
Patriotic Union95,21947.6113+3
Progressive Citizens' Party86,95143.4711–1
Free List17,8358.921–2
Total200,005100.00250
Valid votes15,12696.64
Invalid/blank votes5263.36
Total votes15,652100.00
Registered voters/turnout18,49384.64
Source: Landtagswahlen

By electoral district
Electoral district Seats Electorate Party Candidates Votes % Swing Seats

won

 +/–
Oberland 15 12,105 Patriotic Union
  • Arthur Brunhart
  • Jürgen Beck
  • Gebhard Negele
  • Harry Quaderer
  • Thomas Vogt
  • Diana Hilti
  • Gisela Biedermann
  • Peter Hilti
  • Marion Kindle
  • Leander Schädler
  • Gilbert Frommelt
  • René B. Ott
  • Henrik Caduff
  • Mirjam Amann
  • Ilse Gassner-Bühler
 71,469 48.9 9.9 8 2
Progressive Citizens' Party
  • Peter Lampert
  • Wendelin Lampert
  • Elmar Kindle
  • Christian Batliner
  • Doris Frommelt
  • Albert Frick
  • Helmuth Büchel
  • Stefan Wenaweser
  • Kurt Eberle
  • Hilmar Schädler
  • Daniel F. Seger
  • Margot Sele-Heeb
  • Christian Hausmann
  • Patrick Schürmann
  • Walter Marxer
 61,033 41.7 5.0 6 1
Free List
  • Frick Pepo
  • Helen Konzett Bargetze
  • Claudia Heeb-Fleck
  • Andreas Heeb
  • Albert Eberle
  • Ibrahim Türkyilmaz
  • Astrid Walser
 13,733 9.4 4.9 1 1
Unterland 10 6,388 Patriotic Union
  • Günther Kranz
  • Peter Büchel
  • Doris Beck
  • Marlies Amann-Marxer
  • Werner Kranz
  • Dominik Oehri
  • Gerald Meier
  • Wolfgang Matt
  • Markus Öhri
  • Anita Senti
 23,750 44.2 8.0 5 1
Progressive Citizens' Party
  • Johannes Kaiser
  • Renate Wohlwend
  • Gerold Büchel
  • Manfred Batliner
  • Rainer Gopp
  • Hubert Lampert
  • Johanna Noser
  • Agatha Pino Maqueda
  • Cornelia Gassner
  • Norbert Hasler
 25,915 54.3 6.1 5 0
Free List
  • Andrea Matt
  • Robert Büchel-Thalmaier
  • Claudia Robinigg
  • Patrick Risch
  • Edith Willburger
 4,102 7.6 1.9 0 1
Source: Landtagswahlen

References
  1. "Landtagswahlen 2009" (in German). 2009-02-08. Retrieved 2009-02-08.
  2. "Zeichen stehen auf Große Koalition" (in German). Der Standard. 2009-02-08. Retrieved 2009-02-08.
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