35.8% of the vote became 41 of 100 seats. 124,401 votes elected nobody.
The United List won Latvia's parliament by a landslide. A 5% threshold did the rest: the Union of Greens and Farmers missed it by 4,288 votes and lost all 16 of its seats.
41%of seats for 35.8% of votes (United List)
15.7%of valid votes went to lists with no seat
4,288votes short of the threshold for ZZS
1. Guess first
The United List (AS) took 35.76% of valid votes. How many of the 100 seats did it win?
36
2. The parliament
5.0%
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3. Where the votes went
List
Votes
Vote %
Seats
Seat %
Gap
Gap = seat share minus vote share, in percentage points. Grey rows missed the 5% threshold (39,693 votes needed, 5% of 793,846 valid votes).
What to take from it
Thresholds trade fairness for stability. The six lists above 5% hold 84.3% of valid votes but 100% of seats, so each of them gets about 1.19 seats per percent of the vote it would have got if the lost votes were ignored. The line is sharp: ZZS, with 4.46%, got nothing, while New Unity, with 6.45%, got seven seats. Turnout was 51.79%, down 7.62 points from 2022.