Nomination of candidates for local and mayoral elections

1. A mayoral candidate in a single-member constituency may be self-nominated or nominated by a political party or a political committee, provided the latter is registered under the procedure set out by law not later than 180 days before polling day, meets the statutory requirements regarding the membership size, and is devoid of the legal status of a political party or political committee under liquidation or a political party for which liquidation is initiated.

2. A political party or a political committee that meets the requirements set out in Article 72(1) may nominate candidates to the municipal council in a multi-member constituency by submitting to the electoral committee referred to in Article 78(3) a list of candidates listed in order of precedence established by that party or political committee. The list of candidates must be approved under the procedure set out by the statutes of the political party or the political committee. The total number of candidates on list of candidates may not make up less than half and may not exceed twice the number of councillors to be elected in a particular municipality.

3. At least 20 percent of the electorate in that municipality shall be the required threshold for a candidate and a list of candidates together, or solely for a list of candidates where only a list of candidates is nominated. Where only a candidate is nominated/self-nominated, the required support shall constitute at least 20 percent of the electorate of that municipality per one mandate. In any case, the nomination must gain the support of at least 100 voters of that municipality. The required support level shall be established on the basis of the results of the previous elections. It shall be rounded up to the first two significant digits and announced by the Central Electoral Commission at least 110 days before polling day.

4. The requirement for support by signatures shall not apply to the following entities:

1) a mayoral candidate nominated by a political party, for an early and repeated mayoral election held in that municipality under the procedure set out in this Code, given the mayoral candidate had been nominated by that same party in the previous ordinary mayoral election; also in re-election of citizens of the Republic of Lithuania registered as candidates in that single-member constituency in either the previous election or in the election declared invalid;

2) a mayoral candidate nominated by a political party and a list of candidates in a local election, provided the party had nominated a mayoral candidate and a list of candidates in the previous mayoral election and local election in that municipality;

3) all political candidates and political organisations, where a state of emergency is established in all or part of the territory of the Republic of Lithuania, an emergency is declared under the statutory procedure, a lockdown is declared in the cases and under the statutory procedure, the freedom of movement of persons is temporarily restricted, or other restrictions are imposed under the statutory procedure, and this prevents the collection of voter signatures; only the constituencies that are, in whole or in part, subject to restrictions preventing collection of voter signatures shall be free from the requirement of support by signatures.