Altogether six political groups managed to win seats in Latvia’s 100-member parliament in elections that concluded on 3 October 2026, LSM reports. Prime Minister Andris Kulbergs’s centre-right United List won an overwhelming victory, more than tripling its number of MPs from 13 to 41. The far-right populist opposition party, Latvia First (LPV), doubled its seat count from 8 to 17. The pro-Russian party alliance of Sovereign Power and Alliance of New Latvians entered parliament with 15 seats, followed by United List’s coalition partner, right-wing National Alliance, which lost two seats down to 10. The social-democratic opposition party, The Progressives, will have 10 MPs, gaining one additional seat, while United List’s coalition partner, centre-right New Unity, saw its number of seats plummet from 25 to just 7.
In Latvian elections, voters can choose an electoral list and mark whether they are for or against specific candidates to move them up or down their respective list, LSM explains. Based on these results, United List’s Kulbergs was by far the most popular individual candidate, receiving a total of 58,489 votes in favour. Sovereign Power’s party leader, Julija Stepanenko, came in second with 29,679 votes in favour, and LPV founder and leader Ainars Slesers was third with 25,092 votes in favour. Meanwhile, 19 out of the 20 least favoured candidates were all from the United List. Furthermore, three politicians facing criminal charges were elected to the parliament, LETA reported. They are LPV leader Ainars Slesers, Sovereign Power’s Rudolfs Bremanis, and Aleksandrs Bartasevics, who ran on LPV’s list.