# 2009 Liechtenstein general election

General elections were held in Liechtenstein on 8 February 2009 to elect the 25 members of the Landtag. The Patriotic Union (VU) won a majority of thirteen seats, with the Progressive Citizens' Party (FBP) winning eleven. The Free List (FL) won one seat. Voter turnout was 86.6%.
Incumbent Prime Minister of Liechtenstein Otmar Hasler sought a third term, and was re-nominated by the FBP on 4 October 2008. Incumbent deputy prime minister Klaus Tschütscher was re-nominated as the party's candidate for prime minister. Following the election, Hasler resigned and the two parties entered into a renewed coalition government under Tschütscher.

## Electoral system

The 25 members of the Landtag were elected by open list proportional representation from two constituencies, Oberland with 15 seats and Unterland with 10 seats. Only parties and lists with more than 8% of the votes cast in each constituency were eligible to win seats in the Landtag.

## Candidates

| Oberland | FBP | VU | FL |
| Oberland | Peter Lampert Wendelin Lampert Elmar Kindle Christian Batliner Doris Frommelt Albert Frick Helmuth Büchel Stefan Wenaweser Kurt Eberle Hilmar Schädler Daniel Seger Margot Sele-Heeb Christian Hausmann Patrick Schürmann Walter Marxer | 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 | Pepo Frick Helen Konzett Bargetze Claudia Heeb-Fleck Andreas Heeb Albert Eberle Ibrahim Türkyilmaz Astrid Walser |
| Unterland | FBP | VU | FL |
| Unterland | Johannes Kaiser Renate Wohlwend Gerold Büchel Manfred Batliner Rainer Gopp Hubert Lampert Johanna Noser Agatha Pino Maqueda Cornelia Gassner Norbert Hasler | Günther Kranz Peter Büchel Doris Beck Marlies Amann-Marxer Werner Kranz Dominik Oehri Gerald Meier Wolfgang Matt Markus Öhri Anita Senti | Andrea Matt Robert Büchel-Thalmaier Claudia Robinigg Patrick Risch Edith Willburger |
| Source: Landtagswahlen 2009 ||||

## Results

| | Patriotic Union | 95,219 | 47.61 | 13 | +3 |
| | Progressive Citizens' Party | 86,951 | 43.47 | 11 | –1 |
| | Free List | 17,835 | 8.92 | 1 | –2 |
| Total | Total | 200,005 | 100.00 | 25 | 0 |
| Valid votes | Valid votes | 15,126 | 96.64 | | |
| Invalid/blank votes | Invalid/blank votes | 526 | 3.36 | | |
| Total votes | Total votes | 15,652 | 100.00 | | |
| Registered voters/turnout | Registered voters/turnout | 18,493 | 84.64 | | |
| Source: Landtagswahlen ||||||

### By electoral district

| Electoral district | Seats | Electorate | Party | Elected members | Substitutes | 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 | 71,469 | 48.9 | 9.9 | 8 | 2 |
| Oberland | 15 | 12,105 | Progressive Citizens' Party | Peter Lampert Wendelin Lampert Elmar Kindle Christian Batliner Doris Frommelt Albert Frick | Helmuth Büchel Stefan Wenaweser | 61,033 | 41.7 | 5.0 | 6 | 1 |
| Oberland | 15 | 12,105 | Free List | Pepo Frick | Helen Konzett Bargetze | 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 | 23,750 | 44.2 | 8.0 | 5 | 1 |
| Unterland | 10 | 6,388 | Progressive Citizens' Party | Johannes Kaiser Renate Wohlwend Gerold Büchel Manfred Batliner Rainer Gopp | Hubert Lampert | 25,915 | 54.3 | 6.1 | 5 | 0 |
| Unterland | 10 | 6,388 | Free List | | | 4,102 | 7.6 | 1.9 | 0 | 1 |
| Source: Landtagswahlen 2009 ||||||||||||