Ballots are being cast in Lithuania

(ANSA) - VILNIUS, OCT 26 - Voting Sunday in Lithuania for the general election runoff in which voters are to choose 71 deputies from uninominal constituencies. Polling stations will remain open from 7 a. m. to 8 p.m. Lithuanian time. 9.4 percent of eligible voters have already expressed their preference during the week by taking advantage of early voting. In the first round, held two weeks ago and in which the 70 seats chosen under the proportional system were allocated, the Social Democratic Party won a relative majority (18), followed by Premier Igrida Simonyte's Patriotic League (17) and the populist "Dawn on Niemen" movement (14). Eight seats then went to the "In the Name of Lithuania" movement, 7 to the Liberal League, and 6 to the Green and Peasant Party. (ANSA).