Latvia 2026 Saeima Election
Held on the first Saturday of October under the Saeima Election Law, electing all 100 members.
Latvia votes for the 15th Saeima having legislated a change in how the ballots are counted: the parliament approved a move to manual counting for this election. That makes the count itself the thing to watch — not because manual counting is worse, but because any change to the counting method in the cycle before a vote is a change to the safeguards a result rests on.
What to watch
Each point is classified under the same five categories as a documented finding, so an upcoming election reads with the same frame as a past one.
- Verstöße gegen das Verfahren
How the move to manual vote counting performs in practice: whether results are delivered on the expected timetable, and whether discrepancies between polling-station protocols and aggregated totals are published rather than merely resolved.
- Informationsoperationen
Whether Russian-language information operations target the sizeable Russian-speaking electorate, and whether claims about the count's integrity are amplified from outside the country.
See the source - Ausländische Einflussnahme
Whether the Doppelganger network, documented cloning European outlets and sanctioned by the EU, extends to Latvian-language or Latvian-branded properties in this cycle.
See the source
Operations documented against this country
Actors documented in this region
Background reading
Sources cited above
Where the date comes from
- Elections of the Saeima — Saeima of the Republic of Latvia
- Polling stations for the 2026 Saeima election — Central Election Commission of Latvia
Scheduled dates come from national election authorities and are linked above. Dates can move; where one is not yet fixed by decree it is marked as expected rather than confirmed. Listing an election here is not a prediction that anything improper will occur — it is a statement about what would be worth checking if it did.