The ruling conservative People's Party (Tautas partija) has emerged as the winner in Latvia's general elections with 19.49 percent voter support. Such results were released by the Central Election Commission. By Sunday, October 8 all votes in all 1,006 polling stations were counted. Coalition partners the Greens and Farmer's Union remained second with 16.69 percent of votes, and the opposition center-right New Era party ranked third with 16.38 percent, according to the preliminary results. In all, seven political parties have won mandates in Latvia's 100-seat parliament, including the left-wing "Harmony Center" (14.42%), Latvia's First Party and Latvia's Way Union (8.59%), the nationalist "Union for Motherland and Freedom/Latvian National Independence Movement” (6.95%), as well as the leftist "For Human Rights In a United Latvia" (6.02%). The Latvian Social Democratic Workers Party (3.50%), left-wing bloc "Motherland Union" (2.09%), nationalist party "Everything For Latvia" (1.49%) and New Democrats (1.26%) failed to overcome the 5 percent vote threshold set for winning seats in the parliament. The rest of the 19 political parties taking part in Latvia's parliamentary elections received less than 1 percent of votes. Latvia held its parliamentary elections on Saturday, October 7. A total of 19 political parties fielding 1,024 candidates competed for 100 seats in the parliament to be elected for a four-year term in proportional elections. A total of 901,796 voters or 62.28 per cent of Latvia's eligible voters cast ballots in the general election. Source: Baltic News Service For more information on the Latvian election process and results, please visit the Central Election Commission of Latvia website.