Lithuanians started voting on Sunday in a first-round ballot to elect one of nine candidates to the presidency.
Polls predict three candidates — ex-finance minister Ingrida Simonyte, economist Gitanas Nauseda and Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis — have a realistic chance of replacing incumbent President Dalia Grybauskaite, who cannot stand for a re-election after completing her two five-year terms.
The center-right Simonyte is popular with educated urban voters, while Skvernelis' populist politics appeal to rural voters. Nauseda, on the other hand, seeks to appeal across the rich-poor divide in the former Soviet republic of 2.8 million people.
If no candidate wins an absolute majority in the first round, the two best-placed candidates will go into a run-off on May 26.
Around 2.5 million people are eligible to vote in these elections.