[3] These endorsements often meant more than the official party affiliations, and Sąjūdis-backed candidates won 91 seats, an outright majority.

By the summer of that same year Reform Movement was founded and gained support Lithuanian SSR-wide.

Despite the Easter Sunday celebrations and boycott by dissident organizations such as the Lithuanian Liberty League, the turnout reached 82.5%.

[5] The communists won only 6 seats; two of them were uncontested, as Sąjūdis withdrew its candidates in favor of Algirdas Brazauskas and Vladimiras Beriozovas.

On 29 September 1989 the Supreme Soviet of the Lithuanian SSR Deputies' Election Act was passed.

[11] At the same day, Article 7, which established participation of the Lithuanian Komsomol in political life (including elections), was amended as well.

[12] These decisions meant that Lithuania eliminated legal obstacles for a multi-party system and allowed other parties to compete in the upcoming parliamentary elections.

During its 20th congress on 19–20 December the CPL separated itself from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) by a vote of 855 to 160.

[13] For such insubordination, Brazauskas was scolded in a special session of the Central Committee of CPSU and Mikhail Gorbachev made a personal visit to Lithuania to heal the rift in January 1990.

[15] This pro-Moscow group was led by Mykolas Burokevičius and included disproportionately large numbers of representatives from Russian and Polish minorities.

[21] Due to low voter turnout (primarily in areas where Polish and Russian minorities concentrated), elections in six constituencies were invalid.

[27] Specifically, Lithuanians feared that Gorbachev would pass a law on secession that would make it virtually impossible to break away from the Soviet Union.