Despite winning a parliamentary majority, the Patriotic Union chose to form a coalition with the conservative Progressive Citizens' Party, which won 11 seats.

Prime Minister Klaus Tschuetscher's term in office was marked by an effort to move the country away from being a tax haven.

Prior to the election Tschuetscher, who is a member of the Patriotic Union (VU) party, declared he would not be seeking the premiership for a second term.

On 28 January 2013, the newspaper Liechtensteiner Vaterland published a poll in which they asked their readers, "Which party conducted the best election campaign?"

About 10,000 people responded, and the results of the poll were as follows:[3] This was the first election in Liechtenstein in which four different political groups have won seats in the Landtag.