The paper demonstrates the problems of political representation in a new democracy with a poorly structured and multidimensional party system. It presents the results of the analysis of issue congruence between voters and party positions in Lithuania. The research draws on the data of pre-election survey of the candidates to the 2008 parliament and 2008 post-electoral survey of Lithuanian population. The case of Lithuania reveals the paradoxes of issue representation caused by the weakness of the left – right dimension and by the coexistence of programmatic and non-programmatic parties in the system.
