Elections for 7th Saeima, the parliament of Latvia were held on October 3, 1998. There were lists of candidates from 21 political parties, with a total of 1081 candidates. The voter participation was 71.89%, with 964,667 out of 1,348,535 eligible voters casting votes.
Out of 21 parties, 6 gathered 5% or more of votes and won seats in the parliament.
Latvians are very tolerant of various religious denominations; in some cases, congregations from two or even three denominations make use of a single church.
The majority of Latvians belong to the Evangelical Lutheran Church; a sizable minority is Russian Orthodox, and Eastern Latvia is predominantly Roman Catholic.
Latvians and Lithuanians are the only surviving direct descendents of the Baltic peoples who speak languages of the Indo-European family.
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