the term of the seimas was noted for particularly significant shifts among political groups. for example, only 20 social democrats were elected to the seimas, but social democratic party political group in the seimas had 38 members at the end of the term. political groups formed during the term included liberals (lf), order and justice liberal democrats (ttldf), civic democratic (pdf), as well as peasant popular and civic democratic (vlpdf) groups.