Center-right to win Lithuania vote, Paksas 2nd: poll

VILNIUS (Reuters) - The center-right Homeland Union is set to win most votes in the first round of a Lithuanian parliamentary election, followed by the party of impeached former president Rolandas Paksas, an exit poll showed on Sunday.

The poll, by the RAIT survey agency for Baltic news agency BNS and broadcast on Lithuanian state television, showed that the Homeland Union would win 21 percent of votes for party lists, a better showing than in recent opinion polls.

Paksas, Europe's only leader to be impeached, would see his Law and Order Party get 14 percent of the vote as he tries to make a comeback after his 2004 removal from the presidency, the poll showed. The Social Democrats, head of the current ruling coalition, are set to take 13 percent.

The vote on Sunday was for party lists and single mandate constituencies. A run off for the single mandate areas is due on October 26. A total of 70 seats of the 141-seat parliament are decided according to party lists and the rest in single mandate areas.

(Reporting by Patrick Lannin and Nerijus Adomaitis; editing by Sami Aboudi)