Tadas Barauskas

Tadas Barauskas was born on 1977-05-30 in Juodupė, Rokiškis district, Lithuania.

Tadas Barauskas was born on 1977-05-30 in Juodupė, Rokiškis District, Lithuania.

Tadas Barauskas is married.

Tadas Barauskas is married to Laura Barauskienė, who works as an accountant at the Rokiškis District Municipality, and they have two children (a daughter named Ugnė and a son named Rokas).

In 2006, Barauskas earned a diploma in Administration of Local Authorities from Mykolas Romeris University.

In 2000, he obtained a diploma in Computer Engineering from Kaunas University of Technology.

In 1999, he earned a diploma in Computer Science from Kaunas University of Technology.

In 2023–2024, just before being elected, he again worked as an assistant to a Seimas member.

In 2023–2024, prior to his own election, Barauskas worked as an assistant to Seimas member Vidmantas Kanopa.

He worked as an administrative manager at the Rokiškis public swimming pool (BĮ Rokiškio baseinas) in 2018–2019.

Barauskas has been involved in private business; he is the director of Komercija verslui, UAB (a Kaunas-based food retail company) and serves as the CEO of two small companies: Stripecargo, MB (logistics) and Barta consult, MB (consulting).

Barauskas served as a secretary-assistant to a member of the Seimas (Parliament) from 2012 to 2015.

From 2012 to 2015, Barauskas served as a secretary-assistant to Seimas member Vytautas Saulis.

He also taught at Juozo Tūbelio Progimnazija (lower secondary school) during 2009–2012.

In 2008–2009, he worked as a manager at Ūkio bankas.

He was a manager at DNB bank from 2006 to 2008.

From 2001 to 2015, Barauskas worked as a teacher and computer engineer at Juodupė Gymnasium in Rokiškis.

From 2001 to 2005, he taught computer science at Juozo Tūbelio Gimnazija in Rokiškis.

In 2000–2001, Barauskas worked as a manager at the private company UAB “Šiaurės meška”.

In August 2025, Barauskas was elected Chairman of the LSDP Rokiškis district branch for a second time, winning the internal party vote by a wide margin.

Barauskas became a Member of the Seimas (Parliament) on 2024-11-14, when the 2024–2028 term convened.

Since November 2024, he has been Deputy Chair of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party’s Political Group in the Seimas.

Barauskas is serving his first term in the Seimas; he is one of 64 new members of parliament elected in 2024, and one of 34 first-time MPs from the Social Democratic Party.

Barauskas served as a Deputy Chairman of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP) – as a vice-chair to party leader Vilija Blinkevičiūtė – and as an LSDP Board member from 2021 to 2023.

He served as Deputy Mayor of Rokiškis District Municipality from 2019 to 2023.

Barauskas served as Chairman of the LSDP Rokiškis district branch from 2017 to 2021.

He was an Adviser to the Mayor of Rokiškis District Municipality from 2015 to 2017.

He has been a member of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP) since the year 2000.

He is also a member of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party’s Presidium (governing board).

He has participated in six municipal elections and served four terms as a member of the Rokiškis District Municipal Council.

He serves as a member of the Seimas Committee on State Administration and Local Authorities (since November 19, 2024).

Since December 4, 2024, he has been a member of the Seimas Petitions Commission.

In October 2024, Barauskas won the run-off election in the Sėlos rytinė constituency, defeating Ignotas Adomavičius (candidate of the “Nemuno aušra” party) with about 61% of the vote.

In the first round of the 2024 Seimas elections (held on 13 October 2024), Barauskas led the Sėlos rytinė single-member constituency with 30.37% of the vote, while his closest competitor (Ignotas Adomavičius of the "Nemuno aušra" party) secured 16.26%, necessitating a run-off.

In the first round of the 2024 Seimas elections (held on 13 October 2024), Barauskas led the Sėlos rytinė single-member constituency with 30.37% of the vote, while his closest competitor (Ignotas Adomavičius of the “Nemuno aušra” party) secured 16.26%, necessitating a run-off.

In 2024, Barauskas was elected to the Seimas from the Sėlos rytinė single-member constituency (No. 50).

In October 2024, Barauskas won the run-off election in the Sėlos rytinė constituency, defeating Ignotas Adomavičius (candidate of the "Nemuno aušra" party) with about 61% of the vote.

In the 2024 Seimas elections, Barauskas was ranked 70th on the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party’s national multi-member list, but he ultimately entered the Seimas by winning the Sėlos rytinė single-member constituency rather than via the party list.

The Sėlos rytinė constituency was newly delineated for 2024 by altering district boundaries: 12 precincts of Kupiškis were removed, and most of Zarasai District was merged with Rokiškis District. As a result, LSDP’s Zarasai branch agreed to support Barauskas (the Rokiškis branch’s nominee) as their joint candidate in that constituency.

He was the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party’s candidate for the Mayor of Rokiškis District Municipality in the 2019 elections.

According to the official 2024 annual asset declarations (published by VMI in mid-2025), Barauskas was the only member of the Seimas to report having no assets registered in his own name; his wife Laura Barauskienė, however, declared €10,000 in savings as the family’s only declared financial asset for that year.

Barauskas’s declared wealth dropped sharply within a year: in the asset declaration for 2023 (submitted during the 2024 campaign) he and his family reported about €110,000 in property and nearly €100,000 in savings (against roughly €48,000 of income), yet in the official 2024 declaration he indicated having no assets in his own name, with only €10,000 in savings declared by his wife Laura Barauskienė. No public explanation has been given for this sudden change in declared assets.

In the asset declaration submitted for the 2024 Seimo elections (reflecting 2023 data), Barauskas and his family declared approximately €204,000 in total assets and about €47,740 in annual income. This included roughly €110,000 worth of registrable property and about €100,000 in cash savings, alongside an outstanding loan of around €13,000.

Barauskas’s total official income in 2023 was about €47,740 (gross), according to his asset declaration for that year. This sum – roughly €4,000 per month before taxes – reflects his earnings as the Deputy Mayor of Rokiškis District (and related public roles).

During his career as a school IT teacher in Rokiškis (2001–2015), Barauskas’s salary was relatively modest — for context, in 2004 the average teacher’s monthly pay in Lithuania was about 1,319 litai (approximately €380 before taxes).

He is a member of the Seimas parliamentary relations groups with the Holy See and with the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

He is also a member of the Panevėžys Region Friends Group in the Seimas.

In 2018, Barauskas filed a legal complaint against Rokiškis District Mayor Antanas Vagonis, accusing the mayor of spreading false information (slander) that insulted Barauskas’s honor.

In 2018, Barauskas filed a legal complaint against Rokiškis District Mayor Antanas Vagonis, accusing the mayor of spreading false information (slander) that insulted Barauskas’s honor.

In 2017, Barauskas publicly criticized Rokiškis District Mayor Antanas Vagonis (who had been elected with LSDP support) for resigning from the post before his term ended, calling it a “political betrayal.”

His election as the LSDP’s Rokiškis district branch chairman in 2017 caused internal friction between supporters of the former branch leader (Algis Čepulis) and those backing Barauskas, which he acknowledged publicly while urging party unity and democracy.

On November 14, 2024, Barauskas joined the Seimas Conference of Chairs as a member.

Barauskas speaks English (fluently) and Russian (at an advanced level).