Romania

Head of State:President Traian Băsescu

Head of Government:Prime Minister Emil Boc

Chamber of Deputies (Camera Deputaţilor):334 members

Last election:Presidential, 22 November and 6 December 2009

Next election:Legislative, due 2012

Parliamentary elections

Election results 1992-2008, selected parties

Main political parties, descriptions and election results 2008
Party Description Votes % Seats
PSD+PC - Social Democratic Party + Conservative Party Social Democratic/Conservative 33,09 114
PD-L - Democratic Liberal Party Liberal 32,36 115
PNL - National Liberal Party Liberal 18,60 65
UDMR - Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania Ethnic-Regional/Christian Democrat 6,2 22
Ethnic - Ethnic minorities parties Ethnic-Regional 3,56 18
PRM - Greater Romania Party Nationalist 3,15 -
PNG-CD - New Generation - Christian Democratic Christian Democrat 2,27 -

Presidential Elections

The president is elected by popular vote to serve a five-year term. If no candidate receives more than 50 percent of the cast ballots, a run-off between the first two candidates is organized two weeks after the election date. The first round of the 2009 Romanian presidential elections was held on 22 November..[read more]

Election results 2009 - round 2. NUTS 2

EP elections

Romania currently (2009) elects 33 MP's to the European Parliament. In the EP elections of 2009 the two parties in the ruling coalition, the Social Democrat Party (PSD) and Prime Minister Emil Boc's centre-right Democratic Liberal Party (PDL), broke a regional pattern of opposition victories by emerging first and second..[read more]

Election results 2009, main parties. NUTS 2