Romania general elections: Partial results - Social Democrats return to top at slight advantage against Democratic Liberals

Romania general elections: Partial results – Social Democrats return to top at slight advantage against Democratic Liberals

Romania’s Central Electoral Office announced on Monday afternoon the partial results after counting 92.73% of votes registered in general elections on Sunday. After Democratic Liberals (PD-L) came second in exit polls last night, they toppled the Social Democrats (PSD) when some 70% of the votes had been counted this morning, but in the arly afternoon PSD returned to the front, but at a very slight advantage of under 1%.

Liberals (PNL) and Hungarian Democrats (UDMR) remained third and fourth in voters preferences.

National level results:

House of Deputies: PSD – 33%, PDL – 32.57%, PNL – 18.32%, UDMR – 6.29%
Senate: PSD – 33.99%, PDL – 33.79%, PNL – 18.49%, UDMR – 6.54%

All other parties, including the far-right Greater Romania Party (PRM) and the populist New Generation Party (PNG) received under 5% of the votes at national level.

Results for Bucharest with 99.83% of votes counted:

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