The Social Democratic Party (PSD) is set to win Sunday’s parliamentary elections in Romania

PSD is ranking first in the parliamentary elections in Romania, followed by AUR, PNL and USR.

Radio România Internațional, 02.12.2024, 07:00

The Social Democratic Party (PSD) is set to win Sunday’s parliamentary elections in Romania, after 98% of the vote count. According to partial returns, PSD got 22.54% of the votes for the Chamber of Deputies. In second place is the Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR) with 17.75%, followed by the National Liberal Party (PNL) with 13.60% and the Save Romania Union (USR) with 11.99%. Coming next are SOS Romania with 7.10%, the Democratic Union of Ethnic Hungarians in Romania (UDMR) with 6.49% and POT with 6.24%.

The parties got similar results in the race for the Senate. PSD got 22.90% of the votes, AUR–18.07%, PNL–14.49%, USR–11.91%. They are followed by SOS Romania–7.51%, UDMR–6.54% and POT– 6.18%. The rest of the parties and alliances failed to pass the 5% electoral threshold.

7,981,120 Romanians went to the polls, the voter turnout was 52.50%.