Elections in Romania

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Romania elects on a national level a head of state - the president - and a legislature. The president is elected for a five year term by the people. The Romanian Parliament (Parlamentul României) has two chambers. The Chamber of Deputies (Camera Deputaţilor) has 346 members, elected for a four year term by proportional representation. The Senate (Senatul) has 143 members, elected for a four year term by proportional representation. Romania has a multi-party system, with numerous parties in which no one party often has a chance of gaining power alone, and parties must work with each other to form coalition governments.

In 2007, for the first time, Romanians will elect their representatives to the European Parliament. The most likely date for these elections is 13 May, but the date has yet to be confirmed. See also European Parliament election, 2007.

Electoral system

The Chamber of Deputies and the Senate are elected in constituencies, by universal, equal, direct, secret, and freely expressed suffrage, on the basis of a list system and independent candidatures, according to the principle of proportional representation. The option for an identical election system of the two Chambers of Parliament confers them the same legitimacy, as both of them are the expression of the will of the same electoral body.

The two Chambers have different numbers of members: the Chamber of Deputies is composed of 332 Deputies, and the Senate of 137 Senators. This differentiation is possible owing to the legal provision of a representation norm differing from one Chamber to the other. Thus, for the election of the Chamber of Deputies the representation norm is of one Deputy to 70,000 inhabitants, and for the election of the Senate, of one Senator to 160,000 inhabitants.

The number of Deputies and Senators to be elected in each constituency is determined on the basis of the representation norm, by relating the number of inhabitants in each constituency to the representation norm. In a constituency, the number of Deputies cannot be less than four, and that of Senators, less than two. The number of inhabitants taken into account is that existing on July 1 of the previous year, published in the Statistical Yearbook of Romania. If, at least five months before the election date, a general census has taken place, the number of inhabitants taken into account is that resulting from the census.

The Constitution of Romania and the Election Law grant to legally constituted organizations of citizens belonging to national minorities, in case these could not obtain at the election at least one Deputy or Senator mandate, the right to a Deputy mandate, if they have obtained throughout the country a number of votes equal to at least 5% out of the average number of votes validly expressed throughout the country for the election of one Deputy.

The mandates assigned, under the conditions of the Election Law, to organizations of citizens belonging to national minorities are added to the Deputy mandates resulted from the representation norm.

2004 elections

Ballots are cast separately for the President, the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies. The Romanian electoral law requires a political party to receive 5% of the valid cast ballots in order to gain seats in the Parliament. For political alliances the percentage depends on the number of parties in the alliance. In 2004 there were three alliances, all of them composed of two parties: the "Uniunea Naţionalǎ PSD+PUR" (PSD and PUR), the "Alianţa Dreptate şi Adevǎr PNL-PD" (PNL and PD), and the "Alianţa Popular Creştin Democratǎ". The percentage required for two-party alliances is 9%. For the presidential election, if no candidate receives more than 50% of the cast ballots, a run-off between the first two candidates is organized two weeks after the election date.

President

Main article: Romanian presidential election, 2004

Summary of the 29 November and 13 December 2004 Romanian Presidential election results |- !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=left width=400|Candidates !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=left|Nominating parties !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|Votes !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|% !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|Votes
2nd round !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|% |- |align=left|Traian Băsescu |align=left|PNL-PD | style="text-align:right;" |3,545,236 | style="text-align:right;" |33.92% | style="text-align:right;" |5,126,794 | style="text-align:right;" |51.23% |- |align=left|Adrian Năstase |align=left|PSD+PUR | style="text-align:right;" |4,278,864 | style="text-align:right;" |40.94% | style="text-align:right;" |4,881,520 | style="text-align:right;" |48.77% |- |align=left|Corneliu Vadim Tudor |align=left|PRM | style="text-align:right;" |1,313,714 | style="text-align:right;" |12.57% |colspan=2 rowspan=10| |- |align=left|Markó Béla |align=left|UDMR | style="text-align:right;" |533,446 | style="text-align:right;" |5.10% |- |align=left|Gheorghe Ciuhandu |align=left|PNŢCD | style="text-align:right;" |198,394 | style="text-align:right;" |1.90% |- |align=left|George Becali |align=left|PNG | style="text-align:right;" |184,560 | style="text-align:right;" |1.77% |- |align=left|Petre Roman |align=left|FD | style="text-align:right;" |140,702 | style="text-align:right;" |1.35% |- |align=left|Gheorghe Dinu |align=left|independent | style="text-align:right;" |113,321 | style="text-align:right;" |1.08% |- |align=left|Marian Petre Miluţ |align=left|AP | style="text-align:right;" |43,378 | style="text-align:right;" |0.42% |- |align=left|Ovidiu Tudorici |align=left|URR | style="text-align:right;" |37,910 | style="text-align:right;" |0.36% |- |align=left|Aurel Rădulescu |align=left|APCD | style="text-align:right;" |35,455 | style="text-align:right;" |0.34% |- |align=left|Alexandru Raj Tunaru |align=left|PTD | style="text-align:right;" |27,225 | style="text-align:right;" |0.26% |}

Parliament

Main article: Romanian legislative election, 2004

Social Democratic Party (Partidul Social Democrat)
Humanist Party of Romania (Partidul Umanist din România)

|align="right" valign=top|3,730,352 |align="right" valign=top|36.8 |align="right" valign=top|132

|- |align=left|Justice and Truth Alliance (Alianţa Dreptate şi Adevăr)

National Liberal Party (Partidul Naţional Liberal)
Democratic Party (Partidul Democrat)

|align="right" valign=top|3,191,546 |align="right" valign=top|31.5 |align="right" valign=top|112

|- |align=left|Greater Romania Party (Partidul România Mare) |align="right" |1,316,751 |align="right" |13.0 |align="right" |48 |- |align=left|Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania (Uniunea Democratică Maghiară din România) |align="right" |628,125 |align="right" |6.2 |align="right" |22 |- |align=left|New Generation Party (Partidul Noua Generaţie) |align="right" |227,443 |align="right" |2.2 |align="right" |- |- |align=left|Christian-Democratic National Peasants' Party (Partidul Naţiional Ţărănesc Creştin Democrat) |align="right" |188,268 |align="right" |1.8 |align="right" |- |- |align="left" |Social Democratic Roma Party of Romania (Partida Romilor Social Democrată din România) |align="right" | |align="right" | |align="right" |1 |- |align="left" |Democratic Forum of Germans of Romania (Forumul Democrat al Germanilor din România) |align="right" | |align="right" |. |align="right" |1 |- |align="left" |Union of Armenians of Romania (Uniunea Armenilor din România) |align="right" | |align="right" |. |align="right" |1 |-

|align="left" |Union of Poles of Romania Dom Polski (Uniunea Polonezilor din România 'Dom Polski') |align="right" | |align="right" |. |align="right" |1 |- |align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total (turnout 56.5%) |width="75" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| |width="30" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| |width="30" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|332 |- |align=left colspan=4|Source: Biroul Electoral Central |} Summary of the 28 November 2004 Senate of Romania election results |- !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=left valign=top|Parties and alliances !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|Votes !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|% !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|Seats |- |align=left|[[National Union PSD+PUR]] (Uniunea Naţională PSD+PUR)

Social Democratic Party (Partidul Social Democrat)
Humanist Party of Romania (Partidul Umanist din România)

|align="right" valign=top|3,798,607 |align="right" valign=top|37.2 |align="right" valign=top|57 |- |align=left|Justice and Truth Alliance (Alianţa Dreptate si Adevăr)

National Liberal Party (Partidul Naţional Liberal)
Democratic Party (Partidul Democrat)

|align="right" valign=top|3,250,663 |align="right" valign=top|31.8 |align="right" valign=top|49 |- |align=left|Greater Romania Party(Partidul România Mare) |align="right" |1,394,698 |align="right" |13.6 |align="right" |21 |- |align=left|Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania (Uniunea Democratică Maghiară din România) |align="right" |637,109 |align="right" |6.2 |align="right" |10 |- |align=left|New Generation Party (Partidul Noua Generaţie) |align="right" |241,486 |align="right" |2.4 |align="right" |- |- |align=left|Christian-Democratic National Peasants' Party (Partidul Naţional Ţărănesc Creştin Democrat) |align="right" |196,027 |align="right" |1.9 |align="right" |- |- |align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total (turnout 56.5%) |width="75" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| |width="30" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| |width="30" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|147 |- |align=left colspan=7|Source: Biroul Electoral Central |}

Past elections

Romanian parliamentary elections
1866 \| 1869 \| 1870 \| 1875 \| 1884 \| 1888 \| 1892 \| 1895 \| 1899 \| 1902 \| 1905 \| 1907 \| 1911 \| 1912 \| 1914 \| 1914 \| 1916 \| 1919 \| 1919 (Nov) \| 1920 \| 1922 \| 1926 \| 1927 \| 1928 \| 1931 \| 1932 \| 1933 \| 1937 \| 1946 \| 1948 \| 1952 \| 1957 \| 1961 \| 1965 \| 1969 \| 1975 \| 1980 \| 1985 \| 1987 \| 1990 \| 1992 \| 1996 \| 2000 \| 2004 \| 2008
Romanian presidential elections
1990 \| 1992 \| 1996 \| 2000 \| 2004 \| 2009
Romanian referendums
1938 \| 1941 \| 1986 \| 1991 \| 2003 \| 2007

References

Official site of the Chamber of Deputies of Romania

External links

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Elections in Romania

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2004 elections

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Past elections

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