Election Resources on the Internet:
Presidential and Parliamentary Elections in Romania
by Manuel Álvarez-Rivera
 

Romanian voters went to the polls on Sunday, November 22, 2009 to choose a President, but no candidate obtained an absolute majority in the election, and a runoff vote was held on Sunday, December 6, 2009. The unexpected and controversial outcome of Romania's 2009 presidential runoff election, on Global Economy Matters, has further information about this year's presidential election in the southeastern European nation.

Meanwhile, in a national referendum held simultaneously with the first round of the presidential election, voters overwhelmingly approved proposals to replace the existing bicameral legislature with an unicameral Parliament, and to limit its size to a maximum of 300 members. Romania votes under a new electoral system, also on Global Economy Matters reviews the electoral system introduced for the 2008 parliamentary elections.

National- and (for 2008 and 2009) county-level results are available here for the following presidential and parliamentary elections:

      November 22-December 6, 2009       President                      
      November 30, 2008               Senate       Chamber of Deputies      
      November 28-December 12, 2004       President       Senate       Chamber of Deputies      

The election statistics presented here come from reports and data files published on Romania's Central Electoral Bureau's Election 2004, November 30, 2008 Chamber of Deputies and Senate Elections and 2009 Romanian Presidential Election and November 22, 2009 National Referendum websites.

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