Romania 2008 parliamentary election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Democratic Liberal Party won 115 of 334 seats with 32.4% of the vote; 39.2% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 19.3 points on 2004.
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Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Social Democratic Party | 110 | −22 | 33.1 | −3.5 | 2,279,449 |
| Democratic Liberal Party | 115 | 32.4 | 2,228,860 | ||
| National Liberal Party | 65 | +1 | 18.6 | −12.7 | 1,279,063 |
| Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania | 22 | 0 | 6.2 | 0.0 | 425,008 |
| Greater Romania Party | 0 | −48 | 3.1 | −9.8 | 217,595 |
| New Generation Party | 0 | 0 | 2.3 | +0.1 | 156,901 |
| Romanian ethnic minorities parties | 18 | 0 | |||
| Humanist Party / Conservative Party | 4 |
± is the change against the Romania 2004 parliamentary election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Social Democratic Party 2,279,449
- Democratic Liberal Party 2,228,860
- National Liberal Party 1,279,063
- Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania 425,008
- Greater Romania Party 217,595
- New Generation Party 156,901
- Romanian ethnic minorities parties
- Humanist Party / Conservative Party
ParlGov lists parties with at least 1 percent of the vote or 2 seats, so the rows do not add up to the valid votes. How we read it.
Share of the vote
Turnout
39.2% of the 18,464,274 registered voters cast a ballot (7,238,871 ballots), down 19.3 points on 2004. 6,886,794 of them were valid votes. The lowest turnout of this kind in our data, which begins in 1990. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Democratic Liberal Party32.4% of votes34.4% of seats
- Social Democratic Party33.1% of votes32.9% of seats
- National Liberal Party18.6% of votes19.5% of seats
- Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania6.2% of votes6.6% of seats
- Greater Romania Party3.1% of votes0.0% of seats
- New Generation Party2.3% of votes0.0% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 5.0 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.9 by votes and 3.7 by seats; Social Democratic Party led Democratic Liberal Party by 0.7 points of the vote. How these are computed.
Sources and licence
Sources and licence
- ParlGov 2024 Release (Döring and Manow), Harvard Dataverse (source). Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal
- Wikidata, party colours (P465) (source). Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal
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