Romania 2016 parliamentary election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Social Democratic Party won 154 of 329 seats with 45.5% of the vote; 39.5% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 2.3 points on 2012.
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Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Social Democratic Party | 154 | +4 | 45.5 | −13.2 | 3,204,864 |
| National Liberal Party | 69 | −31 | 20.0 | 1,412,377 | |
| Save Romania Union / Party of Liberty, Unity and Solidarity | 30 | 8.9 | 625,154 | ||
| Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania | 21 | +3 | 6.2 | +1.1 | 435,969 |
| Liberal Reformist Party / Alliance of Liberals and Democrats | 20 | 5.6 | 396,386 | ||
| People's Movement Party | 18 | 5.3 | 376,891 | ||
| United Romania Party | 0 | 2.8 | 196,397 | ||
| Greater Romania Party | 0 | 0 | 1.0 | −0.2 | 73,264 |
| Romanian ethnic minorities parties | 17 | −1 |
± is the change against the Romania 2012 parliamentary election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Social Democratic Party 3,204,864
- National Liberal Party 1,412,377
- Save Romania Union / Party of Liberty, Unity and Solidarity 625,154
- Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania 435,969
- Liberal Reformist Party / Alliance of Liberals and Democrats 396,386
- People's Movement Party 376,891
- United Romania Party 196,397
- Greater Romania Party 73,264
- Romanian ethnic minorities parties
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
39.5% of the 18,403,044 registered voters cast a ballot (7,261,300 ballots), down 2.3 points on 2012. 7,047,384 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Social Democratic Party45.5% of votes46.8% of seats
- National Liberal Party20.0% of votes21.0% of seats
- Save Romania Union / Party of Liberty, Unity and Solidarity8.9% of votes9.1% of seats
- Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania6.2% of votes6.4% of seats
- Liberal Reformist Party / Alliance of Liberals and Democrats5.6% of votes6.1% of seats
- People's Movement Party5.3% of votes5.5% of seats
- United Romania Party2.8% of votes0.0% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 4.4 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.8 by votes and 3.5 by seats; Social Democratic Party led National Liberal Party by 25.4 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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