European Parliament election, 2009 (Romania)

Romanian European Parliament election, 2009

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All 33 seats of Romania in the European Parliament
First party Second party Third party   Leader Mircea Geoană Emil Boc Crin Antonescu Party PSD PDL PNL Leader since 23 April 2005 15 December 2007 21 March 2009 Last election 10 16 (13 + 3) 6 Seats won 11 10 5 Seat change 1 6 1 Popular vote 1,504,218 1,438,000 702,974 Percentage 31.07% 29.71% 14.52% Swing 7.96% 12.54%† 1.08% Head list Adrian Severin Theodor Stolojan Norica Nicolai EP Group PES EPP-ED ALDE   Fourth party Fifth party   Leader Béla Markó Corneliu Vadim Tudor Party UDMR PRM Leader since 1993 June 1991 Last election 2 0 Seats won 3 3 Seat change 1 3 Popular vote 431,739 419,094 Percentage 8.92% 8.65% Swing 3.40% 4.50% Head list László Tőkés Corneliu Vadim Tudor EP Group EPP-ED

The European Parliament election of 2009 in Romania was the election of the delegation from Romania to the European Parliament in 2009.

Among those expected to take up seats are (listed in the order they appear on the ballot):

For the Alliance PSD+PC (electoral alliance of PSD + PC):

For the Democratic Liberal Party:

For the National Liberal Party:

For the Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania:

For the Greater Romania Party:

The other three electoral candidates did not pass the threshold:

The European Parliament election results confirmed the recent tendency that Romania's political scene is slowly but certainly transforming into one with two major parties. While country-wide each of the two parties has won slightly less than 1/3 of the votes (in the end each got 1/3 of the seats in the EP), the two became the main political contestants in almost every county. Discounting the votes received by Elena Băsescu who afterwards re-joined PDL, PSD won the first place in 17 counties (with PDL arriving second in all of them), and PDL won the first place in 18 counties (with PSD arriving second in all of them but one).

UDMR, fourth-largest party country-wide, won the first place in six counties, trailed in the second place five times by PSD, and one time by PDL. PNL, the third largest party country-wide rose above that level only in Ilfov County, where it obtained the second place after PDL. PRM, the fifth party, was unable to arrive first or second in any of Romania's counties.

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