Romanian legislative election, 2008

Romanian legislative election, 2008

2004 ← 30 November 2008 → 2012

All 137 seats in the Senate All 334 seats in the Chamber of Deputies Turnout 39.20%   First party Second party   Leader Theodor Stolojan Mircea Geoană Party Democratic Liberal Social Democratic Leader since 2007 (PM Candidate) 2005 Leader's seat not running S 5-17 Last election 29 S / 67 D 45+10 S / 105+19 D Seats won 51 S / 115 D 49 S / 114 D Seat change 22 S / 48 D 6 S / 10 D Popular vote 2,228,860 D 2,279,449 D Percentage 32.36% D 33.09% D   Third party Fourth party   Leader Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu Béla Markó Party National Liberal Hungarians in Romania Leader since 2004 1993 Leader's seat CD 4-25 S 5-65 Last election 24 S / 60 D 10 S / 22 D Seats won 28 S / 65 D 9 S / 22 D Seat change 4 S / 5 D 1 S / 0 D Popular vote 1,279,063 D 440,449 D Percentage 18.57% D 6.39% D

Prime Minister before election Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu PNL Prime Minister-designate Emil Boc PDL

Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu
PNL

Emil Boc
PDL

Legislative elections were held in Romania on 30 November 2008. The Democratic Liberal Party (PD-L) won most seats in both the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate, although the alliance headed by the Social Democratic Party (PSD) won a fractionally higher vote share.

President Traian Băsescu had wanted to introduce a single-winner two-round electoral system before this election, but a 2007 referendum on the proposal failed on insufficient turnout. A new electoral system was introduced as a compromise. Thus, this was the first suffrage in which the electoral system was changed from party-list proportional representation to a mixed member proportional representation system, and the first one to feature sub-county constituencies, called electoral colleges (colegii electorale). A candidate wins in any electoral college in which they obtain more than 50% of the vote. Seats where no candidate wins an outright majority are then allocated using the D'Hondt method. If necessary, the number of seats for each chamber is raised, by giving supplementary seats. An electoral threshold was applied of 5% for each chamber; or winning at least six colleges for the Chamber of Deputies and three colleges for the Senate by more than 50%. There was an additional adjustment for the Chamber of Deputies around the national minorities candidates.

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