2000 Romanian general election

2000 Romanian general election

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Presidential election
26 November 2000 (first round)
10 December 2000 (second round)
Turnout65.31% (first round)
57.50% (second round)
 
Nominee Ion Iliescu Corneliu Vadim Tudor
Party PDSR PRM
Popular vote 6,696,623 3,324,247
Percentage 66.83% 33.17%


President before election

Emil Constantinescu
CDR

Elected President

Ion Iliescu
PDSR

Parliamentary election
26 November 2000

All 140 seats in the Senate
All 345 seats in the Chamber of Deputies
Turnout65.31%[1][2]
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/–
Chamber of Deputies
PDSR Ion Iliescu 36.61 155 +64
PRM Corneliu Vadim Tudor 19.48 84 +65
PD Petre Roman 7.03 31 −12
PNL Mircea Ionescu-Quintus 6.89 30 −3
UDMR Béla Markó 6.80 27 +2
Minority parties Varujan Pambuccian[a] 2.57 18 +3
Senate
PDSR Ion Iliescu 37.09 65 +24
PRM Corneliu Vadim Tudor 21.01 37 +29
PD Petre Roman 7.58 13 −9
PNL Mircea Ionescu-Quintus 7.48 13 −11
UDMR Béla Markó 6.90 12 +1
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Results for the Chamber of Deputies and Senate
Prime Minister before Prime Minister-designate
Mugur Isărescu
Independent[b]
Adrian Năstase
PDSR

General elections were held in Romania on 26 November 2000, with a second round of the presidential election on 10 December.[3] Former president Ion Iliescu of the Social Democracy Party of Romania (PDSR) was re-elected in the run-off, whilst the PDSR, as part of the Social Democratic Pole of Romania (PDSR), emerged as the largest party in Parliament, winning 155 of the 345 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 65 of the 140 seats in the Senate. The 2000 Romanian presidential election was the fourth of its kind held in post-1989 Romania.

  1. ^ "2000 Parliamentary Elections: Chamber of Deputies results". University of Essex. Archived from the original on 12 February 2002. Retrieved 30 August 2020.
  2. ^ "2000 Parliamentary Elections: Senate results". University of Essex. Archived from the original on 12 February 2002. Retrieved 30 August 2020.
  3. ^ Nohlen, Dieter; Stöver, Philip (2010). Elections in Europe: A data handbook. Baden-Baden, Germany: Nomos. p. 1591. ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7. OCLC 617565273.


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