Romania – Legislative election (seats)

The Romanian Election Commission has released the results of the seat share for the 2008 election (Chamber of Deputies reported). The situation is interesting because although the PSD/PC Alliance won the most votes, the PD-L has, just, won more seats. To recap:

Social Democratic Party (PSD) and Conservative Party Alliance (PC), 33%, 114 seats
Democratic Liberal Party (PD-L), 32.57%, 115 seats
National Liberal Party (PNL), 18.32%, 65 seats
Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR), 6.29%, 22 seats
Greater Romania Party (PRM), 3.17%, 0 seats
New Generation Party – Christian Democratic (PNGCD), 2.29%, 0 seats
Representatives of ethnic minorities, 18 seats.

The PD-L party is the big winner in the sense that it made a net gain of 48 seats. This does not necessarily make coalition-building any easier, but it does shift any first-mover advantage in that regard clearly to the PD-L.

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