The Social Democratic Party (PSD) is set to win Sunday’s parliamentary elections in Romania, after 98% of the vote count. According to partial returns, PSD got 22.54% of the votes for the Chamber of Deputies. In second place is the Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR) with 17.75%, followed by the National Liberal Party (PNL) with 13.60% and the Save Romania Union (USR) with 11.99%. Coming next are SOS Romania with 7.10%, the Democratic Union of Ethnic Hungarians in Romania (UDMR) with 6.49% and POT with 6.24%.
The parties got similar results in the race for the Senate. PSD got 22.90% of the votes, AUR–18.07%, PNL–14.49%, USR–11.91%. They are followed by SOS Romania–7.51%, UDMR–6.54% and POT– 6.18%. The rest of the parties and alliances failed to pass the 5% electoral threshold.
7,981,120 Romanians went to the polls, the voter turnout was 52.50%.