PROFILPELAJAR.COM

2009 European Parliament election in Romania
All 33 seats of Romania in the European Parliament
Turnout	27.67%

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

Candidates and elected MEPs

Among those expected to take up seats^[1] are (listed in the order they appear on the ballot^[2]):

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

Adrian Severin, 55 years old
Rovana Plumb, 49 years old
Ioan-Mircea Paşcu, 60 years old
Silvia Adriana Ţicău, 39 years old
Daciana-Octavia Sârbu, 32 years old
Corina Creţu, 32 years old
Victor Boştinaru, 57 years old
Sabin Cutaş, 41 years old, the only one from PC
Cătălin Ivan, 31 years old
Ioan Enciu, 56 years old, and
Vasilica Dăncilă, 46 years old

For the Democratic Liberal Party (PDL):

Theodor Stolojan, 66 years old
Monica Macovei, 50 years old
Traian Ungureanu, 51 years old
Cristian Preda, 43 years old
Marian-Jean Marinescu, 57 years old
Iosif Matula, 51 years old
Sebastian Bodu, 39 years old
Petru Luhan, 32 years old
Rareş Niculescu, 33 years old
Oana Antonescu, 30 years old, and
Elena Băsescu, 29 years old; ran separately as an independent.^[3]

For the National Liberal Party (PNL):

Norica Nicolai, 51 years old
Adina Vălean, 41 years old
Renate Weber, 54 years old
Ramona Mănescu, 37 years old, and
Cristian Buşoi, 31 years old

For the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR):

László Tőkés, 57 years old
Iuliu Winkler, 45 years old, and
Csaba Sógor, 45 years old

For the Greater Romania Party (PRM):

Corneliu Vadim Tudor, 60 years old,
Gigi Becali, 51 years old, and
Claudiu Ciprian Tănăsescu, 44 years old

The other three electoral candidates did not pass the threshold:

Christian Democratic National Peasants' Party, led by Marian Petre Miluţ;
Civic Force, led by Adrian-Ştefan Iuraşcu;
Pavel Abraham as an independent candidate.

Opinion polls

Polling Firm	Date	Source	PDL	PSD – PC	PNL	PNG	PRM	UDMR	Elena Băsescu	Others	Undecided
Insomar	26/03-05/04/2009	[1]	33%	31%	15%	2%	5%	7%	6%	1%	—
BCS	6-14/04/2009	[2]	32,6%	26,6%	17,7%	—	6,8%	5,5%	4,4%	—	—
CURS	8-16/04/2009	[3]	26%	30%	19%	—	7%	7%	4%	—	—
CCSB	18-22/04/2009	[4], [5]	31%	30%	16%	—	8%	5%	8%	—	—
CSOP	24-27/04/2009	[6]	35%	31%	16%	—	6%	7%	4%	1%	—
GSS	3-5/05/2009	[7]	29.6%	31.1%	16.6%	4.5%	4.8%	5.9%	3%	3%	—
Insomar	30/04-05/05/2009	[8]	30,8%	30,9%	18%	—	6,2%	7,9%	4,2%	—	—
Gallup	5-9/05/2009	[9]	31%	31%	21%	4%	6%	5%	—	2%	—

Results

The European Parliament election results confirmed the tendency towards a two-party system. 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.


Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Alliance PSD+PC	1,504,218	31.08	11	+1
	Democratic Liberal Party	1,438,000	29.71	10	–6
	National Liberal Party	702,974	14.52	5	–1
	Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania	431,739	8.92	3	+1
	Greater Romania Party	419,094	8.66	3	+3
	Christian Democratic National Peasants' Party	70,428	1.46	0	0
	Civic Force	19,436	0.40	0	New
	Independents	254,144	5.25	1	0
Total		4,840,033	100.00	33	–2

Valid votes		4,840,033	96.13
Invalid/blank votes		194,626	3.87
Total votes		5,034,659	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		18,197,316	27.67
Source: ROAEP

By county

PSD first, PDL second:

UDMR first, PSD or PDL second:

PDL first, PSD second:

Argeș (PSD 41.42%, PDL 26%)

Bihor (UDMR 27.53%, PDL 23.66%)

Arad (PDL 40.96%, PSD 21.09%)

Bacău (PSD 31.88%, PDL 29.15%)

Covasna (UDMR 82.41%, PSD 6.19%)

Alba (PDL 44.45%, PSD 22.35%)

Brăila (PSD 40.95%, PDL 24.32%)

Harghita (UDMR 89.4%, PSD 3.4%)

Bistrița-Năsăud (PDL 37.02%, PSD 34.86%)

Constanța (PSD 34.64%, PDL 27.83%)

Mureș (UDMR 49.30%, PSD 15.70%)

Botoșani (PDL 33.40%, PSD 32.63%)

Dâmbovița (PSD 43.01%, PDL 36.23%)

Satu Mare (UDMR 39.64%, PSD 20.61%)

Brașov (PDL 33.33%, PSD 22.61%)

Dolj (PSD 39.20%, PDL 36.56%)

Sălaj (UDMR 29.55%, PSD 25.34%)

Buzău (PDL 33.3%, PSD 31.9%)

Galați (PSD 42.44%, PDL 26.95%)

Caraș-Severin (PDL 35.26%, PSD 29.86%)

Gorj (PSD 34.26%, PDL 30.55%)

PDL first, PNL or UDMR second:

Călărași (PDL 29.3%, PSD 27.9%)

Hunedoara (PSD 28.56%, PDL 21.73%)

Ilfov (PDL 40.32%, PNL 23.91%)

Giurgiu (PDL 39.8%, PSD 27.2%)

Ialomița (PSD 44.8%, PDL 28.4%)

Cluj (PDL 31.01%, UDMR 22.51%)

Maramureș (PDL 29.52%, PSD 25.24%)

Iași (PSD 37.63%, PDL 25.20%)

Neamț (PDL 41.91%, PSD 32%)

Mehedinți (PSD 37.03%, PDL 35.60%)

Prahova (PDL 36.77%, PSD 24.59%)

Olt (PSD 47.59%, PDL 32.16%)

Sibiu (PDL 33.93%, PSD 32.06%)

Teleorman (PSD 51.68%, PDL 22.27%)

Suceava (PDL 39.50%, PSD 28.81%)

Vaslui (PSD 45.80%, PDL 21.25%)

Timiș (PDL 38.32%, PSD 27%)

Vâlcea (PSD 39.56%, PDL 25.27%)

Tulcea (PDL 39.1%, PSD 28.8%)

Vrancea (PSD 48.47%, PDL 21.24%)

In the capital city of Bucharest, PDL won with 28.28% of the votes, with PSD in second with 27.87%. Four of the six sectors of the city were won by PDL and two by PSD, with the other party in second place:

PSD first, PDL second

PDL first, PSD second

4th Sector (PSD 29.94%, PDL 28.61%)

1st Sector (PDL 28.28%, PSD 26.49%)

5th Sector (PSD 38.55%, PDL 22.16%)

2nd Sector (PDL 30.62%, PSD 25.21%)