2009 European Parliament election in Romania

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All 33 seats of Romania in the European Parliament
Turnout	27.67%
First party Second party Third party   Leader Mircea Geoană Emil Boc Crin Antonescu Party PSD+PC PDL PNL Leader since 23 April 2005 15 December 2007 21 March 2009 Last election 10 seats 16 seats 6 seats Seats won 11 10 5 Seat change 1 6 1 Popular vote 1,504,218 1,438,000 702,974 Percentage 31.07% 29.71% 14.52% Head list Adrian Severin Theodor Stolojan Norica Nicolai EP Group PES EPP-ED ALDE   Fourth party Fifth party   Leader Béla Markó Corneliu Vadim Tudor Party UDMR PRM Leader since 1993 June 1991 Last election 2 seats 0 seats Seats won 3 3 Seat change 1 3 Popular vote 431,739 419,094 Percentage 8.92% 8.66% Head list László Tőkés Corneliu Vadim Tudor EP Group EPP-ED

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):

1. Adrian Severin, 55 years old
2. Rovana Plumb, 49 years old
3. Ioan-Mircea Paşcu, 60 years old
4. Silvia Adriana Ţicău, 39 years old
5. Daciana-Octavia Sârbu, 32 years old
6. Corina Creţu, 32 years old
7. Victor Boştinaru, 57 years old
8. Sabin Cutaş, 41 years old, the only one from PC
9. Cătălin Ivan, 31 years old
10. Ioan Enciu, 56 years old, and
11. Vasilica Dăncilă, 46 years old

For the Democratic Liberal Party (PDL):

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

For the National Liberal Party (PNL):

1. Norica Nicolai, 51 years old
2. Adina Vălean, 41 years old
3. Renate Weber, 54 years old
4. Ramona Mănescu, 37 years old, and
5. Cristian Buşoi, 31 years old

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

1. László Tőkés, 57 years old
2. Iuliu Winkler, 45 years old, and
3. Csaba Sógor, 45 years old

For the Greater Romania Party (PRM):

1. Corneliu Vadim Tudor, 60 years old,
2. Gigi Becali, 51 years old, and
3. 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

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.

By county

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: