2009 European Parliament election in Romania

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All 33 seats of Romania in theEuropean Parliament
Turnout	27.67%
First party Second party Third party   Leader Adrian Severin Theodor Stolojan Norica Nicolai Party PSD+PC PDL PNL 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% EP Group PES EPP-ED ALDE   Fourth party Fifth party   Leader László Tőkés Corneliu Vadim Tudor Party UDMR PRM 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% EP Group EPP-ED

The2009 European Parliament election in Romania was the election of thedelegation fromRomania to theEuropean Parliament in2009.

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

For theAlliance PSD+PC (electoral alliance ofPSD +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 theDemocratic 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 theNational 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 theDemocratic 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 theGreater 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 byMarian Petre Miluţ;
• Civic Force, led byAdrian-Ştefan Iuraşcu;
• Pavel Abraham as an independent candidate.

TheEuropean Parliament election results confirmed the tendency towards atwo-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 byElena Băsescu who afterwards re-joined PDL,PSD won the first place in 17 counties (withPDL 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 inIlfov 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.

In the capital city ofBucharest, 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:

• (in Romanian)Central Electoral Bureau
• (in Romanian)Lists of candidates by party

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