Romania Parliamentary election 2016 — Results
Election day: December 11, 2016
- Social Democratic Party (PSD): 45.48%, 154 seats
- National Liberal Party (PNL): 20.04%, 69 seats
- Save Romania Union (USR): 8.87%, 30 seats
- Hungarian Democratic Union (UDMR): 6.19%, 21 seats
- Alliance of Liberals and Democrats (ALDE): 5.62%, 20 seats
- People's Movement Party (PMP): 5.35%, 18 seats
- National minorities: 1.33%, 17 seats
Turnout: 39.46%
About this election
The rules of the game
Romania elects a bicameral Parliament — the Chamber of Deputies (329 seats in 2016) and the Senate (136 seats) — by closed-list proportional representation in 42 multi-member constituencies corresponding to the counties and the diaspora, using the d'Hondt method with a 5% national threshold (higher for alliances). Organisations of national minorities receive reserved seats in the Chamber even below the threshold, accounting for the 17 minority deputies. The 2016 election restored party-list PR after a one-off experiment with a mixed single-member system in 2008 and 2012.
Compiled and reviewed from official results by ElectioMap. See our data methodology.
In numbers
- 25.44 points separated Social Democratic Party (PSD) from National Liberal Party (PNL) — 1,792,487 votes.
- Social Democratic Party (PSD) converted 45.48% of the vote into 154 of 329 seats (46.81%), 1.33 points more than its vote share.
- The top two shared 65.52% of the vote between them, and 6 lists cleared 5%.
Calculated from the official figures on this page and from the other elections of this type in our archive.
Understanding this election
- D’Hondt vs Sainte-Laguë — how a divisor formula turns vote shares into seats
- How Electoral Systems Work Around the World — first-past-the-post, proportional and mixed systems, with real numbers
- How a Constituency Map Gets Built — what happens when no boundary file matches the districts