Romania Parliamentary election 2020 — Results
Election day: December 6, 2020
- Social Democratic Party (PSD): 28.90%, 110 seats
- National Liberal Party (PNL): 25.19%, 93 seats
- USR-PLUS Alliance: 15.37%, 55 seats
- Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR): 9.08%, 33 seats
- Hungarian Democratic Union (UDMR): 5.74%, 21 seats
- National minorities: 1.67%, 18 seats
Turnout: 31.95%
About this election
The rules of the game
The bicameral Parliament — the Chamber of Deputies (330 seats) and Senate (136 seats) — is elected by closed-list proportional representation in county-based constituencies using the d'Hondt method, with a 5% threshold and reserved Chamber seats for national-minority organisations. The pandemic shaped the contest profoundly: voting took place under health restrictions, campaigning moved largely online, and fear of infection among older, traditionally PSD-leaning voters is widely thought to have depressed turnout and contributed to the unusually low participation.
Compiled and reviewed from official results by ElectioMap. See our data methodology.
In numbers
- 3.71 points separated Social Democratic Party (PSD) from National Liberal Party (PNL) — 219,376 votes.
- Social Democratic Party (PSD) converted 28.90% of the vote into 110 of 330 seats (33.33%), 4.43 points more than its vote share.
- The top two shared 54.09% of the vote between them, and 5 lists cleared 5%.
- Social Democratic Party (PSD) moved −16.58 points against the 2016 parliamentary election (45.48% → 28.90%).
- Turnout of 31.95% is the lowest of the 3 parliamentary elections covered here since 2016.
Calculated from the official figures on this page and from the other elections of this type in our archive.
Understanding this election
- How Live Election Data Is Collected and Verified — from ballot box to published figure
- Why Official Results Sometimes Take Weeks — the stages between the count and the legal result
- Why Turnout Figures Disagree — why two sources publish different turnout for one election