Romania Presidential election 2019 — Results
First round: November 10, 2019
Second round: November 24, 2019
- Klaus Iohannis: 66.09%
- Viorica Dăncilă: 33.91%
About this election
How the country is governed
Romania is a semi-presidential republic. The president is directly elected for a five-year term (a maximum of two terms) by a two-round system: if no candidate wins an absolute majority of valid votes in the first round, the top two advance to a run-off two weeks later. The president is head of state, commander of the armed forces and a significant actor in foreign policy and the appointment of the prime minister, but day-to-day government is run by a cabinet responsible to the bicameral Parliament — the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate. This semi-presidential design has repeatedly produced "cohabitation" tensions between presidents and prime ministers of opposing camps, most famously during Iohannis's first term with successive PSD governments.
Compiled and reviewed from official results by ElectioMap. See our data methodology.
In numbers
- 32.18 points separated Klaus Iohannis from Viorica Dăncilă — 3,169,213 votes.
- Support for Klaus Iohannis ranged from 85.28% in Sibiu to 40.83% in Teleorman — a spread of 44.45 points across 42 regions, and it led in 37 of 42.
Calculated from the official figures on this page and from the other elections of this type in our archive.
Understanding this election
- How a Constituency Map Gets Built — what happens when no boundary file matches the districts
- How We Check an Election Figure — the checks every number passes before publication
- How Live Election Data Is Collected and Verified — from ballot box to published figure