European Parliament election, 2007 (Romania)

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Romania elected its members of the European Parliament for the first time on 25 November 2007;^[1] ^[2] the election was initially scheduled for 13 May, but the PM postponed it for domestic political reasons.^[3] A referendum on a new voting system was held on the same day.

1 Pre-election situation
2 Opinion polls
3 Results
4 References
5 See also

Pre-election situation

Romania joined the European Union on January 1 2007, and was initially represented in the European Parliament by 35 observers as follows:

Party	Group	Seats
Social Democratic Party	PES	12
National Liberal Party	ALDE	6
Democratic Party	EPP-ED	5
Greater Romania Party	ITS/NI	5
Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania	EPP-ED	3
Conservative Party	ALDE	2
Democratic Forum of Germans in Romania	EPP-ED	1
Independent	ITS/NI	1

Opinion polls

Polling Firm	Date	Source	PD	PSD	PNL	PNG	PRM	UDMR	PLD	PC	Undecided
CURS	1/7/2007	[1]	43%	10%	12%	8%	5%	5%	<5%	<5%	N/A
IMAS	1/8/2007	[2]	31.7%	12.8%	9.4%	9.3%	3.4%	2.7%	2.2%	N/A	26.3%
CURS	5/9/2007	[3]	35%	24%	13%	8%	5%	5%	<5%	<5%	N/A
CCSB	21-29/9/2007	[4]	37.2%	21.5%	12.6%	8.4%	5.6%	3.9%	<5%	4.1%	N/A
Insomar	10-17/10/2007	[5]	42%	19%	13%	5%	5%	5%	3%	3%	N/A
IMAS	10-22/10/2007	[6]	37%	18%	16%	8%	6%	6%	5%	N/A	N/A
CIVIS	24/10/2007	[7]	27.1%	20.7%	20.6%	8.8%	4.8%	4.4%	5.7%	1.9%	N/A
ATLE	6-11/11/2007	[8]	33.5%	25.0%	9.5%	5.5%	5.9%	4.9%	4.7%	4.5%	N/A
Insomar	8-13/11/2007	[9]	40%	19%	13%	5%	6%	5%	6%	4%	N/A
BCS	10-15/11/2007	[10]	35%	23%	14%	5.6%	4%	4%	4.7%	3.3%	N/A
ATLE	13-18/11/2007	[11]	32.1%	26.0%	9.5%	4.9%	6.3%	4.6%	5.2%	5.1%	N/A
CSOP	17-19/11/2007	[12]	38.2%	19.5%	12.9%	7.3%	4.8%	4.6%	6.2%	2.2%	N/A

Results

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Map of the Romanian counties based on the winning party
Democratic Party Social Democratic Party Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania Liberal Democratic Party

35 MEPs were appointed by Romania to serve as observers in the Parliament before the country joined in 2007. Since then up until the election, the observers served as full MEPs. The breakdown of parties and their European groupings was as follows^[4]:

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Summary of the 25 November 2007 Romanian delegation in the European Parliament **election results**
Party	EP Party (or Group)	Votes	%	Seats	Previously	Change
Democratic Party	EPP	1,476,105	28.81	13	5	+8
Social Democratic Party	PES	1,184,018	23.11	10	12	–2
National Liberal Party	ELDR	688,859	13.44	6	6	±0
Liberal Democratic Party	None	398,901	7.78	3	0	+3
Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania	EPP	282,929	5.52	2	3	–1
New Generation Party – Christian Democratic	None	248,863	4.85	0	0	—
Greater Romania Party	None	212,596	4.15	0	5	–5
László Tőkés (independent)	EPP	176,533	3.44	1	0	+1
Conservative Party	ALDE	150,385	2.93	0	2	–2
National Initiative Party	None	124,829	2.43	0	0	—
Christian-Democratic National Peasants' Party	EPP	71,001	1.38	0	0	—
Party of the Roma Pro-Europa	None	58,903	1.14	0	0	—
Socialist Alliance Party	PEL	28,484	0.55	0	0	—
Green Party	EGP	19,820	0.38	0	0	—
Valid		5,122,226	100.00	35
Invalid		246,555
Total (turnout 29.46%)		5,370,171
Source: Biroul Electoral Central

The next election will be in 2009 and the number of seats will be reduced to 33.

References

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