2007 European Parliament election in 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 for national parliamentary elections was held on the same day.

Pre-election situation

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

	Group	Seats
Social Democratic Party	PES	12
National Liberal Party	ALDE	6
Democratic Party	EPP-ED	5
Greater Romania Party	ITS/NI	5
Democratic Alliance 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 July 2007	[1]	43%	10%	12%	8%	5%	5%	<5%	<5%	—
IMAS	1 August 2007	[2]	31.7%	12.8%	9.4%	9.3%	3.4%	2.7%	2.2%	—	26.3%
CURS	5 September 2007	[3]	35%	24%	13%	8%	5%	5%	<5%	<5%	—
CCSB	21-29/9/2007	[4]	37.2%	21.5%	12.6%	8.4%	5.6%	3.9%	<5%	4.1%	—
Insomar	10-17/10/2007	[5]	42%	19%	13%	5%	5%	5%	3%	3%	—
IMAS	10-22/10/2007	[6]	37%	18%	16%	8%	6%	6%	5%	—	—
CIVIS	24 October 2007	[7]	27.1%	20.7%	20.6%	8.8%	4.8%	4.4%	5.7%	1.9%	—
ATLE	6-11/11/2007	[8]	33.5%	25.0%	9.5%	5.5%	5.9%	4.9%	4.7%	4.5%	—
Insomar	8-13/11/2007	[9]^{[permanent dead link]}	40%	19%	13%	5%	6%	5%	6%	4%	—
BCS	10-15/11/2007	[10]	35%	23%	14%	5.6%	4%	4%	4.7%	3.3%	—
ATLE	13-18/11/2007	[11] Archived 1 December 2007 at the Wayback Machine	32.1%	26.0%	9.5%	4.9%	6.3%	4.6%	5.2%	5.1%	—
CSOP	17-19/11/2007	[12]	38.2%	19.5%	12.9%	7.3%	4.8%	4.6%	6.2%	2.2%	—

Results

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.


Party		Votes	%	Seats
	Democratic Party	1,476,105	28.82	13
	Social Democratic Party	1,184,018	23.12	10
	National Liberal Party	688,859	13.45	6
	Liberal Democratic Party	398,901	7.79	3
	Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania	282,929	5.52	2
	New Generation Party – Christian Democratic	248,863	4.86	0
	Greater Romania Party	212,596	4.15	0
	Conservative Party	150,385	2.94	0
	National Initiative Party	124,829	2.44	0
	Christian Democratic National Peasants' Party	71,001	1.39	0
	Party of the Roma Pro-Europa	58,903	1.15	0
	Socialist Alliance Party	28,484	0.56	0
	Green Party	19,820	0.39	0
	Independents	176,533	3.45	1
Total		5,122,226	100.00	35

Valid votes		5,122,226	95.41
Invalid/blank votes		246,555	4.59
Total votes		5,368,781	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		18,224,597	29.46
Source: ROAEP

References

^ People's Daily Online – Romania: Elections for European parliamentarians slated for Nov. 25
^ "Romania Votes in First European Elections". Archived from the original on 27 November 2007. Retrieved 26 November 2007.
^ Bulgaria: Romania Postpones European Parliament Elections

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