Romania

1990 Presidential Elections

Date: 20 May
Number of registered voters: 17,200,722
Turnout: 86.19%
Votes: total cast: 14,826,616; valid: 14,378,693

Candidates Party/ Nominated by Votes % Votes
Ion Iliescu FSN 12,232,498 85.07
Radu Campeanu PNL 1,529,188 10.64
Ion Ratiu PNT-CD 617,007 4.29
TOTAL 14,378,693 100

LEGEND
FSN - National Salvation Front (Frontul Salvarii Nationale)
PNL - National Liberal Party (Partidul National Liberal)
PNT-cd - National Peasant Party - Christian Democrat (Partidul National Taranesc - Crestin Democrat)

 

1992 Presidential Elections

Date: first round: 27 September; Secound round: 11 October
Number of registered voters:
Turnout: % (first round); % (second round)
Votes: first round: total cast: ; valid: 11,898,856; second round: total cast: ; valid: 12,034,636

 

 

Candidates

  

Party/ Nominated by

 First Round Second Round

Votes

% Votes

Votes

% Votes
Ion Iliescu FDSN 5,633,456 47.34 7,393,429 61.43
Emil Constantinescu CDR 3,717,006 31.24 4,641,207 38.57
Gheorghe Funar PUNR 1,294,388 10.88 - -
Caius Traian Dragomir FSN 564,655 4.74 - -
Ioan Manzatu PR 362,485 3.05 - -
Mircea Druc Independent 326,866 2.75 - -
TOTAL

11,898,856

100

12,034,636

100

LEGEND
FDSN - Democratic National Salvation Front (Frontul Democrat al Salvarii Nationale)
CDR - Romanian Democratic Convention (Conventia Democrata Romana)
PUNR - Party of Romanian National Unity (Partidul Unitatii Nationale Romane)
FSN - National Salvation Front (Frontul Salvarii Nationale)
PR - Republican Party (Partidul Republican)

 

1996 Presidential Elections

Date: first round: 3 November; second round: 17 November
Number of Registered voters: first round: 17,218,654; second round: 17,230,654
Turnout: first round: 76.01%; second round: 75.90%
Votes: first round: total cast: 13,088,388; valid: 12,652,900; second round: total cast: 13,078,883; valid: 12,972,485

Candidates

Party/ Nominated by

 First Round Second Round

Votes

% Votes

Votes

% Votes
Ion Iliescu PDSR 4,081,093 32.25 5,914,579 45.59
Emil Constantinescu CDR 3,569,941 28.22 7,057,906 54.41
Petre Roman USD 2,369,941 20.54 - -
Gyorgy Frunda UDMR/RMDSZ 761,411 6.02 - -
Corneliu Vadim Tudor PRM 597,508 4.72 - -
Gheorghe Funar PUNR 407,828 3.22 - -
Tudor Mohora PS 160,387 1.27 - -
Nicolae Manolescu ANL 90,122 0.71 - -
Adrian Paunescu PSM 87,163 0.69 - -
Ioan Pop de Popa UNC 59,752 0.47 - -
George Muntean PPR 54,218 0.43 - -
Radu Campeanu ANLE 43,780 0.35 - -
Nutu Anghelina Independent 43,319 0.34 - -
Constantin Mudava Independent 38,477 0.31 - -
Constantin Niculescu PNA 30,045 0.24 - -
Nicolae Militaru Independent 28,311 0.22 - -
TOTAL

12,652,900

100

12,972,485

100

LEGEND
PDSR - Romanian Party of Social Democracy (Partidul Democratiei Sociale Romane)
CDR - Romanian Democratic Convention (Conventia Democrata Romana)
USD - Social Democratic Union (Uniunea Social Democrata)
UDMR/RMDSZ - Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania (Uniunea Democrata a Maghiarilor din Romania)
PRM - Greater Romania Party (Partidul Romania Mare)
PUNR - Party of Romanian National Unity (Partidul Unitatii Nationale Romane)
PS - Socialist Party (Partidul Socialist)
ANL - National Liberal Alliance - National Liberal Party and Party of the Civic Alliance- (Alianta Nationala Liberala)
PSM - Socialist Party of Labour (Partidul Socialist al Muncii)
UNC - National Union of the Centre (Uniunea Nationala de Centru)
PPR - Party of Pensioners of Romania (Partidul Pensionarilor din Romania)
ANLE - National Liberal Ecologist Alliance (Alianta Nationala Liberala Ecologista)
PNA - National Party of the Motorists (Partidul National al Automobilistilor)

 

2000 Presidential Elections

Date: first round: 26 November; second round: 10 December
Number of registered voters: 17,699,727
Turnout: first round: 65.31%; second round %
Votes: first round: total cast: 11,559,458; valid: 10,839,424; second round: total cast: ; valid:10,020,870

 

Candidate

 

Party/Nominated by

First Round

Second Round

Votes

% Votes

Votes

% Votes
Ion Iliescu PDSR 4,076,273 36.35 6696623 66.83
Cornelui Vadim Tudor PRM 3,178,293 28.34 3324247 33.17
Theodor Dumitru Stolojan PNL 1,321,420 11.78

-

 -
Constantin Mugurel Isarescu independent (supported by CDR2000) 1,069,463 9.54
György Frunda UDMR 696,989 6.22
Petre Roman PD 334,852 2.99
Teodor Viorel Melescanu ApR 214,642 1.91
Eduard Gheorghe Manole Independent 133,991 1.19
Graziela-Elena Barla Independent 61,455 0.55
Paul-Philippe Hohenzollern PRN 55,238 0.49
Ion Sasu PSM 38,375 0.34
Nicolae Cerveni PLDR 31,983 0.29
TOTAL 11,212,974 100 10,020,870 100

LEGEND
PDSR - Romanian Democratic - Social Pole (Polul Democrat- Social din Romania); alliance of PDSR (Party of Social Democracy; see previous elections), PSDR (Social Democratic Party) and PUR (Humanistic Party of Romania)
PRM - Greater Romania Party (Partidul Romania Mare)
PNL - National Liberal Party (Partidul National Liberal)
CDR2000 - Romanian Democratic Convention 2000 (Conventia Democrata Romana 2000); alliance of PNTCD (National Peasant Party-Christian Democratic) and a number of small parties
UDMR/RMDSZ - Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania (Uniunea Democrata a Maghiarilor din Romania)
PD - Democratic Party (Partidul Democrat)
ApR - Alliance for Romania (Alianta pentru Romania)
PSM - Socialist Party of Labour (Partidul Socialist al Muncii)
PRN
PLDR

 

SOURCES: 2000 Elections - official results http://www.election.ro;
Anuarul Statistic al Romaniei (Statistical Yearbook of Romania) 1998
Monitorul Oficial al Romaniei, No.81-82, 8 June 1990;
Central Election Commission - official election results site http://www.kappa.ro/guv/bec/bec96.html

 

 

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