2019 Romanian presidential election

2019 Romanian presidential election

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Turnout	51.18% (first round) 55.07% (second round)
Nominee Klaus Iohannis Viorica Dăncilă Party PNL PSD Popular vote 6,509,135 3,339,922 Percentage 66.09% 33.91%
Second round results by county
President before election Klaus Iohannis PNL Elected President Klaus Iohannis PNL

Politics of Romania
Constitution Referendums 1991 (adoption) 2003 (amendments) Constitutional Court
Government President (list) Klaus Iohannis Prime Minister (list) Marcel Ciolacu Cabinet (current, list)
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Political parties Parliamentary National Liberal Party (PNL) Social Democratic Party (PSD) Save Romania Union (USR) Freedom, Unity and Solidarity Party (PLUS) Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR) Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR) Humanist Power Party (PPU) Romanian Nationhood Party (PNR) Other ethnic-minority parties Non-parliamentary People's Movement Party (PMP) PRO Romania (PRO) Greater Romania Party (PRM) Ecologist Party of Romania (PER)
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Presidential elections were held in Romania on 10 November 2019, with a second round held on 24 November 2019. They were the eighth presidential elections held in post-1989 Romania. Incumbent President of Romania Klaus Iohannis, first elected in 2014, was eligible for re-election. He subsequently defeated former Prime Minister and ex-leader of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) Viorica Dăncilă in the second round of the election by a landslide, receiving 66% of the vote – the second-highest vote share on record in this type of elections after Ion Iliescu (who received 85% of the vote in 1990).