2020 Romanian parliamentary election

Parliamentary elections were held in Romania on 6 December 2020 to elect the 136 members of the Senate and the 330 constituent members of the Chamber of Deputies.

2020 Romanian parliamentary election

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All 136 seats in the Senate All 330 seats in the Chamber of Deputies 69 S and 166 D seats needed for a majority
Registered	18,964,642
Turnout	31.95% ( 6.49 pp)
First party Second party Third party   Leader Marcel Ciolacu Ludovic Orban Dan Barna Dacian Cioloș Party PSD PNL USR PLUS Leader's seat D - Buzău D - Bucharest D - Sibiu MEP Last election 67 S / 154 D 30 S / 69 D 13 S / 30 D Seats after 47 S / 110 D 41 S / 93 D 25 S / 55 D Seat change 20 S / 44 D 11 S / 24 D 12 S / 25 D Popular vote 1,705,777 1,486,401 906,962 Percentage 28.90% 25.19% 15.37%   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader George Simion Claudiu Târziu Hunor Kelemen Varujan Pambuccian[a] Party AUR UDMR Minority parties Leader's seat D - Bucharest S - Bucharest D - Harghita D - Nationwide[b] Last election - 9 S / 21 D 0 S / 17 D Seats after 14 S / 33 D 9 S / 21 D 0 S / 18 D Seat change New 0 S / 0 D 0 S / 1 D Popular vote 535,828 339,030 98,681 Percentage 9.08% 5.74% 1.67%
Chamber of Deputies results Senate results
Prime Minister before election Ludovic Orban PNL Prime Minister after election Florin Cîțu PNL

While the Social Democratic Party (PSD) remained the largest political party in the Parliament, its popular vote share dropped considerably, by a third. The elections resulted in a centre-right coalition government was formed by the National Liberal Party (PNL), USR PLUS, and the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians (UDMR/RMDSZ) (i.e. the former Cîțu Cabinet) with former Minister of Public Finance and former PNL president Florin Cîțu as Prime Minister.

The final voter turnout was approximately 32%, the lowest since the end of the communist era in Romania, partially due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the country.

Electoral system

The 330 members of the Chamber of Deputies are elected by several methods: 308 are elected from 42 multi-member constituencies based on counties and Bucharest, using proportional representation, four are elected using proportional representation from a constituency representing Romanians living abroad. Parties must pass a threshold of 5% of the national vote or at least 20% of the vote in four constituencies. Further seats (currently 18) can be added for ethnic minority groups that compete in the elections and pass a special (lower) threshold (calculated as 10% of the votes needed to obtain one of the regular 312 seats).^{[2][failed verification]}

The 136 members of the Senate are also elected using party-list proportional representation, but from 43 constituencies based on the 41 counties (a total of 121 seats), Bucharest (13 seats), and one for Romanians living overseas (two seats).^[2]

Following the elections, seats are allocated to the candidates of successful parties and lists in several stages, starting with constituencies, where seats are distributed according to the Hare quota of the constituency. Unused votes are then transferred and congregated at the national level, where remaining seats are distributed using the D'Hondt method, to ensure overall proportionality between a party's national vote share and its share of parliamentary seats. These remaining seats are then allocated to party candidates within the constituencies, based on the party results in each constituencies.^[3][4]

Government

The previous election saw the Social Democratic Party (PSD) led by Liviu Dragnea emerge as the largest political party in the parliament, although they fell short of an absolute majority. Nevertheless, the PSD eventually established a coalition agreement with the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats (ALDE), forming the Grindeanu Cabinet in January 2017. However, the new government did not last long and was replaced by the Tudose Cabinet in June 2017, which was also short-lived. Ultimately, the Dăncilă Cabinet took office in January 2018. It was dismissed by a motion of no confidence in October 2019, and replaced by a National Liberal Party (PNL) minority government under Ludovic Orban in November 2019. The Orban Cabinet was dismissed by a motion of no confidence on the 5 February 2020, but took office again on 14 March 2020.

Period before the political campaign

The government decided parliamentary elections would be held on 6 December 2020.^[5][6] On 30 September 2020, the president of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats (ALDE), Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu, proposed on Facebook that the elections be postponed to March 2021.^[7] On 2 October 2020, former Save Romania Union (USR) deputy Adrian Dohotaru submitted a bill to the Senate, proposing the parliamentary elections be held on 14 March 2021, which received support from the Social Democratic Party (PSD).^[8] On 7 October 2020, the first vice-president of the PSD, Sorin Grindeanu, claimed that the government's plan would lead to a surge in COVID-19 cases.^[9] On 8 October, Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu and Victor Ponta announced in a press conference that their parties will run in the elections on a shared list under a single name: Social-Liberal PRO Romania (Romanian: PRO România Social-Liberal).^[10][11]

PSD president Marcel Ciolacu announced on 15 October that the World Health Organization's representative in Romania, Alexandru Rafila, was one of the party's candidates for the parliamentary elections. He will be top of the list of deputies for the Bucharest circumscription, while Gabriela Firea will lead the list of senators.^[12]

Political parties

The following table presents the composition of the Parliament of Romania during the 2016–2020 parliamentary term.

Party		Abbr.	Founded	Leader	Ideology	2016 result		Seats at dissolution	Government support		Ref
						Votes (%)	Seats		Grindeanu (2017) Tudose (2017–18) Dăncilă (2018–19)	Orban I (2019–20) Orban II (2020)
	Social Democratic Party (Romanian: Partidul Social Democrat)	PSD	2001	Marcel Ciolacu	Social democracy Social conservatism Left-wing nationalism Soft Euroscepticism	45.48% D 45.68% S	154 / 329 67 / 136	123 / 329 68 / 136	Coalition government	Opposition	[13][14][15]
	National Liberal Party (Romanian: Partidul Național Liberal)	PNL	1990 (1875)	Ludovic Orban	Conservative liberalism Liberal conservatism Pro-Europeanism	20.04% D 20.42% S	69 / 329 30 / 136	82 / 329 31 / 136	Opposition	Minority government	[16][17]
	Save Romania Union (Romanian: Uniunea Salvați România)	USR	2015[18]	Dan Barna	Anti-corruption Liberalism Economic liberalism	8.87% D 8.92% S	30 / 329 13 / 136	25 / 329 13 / 136	Opposition	Supporting government	[19][20]
	Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (Hungarian: Romániai Magyar Demokrata Szövetség; Romanian: Uniunea Democrată Maghiară din România)	UDMR RMDSZ	1989	Hunor Kelemen	Hungarian minority interests Liberal conservatism Christian democracy	6.19% D 6.24% S	21 / 329 9 / 136	20 / 329 9 / 136	Supporting PSD–ALDE government (until August 2019)	Opposition (since February 2020)	[21][22]
	People's Movement Party (Romanian: Partidul Mișcarea Populară)	PMP	2014	Eugen Tomac	Liberal conservatism Christian democracy Economic liberalism	5.35% D 5.65% S	18 / 329 8 / 136	16 / 329 6 / 136	Opposition	Supporting government	[23][24]
	PRO Romania Social-Liberal (Romanian: PRO România Social-Liberal)	PRO	2018	Victor Ponta	Social liberalism Pro-Europeanism	Did not exist		21 / 329 3 / 136	Opposition (formed February 2018)	Opposition	[25][26][27][28]
	Alliance of Liberals and Democrats (Romanian: Alianța Liberalilor și Democraților)	ALDE	2015	Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu	Liberalism Conservative liberalism Soft Euroscepticism	5.62% D 6.01% S	20 / 329 9 / 136	Subsequently merged with PRO Romania in 2020	Government minority partner until August 2019	—
	Humanist Power Party (Romanian: Partidul Puterii Umaniste)	PPU-SL	2015	Daniel Ionașcu	Humanism Social liberalism	0.04% D 0.04% S	0 / 329 0 / 136	7 / 329 0 / 136	—	Opposition	[29]
	Ethnic minority parties		–	–	–	1.34% D 0.01% S	17 / 329 0 / 136	17 / 329 0 / 136	Neutral (Mostly supporting government)		[30]
	Non-inscrits		–	–	–	–		12 / 329 0 / 136	—	Neutral	[31]

Opinion polls

For the events during these years, see 2017 in Romania, 2018 in Romania, 2019 in Romania, and 2020 in Romania.

Party vote

Color key:

  Exit polls

Date	Poll source	Sample size	PSD	PNL	USR	PLUS	UDMR	PRO	ALDE	PMP	AUR	Others	Lead
6 December 2020	2020 parliamentary elections		28.9 110	25.2 93	15.4 55		5.7 21	4.1 0		4.8 0	9.1 33	6.8 18[c]	3.7
6 December 2020[d]	CURS-Avangarde	–	30.5	29.0	15.9		5.7	5.0		5.0	5.2	3.7	1.5
6 December 2020[d]	Sociopol	–	28.0	28.0	16.3		6.2	5.7		4.3	5.8	5.7	Tie
6 December 2020[e]	CURS-Avangarde	–	30.6	29.1	16.4		5.7	5.0		5.0	5.3	2.9	1.5
6 December 2020[e]	Sociopol	–	28.3	28.3	16.8		6.4	6.3		4.6	5.9	3.4	Tie
6 December 2020	INSOMAR IC	–	28.2	32.8	15.6		5.8	4.5		6.0	3.0	4.1	4.6
6 Dec 2020	PNL	—	27.0	30.0	23.0		5.5	4.2		3.0	6.5	–	3.0
3 Dec 2020	Politico	—	28	31	16		4	7		3	–	–	3
2–3 Dec 2020	IRES	1,067	35	32	16		3	7		3	3	1	3
1 Dec 2020	PMP	—	31	28	21		6	5		6	2	1	3
30 Nov 2020	PRO	—	22.0	31.0	17.0		5.0	7.8		3.0	–	14.2	9.0
28–29 Nov 2020	Sociopol	1,033	28	29	13		6	6		3	7	8	1
22–28 Nov 2020	IRSOP	1,004	30	33	17		5	7		3	–	5	3
6–27 Nov 2020	IMAS	1,010	23.6	28.5	18.0		4.7	9.5	3.3	4.6	–	7.8	4.9
20–25 Nov 2020	Verifield	1,100	22.0	31.3	17.0		5.4	9.3		4.8	–	10.2	9.3
1–10 Nov 2020	CURS	1,067	29	32	16		5	6		7	–	–	3
9 Nov 2020	PNL	—	27.0	32.0	21.0		6.0	5.0		6.0	–	3.0	5.0
25–30 Oct 2020	BCS	1,482	28.6	32.2	17.6		4.8	5.2		7.4	–	4.2	3.6
7–28 Oct 2020	IMAS	1,010	21.7	32.6	20.4		5.1	8.9	2.5	4.8	–	4.3	10.9
9–17 Oct 2020	USR–PLUS	—	23	30	23		5	8		5	–	6	7
8–11 Oct 2020	CURS	800	31	32	12		5	6	3	6	–	5	1
8 October 2020	ALDE and PRO Romania merge into PRO Romania Social Liberal[10][32]
27 September 2020	Local elections
7–23 Sep 2020	IMAS	1,010	19.6	34.7	17		5.3	9.5	3.0	4.5	–	6.4	15.1
6–26 Aug 2020	IMAS	1,010	20.8	33.6	18.3		5.7	10.6	2.4	4.1	–	4.6	12.8
15 August 2020	USR and PLUS merge[33]
29 Jul–5 Aug 2020	CURS	1,100	28	31	14		4	7	5	5	–	6	3
10–29 Jul 2020	IMAS	1,010	23.4	33.4	17.2		5.6	9.7	3.4	3.9	–	3.4	10
19–30 Jun 2020	CURS	1,100	28	32	16		5	7	5	5	–	2	4
5–27 Jun 2020	IMAS	1,010	21.9	33.0	12.3	5.8	3.4	11.2	3.7	4.7	–	4.0	11.1
8–27 May 2020	IMAS	1,010	23.0	32.6	11.6	5.1	5.1	11.2	4.2	3.7	–	3.1	9.6
15–26 May 2020	Avangarde	1,000	29	35	13		5	6	4	4	–	4	6
21 May 2020	PSD	—	27	35	16	2	4	8	4	4	–	–	8
15–20 May 2020	INSCOP	1,132	25.8	38.5	10.2		6.0	9.4	3.6	3.5	–	2.9	12.7
1–7 May 2020	BCS	1,545	22.5	33.0	22.0		5.3	5.1	1.4	6.5	–	4.3	10.5
6–24 Apr 2020	IMAS	1,010	24.8	33.0	10.8	5.1	5.5	8.2	4.4	3.4	–	4.8	8.2
1–15 Apr 2020	BCS	1,008	22.9	31.3	19.9		3.6	8.8	2.5	6.7	–	4.2	8.4
5–26 Mar 2020	IMAS	—	23.9	36.7	12.5	6.5	4.5	5.8	3.5	3.5	–	3.0	12.8
11–28 Feb 2020	IMAS	1,010	25.8	40.7	10.0	3.5	4.4	4.6	4.3	3.6	–	3.1	14.9
13–31 Jan 2020	IMAS	1,007	20.6	47.4	12.4	3.4	4.7	3.8	3.2	1.8	–	2.7	26.8
20–30 Jan 2020	CURS	1,229	26	37	14		5	6	4	4	–	1	11
13–18 Dec 2019	Sociopol	1,000	23	47	13		4	5	2	3	–	3	24
4–18 Dec 2019	IMAS	1,011	18.5	45.0	11.5	3.5	5.0	6.4	3.5	3.0	–	4.6	26.5
12–17 Dec 2019	CURS	1,067	31	35	14		4	6	4	5	–	1	4
11–27 Nov 2019	IMAS	1,011	21.3	39.0	12.6	5.6	4.2	6.4	3.3	2.9	–	4.7	17.7
24 November 2019	Iohannis re-elected President of Romania with 66.09% of the vote
25 Oct–3 Nov 2019	USR	1,225	24.0	38.2	20.0		4.5	4.8	–	4.3	–	4.2	14.2
8–28 Oct 2019	IMAS	1,010	21.2	29.6	16.4	5.6	5.5	10.7	4.3	3.4	–	4.4	8.4
15–23 Oct 2019	USR	—	24.9	36.8	19.9		4.0	6.5	–	4.0	–	3.9	11.9
12–19 Oct 2019	BCS	1,117	23.8	36.3	16.8		5.7	5.6	3.3	5.6	–	2.9	12.5
10 October 2019	Dăncilă ousted as Prime Minister following a vote of no confidence from the opposition parties in the Parliament.
9–28 Sep 2019	IMAS	1,010	19.5	27.7	17.9	5.2	5.3	9.1	6.2	3.3	–	5.3	8.2
3–24 Sep 2019	USR	1,500	25.3	36.8	21.2		2.9	5.6	–	3.2	–	5.2	11.5
16–20 Sep 2019	Socio-Data	1,070	25	28	22		5	9	4	5	–	2	3
9–13 Sep 2019	Socio-Data	1,070	26	32	22		4	6	5	3	–	2	6
2–6 Sep 2019	Socio-Data	1,070	24	32	21		4	9	3	5	–	2	8
26–30 Aug 2019	Socio-Data	1,070	22	26	24		4	10	6	5	–	3	2
19–31 Aug 2019	Sociopol	1,001	20	35	16		3	11	5	5	–	5	15
26–30 Aug 2019	Verifield	1,000	25	28	23		4	8	6	2	–	4	3
5–28 Aug 2019	IMAS	1,010	17.9	28.4	19.8	5.5	4.6	8.7	7.4	2.9	–	4.8	8.6
19 Jul–5 Aug 2019	CURS	1,600	24	31	20		4	7	8	5	–	1	7
15 Jul–2 Aug 2019	IMAS	1,010	19.4	25.5	21.4	6.0	4.2	9.0	7.3	2.9	–	4.2	4.1
17–23 Jul 2019	BCS	1,128	25.4	34.2	18.6		4.6	4.8	5.7	5.5	–	1.1	8.8
28 Jun–8 Jul 2019	CURS	1,067	26	29	22		4	8	5	4	–	2	3
7–26 Jun 2019	IMAS	1,010	18.9	27.5	17.6	7.6	2.5	9.8	8.5	3.7	–	3.8	8.6
27 May 2019	PSD Leader Liviu Dragnea jailed for 3 years and a half
26 May 2019	European elections		22.5	27.0	22.4		5.3	6.4	4.1	5.8	–	6.5	4.5
2–20 May 2019	IMAS	1,010	21.4	29.3	14.4	6.3	3.3	8.0	10.2	5.5	–	1.7	7.9
5–28 Apr 2019	CURS	1,500	32	25	12		5	9	10	5	–	2	7
12–25 Mar 2019	CURS	1,067	31	23	13		5	8	10	6	–	4	8
1–21 Feb 2019	IMAS	1,010	23.4	23.6	10.5	8.0	5.0	11.1	12.4	3.5	–	2.5	0.2
21 Jan–6 Feb 2019	CURS	1,067	31	21	9	4	5	8	10	5	–	7	10
28 Jan–4 Feb 2019	Sociopol	1,003	33	20	9	6	4	8	11	2	–	7	13
11–30 Jan 2019	IMAS	1,011	25.3	22.1	11.0	8.9	4.4	8.1	13.4	3.8	–	3.2	3.2
12–20 Jan 2019	BCS	—	23.0	23.7	6.5	8.1	4.8	10.7	8.1	9.3	–	5.8	0.7
Jan 2019	PNL	26,000	30.2	27.0	10.2	5.0	5.0	5.5	11.6	4.2	–	1.3	3.2
4–20 Dec 2018	IMAS	1,010	25.2	26.1	11.5	8.1	4.6	6.2	9.6	2.5	–	6.2	0.9
24 Nov–9 Dec 2018	CURS	1,067	33	20	7	5	6	9	9	5	–	6	13
Nov 2018	IMAS	1,010	24.9	23.3	14.8	8.2	5.8	–	11.7	2.1	–	9.2	1.6
Oct 2018	IMAS	—	27.6	21.9	13.1	9.6	4.7	–	10.6	4.1	–	8.4	5.7
6–7 Oct 2018	Constitutional referendum fails due to insufficient turnout
3–4 Oct 2018	Sociopol	873	38	23	6	5	4	5	10	1	–	8	15
20 Sep–1 Oct 2018	CURS	1,067	37	22	8	5	5	6	9	5	–	3	15
Sep 2018	IMAS	—	28.1	27.1	9.5	10.1	5.6	–	11.4	2.7	–	5.5	1.0
22–27 Sep 2018	Sociopol	1,004	34	20	10	4	4	7	11	2	–	8	16
7–20 Aug 2018	Sociopol	1,005	35	19	13	4	4	3	10	3	–	5	16
Jul 2018	IRI	—	26	24	7	5	1	–	6	3	–	28	2
Jun 2018	IMAS	1,200	28.4	29.2	11.3	8.0	5.0	–	8.6	2.8	–	6.7	0.8
23 Jun–1 Jul 2018	CURS	1,067	37	24	7	5	5	5	8	4	–	4	13
22–26 Jun 2018	Sociopol	917	41	20	7	7	4	5	12	1	–	3	21
28 May–8 Jun 2018	Sociopol	1,003	40	18	9	8	5	3	7	1	–	9	22
27 Apr–8 May 2018	CURS	1,067	39	25	6	3	6	3	8	5	–	5	14
Mar 2018	CURS	—	39	27	7	–	–	–	12	5	–	10	12
27 Feb–5 Mar 2018	Sociopol	1,000	34	33	12	–	6	–	5	5	–	5	1
20 February 2018	PRO Romania is founded, as a split-off from PSD.
Feb 2018	IMAS	1,010	28.6	29.4	11.2	–	6.0	–	10.6	4.6	–	9.6	0.8
29 January 2018	The Dăncilă Cabinet takes office, with the supply and confidence vote on behalf of the UDMR and other MPs from national minorities.
16 January 2018	Prime minister Tudose resigns, followed by other ministers.
3–10 Jan 2018	CURS	1,068	42	27	5	2	6	2	9	5	–	6	15
24 Nov–7 Dec 2017	Avangarde	700	46	23	5	–	5	–	13	4	–	4	23
Nov 2017	CURS	1,067	43	27	5	–	6	–	9	6	–	4	16
Sep 2017	IMAS	1,000	38.8	30.9	6.8	–	5.0	–	8.1	3.0	–	7.4	7.9
22 Sep–5 Oct 2017	Sociopol	—	61	24	2	–	3	–	4	3	–	3	37
28 Aug–14 Sep 2017	Sociopol	1,005	51	27	7	–	4	–	6	3	–	2	24
11–23 Aug 2017	Avangarde	710	46	25	6	–	5	–	7	4	–	7	21
14–29 Jun 2017	Ministers resign. A motion of no-confidence is passed against the Grindeanu cabinet with PSD support. The Tudose Cabinet is afterwards sworn in.
15–22 Jun 2017	Avangarde	781	46	30	9	–	3	–	6	5	–	1	16
Apr 2017	IMAS	—	40.6	25.4	8.2	–	–	–	8.5	–	–	–	15.2
6–14 Mar 2017	Sociopol	1,007	47	21	12	–	5	–	6	3	–	6	26
18 Jan–5 Mar 2017	Street protests force the government to withdraw some of its proposed policies
Jan 2017	IMAS	—	49.0	20.7	8.3	–	–	–	6.8	–	–	–	28.3
4 January 2017	The Grindeanu Cabinet (PSD–ALDE coalition) assumes office
11 December 2016	2016 elections		45.5 154	20.0 69	8.9 30	–	6.2 21	–	5.6 20	5.4 18	–	6.3 17[c]	25.5

Incidents

An 80-year-old man from Teiu, Argeș fell into cardiac arrest and died outside a polling station on election day. He was known to have heart problems.^[34][35]

Two polling stations from Sector 3 of Bucharest had their voting suspended: for about an hour at polling station 551, after a member of the electoral bureau tested positive for COVID-19; and for two and a half hours at station 643, after the death of a voter.^[36]

Results

Participation was 33.30% and 5.9 million valid votes were cast.^[37] After counting all votes, but before the settlement of any appeals, PSD has won around 29.5% of the votes, PNL around 25.5%, USR PLUS around 15.5%, AUR around 9%, and UDMR around 6%. The high result of the quasi-unknown party AUR was considered a huge surprise, while PMP and PRO Romania both failed to get 5% of the votes required to win any seats.^[38]

Senate

Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Social Democratic Party	1,732,276	29.32	47	–20
	National Liberal Party	1,511,225	25.58	41	+11
	USR PLUS	936,862	15.86	25	+12
	Alliance for the Union of Romanians	541,935	9.17	14	New
	Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania	348,262	5.89	9	0
	People's Movement Party	291,484	4.93	0	–8
	PRO Romania Social Liberal	244,225	4.13	0	–9
	Ecologist Party of Romania	78,654	1.33	0	0
	Humanist Power Party (Social-Liberal)	70,536	1.19	0	0
	Greater Romania Party	38,474	0.65	0	0
	National Rebirth Alliance	23,773	0.40	0	New
	Romanian Socialist Party	23,093	0.39	0	0
	Green Party	23,085	0.39	0	0
	New Romania Party	19,516	0.33	0	0
	Noua Dreaptă	4,345	0.07	0	0
	Social Democratic Workers' Party	3,855	0.07	0	New
	National Peasant Party Maniu-Mihalache	2,803	0.05	0	New
	Right Alternative	2,233	0.04	0	New
	Romanian Nation Party	2,061	0.03	0	New
	Communists' Party	763	0.01	0	New
	Re:Start Romania Party	753	0.01	0	New
	National Unity Bloc	410	0.01	0	0
	National Force Party	268	0.00	0	New
	Independents	7,440	0.13	0	0
Total		5,908,331	100.00	136	0
Valid votes		5,908,331	97.53
Invalid/blank votes		149,429	2.47
Total votes		6,057,760	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		18,964,642	31.94
Source: BEC

Chamber of Deputies

Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Social Democratic Party	1,705,777	28.90	110	–44
	National Liberal Party	1,486,401	25.19	93	+24
	USR PLUS	906,962	15.37	55	+25
	Alliance for the Union of Romanians	535,828	9.08	33	New
	Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania	339,030	5.74	21	0
	People's Movement Party	284,501	4.82	0	–18
	PRO Romania Social-Liberal	241,267	4.09	0	–20
	Ecologist Party of Romania	65,807	1.12	0	0
	Party of Humanist Power (social-liberal)	59,465	1.01	0	0
	Greater Romania Party	32,654	0.55	0	0
	National Rebirth Alliance	21,662	0.37	0	New
	Green Party	20,614	0.35	0	0
	Romanian Socialist Party	19,693	0.33	0	0
	Party of the Roma "Pro Europe"	14,523	0.25	1	0
	New Romania Party	14,089	0.24	0	0
	League of Albanians of Romania	9,029	0.15	1	0
	Democratic Forum of Germans in Romania	7,582	0.13	1	0
	Association of Macedonians of Romania	7,144	0.12	1	0
	Hellenic Union of Romania	6,096	0.10	1	0
	Union of the Ukrainians of Romania	5,457	0.09	1	0
	Democratic Union of Slovaks and Czechs	5,386	0.09	1	0
	Community of the Lipovan Russians	5,146	0.09	1	0
	Bulgarian Union of Banat–Romania	4,853	0.08	1	0
	Union of Serbs of Romania	4,691	0.08	1	0
	Association of Italians of Romania	4,170	0.07	1	0
	Union of Armenians of Romania	3,820	0.06	1	0
	Cultural Union of Ruthenians of Romania	3,779	0.06	1	0
	Union of Poles of Romania	3,750	0.06	1	0
	Noua Dreaptă	3,551	0.06	0	0
	Democratic Turkish Union of Romania	3,539	0.06	1	0
	Federation of the Jewish Communities in Romania	3,509	0.06	1	0
	Union of Croats of Romania	3,345	0.06	1	0
	Democratic Union of Turkish-Muslim Tatars	2,862	0.05	1	+1
	National Peasant Party Maniu-Mihalache	2,727	0.05	0	0
	Right Alternative	2,005	0.03	0	New
	Social Democratic Workers' Party	1,912	0.03	0	New
	Romanian Nation Party	1,752	0.03	0	New
	Re:Start Romania Party	537	0.01	0	New
	National Unity Bloc	293	0.00	0	0
	Communists' Party	213	0.00	0	New
	National Force Party	148	0.00	0	New
	Independents	56,346	0.95	0	0
Total		5,901,915	100.00	330	+1
Valid votes		5,901,915	97.43
Invalid/blank votes		155,859	2.57
Total votes		6,057,774	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		18,964,642	31.94
Source: BEC

Gallery

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  Map highlighting the results for the Senate
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  Map highlighting the results for the Chamber of Deputies
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  Detailed map depicting the winner party by territorial unit at the level of the Senate
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  Detailed map depicting the winner party by territorial unit at the level of the Chamber of Deputies
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  Map depicting the vote strength of each party in each county in the election

Aftermath

On 18 December 2020 the National Liberal Party (PNL), the USR PLUS, and the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR/RMDSZ) announced that they had reached a coalition agreement, and proposed finance minister Florin Cîțu as prime minister. The government would have two deputy prime ministers (one from USR PLUS and one from UDMR) and 18 ministries, with 9 allocated for the PNL, 6 for USR PLUS, and 3 for UDMR. The allocations are as follows (with newly created ministries italicized):^[39]

• PNL: Foreign Affairs Ministry, Defense Ministry, Finance Ministry, Interior Ministry, Education Ministry, Energy Ministry, Agriculture Ministry, Labor Ministry, and Culture Ministry
• USR PLUS: Justice Ministry, Transport Ministry, Health Ministry, Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digitization, and the Ministry of Economy, Entrepreneurship and Tourism
• UDMR: Ministry of Development, Public Works and Administration, the Ministry of Environment, Waters and Forests, and the Ministry of Youth and Sports

Cîțu was officially appointed as Prime Minister-designate on 22 December by President Klaus Iohannis. On 23 December, the Cabinet was invested by the parliament and took oath of office on the same evening.

The Romanian Electoral Authority stated that the campaign financing publicly subsidies amounted to a grand total of 166,850,315.50 Romanian Lei. The parties/candidates were required to achieve at least 3% of the vote to apply for a public subsidy of their campaign expenditures.^[40]

See also

• 2021 Romanian political crisis

Notes

1. Pambuccian, a member of the Union of Armenians of Romania, has been the parliamentary leader of the national minorities' group since 1996.
2. National minorities have nationwide mandates and do not represent a specific county.^[1]
3. MPs from the Romanian ethnic minority parties.
4. Poll measuring Chamber of Deputies results
5. Poll measuring Senate results