Romania's center-left Social Democrat Party will remain the largest party in the parliament for next four years, according to exit poll results released soon after the run-off voting on Sunday.
Romanians voted in the parliamentary elections Sunday to elect a new parliament, with over 18 million voters registered for the vote. Voting began at 7 a.m. (0500 GMT) and ended at 9 p.m. (1900 GMT).
The Social Democrats, together with its alliance the Conservative Party, took 36.2 percent of votes for the Chamber of Deputies and 35.9 percent of votes for the Senate.
The center-left party is followed by the pro-presidential Democratic-Liberal Party with 30.3 percent for the Chamber of Deputies and 31.1 percent for the Senate. The ruling National Liberal Party got 20.4 percent and 19.9 percent for the two houses of the parliament respectively.
The Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania is the last to enter the parliament with 6.7 percent of the vote for the both houses of the parliament, according to the exit poll conducted by pollster Insomar.
The Sunday election is for the first time in the Romanian polling history when voters will elect the new parliament by a uninominal vote, replacing the old voting system where ballots were cast for an entire list of candidates selected by each political party rather than choosing individual candidates.
A total of 2,965 candidates are running for seats in the parliament, with 2,070 of them for 315 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 895 for 137 members in the Senate, the Central Electoral Bureau said.
The candidates are mostly from six parliamentary parties: the Social Democratic Party, the Conservative Party, the National Liberal Party, the Democratic-Liberal Party, the Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania and the Greater Romanian Party.
In addition, six non-parliamentary parties and 31 independents are also running in the race.
Romania has 43 electoral divisions, among which 41 for each of its counties, one for the capital city of Bucharest and one for Romanians residing abroad.
Source:Xinhua
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