Reversing the (well within margin of error) exit polls, the official results show that Romanian President Traian Basescu has been reelected. The Social Democratic Party says it will contest the outcome before the Constitutional Court, alleging rigging.
The Central Electoral Bureau reports the result as 50.33% Bsescu to 49.66% Mircea Geoana. That’s close!
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Actually, one of the four exit polls correctly forecast the runoff vote’s outcome to within 0.1%.
At any rate, it’s not only the closest-ever outcome of a Romanian presidential election, but also the first time that a presidential runoff in Romania registers a higher voter turnout rate (58%) than the first round (54.4%). Moreover, the number of votes cast in special polling stations (for citizens who are away from their place of residence on election day) appears to be sharply up once more, at least in Bucharest and all but one of the eight counties for which detailed reports are available so far.
Finally, I put up a page on Presidential and Parliamentary Elections in Romania on my website, which has 2009 presidential election results, including nationwide runoff vote totals; for Romanian election statistics on events held prior to 2004 (which I don’t have on my site as of yet), one print source I’d recommend is Parties and Elections in New European Democracies by Richard Rose & Neil Munro.
Seed planted by Manuel Alvarez-Rivera — 07 December 2009 @ 18:55