2007 European Parliament election in Romania

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Romania elected its members of the European Parliament for the first time on 25 November 2007; the election was initially scheduled for 13 May, but the PM postponed it for domestic political reasons. A referendum on a new voting system for national parliamentary elections was held on the same day.

Pre-election situation

Romania joined the European Union on 1 January 2007, and was initially represented in the European Parliament by 35 observers as follows:

Party		Group	Seats
	Social Democratic Party	PES	12
	National Liberal Party	ALDE	6
	Democratic Party	EPP-ED	5
	Greater Romania Party	ITS/NI	5
	Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania	EPP-ED	3
	Conservative Party	ALDE	2
	Democratic Forum of Germans in Romania	EPP-ED	1
	Independent	ITS/NI	1

Opinion polls

Polling Firm	Date	Source	PD	PSD	PNL	PNG	PRM	UDMR	PLD	PC	Undecided
CURS	1 July 2007	[1]	43%	10%	12%	8%	5%	5%	<5%	<5%	N/A
IMAS	1 August 2007	[2]	31.7%	12.8%	9.4%	9.3%	3.4%	2.7%	2.2%	N/A	26.3%
CURS	5 September 2007	[3]	35%	24%	13%	8%	5%	5%	<5%	<5%	N/A
CCSB	21-29/9/2007	[4]	37.2%	21.5%	12.6%	8.4%	5.6%	3.9%	<5%	4.1%	N/A
Insomar	10-17/10/2007	[5]	42%	19%	13%	5%	5%	5%	3%	3%	N/A
IMAS	10-22/10/2007	[6]	37%	18%	16%	8%	6%	6%	5%	N/A	N/A
CIVIS	24 October 2007	[7]	27.1%	20.7%	20.6%	8.8%	4.8%	4.4%	5.7%	1.9%	N/A
ATLE	6-11/11/2007	[8]	33.5%	25.0%	9.5%	5.5%	5.9%	4.9%	4.7%	4.5%	N/A
Insomar	8-13/11/2007	[9]	40%	19%	13%	5%	6%	5%	6%	4%	N/A
BCS	10-15/11/2007	[10]	35%	23%	14%	5.6%	4%	4%	4.7%	3.3%	N/A
ATLE	13-18/11/2007	[11] Archived 1 December 2007 at the Wayback Machine	32.1%	26.0%	9.5%	4.9%	6.3%	4.6%	5.2%	5.1%	N/A
CSOP	17-19/11/2007	[12]	38.2%	19.5%	12.9%	7.3%	4.8%	4.6%	6.2%	2.2%	N/A

Results

File:Romania european elections 2007.png

Map of the Romanian counties based on the winning party

  Democratic Party

  Social Democratic Party

  Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania

  Liberal Democratic Party

35 MEPs were appointed by Romania to serve as observers in the Parliament before the country joined in 2007. Since then up until the election, the observers served as full MEPs.

See also

• Elections in Romania
• Elections in the European Union
• 2007 European Parliament election in Bulgaria
• Romania (European Parliament constituency)