Nearly 18 Million Romanians Expected To Elect New Lawmakers

About 18 million Romanian voters are expected at the polls Sunday to elect 315 deputies and 137 senators, for the first time through direct vote instead of voting for an entire list of candidates selected by a political party.

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The polls opened at GMT 0500 and will close at GMT1900.

Romania has 43 electoral divisions, one for each of its 41 counties, one for capital city Bucharest and one for Romanians living abroad.

Each electoral division will be represented in Parliament by a number of lawmakers set depending on each county’s population. Under the law, a deputy represents 70,000 people, while a senator represents 160,000 people.

Electoral divisions are in turn divided into uninominal constituencies.

Voters have 18,104 polling stations available, of which 221 are abroad. The country has 315 uninominal constituencies for the Chamber of Deputies and 137 constituencies for Senate.

Over 50,000 security forces have been deployed to guard polling stations, the Central Election Office and county election offices, ballots and other materials used in the process.

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