Opposition DISY won Sunday’s parliamentary elections with ruling AKEL trailing behind, as both parties made gains compared with five years ago. DISY garnered 34.27 per cent of the vote – a 3.75 per cent rise – with AKEL recording a 1.36 per cent gain that put it in second place with 32.67 per cent. Government coalition partner DIKO saw its support drop by 2.22 per cent to 15.77 per cent of the vote while EVROKO gathered 3.88 per cent of the vote – recording a 1.90 drop.
Socialists EDEK and the Green party saw marginal losses.
Pancyprian results at 100% of registered voters in parliamentary elections are as follows:
A total of 418,181 ballots were counted, 404,518 were valid, 8,693 invalid, 4,970 blank and there were 113,282 abstentions.
Votes went to:
DISY 138,614 34.27%
AKEL 132,163 32.67%
DIKO 63,783 15.77%
EDEK 36,119 8.93%
EVROKO 15,712 3.88%
GREENS 8,954 2.21%
ELAM 4,350 1.08%
LASOK 2,668 0.66%
ZYGOS 858 0.21%
KY.PRO.S 709 0.18%
KYRIAKOU K. 235 0.06%
EFSTRATIOU A. 213 0.05%
CONSTANTINOU N. 45 0.01%
STAVROU P. 39 0.01%
PIERIDIS A. 36 0.01%
STAVROU L. 20 0.01%
The elections won’t mean a change in government under the island’s presidential system.
Chief Returning Officer Lazaros Savvides said that the final turnout around 80 per cent, or 9 per cent lower than the previous elections.
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