Who did the Romanians abroad vote for? Iohannis won in all major communities, except for Netherlands and Denmark
The record number of Romanians who voted abroad in the first round of the presidential elections played in the favor of incumbent president Klaus Iohannis, who got a massive 52.8% of the total votes in Diaspora, Romania-Insider.com has…
Romania Insider · Journalist
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The record number of Romanians who voted abroad in the first round of the presidential elections played in the favor of incumbent president Klaus Iohannis, who got a massive 52.8% of the total votes in Diaspora, Romania-Insider.com has calculated based on partial results after over 95% of the votes abroad have been counted and centralized.
Dan Barna, the candidate of Save Romania Union (USR) and PLUS alliance, got 27.7% of the votes abroad and Theodor Paleologu, of the Popular Movement Party (PMP), was third with 6.4%. Former prime minister Viorica Dancila (PSD) got only 2.7% of the total votes abroad, even less than actor Mircea Diaconu (independent), who got 3.6%.
The hierarchy is the same in 9 of the 12 countries with more than 10,000 voters. The only exceptions are the Netherlands and Denmark, where Dan Barna beat Klaus Iohannis, and Moldova, where Theodor Paleologu was second, with a slightly better score than Barna.
The results in the Diaspora have influenced but haven't changed the overall results of the elections. Iohannis won the first round with a score of over 37%, followed by Dancila, with close to 22%, and Barna - 14.8%.
Who did the Romanians in Italy vote for?
Italy, which hosts the biggest community of Romanians abroad, also saw the highest number of voters in the first round of the Romanian presidential elections – over 127,000. Klaus Iohannis got 53.7% of the total votes in Italy, followed by Dan Barna, with 27.7%.
In Italy, there were slightly more women voters (66,600) than men (63,000), according to statistics from the Central Electoral Office (BEC). Moreover, close to half (55,000) of the voters in Italy were between 45 and 64 years old, the same statistics reveal. The second-biggest category of voters were those in the 35-44 age bracket (39,000), and under 25,000 were in the 25-34 age group.
Who did the Romanians in the UK vote for?
UK saw the second-biggest number of voters – over 119,000. The scores here were much tighter: 44% for Iohannis and 37% for Barna. The structure of the voters was also significantly different from that in Italy, with 58% men voters versus 42% women. Almost 60% of the voters in the UK were young people, under 35. This shows that Romanians who live in the UK are mainly young people who immigrated in recent years, as opposed to those in Italy, who left the country some 10 years ago.
