Jump to content

2021 Cypriot legislative election

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Extended Cut (talk | contribs) at 21:35, 28 June 2021. The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

2021 Cypriot legislative election
Cyprus
← 2016 30 May 2021 (2021-05-30) 2026 →

56 of 80 seats in the House of Representatives
29 seats needed for a majority
Turnout65.72% (Decrease 1.02 pp)
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/–
DISY Averof Neophytou 27.8% 17 −1
AKEL Andros Kyprianou 22.3% 15 −1
DIKO Nikolas Papadopoulos 11.3% 9 0
ELAM Chrístos Chrístou 6.8% 4 +2
scope="row" style="border-left: 4px solid Template:Movement for Social Democracy/meta/color;" | EDEK
SYPOL
Marinos Sizopoulos 6.7% 4 −2
DIPA Marios Garoyian 6.1% 4 New
KOSP Charalambos Theopemptou 4.4% 3 +1
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
President of the House of Representatives before President of the House of Representatives after
Adamos Adamou
AKEL
Annita Demetriou
DISY

Parliamentary elections were held in Cyprus on 30 May 2021 to elect 56 of the 80 Members of the House of Representatives.[1]

Electoral system

The 80 members of the House of Representatives are elected from six multi-member constituencies, with the number of seats allocated according to the population of each area. Of the 80, 56 are elected by Greek Cypriots and 24 by Turkish Cypriots. However, since 1964, the Turkish Cypriot seats are unfilled and the House of Representatives has de facto had 56 seats since its enlargement in the 1980s.

The elections are held using open list proportional representation; voters vote for a party and can then cast one preferential vote for a candidate on their party's list for every four seats available in their constituency (party leaders or other candidates heading coalitions are not required to receive preferential votes to be elected). Seats are allocated using the Hare quota, with any remaining seats allocated to lists that won at least one seat or parties that received at least 3.6% of the vote.[2]

Parties

Party Ideology Leader
bgcolor="Template:Democratic Rally/meta/color" | Democratic Rally (DISY) Liberal conservatism Averof Neophytou
bgcolor="Template:Progressive Party of Working People/meta/color" | Progressive Party of Working People (AKEL) Communism, Marxism-Leninism, Cypriotism Andros Kyprianou
bgcolor="Template:Democratic Party (Cyprus)/meta/color" | Democratic Party (DIKO) Greek Cypriot nationalism, Centrism Nikolas Papadopoulos
bgcolor="Template:Movement for Social Democracy/meta/color" | Movement for Social Democracy (EDEK) Greek Cypriot nationalism, Social democracy Marinos Sizopoulos
bgcolor="Template:Movement of Ecologists — Citizens' Cooperation/meta/color" | Movement of Ecologists - Citizens' Cooperation (KOSP) Green politics, Social democracy Charalambos Theopemptou [el]
bgcolor="#Template:ELAM (Cyprus)/meta/color" | National Popular Front (ELAM) Ultranationalism Chrístos Chrístou [el]
bgcolor="Template:Citizens' Alliance (Cyprus)/meta/color" | Citizens' Alliance (SYPOL) Populism, Social democracy Giorgos Lillikas
Solidarity Movement (KA) National conservatism, Euroscepticism Eleni Theocharous
Democratic Front (DIPA) Centrism Marios Garoyian
Independents Movement (Anex) Social liberalism, Centrism Anna Theologou

Opinion polls

Date Polling Firm DISY AKEL DIKO EDEK SYPOL KA KOSP ELAM DIPA Anex Others Lead
14-20 May 2021 Symmetron 26.3 24.9 12.4 6.2 6.2 6.7 4.9 1.4
5-15 May 2021 IMR/UNic 21.0 19.0 9.5 5.5 1.5 5.5 5.5 3.0 2.5 6.5[a] 2.0
10-14 May 2021 Prime 25.7 23.4 13.0 5.7 1.5 5.4 6.8 3.5 3.4 11.5 2.3
5-13 May 2021 Noverna 26.1 24.8 10.7 5.8 1.4 7.0 8.5 4.3 4.4 7.0[b] 1.3
6-12 May 2021 Prime 18.8 17.3 9.5 4.2 1.8 4.6 4.9 2.8 2.5 7.2[c] 1.5
4-12 May 2021 CYMAR 26.9 22.9 14.3 6.0 1.7 7.1 6.2 2.7 3.5 8.7[d] 4.0
4-7 May 2021 Pulse 25.0 23.0 12.0 6.0 3.0 7.0 7.0 3.5 3.5 9.0[e] 2.0
7-23 Apr 2021 Noverna 28.4 26.9 12.9 6.1 0.9 6.5 6.5 3.1 3.4 5.3[f] 1.5
13-17 Apr 2021 Cypronetwork 25.8 22.7 14.0 6.8 2.9 7.6 6.2 2.5 6.5 5.0[g] 3.1
12-16 Apr 2021 Prime 26.3 24.0 13.3 5.1 1.8 6.1 6.6 3.4 4.6 7.8[h] 2.3
31 Mar-16 Apr 2021 IMR/UNic 27.2 24.5 13.6 6.8 1.4 6.8 6.1 4.1 5.4 4.1 2.7
2-9 Apr 2021 Symmetron 26.4 23.9 14.5 5.8 1.5 7.4 5.8 4.1 5.8 4.8[i] 2.5
26 Mar-9 Apr 2021 CYMAR 28.1 24.6 12.0 4.8 0.7 6.5 8.5 2.6 5.4 6.8[j] 3.5
9 Mar - 4 Apr 2021 Conread 26.9 22.1 14.1 6.1 0.6 6.1 6.2 2.2 8.3 7.4[k] 4.8
8-20 Mar 2021 IMR/UNic 26.0 23.3 14.4 5.5 2.1 8.2 6.2 4.1 6.8 3.4 2.7
8-18 Mar 2021 Pulse 25.8 21.2 13.6 6.1 1.5 9.1 4.5 3.0 4.5 10.7 4.8
8-12 Mar 2021 Prime 23.9 21.3 11.9 4.8 - 1.9 6.1 5.8 3.0 1.9 10.4 2.6
25 Feb - 2 Mar 2021 GPO 28.1 26.3 13.8 4.8 1.6 8.4 9.2 3.4 3.4 2.6 2.3
12-19 Feb 2021 Symmetron 26.9 22.0 14.2 5.5 2.0 7.7 5.7 3.9 3.0 2.6[l] 4.9
1-6 Feb 2021 Prime 28.4 24.5 13.5 5.4 0.9 7.0 6.7 2.8 3.3 7.5 3.9
20-25 Jan 2021 Interview 30.0 20.5 12.0 4.8 4.8 4.0 4.8 4.3 - 14.8 9.5
16-23 Oct 2020 Prime 30.5 26.1 13.2 6.2 - 1.8 6.0 6.2 2.5 - 7.5 4.4
26 May EP election 2019 29.0% 27.5% 13.8% 10.6% 3.3% - with SYPOL 8.3% 3.8% - 5.7% 1.5
22 May Election 2016 30.7% 25.7% 14.5% 6.2% 6.0% 5.2% 4.8% 3.7% - - 1.1% 1.6

Campaign

Anti-government demonstrations have been taking place that resulted in clashes with the police.[3]

Despite the COVID-19 pandemic in Cyprus, the campaign and voting process is not expected to be significantly altered.[citation needed]

Results

PartyVotes%Seats+/–
Democratic Rally99,32827.7717–1
Progressive Party of Working People79,91322.3415–1
Democratic Party40,39511.2990
National Popular Front24,2556.784+2
Movement for Social DemocracyCitizens' Alliance24,0226.724–2
Democratic Front21,8326.104New
Movement of Ecologists – Citizens' Cooperation15,7624.413+1
Active Citizens – United Cypriot Hunters Movement11,7123.270New
Independents Movement10,0952.820New
Solidarity Movement8,2542.310–3
Famagusta for Cyprus5,5961.560New
Awakening 20204,8391.350New
People's Breath4,5851.2800
Animal Party Cyprus3,5931.0000
Patriotic Coalition3760.110New
Independents3,1550.8800
Total357,712100.00560
Valid votes357,71297.57
Invalid/blank votes8,8962.43
Total votes366,608100.00
Registered voters/turnout557,83665.72
Source: Ministry of Interior

Notes

  1. ^ Hunters’ Party 1.5%
  2. ^ Animal Party Cyprus 1.8%, Hunters’ Party 2.1%, Famagusta for Cyprus 0.9%, People's Breath 0.5%
  3. ^ Hunters’ Party 2.2%
  4. ^ Famagusta for Cyprus 2.7%, Hunters’ Party 2.0%, Animal Party Cyprus 1.4%, A2020 0.4%, People's Breath 0.3%
  5. ^ Famagusta for Cyprus 2.0%, Hunters’ Party 2.0%, A2020 1.5%
  6. ^ Animal Party Cyprus 1.2%, Famagusta for Cyprus 0.9%, People's Breath 1.4%
  7. ^ Animal Party Cyprus 1.5%, Famagusta for Cyprus 1.0%
  8. ^ Animal Party Cyprus 1.8%, Famagusta for Cyprus 1.6%, A2020 1.6%
  9. ^ Animal Party Cyprus 1.5%, Famagusta for Cyprus 1.3%
  10. ^ Animal Party Cyprus 1.0%, Famagusta for Cyprus 1.2%, A2020 0.6%, People's Breath 0.4%
  11. ^ People's Breath 0.5%
  12. ^ Animal Party Cyprus 2.0%

References

  1. ^ "IFES Election Guide | Elections: Cyprus Parliament 2021". www.electionguide.org. Retrieved 2021-02-14.
  2. ^ "IPU PARLINE database: CYPRUS (Vouli Antiprosopon), Electoral system". archive.ipu.org. Retrieved 2021-02-14.
  3. ^ ""I saw chaos": Cypriot demonstrator injured by police water cannon". news.yahoo.com. Retrieved 2021-02-24.