Talk:2016 Romanian parliamentary election

Date

Do we have any idea when in 2016 the election will be held? If not then it should be stated as such in the article, ideally by quoting the relevant rules (e.g. "no later than November 2016"). It's very confusing when you read an article like this and it's not made clear what we know about when an election will be held. Lewdswap (talk) 13:40, 6 August 2015 (UTC)

Opinion Polls

So I've noticed that the table of opinion polls in this article is quite different from those in many other election pages (like Swedish general election, 2018#Parties or Next Greek legislative election#Vote). So on My sandbox, I fiddled around with the data on this page to make it more similar to those, and hopefully more aesthetically pleasing. With regards to parties merging and/or forming alliances, I've modeled what I did after Opinion polling for the Catalonian parliamentary election, 2015 - though I'm definitely open to better ways of representing these. So tell me what you think - should this be the table on this article? (Since other people are going to actually add new data, I figured it would be better to check with them first.) Thanks! Chuborno (talk) 21:53, 6 August 2015 (UTC)

Your table looks great, much better than the current one. If you have time, please complete it with all opinion polls mentioned in the article and feel free to remove the current one with your version. – Alexandru M. (talk · contribs), 1 September 2016, 9:10 PM (EEST)

Electoral system

Can somebody please explain the electoral system in simple terms? A straightforward "this is how the vote for the chamber works and this is how the vote for the senate works". Not a full background and confusing tangents. What we have at present is the classic talking around the issue without ever explaining the basics. I've read it several times and I still don't have a clue how the system actually works. We don't need to know all of the vagaries of the discussions between politicians over how the system could work and we really don't need technical terms thrown out there like "uninominal" without any explanation. Really, Romanian politics is confusing enough as it is and nobody ever seems to just write a basic outline. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 27.145.43.96 (talk) 01:26, 15 December 2016 (UTC)

Percents

@Number 57:, seems like you counted percents with taking into account invalid votes. Or I don't understand something? For example, you divided 3,204,864 (SDP)by 7,261,300 (total votes, including invalid) to get 44.14%.

Crap, my bad. Thanks for letting me know. Now fixed. Number 57 21:25, 15 December 2016 (UTC)

Proportionality

Can someone explain how the UDMR won a seat at Constanta with 398 (00.2%) votes? A google search reveals only an obscure reference to "algorithms." Intelligent Mr Toad 2 (talk) 23:15, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

It would seem not. Intelligent Mr Toad 2 (talk) 08:05, 5 April 2017 (UTC)

It's a rather complicated algorithm, described in Art. 94 of law 208/2015 (an automatic translation). Basically, 2 seats remained unallocated in Constanta after county-level distribution, while the nationwide vote entitled UDMR to another few seats. Since in Constanta UDMR had more votes (unused in county-level distribution) than in any other county with unallocated seats (and better placed parties already had their entitlements fulfilled with seats elsewhere), one of those seats was given to it.Anonimu (talk) 09:00, 5 April 2017 (UTC)

Thanks. I assumed it was something like that. Intelligent Mr Toad 2 (talk) 23:51, 8 April 2017 (UTC)