2006 Cypriot legislative election

2006 Cypriot legislative election

21 May 2006
56 of 80 seats in the House of Representatives
First party Second party Third party   Leader Demetris Christofias Nicos Anastasiades Tassos Papadopoulos Party AKEL DISY DIKO Leader since 1988 1997 2000 Last election 20 seats, 34.7% 19 seats, 34.0% 9 seats, 14.8% Seats won 18 18 11 Seat change 2 1 2 Popular vote 131,066 127,776 75,458 Percentage 31.1% 30.3% 17.9% Swing 3.6% 3.7% 3.1%   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Yiannakis Omirou Demetris Syllouris George Perdikes Party EDEK European Party Greens Leader since 2001 2006 1996 Last election 4 seats, 6.5% 3.0%, 1 seat 1 seat, 2.0% Seats won 5 3 1 Seat change 1 2 0 Popular vote 37,533 24,196 8,193 Percentage 8.9% 5.8% 2.0% Swing 2.4% 2.8% 0.0%

Parliamentary elections were held in Cyprus on 21 May 2006. AKEL and the Democratic Rally both won 18 of the 56 seats. Voter turnout was 89.0%.

Results

Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Progressive Party of Working People	131,066	31.13	18	–2
	Democratic Rally	127,776	30.34	18	–1
	Democratic Party	75,458	17.92	11	+2
	Movement for Social Democracy	37,533	8.91	5	+1
	European Party	24,196	5.75	3	+2
	Ecological and Environmental Movement	8,193	1.95	1	0
	United Democrats	6,567	1.56	0	–1
	Free Citizens Movement	5,157	1.22	0	New
	European Democracy	1,844	0.44	0	New
	Political Hunting Movement	1,112	0.26	0	New
	LASOK	981	0.23	0	New
	Independents	1,204	0.29	0	0
Total		421,087	100.00	56	0
Valid votes		421,087	94.43
Invalid/blank votes		24,828	5.57
Total votes		445,915	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		501,024	89.00
Source: MOI