# Next Romanian parliamentary election

The next Romanian parliamentary election will take place on a Sunday before 30 November 2028. The election may take place earlier if a snap election is called or if the government loses a no confidence motion.

## Background

After the 2024 Romanian parliamentary election, a pro-European coalition was formed between the centre-left Social Democratic Party, the centre-right National Liberal Party, the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania and ethnic minority parties. The liberal reformist Save Romania Union party also initially signed an agreement to enter government, but subsequently went into opposition.

## Electoral system

Both the 331 members of the Chamber of Deputies as well as the 136 members of the Senate are elected in 43 multi-member constituencies based on Romania's 41 counties, the Municipality of Bucharest, as well as the Romanian diaspora using party-list proportional representation. Law no. 208/2015 outlines that each constituency is to be awarded one deputy every 73,000 people and one senator every 168,000 people in accordance with the population data collected on 1 January of the previous year by the National Institute of Statistics (INS). Constituencies cannot have less than 4 deputies and 2 senators.
Parties must pass a threshold of 5% of the national vote or at least 20% of the vote in four constituencies. Electoral alliances must pass a higher threshold, namely 8% for those with two member-parties, 9% for three and 10% for alliances of more. Further seats (currently 18) can be added in the Chamber of Deputies for ethnic minority groups that compete in the elections and pass a lower threshold (5% of the votes needed to win a seat in the lower chamber, calculated by dividing the number of votes of parties, alliances and independent candidates that passed the threshold by the amount of seats that they won).
Following the elections, seats are allocated to the candidates of successful parties and lists in several stages, starting with constituencies, where seats are distributed according to the Hare quota of the constituency. Unused votes are then transferred and congregated at the national level, where remaining seats are distributed using the D'Hondt method, to ensure overall proportionality between a party's national vote share and its share of parliamentary seats. These remaining seats are then allocated to party candidates within the constituencies, based on the party results in each constituencies.

## Opinion polls

| Date | Poll source | Sample size |
| Date | Poll source | Sample size | PSD | AUR | PNL | USR | SOS | POT | UDMR | PMP | FD | REPER | Others | Lead |
| Date | Poll source | Sample size | 14 - 16 Feb 2025 | FlashData | 7,500 | 21.2 | 27.9 | 12.3 | 19.0 | 5.6 | 6.7 | 3.4 | 1.1 | 0.6 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 6.7 |
| 21 - 25 Jan 2025 | CURS | 1,100 | 24 | 22 | 15 | 13 | 5 | 10 | 5 | — | — | — | 6 | 2 |
| 10 - 16 Jan 2025 | Avangarde | 1,354 | 22 | 29 | 13 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | — | 1 | 7 |
| 1 December 2024 | 2024 Chamber election | — | 21.96 | 18.01 | 13.20 | 12.40 | 7.36 | 6.46 | 6.33 | 2.05 | 2.05 | 1.24 | 10.99 | 3.95 |
| 1 December 2024 | 2024 Senate election | — | 22.30 | 18.30 | 14.28 | 12.26 | 7.76 | 6.39 | 6.38 | 1.88 | 1.88 | 1.37 | 9.08 | 4 |