1992 Romanian general election

1992 Romanian general election

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Presidential election
27 September 1992 (first round) 11 October 1992 (second round)
Turnout	76.29% (first round) 73.23% (second round)
Nominee Ion Iliescu Emil Constantinescu Party Independent PNȚCD Alliance FDSN CDR Popular vote 7,393,429 4,641,207 Percentage 61.43% 38.57%
Iliescu:   50–60%   60–70%   70–80%   80–90% Constantinescu:   50–60%   60–70%   80–90%
President before election Ion Iliescu FDSN Elected President Ion Iliescu FDSN
Parliamentary election
27 September 1992
All 143 seats in the Senate All 341 seats in the Chamber of Deputies
Party Leader % Seats +/– Chamber of Deputies FDSN Ion Iliescu 27.75 117 New CDR Emil Constantinescu 20.05 82 +31 FSN Petre Roman 10.17 43 −220 PUNR Gheorghe Funar 7.73 30 +21 UDMR Géza Domokos 7.48 27 −2 PRM Corneliu Vadim Tudor 3.90 16 New PSM Ilie Verdeț 3.03 13 New Minority parties 2.00 13 +2 Senate FDSN Ion Iliescu 28.31 49 New CDR Emil Constantinescu 20.19 34 +22 FSN Petre Roman 10.38 18 −73 PUNR Gheorghe Funar 8.13 14 +12 UDMR Géza Domokos 7.60 12 0 PRM Corneliu Vadim Tudor 3.86 6 New PDAR Victor Surdu 3.29 5 +5 PSM Ilie Verdeț 3.18 5 New This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. The results for the Chamber of Deputies and for the Senate Prime Minister before Prime Minister-designate Theodor Stolojan FSN Nicolae Văcăroiu FDSN

General elections were held in Romania on 27 September 1992, with a second round of the presidential election on 11 October.^[1] They were the first held after the adoption of a permanent constitution via a referendum held the previous winter.

Incumbent President Ion Iliescu led the field in the first round, but was forced into a run off with Emil Constantinescu, candidate of the oppositional Romanian Democratic Convention (CDR). Constantinescu ran on a quicker transition to a market economy and purging remaining communist influence from the government. He benefited from a marked downturn in Iliescu's popularity tied to both high unemployment and concerns that Iliescu was wavering in his commitment to democracy.^[2][3]

Despite this, opinion polls ahead of the runoff suggested that Iliescu was favoured for a second full term. Not only was it believed that his 16-point first-round lead was too large for Constantinescu to overcome, but most of the minor candidates were expected to eventually offer their support to Iliescu in the second round.^[4] In the end, Iliescu was reelected with 61 percent of the vote. The 1992 Romanian presidential election was the second of its kind held in post-1989 Romania.

In the parliamentary election, Iliescu's Democratic National Salvation Front (FDSN), which had split off from the National Salvation Front (FSN) earlier in the year, emerged as the largest party in Parliament, winning 117 of the 341 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 49 of the 143 seats in the Senate.