Romanian legislative election, 2004

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The Romanian legislative election of 2004 was a national parliamentary vote that reshaped the country’s political landscape by weakening the long-dominant left and paving the way for a center-right governing coalition.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf legislative election
appliesToJurisdiction Romania
chamberElected Chamber of Deputies
Senate of Romania
continent Europe
country Romania
date 2004-11-28
electoralType parliamentary election
electsBody Chamber of Deputies of Romania
Senate of Romania
governingCoalition Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania
Justice and Truth Alliance
Conservative Party (Romania)
surface form: Romanian Humanist Party (later Conservative Party)
languageOfOfficialResults Romanian
largestBlocByVotes Social Democratic Party of Romania
surface form: Social Democratic Party + Humanist Party of Romania alliance
largestOppositionAlliance Justice and Truth Alliance
ledToGovernmentHead Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu
legislatureElected Parliament of Romania
legislatureTermEnd 2008
legislatureTermStart 2004
location Romania
mainParty Democratic Party (Romania)
Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania
Greater Romania Party
National Liberal Party (Romania)
Social Democratic Party of Romania
surface form: Social Democratic Party (Romania)
mainResult center-right coalition formed government
no party won an absolute majority
majorAlliance Justice and Truth Alliance
Social Democratic Party of Romania
surface form: Social Democratic Party + Humanist Party of Romania alliance
nextElection Romanian legislative election, 2008
oversightBody Central Electoral Bureau of Romania
partOf Elections in Romania
partOfSeries Romanian parliamentary elections
surface form: Romanian general elections
politicalContext post-communist democratic consolidation in Romania
previousElection Romanian legislative election, 2000
primeMinisterAfterElection Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu
region Eastern Europe
resultedIn change of governing majority
significance paved way for center-right coalition government
reduced dominance of the post-communist left
simultaneousEvent Romanian presidential election, 2004
votingSystemChamberOfDeputies party-list proportional representation
votingSystemSenate party-list proportional representation
weakened Social Democratic Party of Romania
surface form: Social Democratic Party (Romania)
year 2004

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Social Democratic Party of Romania participatedIn Romanian legislative election, 2004
Romanian legislative election, 2008 previousElection Romanian legislative election, 2004