General election in Cyprus 2011
The parliamentary elections in Cyprus 2011 for the House of Representatives took place on May 21, 2011.
Results
The two big parties AKEL (communists) and DISY (conservative) won the election ; DIKO lost easily. DISY was the strongest party with 34.3 percent of the vote and holds 20 of 56 seats in parliament, AKEL 19 (32.7 percent), DIKO 9, EDEK 5, EVROKO 2, Greens 1 seat. A total of 531,393 eligible voters gave their 418,181 people Vote, which corresponds to an abstention of 21.3 percent (voting is compulsory in Cyprus, but violators will not be prosecuted).
On June 2, 2011, the Cypriot House of Representatives elected the chairman of the EDEK (socialists), Yiannakis Omirou, with the votes of the then opposition (DISY, EDEK, EVROKO and a DIKO deviator) as its new president.
Distribution of seats
The following is the change in the distribution of seats due to the 2011 election:
| abbreviation | Greek name | German name | Alignment | Seats 2006 | Seats 2011 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DISY | Dimokratikos Synagermos | Democratic Collection | conservative , Christian democratic | 18th | 20th |
| AKEL | Anorthotiko comma Ergazomenou Laou | Progressive Party of the Working People | Communist | 18th | 19th |
| DIKO | Dimokratiko comma | Democratic Party | liberal | 11 | 9 |
| EDEK | Kinima Sosialdimokraton | Movement of the Social Democrats | social democratic | 5 | 5 |
| Evroko | Evropaiko comma | European party | centrist | 3 | 2 |
| LAD | Kinima Oikologon Perivallontiston | Ecology and environment movement | green | 1 | 1 |
Web links
- House of Representatives of Cyprus
- Atlas of Cyprus. tagesschau.de
- Conservative victory in elections in Cyprus . Frankfurter Rundschau
- Cyprus. NSD: European Election Database - Comparative Election Results, 1990–2011
