Chief Returning Officer Constantinos Nicolaides announced at midnight the final results of the European elections that took place on Sunday.
As he said, registered voters were 606,916, from which 266,891 went to cast their vote. The turnout reached 43,97%, while abstention stood at 56,03%.
Left – wing AKEL party received 26,98% (69,852 votes), Democratic Party 10,83% or 28,044, right wing ruling DISY 37,75% (97,732), National Popular Front ELAM 2,69% (6,957), Citizens Alliance 6,78% (17,549), Social Democrats Movement EDEK/Environmentalists and Ecologists Movement 7,68% (19,894), DRASY – EYLEM 0,86% (2,220), Animal Party Cyprus 0,88% (2288), Message of Hope 3,83% (9,907), Socialist Party Cyprus 0,11% (278), independent Andreas Efstratiou 0,18%, Theodoulou Theodoulos 0,03%, Ioannou Andreas 0,11%, Kyriakou Kostas (Utopos) 0,13%, Levent Sener 1,05%, Minas Michalis 0,08%, Stavrou Loukas 0,03% and Christoforou Adamos 0,03%.
After the announcement of the results, Nicolaides declared the six newly-elected Cypriot Members of the European Parliament (MEPs): Eleni Theocharous and Christos Stylianides of ruling right-wing Democratic Rally (DISY) party, Takis Hadjigeorgiou and Neoclis Sylikiotis of left-wing AKEL party, Costas Mavrides of the Democratic Party (DIKO) and Demetris Papadakis of Social Democrats Movement EDEK that cooperated in the elections with the Ecologists-Environmentalists Movement
