Analysis of the Electoral Results From the Romanian Legislative Elections in 2020

Abstract

Electoral periods have always been a challenge for representative parties to gain new supporters, but also to get closer to the population, and the context of the Coronavirus pandemic has been a barrier to traditional election campaigns, requiring their relocation to the online environment. The main target of the online campaigns was the young population, while the street election campaigns wanted to convince the majority of the adult population, who do not spend much of their time in the online field. The central objective of the study was to identify voting trends at the national level, but also at the regional level. The secondary objective of the study was to identify the influence of national minorities in the Romanian legislative elections, based on a significant population of ethnic Hungarians in certain counties. The aim of the study was to provide a point of support for electoral statistics and to be translocated to cartographic materials, to facilitate their understanding. The results of the study certify that there is a regionalization of the electoral results, with small exceptions, and the party representing the ethnic Hungarians won detachedly in the counties where they are the majority.