Northern Cyprus Elections, April 19

[Bono]

2005 election results:

Republican Turkish Party - United Forces (CTP-BG), social-democrat, pro-unification: 44.5% 24 seats

National Unity Party(UBP), conservative, pro-independence: 31,7% 19 seats

Democratic Party (DP), conservative: 13,5% 6 seats

Communal Liberation Party (TkP), social-democrat: 5.8% 1 seat

The Communal Liberation Party merged with the extra-parliamentary Peace and Democracy Movement to form the Communal Democracy Party.


I don't know the DP and the TDP's stance in the relations with the South, but given the DP's leader if Rauf Danktas' son, I suspect they're pro-independence too.

[Daniel Adams]

The UBP has won a landslide victory and a parliamentary majority. According to Al-Jazeera, the UBP has won 44.06% of the vote against the CTP's 29.25%.

[Sewer]

It is a sad day in Cyprus.

[MaxQue]

It is a sad day in Cyprus.

Indeed.

[Bono]

Final results:

UBP 44,1% 26 seats (+7)

CTP-BG 29,2% 15 seats (-9)

DP 10,7% 5 seats (-1)

TDP 6,9% 2 seats (+1)

Freedom and Reform Party (ÖRP), liberal 6.2% 2 seats (+2)