Romanian Presidential Election Final Results: Basescu – 32.44%, Geoana – 31.15%

Romania’s incumbent president Traian Basescu obtained 32.44% of the votes in the first round of elections and social democrat candidate Mircea Geoana got 31.15%, according to final results released Thursday by the Central Electoral Bureau after the counting of ballots in all polling stations.

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Liberal candidate Crin Antonescu got 20.02% of the votes.

Basescu obtained 3,153,640 votes, Geoana earned 3,027,838 votes and Antonescu got 1,945,831 votes.

Next come far-rightist Corneliu Vadim Tudor (5.56%), Hungarian minority representative Kelemen Hunor (3.83%), independent Sorin Oprescu (3.18%) and Steaua owner George Becali (1.91%).

The other candidates earned less than 1%, according to the final results released by the Electoral Bureau. Green Party candidate Remus Cernea obtained 0.62 %, socialist Constantin Rotaru - 0.44 %, independent Eduard Manole - 0.35%, Ecologist Party candidate Ovidiu Iane - 0.23% and independent Constantin Potarca - 0.21%.

Voter turnout was of 54.37%, which translates into 9,946,748 voters.

Valid votes totaled 9,718,840, or 97.7%, and null votes totaled 227,446, or 2.28%.

The Central Electoral Bureau will submit the final results to the Constitutional Court for validation, according to the Electoral the Bureau's spokesperson Marian Muhulet.

The campaign for the second round of presidential elections will set off after the final results of the first round are validated and published in the Official Journal of Romania.

The presidential election runoff will take place on December 6 between Basescu and Geoana.

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