George Simion and Nicușor Dan will face the second round of the presidential elections that will take place on May 18, according to the results published by the AEP. Crin Antonescu acknowledged his defeat, after an evening when the fight for tour 2 was very close. The Gold President wins the first round with 1.8 million advanced votes. 04:01
In the diaspora, after centralization of 99.17% of the minutes, the ranking is the following, according to the data published on Sunday, in real time, by the Permanent Electoral Authority (AEP):
- George Simion – 572,999 votes (60.75%)
- Nicușor Dan – 241,516 votes (25.61%)
- Crin Antonescu – 64,125 votes (6.80%)
- Elena Lasconi – 30,667 votes (3.25%)
- Victor Ponta – 22,744 votes (2.41%)
Thus, the difference between Nicușor Dan and Crin Antonescu is 177,391 votes.
Between the first two rankings, George Simion and Nicușor Dan, the gap is 331,483 votes.03:46
After counting 99.92% of the votes in the country, the ranking thus shows, according to data published on Sunday night, in real time, by the Permanent Electoral Authority (AEP):
- George Simion – 3,846,956 votes (40.92%)
- Nicușor Dan – 1,972.136 (20.98%)
- Crin Antonescu – 1,890.312 (20.11%)
- Victor Ponta – 1,229.054 (13.07%)
- Elena Lasconi – 251,718 (2.68%)
Thus, the difference between Nicușor Dan and Crin Antonescu climbed to 81,824 votes.
And the difference between George Simion and Nicușor Dan is 1,874,820 votes.03:38
Businessman George Becali has announced that he will support the gold leader George Simion in the second round. “What do you want me to do, to put my grandchildren to wear a skirt (…) If I vote Nicuşor Dan?”, Becali argued.02:46
George Simion won in the diaspora, with almost 60%, after counting 92% of the votes. Nicuşor Dan has 26.3%
George Simion, the golden candidate, obtained 489,921 votes (59.57%) in the diaspora, at the first round of the presidential elections, shows the data published on Sunday night by Monday by the AEP, after the centralization of 894 verbal processes (92.64%) from abroad.
In the second place is the independent candidate Nicuşor Dan, who obtained in the diaspora 216,254 votes (26.29%), followed by Crin Antonescu, the candidate of the ruling coalition, with 58,896 votes (7.16%) and Elena Lasconi (USR) – 27,435 votes (3.34%).02:36
The newspaper Cristian Tudor Popescu commented on Sunday evening the partial results in the first round of the presidential elections, pointing out that Nicușor Dan will have problems in obtaining votes from other electoral basins, in the final confrontation with George Simion.02:26
Nicușor Dan held a brief statement in the middle of the night after, according to the counts of the votes, he was a detachment to Crin Antonescu and thus entered the second round of the presidential elections, where he will face George Simion.02:18
Victor Ponta, the independent candidate who obtained over 13% in the presidential elections, says that, starting on Tuesday, he will campaign for one of the two candidates who have reached the second round, if his team will want this.00:58
Results of presidential elections 2025. George Simion took more votes than he took and Călin Georgescu together, in November 2024 – map00:50
“I went into round 2”. Nicușor Dan’s message after overcome Crin Antonescu
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Crin recognizes its defeat, the difference increases
The difference between Nicușor Dan and Crin Antonescu increased to 18,000 votes.
The difference between Nicușor Dan and Crin Antonescu grows
Nicușor Dan was departed from Crin Antonescu at 11,000 votes. Antonescu acknowledged a defeat: “I think the partial result is irreversible.”
Nicușor Dan climbs in 2nd place
Nicușor Dan passed on the 2nd place, according to the partial results published by the Permanent Electoral Authority, when several hundred thousand votes are to be counted.
The difference is less and smaller
At this moment, there are 3,000 votes between Antonescu and Nicușor Dan.
There are 20,000 votes between Antonescu and Dan
The difference in the race for tour 2, between Crin Antonescu and Nicușor Dan, dropped to 20,000 votes.
The difference continues to reduce
There are 31,000 votes between Crin Antonescu and Nicușor Dan. There are still 800,000 votes, especially from Bucharest and Diaspora.
There are 50,000 votes between Antonescu and Dan
With about 90% of counted votes, Nicușor Dan also has about 50,000 votes compared to Crin Antonescu. About one million votes are to be counted.
The difference falls to 60,000
Only 60,000 votes also depart, at this moment, Crin Antonescu and Nicușor Dan in the fight for tour 2.
The difference is 77.00
George Simion runs detached with 3,285.002 million votes, followed by Antonescu with 1,722.732 and Nicușor Dan with 1,646,723.
Only 100,000 votes separate Antonescu and Dan
At this moment, Crin Antonescu has only 100,000 votes in front of Nicușor Dan in the fight for accessing in the second round. 1.3 million votes are to be counted.
The difference continues to shrink
After counting 80.8% the difference between Antonescu and Nicușor Dan, about 120,000 people are reduced.
Ranking when 1.8 million votes are to be counted
The difference reduced to 140,000 votes in the fight for the second round. Next, George Simion runs a detached ranking, followed by Crin Antonescu and Nicușor Dan.
The difference between Crin Antonescu and Nicușor Dan reduced to 160,000 votes, after 7.5 million were counting, remaining 2.5 million. We are at 73% of counted votes.
The difference is shrinking between Antonescu and Dan
68.21% of the votes were counted, and the difference between Crin Antonescu and Nicușor Dan moves.
The ranking at this time is as follows: Simion – 40.6%, Antonescu – 21.3%, Dan – 18.5%and Ponta – 14.6%.22:40
60% of votes were counted
After counting 60.7%of the votes, the order is Simion – 41%, Antonescu – 21.5%, Dan – 17.9%, Ponta – 14.7%. Between Antonescu and Dan there are 200,000 votes away. But Bucharest and Diaspora were a little.22:32
The ranking after counting half of the votes
After counting 51.3%of the votes, the order is Simion – 41.4%, Antonescu – 21.8%, Dan – 17.2%, Ponta – 14.7%.
And in the diaspora he counted a little: leads Simion, detached, followed by Dan
Even the diaspora, where almost 1 million people voted, was only centralized in a very small proportion. At 10:30 pm, Germany had not centralized any of the 163,000 votes. After Italy, with over 170,000 votes, Germany was the second country as a presence. Even in the other countries such as Spain, UK or France there were only few votes. In all, according to the first counting sections, a clear victory of George Simion is expected. On the second place, for the moment, Nicușor Dan, who can bring from here votes to recover the distance from Crin Antonescu.22:20
After counting about 40%of the votes, the order is Simion 41.9%, Antonescu 22.2%, Dan -16.2%, Ponta -14.8.22:11
The ranking after almost 30% of the votes
After counting 28.3%of the votes, the order is Simion 42.5%, Antonescu 22.8%, Dan 15.1%, Ponta 14.7%.22:10
Bucharest, where there were over 800,000 voters, has few sections counted until this hour, where only a few tens of thousands of votes have been centralized.22:00
At this time, after counting about 20%of the votes, the order is Simion 43%, Antonescu 23%, Ponta 14.14%and Nicușor Dan 14%.21:50
The first official results after counting 800,000 votes
The official results, after the data from over 4,000 sections of the 20,085 have been centralized, show that George Simion is on the 1st place, with 381,737 votes.
It is followed by Crin Antonescu, who collected 217,895 votes, and Victor Ponta with 124,400 votes.
What did the EXIT-POLL show
George Simion is in the first place in the presidential elections according to the exit polls published at the closing of the ballot boxes. The fight for the second place is a very close one between Crin Antonescu and Nicușor Dan. Avangarde gives the two candidates on a draw, while the course gives a 2% advance to the PSD-PNL-UDMR candidate.
EXIT POLL COURSE RESULTS, 8:00 pm:
- George Simion – 33.1%
- Crin Antonescu – 22.9%
- Nicușor Dan – 20.9%
- Victor Ponta – 14.7%
- Elena Lasconi – 4.4%
EXIT POLL AVOGED RESULTS, 7:00 pm:
- George Simion – 30%
- Crin Antonescu – 23%
- Nicușor Dan – 23%
- Victor Ponta – 15%
- Elena Lasconi – 4%
The presence at the vote was 53.21%, according to official data. In the country, the presence was lower than in November 2024, but not in the diaspora.
Specifically, in the country, 47.79% of voters voted, respectively about 8.5 million Romanians. The presence is slightly lower than in November 2024, when they voted with about 45,000 more people.
In contrast, in the diaspora, the presence at the vote was higher than in November 2024. Specifically, they voted with about 177,000 more Romanians than in November.
