Cypriot presidential election

[Deleted]

Cyprus goes to the polls today to elect a new president. The incumbent, Demetris Christofias is not seeking re-election. As in France and the Czech Republic, there will be a second round (on 24 February) if no-one gets more than half the vote.

There are 11 candidates altogether, although according to opinion polls 8 of them are polling less than 7% between them. The 3 frontrunners are:

Nicos Anastasiades, Democratic Rally (conservative and Christian Democratic), who has been enjoying a 15-20% lead over both his main rivals;

Stavros Malas, Progressive Party of Working People (communist). President Christofias is from this party; and

Giorgios Lillikas, Independent. He has previously served as a minister.

[johnloony]

In my Twitter timeline there are a few tweets from silly booliaks telling me that Anastasiades "won" in the first round, but who are then contradicting themselves by saying that there will be a second round.

[andrea]

Anastasiades 45.46%
Malas 26.91%
Lillikas 24.93%

Everyone else below 1%.

Run off between top 2 next Sunday

[Deleted]

Run-off result:

Nicos Anastasiades (DISY) 236,965 57.5%
Stavros Malas (AKEL) 175,267 42.5%

10.9% swing from AKEL to DISY from 2008.

[Deleted]

The winner has an unusually pragmatic (for Greek Cypriot politics anyway) view in regards to dealings with the north. We may live in interesting times.

[Hash]

Feb 26, 2013 19:50:21 GMT cogload said:

The winner has an unusually pragmatic (for Greek Cypriot politics anyway) view in regards to dealings with the north. We may live in interesting times.

Hope is allowed; but reunification wasn't an issue in this campaign (for the first time ever?!) and nothing will change on it unless (a) the south fixes its economic problems/recession and (b) the north elects somebody who is pro-reunification (the anti-reunificationists swept the left pro-reunificationists out of office in 2009-2010). The outgoing commie incumbent was also pro-reunification, but didn't do much on it.

[Georg Ebner]

Has no year in the title, so it can be recycled.

Results 2018 (2013a-2013b):

Part. 71.88 (83.14-81.58)

DISY 35.51 (45.46-57.48)
AKEL 30.24 (26.91-42.52)
DIKO 25.74 (24.93)
ELAM 5.65
SymP 2.18

I am no expert for how the voters of socialdemocratic DIKO will break, but the Communists should be favoured, i'd say (53:47?).

[Georg Ebner]

The incumbent Anastisiades/DISY won with 56%.
So the SocialDemocrats preferred him to the exCommunist.

[Georg Ebner]

Another pres. elec. happened today.
As expected, an exDISY-Ind. ended at 1/3 of votes. The exciting thing was the race for number 2, which was won - or rather lost by the candidate of the incumbent president's DISY - by an Ind. supported by AKEL (communists). Despite performing a little bit better than most opinionPolls had predicted, he will be quite chanceless in the runOff (55-60%).

[Georg Ebner]

OpinionPolls, grouped
- chronlogically:

- by deViation ("DeV.") per polled candidate:

- last one of each company:

Noverna performed best with missing the actual % by "just" 1.33% per candidate.

[Devil Wincarnate]

Feb 5, 2023 22:14:06 GMT Georg Ebner said:

Another pres. elec. happened today.
As expected, an exDISY-Ind. ended at 1/3 of votes. The exciting thing was the race for number 2, which was won - or rather lost by the candidate of the incumbent president's DISY - by an Ind. supported by AKEL (communists). Despite performing a little bit better than most opinionPolls had predicted, he will be quite chanceless in the runOff (55-60%).

And all the while, Northern Cyprus languishes under an embargo, with nothing to show for its engagement with the federation process. Shameful.

[Deleted]

Christoulidis (ex-DISY) did indeed win the second round, but with only 51.92% of the vote