Romanian presidential election, 1996

These are the results of the Romania
Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...

n presidential elections of November 3, run-off held on November 17, 1996:

First round

Candidate	Votes	Percentage
Ion Iliescu Ion Iliescu Ion Iliescu served as President of Romania from 1990 until 1996, and from 2000 until 2004. From 1996 to 2000 and from 2004 until his retirement in 2008, Iliescu was a Senator for the Social Democratic Party , whose honorary president he remains....	4,081,093	32.25%
Emil Constantinescu Emil Constantinescu Emil Constantinescu was President of Romania from 1996 to 2000.He graduated from the law school of the University of Bucharest, and subsequently started a career as a geologist...	3,569,941	28.21%
Petre Roman Petre Roman Petre Roman is a Romanian politician and a former Prime Minister of Romania. He served from 1989 to 1991, when his government was overthrown by the intervention of the miners led by Miron Cozma. Roman is a member of the Club of Madrid, grouping 66 democratic former heads of state and government...	2,598,545	20.54%
György Frunda György Frunda György Frunda is a Romanian jurist, politician and lawyer. A member of the Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania , he has been a member of the Romanian Senate for Mureş County since 1992, and was twice the UDMR's candidate for the office of Romanian President...	761,411	6.02%
Corneliu Vadim Tudor Corneliu Vadim Tudor Corneliu Vadim Tudor is leader of the Greater Romania Party , writer, journalist and a Member of the European Parliament...	597,508	4.72%
Gheorghe Funar Gheorghe Funar Gheorghe Funar is a nationalist Romanian politician, who rose to fame as mayor of Cluj-Napoca between 1992 and 2004-Biography:...	407,828	3.22%
Tudor Mohora	160,387	1.27%
Nicolae Manolescu Nicolae Manolescu Nicolae Manolescu is a Romanian literary critic. As an editor of România Literară literary magazine, he has reached a record in reviewing books for almost 30 years...	90,122	0.71%
Adrian Păunescu Adrian Paunescu Adrian Păunescu was a Romanian poet, journalist, and politician. Though criticised for praising dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu, Păunescu was called "Romania's most famous poet" in a Associated Press story, quoted by the New York Times.-Life:Born in Copăceni, Bălţi County, in what is now the Republic...	87,163	0.69%
7 other candidates		under 0.5% each

Run-off

Candidate	Votes	Percentage
Emil Constantinescu Emil Constantinescu Emil Constantinescu was President of Romania from 1996 to 2000.He graduated from the law school of the University of Bucharest, and subsequently started a career as a geologist...	7,057,906	54.41%
Ion Iliescu Ion Iliescu Ion Iliescu served as President of Romania from 1990 until 1996, and from 2000 until 2004. From 1996 to 2000 and from 2004 until his retirement in 2008, Iliescu was a Senator for the Social Democratic Party , whose honorary president he remains....	5,914,579	45.59%

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