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BUCHAREST, Dec. 11 (Xinhua) -- Romania's opposition Social Democratic Party has won a landslide victory in the country's quadrennial parliamentary elections, after it took more than 45 percent of the votes on Sunday, exit polls show.
According to the results of the exit polls, which were announced upon the end of voting at 9:00 p.m. local time (1900 GMT), the Social Democrats took more than 45 percent of votes for the Chamber of Deputies and more than 45 percent of votes for the Senate, two exit polls have showed.
The party has a significant lead over the pro-presidential National Liberal Party, which won the second most votes. National Liberal Party took more than 20 percent of the votes for the Chamber of Deputies and more than 20 percent of the votes for the Senate.
The Save Romania Union, a party founded several months ago by the mathematician and former civic activist Nicusor Dan, won more than 8.5 percent of the votes for the Chamber of Deputies and around 9 percent of the votes in the Senate.
Other parties hopeful to enter the new parliament include the Liberal Democratic Alliance, the Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania and the People's Movement Party.
Two exit polls were carried out in parliamentary elections on Sunday, one by the Romanian Institute for Evaluation and Strategy and the other was jointly carried out by the Center for Urban and Regional Sociology and the Socio-Behavioral Study Group Avangarde. Enditem
