2006 Cypriot legislative election|
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| First party | Second party | Third party | | | | | Leader | Demetris Christofias | Nicos Anastasiades | Tassos Papadopoulos | Party | AKEL | DISY | DIKO | Leader since | 1988 | 1997 | 2000 | Last election | 20 seats, 34.7% | 19 seats, 34.0% | 9 seats, 14.8% | Seats won | 18 | 18 | 11 | Seat change | 2 | 1 | 2 | Popular vote | 131,066 | 127,776 | 75,458 | Percentage | 31.1% | 30.3% | 17.9% | Swing | 3.6% | 3.7% | 3.1% | | | Fourth party | Fifth party | Sixth party | | | | | Leader | Yiannakis Omirou | Demetris Syllouris | George Perdikes | Party | EDEK | European Party | Greens | Leader since | 2001 | 2006 | 1996 | Last election | 4 seats, 6.5% | 3.0%, 1 seat[a] | 1 seat, 2.0% | Seats won | 5 | 3 | 1 | Seat change | 1 | 2 | 0 | Popular vote | 37,533 | 24,196 | 8,193 | Percentage | 8.9% | 5.8% | 2.0% | Swing | 2.4% | 2.8% | 0.0% | |
Parliamentary elections were held in Cyprus on 21 May 2006.[1] AKEL and the Democratic Rally both won 18 of the 56 seats. Voter turnout was 89.0%.[2]
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Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– |
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| Progressive Party of Working People | 131,066 | 31.13 | 18 | –2 |
| Democratic Rally | 127,776 | 30.34 | 18 | –1 |
| Democratic Party | 75,458 | 17.92 | 11 | +2 |
| Movement for Social Democracy | 37,533 | 8.91 | 5 | +1 |
| European Party | 24,196 | 5.75 | 3 | +2 |
| Ecological and Environmental Movement | 8,193 | 1.95 | 1 | 0 |
| United Democrats | 6,567 | 1.56 | 0 | –1 |
| Free Citizens Movement | 5,157 | 1.22 | 0 | New |
| European Democracy | 1,844 | 0.44 | 0 | New |
| Political Hunting Movement | 1,112 | 0.26 | 0 | New |
| LASOK | 981 | 0.23 | 0 | New |
| Independents | 1,204 | 0.29 | 0 | 0 |
Total | 421,087 | 100.00 | 56 | 0 |
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Valid votes | 421,087 | 94.43 | |
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Invalid/blank votes | 24,828 | 5.57 | |
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Total votes | 445,915 | 100.00 | |
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Registered voters/turnout | 501,024 | 89.00 | |
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Source: MOI |