{"id":7177,"date":"2026-05-24T19:08:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T16:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=7177"},"modified":"2026-05-24T19:08:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T16:08:00","slug":"elections-in-cyprus-exit-polls-show-disy-in-the-lead-increased-participation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=7177","title":{"rendered":"Elections in Cyprus: Exit polls show DISY in the lead &#8211; Increased participation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the exit polls being shown on <b>Cyprus television stations<\/b>, a lead has been recorded for the Democratic Unionist Party (DISY) <b> in the Megalonissos national elections. <\/b><\/p>\n<p>In the same election, the Left &#8211; Social Alliance (AKEL) party appears in second place and records a slight increase in its percentages. The far-right party &#8220;National Popular Front&#8221; (ELAM) appears third. The &#8216;Democratic Party&#8217; (DIKO) appears fourth. ALMA &#8211; Citizens for Cyprus appears in fifth place, while the party &#8220;Immediate Democracy of Cyprus&#8221; (ADK) seems to enter the Parliament. <\/p>\n<h3>Election turnout up<\/h3>\n<p>Participation in the 2026 parliamentary elections increased by 2.5% compared to the previous parliamentary elections in 2021. Specifically, the <b>final turnout rate for the 2026 general election was 66.4%<\/b>, while the <b>final turnout<\/b> was recorded at <b>33.6%<\/b>. <\/p>\n<p>According to Elections Commissioner General Elricos Ilias, 3<b>78,150 voters<\/b> turned out for Sunday&#8217;s election, out of 569,182 eligible voters. Compared to the previous parliamentary elections in 2021, turnout was up just 2.5%.<\/p>\n<p>According to Elricos Ilias, a total of 4,374 people voted at <b>13 polling stations abroad<\/b> out of a total of 6,501 registrations submitted. In the 13 polling stations that operated for the election of a representative of the Maronite Religious Group, 3,175 people voted, out of a total of 4,624 registered voters or 68.7%.<\/p>\n<p><b>Final results will be available shortly&#8230;<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the exit polls being shown on Cyprus&#8217; television stations, a lead is recorded for the Democratic Unionist Party (DISY) in the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}