{"id":7187,"date":"2026-05-24T19:08:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T16:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=7187"},"modified":"2026-05-24T19:08:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T16:08:00","slug":"elections-in-cyprus-victory-for-the-democratic-rally-disy-increased-participation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=7187","title":{"rendered":"Elections in Cyprus: Victory for the Democratic Rally (DISY) &#8211; Increased participation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victory for the <b>Democratic Rally<\/b> (DISY) is the result of the elections in <b>Cyprus<\/b>, which recorded an increased turnout compared to the previous elections in 2021. <\/p>\n<p>Specifically, the <b>Democratic Rally<\/b> (DISY) came in first with <b>27.2%<\/b>, with a loss of 0.8% compared to the previous election. The Left &#8211; Social Alliance Party (<b>AKEL<\/b>) came second with <b>23.9%<\/b>, appearing 1.4% stronger. The far-right party &#8220;<b>National Popular Front<\/b>&#8221; (ELAM) appears third with <b>10.9%<\/b>, up 4% from the previous election. <\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;<b>Democratic Party<\/b>&#8221; (DIKO) appears fourth, garnering <b>10%<\/b> and losing 1.3% from its previous electoral strength. The <b>Alma &#8211; Citizens for Cyprus<\/b> appears in fifth place with <b>5.8%<\/b>, while the &#8220;Immediate Democracy of Cyprus&#8221; (IDC) party gathers <b>5.4%<\/b> of the electoral preference and enters the <b>Parliament<\/b>. <\/p>\n<h3>Election turnout increased<\/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>Victory for the Democratic Rally (DISY) is the result of the elections in Cyprus, which recorded an increased turnout compared to the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7187","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\/7187","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=7187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}