#Local elections

Alassa residents cut off the Limassol – Platres road on Sunday as a sign of protest against a court decision to nullifying the election of Savvas Savva as community leader. The ...

Larnaca sewage board director Angelos Hadjicharalambous has been elected as Larnaca district governor in a landslide victory. He won almost two thirds of the vote, beating outgoing Aradippou mayor Evangelos ...

Former Transport Minister Yiannis Karousos was elected as Famagusta’s district governor on Sunday night. Karousos won 55 per cent of the vote, almost twice as much as his nearest challenger ...

Incumbent Larnaca mayor Andreas Vyras was re-elected in a landslide victory on Sunday, winning around two thirds of votes cast in the town. With just shy of 60 per cent of ...

Joseph Violaris was elected as Kyrenia’s mayor in exile on Sunday night, beating his opponent Odysseas Patsalides to win the mayoral seat. Violaris will replace the retiring Rita Elissaiou ...

Voting started at 7am across Cyprus on Sunday, with 698,896 registered voters eligible for the election of six MEPs and local authority posts. Chief returning officer Elikkos Elia confirmed the timely ...

Diko accidentally endorsed the wrong Famagusta mayoral candidate in a text message sent to its members on Tuesday. The message invited members to attend a rally at the Radisson Blu ...

The interior ministry on Thursday announced that there is an instructional video uploaded online to help voters cast their ballots in the correct manner for the upcoming elections on June 9. ...

People should “not turn their backs on the electoral process”, chief electoral officer Elikkos Elia said on Saturday. Speaking to the Cyprus News Agency (CNA) with three weeks to go ...

The last House plenary to take place before the European and local elections will convene on Thursday at 3pm. Both parliamentary committee and plenary proceedings will then be suspended, as ...

The upcoming European parliament and local government elections will be “a challenge”, Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou said on Monday, but added he was confident they would be carried out smoothly. ...

A whopping 7,280 candidates are contesting 3,227 public offices in the upcoming June elections, the chief returning officer said on Tuesday. Elikkos Elia was citing the final tallies after the period for ...

Candidacies were submitted on Wednesday and Thursday for the most complex elections ever held in Cyprus. On the same day, June 9, people would be voting for Members of European Parliament ...

Candidacies are being submitted for local elections for the Kyrenia district on Thursday, with the elections set to take place on June 9. The Kyrenia district’s local government system has ...

The last day to apply to vote for the June elections is Tuesday, the interior ministry announced on Monday, calling on people register. The ministry added that no applications will ...

Over 2,000 people registered to vote on Saturday, according to the interior ministry. Elections for local authorities and MEPs are slated to take place on June 9. By 2pm, there were 2,109 applications ...

A total of 7,500 new voters have been registered for the forthcoming elections in June, Electoral Service head Menelaos Vasiliou said on Wednesday. Speaking to the Cyprus News Agency (CNA), he ...

Cyprus will open polling stations in Greece, Belgium, and the United Kingdom for June’s European Parliament elections. Cypriots living in those three countries will be able to vote in ...

The interior ministry on Wednesday urged would-be voters to “submit timely applications” to be registered on the electoral roll, with the application deadline set as April 2 for June’s elections. ...

Nicosia mayoral candidate Nikos Tornaritis was given a display of support on Sunday by his backer, Disy, as he toured central streets of the capital with its leadership. The walkabout ...

Christos Patsalides has announced his intention to run to be the first elected governor of the Paphos district in 2024. Patsalides served as Interior minister under President Tasos Papadopoulos and then ...

The House plenum on Thursday voted for the postponement of local government elections as part of the sector’s reform. The elections were to have taken place in December. Postponement ...

The House interior committee will decide next week whether the local government elections will take place as planned in December or be postponed, it emerged on Thursday. The decision by ...

The House interior committee will discuss the possibility of postponing the next local elections, as parliament ponders on local authority reforms. Akel MP Aristos Damianou said MPs will discuss the ...