#Local government elections

Children of mothers who are registered as displaced persons will be allowed to vote for the local representatives-in-exile of the places where their mothers are registered at the next local ...

All municipal and village councils must act in accordance with the general principles of the law, interior ministry permanent secretary Elikkos Elia said on Thursday, after the Polis Chrysochous municipality ...

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 ...

Current electoral legislation does not prohibit conducting exit polls outside polling stations to predict final results on election day, a statement released by the chief returning officer said on Tuesday. ...

The first election results on June 9 are expected to come out by 7.30pm on Sunday night, the director of the elections service Menelaos Vasiliou said on Thursday. Final results are ...

Polling stations for the June 9 European elections will be set up in Greece, Belgium and the UK for Cypriot voters living there. The chief returning officer announced that voting in ...

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 police branch of the independent union of public employees (Asdyk) issued a statement on Monday expressing dissatisfaction with the finance ministry’s decision to calculate the compensation for police ...

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 submission process for candidate nominations in district administrations and municipalities in Larnaca were completed on Wednesday. As for other districts and municipalities in Cyprus, people in Larnaca are voting ...

Candidacies are being submitted for local elections in the Paphos district on Thursday, with the elections set to take place on June 9. June’s elections will be the first to ...

Candidacies are being submitted for local elections in the Limassol district on Thursday, with the elections set to take place on June 9. June’s elections will be the first to ...

Right wing Disy emerged as the frontrunner in the recent poll conducted by ANT1 ahead of the upcoming European elections on June 9. The lead is closely contested by left-wing Akel, ...