#parliamentary elections 2026

Alma leader Odysseas Michaelides promised that his party will be a “source of stability” in politics after it won four seats in parliament at its first electoral test on Sunday, ...

Diko leader Nicholas Papadopoulos on Sunday night promised to “unite the centre-right” after his party stemmed its losses at the election to a single parliamentary seat, having been forecast a ...

Elam leader Christos Christou on Sunday night said that a “greater responsibility” has now been placed on him and his party “for the future of Cypriot Hellenism” after doubling its ...

Akel leader Stefanos Stefanou declared Sunday’s election to constitute the beginning of a “new upward trajectory” for his party, as it defied opinion polls retained the 15 seats in the ...

Disy leader Annita Demetriou said the electorate “chose security and stability” as she hailed her party’s amassing of 17 seats at Sunday’s parliamentary election. The party had been forecast ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Sunday evening lamented the electoral wipeout faced by Dipa and Edek, two of the three parties which support his government, saying that both parties deserved to ...

Disy and Akel retained all the seats they had held in the last parliament at Sunday’s election, defying pre-election polls which had predicted losses for both parties to win 17 ...

Petros Nacouzi was on Sunday elected as the Maronite Cypriot non-voting representative in parliament, winning 51 per cent of the vote to take the seat. He won 1,606 of the votes cast, ...

Disy will be the largest party in the new parliament, according to the exit poll, while Elam, as pre-election polls predicted, will rise to third place, displacing Diko, which had ...

Voters across the Paphos district have been arriving steadily at polling stations since early morning on Sunday, with some of the strongest participation recorded among elderly residents in rural communities. ...

Party leaders from smaller formations joined the national call for participation on Sunday as parliamentary voting continued across Cyprus, with statements focusing on turnout, political change and the direction of ...

The data protection commission is reviewing complaints regarding election day SMS messages, as authorities examine whether campaign outreach complied with data protection rules during Sunday’s parliamentary vote. Commissioner Maria ...

Diko leader Nikolas Papadopoulos called for public participation and political unity on Sunday after casting his vote in Engomi, Papadopoulos voted at the 2nd Primary School of Engomi accompanied by ...

Direct Democracy of Cyprus leader, Fidias Panayiotou, urged voters to continue participation on Sunday after casting his ballot at Meniko Primary School. Speaking in brief remarks to reporters after voting, ...

A 105-year-old voter in Tala, Paphos, cast her ballot on Sunday, continuing a lifelong pattern of electoral participation that began more than six decades ago. She is widely regarded as ...

Police chief Themistos Arnaoutis affirmed on Sunday the electoral process continued smoothly, with no major irregularities reported. He added that police officers were out at polling stations and patrolling nationwide “...

Nationwide turnout reached 32.3 per cent by midday, with remarkably higher participation than the 26 per cent recorded at the same point in the 2021 parliamentary elections, according to chief returning officer Elikkos ...

Alma leader and former auditor-general, Odysseas Michaelides, called on members of the public to to determine “their own future” after casting his ballot on Sunday in Kokkinotrimithia, as smaller political ...

Akel secretary-general Stefanos Stefanou called on voters to participate “responsibly for the present and future of our society and our Cyprus” after casting his ballot on Sunday morning in Yeri. ...

President Nikos Christodoulides called on members of the public to participate in Sunday’s parliamentary elections after casting his vote in Paphos, declaring that “abstention is not an option”. Christodoulides ...

Voters in the Drosia area of Larnaca faced confusion and delays on Sunday after uncertainty over polling station allocations led to people being repeatedly redirected between voting centres. Several voters ...

Cyprus goes to the polls for parliamentary elections on Sunday, with 56 seats up for grabs. Of those 56 seats, 19 will belong to MPs from the Nicosia district, 12 to MPs from the ...

Over half a million voters go to the polls on Sunday to elect the 56 members of parliament to represent them for the next five years in what promises to be ...

A total of 6,425 voters have registered to cast their ballots abroad in Sunday’s parliamentary elections, with polling stations set up in the United Kingdom, Greece and Belgium. In the ...