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Cypriot voters re-elected the incumbent government in a general election held on 21 May.
The ruling coalition of the Working People’s Progressive Party (AKEL) and the Democratic Party (DIKO) won just over 49 per cent of the vote, with the main opposition party, the Democratic Rally (DISY), winning 30 per cent.
The general election is the first since the 2004 referendum in which Cypriots voted to reject the UN plan to reunite the island.
Full results follow:
| AKEL | 31.13 per cent | 18 seats
| | DISY | 30.34 per cent | 18 seats
| | DIKO | 17.92 per cent | 11 seats
| | Socialist Democrats | 8.91 per cent | 5 seats
| | European Party | 5.75 per cent | 3 seats
| | Ecological Environment Movement | 1.95 per cent | 1 seat
| | United Democrats | 1.56 per cent | ---
| | Free Citizen’s Movement | 1.22 per cent | ---
| | European Democracy | 0.44 per cent | ---
| | Hunters’ Political Movement | 0.26 per cent | ---
| | People's Socialist Movement | 0.23 per cent | ---
| | Others | 0.29 per cent | ---
| | Maronite, Roman Catholic and Armenian minorities | --- | 3 seats
| | Turnout | 89.2 per cent |
| | Total | 100 per cent | 59 seats |
22 May 2006
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