Presidential elections in Romania. Collage: Ion Mateș / Hotnews. Photo: Inquam Photos, Shutterstock
Romanians can vote throughout the country starting at 07.00 at the polling stations where they are shown or on the additional lists if they are not in the locality. Voting sections for presidential elections 2025 are closed at 21.00. We will also have the first Exit-Poll results at that time. Three polling houses were accredited for this poll.
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07.00 is the first important moment of the day. 18,979 polling stations in Romania will open at this time. 1,289 sections will work in the Capital. The Romanians from the diaspora are already voting on Friday, and today is the last day they can go to the ballot box.
Over 18 million voters are expected on Sunday to choose the president between the 11 candidates registered for Cotroceni in the 2025 presidential elections.
How to vote
Voters can vote on:
- Permanent lists – in the locality of domicile or residence, at the section where they were shown (distributed/divided by areas according to the domicile, for better administration);
- Additional lists – in any other polling station, outside the locality where they have residence or domicile. The voters with their domicile or residence in the municipality of Bucharest cannot exercise their right to vote at a polling station located in another sector of the municipality except the one in which they live.
Going to vote comes with a series of rules. You are not allowed to do electoral propaganda on the day of the vote or to come to the section with electoral signs, it is forbidden and sanctioned by law photographing or filming the vote or influencing other voters.
During the day, the 11 candidates will be presented at the ballot boxes. In the end, they will not be able to have messages to urge the world how to vote. The election campaign ends 24 hours before the vote.
When we find out the first results in Pezidential Elections 2025
An important moment of the day is 21.00, when all the polling stations are closed. At presidential elections 2025, the voters who at 21.00 are at the headquarters of the polling station, as well as those who are in a row outside the polling station headquarters to enter the voting premises can exercise their right to vote until at most 23.59, according to the Permanent Electral Authority.
Also at 21.00 we will find out the first Exit-Poll results. For the presidential elections 2025, the Central Electoral Bureau (BEC) accredited three polling houses to do EXIT-POLL on the day of the elections, on Sunday, May 4, at national level, regarding the vote given by Romanians: Avangarde, COURSE AND ARA PUBLIC OPEN.
Hotnews will publish on Sunday, at 9:00 pm, the exit polls made by the three polling houses.
And at the presidential elections of 2024, the three polling houses made exit polls, to which the Cira polling house was added. Then, according to the data of the exit polls at 9:00 pm, Călin Georgescu, who finally ranked first, was presented as third in the first round of those elections.
After closing the ballot boxes, the official count of the votes begins. As the votes are centralized and the minutes loaded, partial results will be available on the AEP website. The final results are expected during the day of Monday.
