Presidential elections 2025, tour 2: the surprise countries where the number of votes of Romanians in the Diaspora is near 3 times higher / never happened such a wave

Due to the fact that they live in huge countries, where distances to the polling station are measured in tens of minutes or even hours, Romanians from the US and Canada did not vote in large numbers. But what happens now shows an unprecedented mobilization. In the first round they voted mostly in favor of the EU and NATO Directorate of Romania.

Although they are quite large, the order of hundreds of thousands of people, the Romanian communities in the US and Canada do not vote much. The reasons are numerous: many Romanians over the Atlantic are long from the country, long before the recent wave of the diaspora in Europe. In addition, the time zone, the distance of over 10,000 kilometers from the country and the relatively small number of sections, compared to the geography of North America, severely limited the vote, which was usually several thousand votes.

This time, only 11,313 votes were registered after the first day: 6,147 in the United States and 5,166 in Canada. In round 1, at the same time, there were about one third of the votes now: 2,162 in Canada and 2440 in the US.

At the 2019 presidential elections, in Canada, a total of 4,900 people voted, fewer than one day now, and then 11,000 people voted in the US.

The figures are significantly smaller, due to the size of the European diaspora, than in countries such as Germany, Spain, Republic of Moldova or UK, where over 100,000 people vote in each. But the first time that Romanians from the US and Canada practically decided the result, was in the first round of the presidential elections of November 2024. Then, until their votes were numbered, Marcel Ciolacu was over Elena Lasconi as a number of votes. Several politicians and civic personalities have made a desperate call to the American and Canadian diaspora to vote. Finally, Lasconi exceeded the PSD chief at 2,000 votes.

However, what can happen in these elections, as a diaspora in North America, one of the oldest in the world for Romanians, can reach 0.2% -0.3% of votes, given that some opinion polls talk about the fact that the elections are on the edge. But Romanians across the ocean have a disadvantage. For the first time at these presidential elections, starting with the first round, the US and Canada (like South America) have much less time to vote than the rest of the Romanians, because on Sunday the sections are closed everywhere in the world at 21, the time of Bucharest. This means that the vote will end on Sunday afternoon on the east coast of the Americans and to the noon on the West Coast.