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Virgil-Daniel Popescu

European People's Party (EPP) · PNL

92%participation, 335 of 364 votesMedian: EPP 90% · Romania 81% · all MEPs 89%
100%of votes matched the position of EPP
95%of For and Against votes on the winning side
1votes off the group line, of 335 comparable

Details

How they were elected

List
Alianța PSD - PNL (Partidul Social Democrat, Partidul Național Liberal)4,341,686 votes, 48.5%, 19 seats
Position on the list
19
Electoral rule
In Romania, lists are closed: voters choose a party list, and seats go to its candidates in the order the party set.

List share and seats: European Parliament, 2024 European election results (results.elections.europa.eu). List votes, position on the list: Central Electoral Bureau of Romania (BEC, https://europarlamentare2024.bec.ro), final protocol and registered lists, collected on 13 October 2026.

Where the votes came from

Where the Alianța PSD - PNL (Partidul Social Democrat, Partidul Național Liberal) list won votes in the 2024 European election

The map shows the share of valid votes won by this list in each of the 3,181 local units: 4,296,761 votes, 49.1% of valid votes. The 44,925 votes cast abroad have no local unit and are not on the map.

0.2% to 48.4%48.4% to 58.5%58.5% to 65.3%65.3% to 72.5%72.5% to 99.2%% of valid votes

Strongest areas (at least 1,000 valid votes)

  • SlatinaSuceava95.5% · 2,473
  • BărbuleştiIalomiţa95.4% · 1,114
  • IzvoareleGiurgiu94.8% · 2,026
  • PunghinaMehedinţi94.6% · 1,051
  • JianaMehedinţi94.3% · 1,821

Results by local unit: BLUE_EP (Hublet, F. (2024). BLUE_EP: A Dataset of Municipality-Level Results of European Parliament Elections. Codebook v1. Paris: Groupe d'études géopolitiques. 10.5281/zenodo.14569325, CC BY 4.0), compiled from the official results. Administrative boundaries: ANCPI (National Agency for Cadastre and Land Registration), Unități Administrativ Teritoriale 07.03.2024, data.gov.ro, CC BY 4.0; simplified, with Bucharest's six sectors merged.

How Virgil-Daniel Popescu voted

Most recent first

Source: European Parliament roll-call votes, via HowTheyVote (ODbL). Collected 8 November 2026.

Off the group line

1 of 335 comparable votes

Votes in 2026

For 293Abstain 1Against 41Did not vote 29

Alignment with each group

Share of Virgil-Daniel Popescu's votes that matched each group's position

EPPown group100%
S&D88%
PfE43%
ECR68%
Renew92%
Greens/EFA77%
The Left49%
ESN26%

In Parliament

Country
Romania
Group
European People's Party (EPP)
National party
PNL

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Method

Participation: Share of the votes the Radar follows (HowTheyVote main votes and final roll-call votes) in which the MEP voted. Not attendance; excused absences are not counted. Winning side: Of the For and Against votes, the share on the side of the result: For when adopted, Against when rejected. Abstentions and absences are left out. Off the group line: a vote different from the position of the MEP's own group on that day; divided groups and non-attached members are left out. Full method