DISY has won Cyprus’s 2026 parliamentary elections with 27.1% of the vote, according to Ministry of Interior results with 90.8% of ballot boxes counted, putting the conservative party on course for 17 seats in the new House of Representatives.
AKEL came second on 23.7%, projected to win 15 seats, followed by far-right ELAM and DIKO, each on 11% and 10% respectively and each projected to take eight seats. ALMA secured 5.9% and four seats, while Direct Democracy Cyprus took 5.4% and four seats, rounding out the six parties set to enter parliament.
Several parties failed to cross the threshold. EDEK, the Hunters’ Party and DIPA each registered 3.2%, while Volt took 3.1% and the Ecologists 2%. None won seats.
EDEK leader Nikos Anastasiou resigned as party president shortly after the results emerged, saying he was taking his share of responsibility for the party’s failure to enter parliament. “The people have spoken,” Anastasiou said in a statement. “The result does not please us and unfortunately is unjust to both EDEK and Cyprus itself.” He said he had done everything humanly possible to unite the party since taking the helm but that some colleagues had chosen to stay away despite his efforts.
Of the 345,283 votes counted so far, 337,385 were valid, with 5,922 invalid and 1,976 blank. Final turnout stood at 66.81% of the 569,182 registered voters.
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