- Social Democratic Party (PSD, main government party) - 25.8% (some 20 percentage points below 2016 general elections)
- National Liberal Party (PNL, main opposition party) - 25.8%
- USR-Plus (alliance of two smaller, newer opposition parties) - 23.9% (they do not have a developed party infrastructure at national level)
- The minority government partner ALDE appears to fail to reach the 5% threshold, with only 4.9% of the votes
- Hungarian Democrats (UDMR) - 5.4%
- PMP - 5.2%
- Pro Romania - 5.7%
- He lauded PNL and USR-Plus and said the PSD got a result worthy of their "doing nothing" since taking over the government in 2016. A failed government, he said, which must "disappear" in the wake of this result. "This result cannot be read in any other way", the President said.
- Ludovic Orban, leader of the PNL, also said the current PSD government no longer had any legitimacy and urged them to "go home". And Dan Barna, one of the leaders of the USR-Plus Alliance, called "officially for the resignation of the Dancila government".
- He failed to say he would run for president, as he suggested he was about to do, and said the party would have to decide about the nomination in the very near future. He circulated that a choice should be made between fellow PSD leader, Bucharest Mayor Gabriela Firea "if she is stil in" and the leader of ALDE partner party, Calin Popescu Tariceanu
- And he said he was not afraid of a verdict in a corruption case against him where the High Court is expected to make a decision on Monday. He claimed that a possible verdict to convict him would mean the court gave in to political pressure.
The elections were marked by abysmal organisation of polling stations especially abroad. Romanians from the Diaspora had sometimes to spend hours in line, waiting to vote, with queues going on for several streets occasionally, in places like Brussels, London, or cities across Italy. As elections were drawing to a close, thousands of people were still waiting to vote as electoral authorities in Bucharest dismissed calls to keep stations open longer.
- Blamed was mainly focused on Foreign minister Teodor Melescanu, who also organised previous round of elections marked by bad organisation of stations abroad, where the majority of the votes traditionally go against the Social Democrats (PSD).