2023 Cypriot presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Cyprus on 5 February 2023. No candidate received a majority of the vote in the first round, so a runoff was held on 12 February. Incumbent president Nicos Anastasiades of the Democratic Rally (DISY), who won the presidential elections in 2013 and 2018, was ineligible to run due to the two-term limit mandated by the Constitution of Cyprus.
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| Turnout | 72.05% (first round) 0.17pp 72.45% (second round) 1.52pp | |||||||||||||||
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Christodoulides: 20-30% 30-40% 40-50% 50-60% 60–70% 70–80% 80-90% 90-100% Andreas Mavroyiannis: 20-30% 30-40% 40-50% 50-60% 60–70% 70–80% Averof Neofytou: 20-30% 30-40% 40-50% 50-60% 60–70% 70–80% Christou: 30-40% Nikos Christodoulides: 50-60% 60–70% 70–80% 80-90% 90-100% Andreas Mavroyiannis: 50-60% 60–70% 70–80% 80-90% | ||||||||||||||||
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In the first round, independent candidate Nikos Christodoulides, supported by the Democratic Party (DIKO), Movement for Social Democracy (EDEK), Democratic Alignment (DIPA) and Solidarity, received 32.04% of the vote, coming first. Independent candidate Andreas Mavroyiannis, supported by the left-wing Progressive Party of Working People (AKEL), came second with 29.59% of the vote. Averof Neofytou, the president of the centre-right Democratic Rally (DISY), received 26.11% of the votes, finishing third in the first round.
Christodoulides and Mavroyiannis advanced to the second round. The incumbent president Anastasiades then endorsed Christodoulides, while DISY declined to endorse either of the remaining candidates. Christodoulides won the second round with 51.97% of the vote to Mavroyiannis' 48.03%. The margin of victory of less than 4% made this the closest presidential election in Cyprus since 1998.