The parliamentary election confirmed growing fragmentation in Cyprus’s party system but did not substantially change the balance of political power, political scientist Giorgos Charalambous said. ELAM emerged as the election’s big winner and has become the third pole of the party system, while the pro-government bloc of DISY, DIKO and ELAM retains a comfortable majority. Traditional parties showed resilience despite shedding support compared with previous elections, leaving the overall parliamentary arithmetic largely intact.

Two new parties, ALMA and Direct Democracy, entered parliament, while EDEK failed to cross the threshold and was left outside after about five decades. Four parties narrowly missed representation, creating an estimated representation gap of around 17%, and 188,331 citizens did not vote. AKEL halted a 15-year decline but recovered only a fraction of earlier losses; DIKO lost roughly 3,000 votes and DISY fell 0.8 percentage points but gained about 1,000 actual votes. Charalambous said the results point to a continued shift to the right and greater influence for smaller parties.