A 51-year age gap separates the oldest and youngest members of Cyprus’s newly elected House of Representatives, with 75-year-old Zacharias Koulias re-elected for DIKO in Famagusta and two 24-year-olds entering as the youngest MPs. Koulias secured his seat with 2,700 preference votes; a lawyer who studied at the University of Athens and practised since 1984, he has held the Famagusta seat since 1999 and is the longest-serving member of the new House, having served on and chaired parliamentary committees and shifted party affiliation before returning to DIKO in 2016.

The joint youngest members are Efraim Christou of AKEL, elected in Limassol with 4,966 preference votes, and Dimitris Baros of Direct Democracy Cyprus, elected in Paphos with 280 votes. Christou, born in Limassol and active in AKEL and EDON, has been party secretary locally since 2020. Baros graduated secondary school with top marks, studied electrical engineering at the National Technical University of Athens, served as a reserve officer cadet in the special forces, and has completed an IRONMAN 70.3 triathlon