Sunday’s parliamentary vote reshuffled Cyprus’s political landscape without overturning the party system: DISY held its ground and AKEL improved its share, but neither regained two‑party dominance. The clearest winner was far‑right ELAM, which gained roughly four percentage points to secure 40,567 votes (10.9%) and third place. DIKO recovered to remain the dominant centrist force and the only government-supporting party to retain seats. Longstanding parties EDEK and the Ecologists failed to clear the threshold, while DIPA also lost representation.

New and smaller formations underperformed expectations: ALMA entered parliament with under 6% of the vote and will face a tougher path to the 2028 presidential race, while ADK secured substantially less than its 2024 European result. Volt also fell short amid fallout from the Sandy affair. Attention now turns to coalition arithmetic and the election of the House Speaker, with Nikolas Papadopoulos’s name already in circulation, and to how the government will cope without EDEK and DIPA ministers.