Estonia’s Ruling Reform Party Wins General Elections

A man votes during Estonian Parliamentary elections in Torva, Estonia 01 March 2015. Photo by EPA/BGNES

Estonia's ruling center-right Reform Party won the most votes in Sunday’s general elections.

Prime Minister Taavi Roivas announced on the ETV public television station that the Reform Party had won the 2015 parliamentary elections.

With 291 out of a total of 547 polling stations having calculated results, the Reform Party gets 32.7% of the votes, followed by the Social Democrats, who have been Reform's coalition partner, with 17.1%, and the pro-Russian Centrist Party with 13.8% of the votes, according to the TASS news agency.

The score is said to guarantee the Reform Party 37 seats in the 101-seat Parliament, according to information from Estonia’s National Electoral Commission.