Most polls predicted Calin Georgescu to win less than 10% of the vote in the first round of Romania’s presidential election.

Calin Georgescu’s surprise victory means the current pro-West prime minister will not make it to the election runoff.

The pro-Russian nationalist candidate Calin Georgescu had racked up a definitive 350,000 vote lead in an upset in Romania's presidential election as counting in the first round wound to a finish Monday.