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2024 Romanian local elections
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All 41 County Council Presidents

1,340 County Council Councillors All 3,176 Mayors

39,900 Local Council Councillors
  Majority party Minority party Third party
 
Leader Marcel Ciolacu Nicolae Ciucă Hunor Kelemen
Party PSD PNL UDMR
Leader since 26 November 2019 10 April 2022 26 February 2011
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
  File:Catalin Drula.jpg
Leader Eugen Tomac Cătălin Drulă Victor Ponta
Party PMP USR PRO
Leader since 19 February 2022 7 February 2022 3 September 2017

Local elections are most likely set to be held in Romania in September 2024. The previous Romanian local elections in 2020 were won by the National Liberal Party (PNL), even though the Social Democratic Party (PSD) came in with significantly more County Council (CJ) presidents and mayors than the national liberals.

Therefore, the de facto winner of the previous Romanian local elections was the Social Democratic Party (PSD), in spite of the de jure one which was the National Liberal Party (PNL), according to popular vote and thereby overall political score.

Furthermore, the 2020 USR-PLUS Alliance (now simply legally known as USR which is short for Save Romania Union) came in third with respect to popular vote yet failed to obtain an important nationwide representation (for mayors, local and municipal councillors, and county councillors alike). In the meantime, the PNL enlarged itself at local political level nationwide with the integral absorption of ALDE during late March 2022.[1]

Background

The government which will organize the forthcoming Romanian local elections will very likely be the National Coalition for Romania (CNR) with a Social Democratic (PSD) Prime Minister.

Most opinion polls to date (depicted in the tables from the sections below) show the Social Democratic Party (PSD) as either the main or overall winning party in several major cities across Romania, including, most notably, the capital, Bucharest.

In stark contrast, several other major cities are shown to favour Save Romania Union (USR) in their public administration thus far and others the National Liberal Party (PNL). The current political trend, according to the polls, is that the Social Democratic Party (PSD) is the dominant political party in the south and east of Romania (i.e. in Muntenia, Oltenia, Dobrogea, and Western Moldavia respectively), the National Liberal Party (PNL) in the centre and north of the country (i.e. in Transylvania and Bukovina), and Save Romania Union (USR), sporadically at urban level in the south-western part of the country, more specifically in Banat.

Opinion polls

National results in 2020

In the table below are highlighted the major electoral scores (or results) obtained by the 6 largest political parties in Romania at the previous local elections which here held in September 2020:

Date Results Electorate PNL PSD USR PMP UDMR PRO Others Lead
27 Sep 2020 2020 election 8,419,028 32.32% 23.16% 8.89% 6.04% 4.87% 4.68% 20.04% 9.16%

National polling

In the table below are represented the prospective results of the 6 main political parties active in Romania at local political level for the forthcoming local elections which are going to be held in 2024:

Date Sample size Source PNL PSD USR PMP UDMR PRO Others Lead
6–19 Oct 2022 — CURS 22.0% Decrease 31.0% Increase 11.0% Increase 4.0% Decrease — 4.0% Decrease 14.0% Decrease 9.0%

Regional

Bucharest

Date Poll source PSD USR PNL PMP AUR PV PRO PUSL ApP Others Lead
Sep 2022 ISPAP 35.0 11.0 19.0 3.0 11.0 3.0 2.0 2.0 1.0 13.0 16.0
Sep 2022 Digi24 34.0 12.0 25.0 3.0 13.0 1.0 3.0 1.0 1.0 7.0 9.0
Aug 2022 ISPAP 35.0 11.0 20.0 4.0 7.0 2.0 2.0 3.0 4.0 12.0 15.0
Aug 2022 CURS 32.0 10.0 23.0 4.0 12.0 3.0 2.0 4.0 3.0 6.0 9.0
Jul 2022 ISPAP 37.0 12.0 18.0 4.0 8.0 1.0 1.0 3.0 5.0 11.0 19.0
Jun 2022 ISPAP 36.0 13.0 16.0 4.0 8.0 1.0 3.0 4.0 6.0 9.0 20.0
Jun 2022 CURS 33.0 10.0 22.0 5.0 14.0 1.0 2.0 4.0 2.0 7.0 11.0
May 2022 ISPAP 35.0 16.0 14.0 4.0 7.0 1.0 4.0 5.0 6.0 8.0 21.0
Mar 2022 ISPAP 33.0 17.0 13.0 2.0 10.0 2.0 2.0 4.0 4.0 12.0[2] 16.0
Feb 2022 ISPAP 31.0 18.0 11.0 3.0 12.0 1.0 3.0 4.0 3.0 12.0[3] 13.0
14–20 Jan 2022 CURS 34.0 17.0 17.0 6.0 13.0 — 2.0 5.0 2.0 4.0 17.0
Jan 2022 ISPAP 30.0 21.0 10.0 3.0 15.0 1.0 2.0 4.0 4.0 9.0[4] 9.0
Dec 2021 ISPAP 32.0 23.0 11.0 5.0 13.0 1.0 2.0 3.0 3.0 6.0[5] 9.0
Nov 2021 ISPAP 35.0 23.5 15.0 6.0 12.0 1.0 1.5 2.0 1.0 3.0 11.5
12–21 Oct 2021 ISPAP 34.0 24.0 17.0 7.0 10.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 4.0 10.0
17–23 Sep 2021 CURS 33.0 23.0 21.0 4.0 8.0 — 3.0 4.0 — — 10.0
Jul 2021 CURS 32.0 25.0 22.0 4.0 8.0 — 2.0 4.0 — — 7.0
May 2021 CURS 29.0 27.0 22.0 4.0 9.0 — 3.0 4.0 — 2.0 2.0
Mar 2021 CURS 32.0 27.0 20.0 5.0 7.0 — 2.0 4.0 — 3.0 5.0
26 Sep 2020 Election 32.38 26.98 22.24[6] 7.82 0.88 1.81 1.72 0.95 — 6.3 5.0

Seats projection

Date Poll source PSD USR PNL PMP AUR PV PRO PUSL ApP
Sep 2022 ISPAP 25 8 14 — 8 — — — —
Jul 2022 ISPAP 26 8 12 — 6 — — — 3
Jun 2022 ISPAP 25 9 11 — 6 — — — 4
Jun 2022 CURS 23 7 15 — 10 — — — —
May 2022 ISPAP 23 11 9 — 5 — — 3 4
Mar 2022 ISPAP 25 13 10 — 7 — — — —
14–20 Jan 2022 CURS 20 10 10 4 7 — — 3 —
Jan 2022 ISPAP 21 15 8 — 11 — — — —
12–21 Oct 2021 ISPAP 21 14 10 4 6 — — — —
Jul 2021 CURS 20 16 14 — 5 — — — —
May 2021 CURS 18 17 14 — 6 — — — —
Mar 2021 CURS 20 16 12 3 4 — — — —
26 Sep 2020 Election 21 17 12 5 0 0 0 0 —

Mayor of Bucharest

Date Poll sources
Dan
Voiculescu
Ciucu
Firea
Băsescu
Târziu
 Others Lead
7–14 September 2022 Avangarde 18.0 14.0 18.0 30.0 4.0 —[a] 4.0 12.0
May 2022 ISPAP 13.0 9.0 13.0 43.0 4.0 6.0 12.0 30.0
28.0 — — 45.0 6.0 7.0 14.0 17.0
Mar 2022 ISPAP 12.0 10.0 10.0 38.0 5.0 9.0 16.0 26.0
29.0 — — 39.0 6.0 9.0 17.0 10.0
Jan 2022 ISPAP 13.0 14.0 9.0 34.0 6.0 15.0 9.0 21.0
32.0 — — 35.0 7.0 16.0 10.0 3.0
Nov 2021 ISPAP 15.0 14.0 12.0 34.0 7.0 13.0 5.0 19.0
36.0 — — 35.0 8.0 14.0 7.0 1.0
27 Sep 2020 2020 election 42.81 37.97 10.99 0.67 7.56 4.84

Sector 1 (Bucharest)

Date Poll source PSD USR PNL PMP AUR PRO Others Lead
Aug 2022 ISPAP 36.0 13.0 20.0 4.0 7.0 3.0 17.0 16.0
Jun 2022 ISPAP 36.0 13.0 18.0 4.0 7.0 2.0 20.0 18.0
May 2022 ISPAP 34.0 16.0 15.0 4.0 7.0 2.0 22.0[7] 18.0
Feb 2022 ISPAP 32.0 18.0 13.0 4.0 13.0 2.0 18.0[8] 14.0
Jan 2022 ISPAP 33.0 20.0 14.0 4.0 14.0 1.0 14.0[9] 13.0
Dec 2021 ISPAP 34.0 22.0 13.0 5.0 12.0 1.0 12.0[10] 12.0
Nov 2021 ISPAP 35.0 24.0 15.0 9.0 10.0 1.0 6.0 11.0
12–21 Oct 2021 ISPAP 36.0 26.0 17.0 8.0 7.0 1.0 6.0 10.0
24 Sep 2021 CURS 35.0 18.0 24.0 8.0 8.0 4.0 3.0 14.0
27 Sep 2020 Election 31.07 29.98 20.44 8.76 0.67 2.12 6.87 1.09

Sector 5 (Bucharest)

Cluj-Napoca

Main article: Politics of Cluj-Napoca
Date Poll source PNL USR UDMR PSD PMP AUR PV Others Lead
Aug 2022 ISPAP 41.0 17.0 10.0 14.0 1.0 4.0 3.0 10.0 24.0
Jul 2022 ISPAP 36.0 16.0 10.0 15.0 2.0 5.0 2.0 14.0 20.0
May 2022 ISPAP 32.0 20.0 10.0 16.0 1.0 5.0 2.0 14.0 12.0
Feb 2022 ISPAP 26.0 21.0 13.0 16.0 3.0 8.0 2.0 11.0 5.0
Dec 2021 ISPAP 26.0 27.0 13.0 15.0 2.0 8.0 2.0 7.0 1.0
Oct 2021 ISPAP 28.0 29.0 13.0 14.0 2.0 7.0 3.0 4.0 1.0
6 Dec 2020 CD Election 32.4 31.1 11.2 10.6 3.2 3.9 — 7.6 1.3
27 September 2020 Election 54.5 17.1 11.3 7.43 1.9 1.2 1.2 5.5 35.4

Constanța

Date Poll source PNL USR PSD PMP AUR PV Others Lead
Aug 2022 ISPAP 21.0 17.0 30.0 2.0 12.0 2.0 16.0 9.0
May 2022 ISPAP 18.0 18.0 28.0 2.0 12.0 2.0 20.0 10.0
Feb 2022 ISPAP 17.0 18.0 22.0 2.0 20.0 2.0 19.0 2.0
Jan 2022 ISPAP 16.0 20.0 20.0 2.0 21.0 2.0 19.0 1.0
Dec 2021 ISPAP 17.0 21.0 26.0 2.0 19.0 2.0 13.0 5.0
Nov 2021 ISPAP 18.0 23.0 27.0 2.0 17.5 3.0 9.5 4.0
12–21 Oct 2021 ISPAP 20.5 25.0 24.5 3.0 14.5 2.5 10.0 0.5
6 Dec 2020 Parliament 26.1 26.4 22.3 4.2 8.9 0.9 11.3 0.3
27 September 2020 Election 27.7 23.9 19.9 4.7 — 1.8 22.1 3.8

Iași

Date Poll source PNL USR PSD AUR PMP PV Others Lead
Sep 2022 ISPAP 23.0 18.0 26.0 12.0 2.0 5.0 14.0 14.0
Aug 2022 ISPAP 26.0 17.0 25.0 8.0 3.0 5.0 16.0 1.0
Jul 2022 ISPAP 21.0 18.0 28.0 9.0 3.0 4.0 17.0 12.0
May 2022 ISPAP 17.0 19.0 31.0 10.0 4.0 3.0 16.0 12.0
Feb 2022 ISPAP 12.0 22.0 28.0 16.0 4.0 2.0 16.0 6.0
Jan 2022 ISPAP 18.0 27.0 26.0 17.0 4.0 1.0 7.0 1.0
Dec 2021 ISPAP 16.0 27.0 26.0 16.0 4.0 1.0 10.0 1.0
Nov 2021 ISPAP 17.0 29.0 26.0 15.0 4.0 1.0 9.0 3.0
12–21 Oct 2021 ISPAP 18.0 31.0 24.0 12.5 4.5 1.0 9.0 7.0
6 Dec 2020 Parliament 21.4 31.7 21.0 8.7 5.7 1.3 11.5 10.3
27 September 2020 Election 32.2 29.0 16.4 1.4 5.1 3.8 8.4 3.2

Brașov

Date Poll source USR PNL PSD UDMR AUR Others Lead
Sep 2022 ISPAP 24.0 23.0 25.0 4.0 6.0 18.0 1.0
Aug 2022 ISPAP 24.0 25.0 24.0 4.0 4.0 19.0 1.0
Jun 2022 ISPAP 24.0 23.0 23.0 5.0 4.0 21.0 1.0
May 2022 ISPAP 27.0 17.0 26.0 5.0 5.0 20.0 1.0
Oct 2021 ISPAP 36.0 18.0 22.0 4.0 6.0 14.0 14.0
6 Dec 2020 Parliament 35.5 22.5 19.1 4.6 5.4 12.9 13.0
27 September 2020 Election 32.7 31.8 11.8 4.7 0.3 18.7 0.9

Timișoara

Date Poll source USR PNL PSD PMP AUR Others Lead
Aug 2022 ISPAP 29.0 24.0 23.0 3.0 5.0 16.0 5.0
Jun 2022 ISPAP 27.0 23.0 22.0 3.0 6.0 19.0 4.0
May 2022 ISPAP 29.0 18.0 23.0 3.0 7.0 20.0 6.0
Mar 2022 ISPAP 30.0 15.0 20.0 3.0 11.0 21.0 10.0
Nov 2021 ISPAP 34.0 15.0 22.0 4.0 13.0 12.0 12.0
12–21 Oct 2021 ISPAP 37.0 18.0 18.5 4.5 9.5 12.5 18.5
6 Dec 2020 Parliament 40.3 21.7 15.8 5.4 4.9 12.0 18.6
27 September 2020 Election 41.4 30.4 9.6 1.8 1.3 15.5 11.0

Târgu Jiu

Date Poll source PNL PSD PRO PV USR AUR PMP Others Lead
Sep 2022 ISPAP 29.0 26.0 6.0 16.0 7.0 5.0 2.0 9.0 3.0
Aug 2022 ISPAP 28.0 27.0 7.0 14.0 7.0 5.0 3.0 9.0 1.0
Jun 2022 ISPAP 22.0 32.0 6.0 13.0 6.0 6.0 3.0 12.0 10.0
May 2022 ISPAP 24.0 31.0 7.0 12.0 7.0 6.0 3.0 10.0 12.0
Mar 2022 ISPAP 21.0 30.0 6.0 12.0 6.0 7.0 4.0 9.0 17.0
Feb 2022 ISPAP 19.0 33.0 6.0 12.0 7.0 8.0 4.0 11.0 17.0
Dec 2021 ISPAP 17.0 35.0 6.0 10.0 8.0 9.0 4.0 11.0 18.0
Nov 2021 ISPAP 20.0 35.0 8.0 9.0 9.0 9.0 3.0 7.0 15.0
6 Dec 2020 Parliament 21.6 34.6 8.3 3.4 14.2 6.3 4.5 7.0 13.0
26 Sep 2020 Election 37.4 27.8 7.6 6.5 5.6 — 4.9 10.3 9.6

Alba Iulia

Date Poll source PNL USR PSD AUR PMP PV Others Lead
Jun 2022 ISPAP 23.0 16.0 29.0 12.0 2.0 1.0 17.0 6.0
May 2022 ISPAP 20.0 18.0 31.0 11.0 2.0 1.0 17.0 11.0
Feb 2022 ISPAP 17.0 20.0 22.0 20.0 2.0 1.0 18.0 2.0
Jan 2022 ISPAP 18.0 22.0 22.0 23.0 2.0 1.0 12.0 1.0
Dec 2021 ISPAP 18.0 23.0 25.0 19.0 2.0 2.0 11.0 2.0
23–26 Nov 2021 CURS 19.0 22.0 30.0 17.0 3.0 1.0 8.0 8.0
Nov 2021 ISPAP 21.0 24.0 23.0 16.0 2.0 2.0 12.0 1.0
6 Dec 2020 Parliament 27.1 28.0 19.5 10.3 3.9 1.1 10.0 0.9
27 September 2020 Election 33.7 26.2 11.9 8.3 3.4 1.7 19.0 7.5

Current political distribution of administrative mandates at local political level in Romania

In the table below are statistically represented the vast majority of the administrative mandates won nationwide in Romania by the following 12 largest (both major and minor) political parties after the 2020 Romanian local elections (based on their total number of elected representatives) as well as their current political distribution of administrative mandates in Romania at local political level according to 4 main categories as follows (statistics correct as of early December 2022):

Political party Political position Main Ideology Leader(s) County Council (CJ) Presidents Mayors County Council Councillors Local Council Councillors
PSD Social Democratic Party Centre to centre-left Social conservatism Marcel Ciolacu
20 / 41
1,362 / 3,176
362 / 1,340
13,820 / 39,900
PNL[b] National Liberal Party Centre to centre-right Conservative liberalism Nicolae Ciucă
17 / 41
1,248 / 3,176
489 / 1,340
15,043 / 39,900
UDMR
RMDSZ 		Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania Centre-right Hungarian minority rights Hunor Kelemen
4 / 41
199 / 3,176
94 / 1,340
2,360 / 39,900
PMP People's Movement Party Centre-right to right-wing Populism Eugen Tomac[c]
0 / 41
50 / 3,176
67 / 1,340
2,137 / 39,900
USR Save Romania Union Centre to centre-right Neoliberalism Cătălin Drulă
0 / 41
41 / 3,176
108 / 1,340
1,655 / 39,900
PRO PRO Romania Centre-left Populism Victor Ponta
0 / 41
36 / 3,176
56 / 1,340
1,885 / 39,900
PER Romanian Ecologist Party Right-wing Right-wing populism Dănuț Pop
0 / 41
7 / 3,176
5 / 1,340
210 / 39,900
PUSL Social Liberal Humanist Party Centre to centre-left Populism Daniel Ionașcu
0 / 41
2 / 3,176
0 / 1,340
166 / 39,900
PV Green Party Left-wing Eco-socialism Marius Lazăr/Lavinia Cosma
0 / 41
1 / 3,176
0 / 1,340
117 / 39,900
AUR Alliance for the Union of Romanians Right-wing to far-right Right-wing populism George Simion
0 / 41
2 / 3,176
[d]
0 / 1,340
79 / 39,900
FDGR
DFDR 		Democratic Forum of Germans in Romania Centre to centre-right German minority rights Paul-Jürgen Porr
0 / 41
5 / 3,176
5 / 1,340
68 / 39,900
PNȚCD Christian Democratic National Peasants' Party Centre-right to right-wing Right-wing populism Aurelian Pavelescu
0 / 41
1 / 3,176
0 / 1,340
42 / 39,900

Notes

  1. ^ George Simion, the leader of AUR was credited with 12% instead in this poll.
  2. ^ PNL had entirely absorbed ALDE during late March 2022, therefore the figures associated here with PNL include seats previously won by ALDE in 2020 as well. In addition, the figures here also include a party-switching mayor from AUR who subsequently joined the party in June 2022.
  3. ^ Tomac is the new president of PMP since 19 February 2022.
  4. ^ AUR lost one of its three mayors in June 2022. The respective mayor was from Vrancea County and switched to PNL.[11]

References

  1. ^ Redacția HotNews.ro (22 March 2022). "Florin Cîţu: Conducerea PNL a aprobat fuziunea cu ALDE". HotNews.ro (in Romanian). Retrieved 26 April 2022.
  2. ^ FD 3%
  3. ^ FD 5%
  4. ^ FD 4.0%
  5. ^ FD 3.0
  6. ^ PNL had entirely absorbed ALDE during late March 2022, therefore the figures associated here with PNL include seats previously won by ALDE in 2020 as well.
  7. ^ ApP 6%, PPU-SL 4%, FD 3%, PV 1%
  8. ^ PPU-SL 5%, FD 5%, ApP 3%, PV 1%
  9. ^ FD 3%, PV 3%, PPU 3%, ApP 3%
  10. ^ FD 4.0%, ApP 3.0%, PPU-SL 3.0%, PV 1.0%
  11. ^ Liviu Cojan (17 June 2022). "Singurul primar AUR din Vrancea a trecut la PNL. Un deputat al partidului spune că acesta ar fi fost șantajat de liberali". Digi24.ro (in Romanian). Retrieved 17 June 2022.
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