Local election
In many parts of the world, local elections take place to select office-holders in local government, such as mayors and councillors. Elections to positions within a city or town are often known as "municipal elections". Their form and conduct var ...
s were held in
Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southeast Europe. It borders Ukraine to the north and east, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Bulgaria to the south, Moldova to ...
on 5 June 2016.
Using a
first past the post
First-past-the-post (FPTP)—also called choose-one, first-preference plurality (FPP), or simply plurality—is a single-winner voting rule. Voters mark one candidate as their favorite, or First-preference votes, first-preference, and the cand ...
system, the following were contested:
* All the commune, town, and city councils (Local Councils, ), and the Sectors Local Councils of
Bucharest
Bucharest ( , ; ) is the capital and largest city of Romania. The metropolis stands on the River Dâmbovița (river), Dâmbovița in south-eastern Romania. Its population is officially estimated at 1.76 million residents within a greater Buc ...
();
* The 41 County Councils (), and the Bucharest Municipal General Council (). The 41 Presidents of the County Councils () will be indirectly elected by the County Councilors;
* All the mayors ();
** Of the communes, cities, and municipalities;
** Of the
Sectors of Bucharest
The Municipality of Bucharest (the capital of Romania) is divided into 6 administrative units, named sectors (''sectoare'' in Romanian), each of which has its own mayor and council, and has responsibility over local affairs, such as secondary st ...
();
** The
General Mayor of The Municipality of Bucharest ().
Results
, -
, - style="background-color:#C9C9C9"
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;" colspan=2 rowspan=2 , Party
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;" colspan=3 ,
Mayor of Bucharest
The mayor of Bucharest (), sometimes known as the general mayor, is the head of the Bucharest City Hall in Bucharest, Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southeast ...
(PMB)
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;" colspan=3 , Mayors (P)
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;" colspan=3 , Local Councils
seats (CL)
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;" colspan=3 , County Councils
seats (CJ)
, -
, - style="background-color:#C9C9C9"
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;" , Votes
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;" , %
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;" , Seats
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;" , Votes
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;" , %
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;" , Seats
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;" , Votes
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;" , %
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;" , Seats
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;" , Votes
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;" , %
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;" , Seats
, -
,
, style="text-align:left;" ,
Social Democratic Party
The name Social Democratic Party or Social Democrats has been used by many political parties in various countries around the world. Such parties are most commonly aligned to social democracy as their political ideology.
Active parties
Form ...
( - PSD)
, style="text-align:right;" , 246,553
, style="text-align:right;" , 42.97%
, style="text-align:right;" , 1
, style="text-align:right;" , 3,330,213
, style="text-align:right;" , 38.98%
, style="text-align:right;" , 1,708
, style="text-align:right;" , 3,161,046
, style="text-align:right;" , 37.70%
, style="text-align:right;" , 16,969
, style="text-align:right;" , 3,270,909
, style="text-align:right;" , 39.60%
, style="text-align:right;" , 638
, -
,
, style="text-align:left;" ,
National Liberal Party ( - PNL)
, style="text-align:right;" , 64,186
, style="text-align:right;" , 11.18%
, style="text-align:right;" , -
, style="text-align:right;" , 2,686,099
, style="text-align:right;" , 31.50%
, style="text-align:right;" , 1,081
, style="text-align:right;" , 2,478,549
, style="text-align:right;" , 29.60%
, style="text-align:right;" , 13,198
, style="text-align:right;" , 2,529,986
, style="text-align:right;" , 30.64%
, style="text-align:right;" , 504
, -
,
, style="text-align:left;" ,
Alliance of Liberals and Democrats ( - ALDE)
, style="text-align:right;" , 17,455
, style="text-align:right;" , 3.04%
, style="text-align:right;" , -
, style="text-align:right;" , 488,145
, style="text-align:right;" , 5.72%
, style="text-align:right;" , 64
, style="text-align:right;" , 545,767
, style="text-align:right;" , 6.52%
, style="text-align:right;" , 2,504
, style="text-align:right;" , 521,845
, style="text-align:right;" , 6.32%
, style="text-align:right;" , 80
, -
,
, style="text-align:left;" ,
Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania
The Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (DAHR; , RMDSZ ; , UDMR) is a political party in Romania which aims to represent the significant Hungarian minority of Romania.
Officially considering itself a federation of minority interests ra ...
(; - RMDSZ/UDMR)
, style="text-align:right;" , -
, style="text-align:right;" , -
, style="text-align:right;" , -
, style="text-align:right;" , 315,236
, style="text-align:right;" , 3.69%
, style="text-align:right;" , 195
, style="text-align:right;" , 390,321
, style="text-align:right;" , 4.66%
, style="text-align:right;" , 2,284
, style="text-align:right;" , 411,823
, style="text-align:right;" , 4.98%
, style="text-align:right;" , 95
, -
,
, style="text-align:left;" ,
People's Movement Party
The People's Movement Party (, PMP) is an extra-parliamentary national-conservative and social conservative political party in Romania.
History
The PMP was created as a political foundation in March 2013 by supporters of then incumbent sta ...
( - PMP)
, style="text-align:right;" , 37,098
, style="text-align:right;" , 6.46%
, style="text-align:right;" , -
, style="text-align:right;" , 304,924
, style="text-align:right;" , 3.57%
, style="text-align:right;" , 18
, style="text-align:right;" , 360,035
, style="text-align:right;" , 4.30%
, style="text-align:right;" , 1,315
, style="text-align:right;" , 368,985
, style="text-align:right;" , 4.46%
, style="text-align:right;" , 41
, -
,
, style="text-align:left;" ,
National Union for the Progress of Romania
The Party for the Homeland, Military and Police in Reserve and Retirement (, PPMPRR), sometimes shortened to the Party for the Homeland, Military and Police (, PPMP), and formerly known as the National Union for the Progress of Romania (, UNPR) is ...
( - UNPR)
, style="text-align:right;" , -
, style="text-align:right;" , -
, style="text-align:right;" , -
, style="text-align:right;" , 213,233
, style="text-align:right;" , 2.50%
, style="text-align:right;" , 26
, style="text-align:right;" , 245,633
, style="text-align:right;" , 2.93%
, style="text-align:right;" , 1,203
, style="text-align:right;" , 220,467
, style="text-align:right;" , 2.67%
, style="text-align:right;" , 14
, -
,
, style="text-align:left;" ,
Save Bucharest Union
The Save Bucharest Union (''Romanian: Uniunea Salvaţi Bucureștiul'') was a local Romanian political party that later became the Bucharest branch of the Save Romania Union (''Romanian: Uniunea Salvați România'', USR) operating in Bucharest, Ro ...
( - USB)
, style="text-align:right;" , 175,119
, style="text-align:right;" , 30.52%
, style="text-align:right;" , -
, style="text-align:right;" , 96,789
, style="text-align:right;" , 1.13%
, style="text-align:right;" , -
, style="text-align:right;" , 121,099
, style="text-align:right;" , 1.44%
, style="text-align:right;" , 39
, style="text-align:right;" , 143,544
, style="text-align:right;" , 1.73%
, style="text-align:right;" , 15
, -
,
, style="text-align:left;" ,
Romanian Social Party ( - PSRO)
, style="text-align:right;" , -
, style="text-align:right;" , -
, style="text-align:right;" , -
, style="text-align:right;" , 100,303
, style="text-align:right;" , 1.17%
, style="text-align:right;" , 4
, style="text-align:right;" , 102,839
, style="text-align:right;" , 1.22%
, style="text-align:right;" , 318
, style="text-align:right;" , 99,587
, style="text-align:right;" , 1.20%
, style="text-align:right;" , 7
, -
,
, style="text-align:left;" ,
Ecologist Party of Romania
The Romanian Ecologist Party (, PER) is an ecologist and currently mostly conservative and green conservative political party in Romania, member of the AER Alliance for Romania (''Alianța AER pentru România)''. Without parliamentary represen ...
( - PER)
, style="text-align:right;" , -
, style="text-align:right;" , -
, style="text-align:right;" , -
, style="text-align:right;" , 63,246
, style="text-align:right;" , 0.74%
, style="text-align:right;" , 1
, style="text-align:right;" , 87,016
, style="text-align:right;" , 1.03%
, style="text-align:right;" , 210
, style="text-align:right;" , 98,486
, style="text-align:right;" , 1.19%
, style="text-align:right;" , 8
, -
, style="background-color:" ,
, style="text-align:left;" ,
United Romania Party ( - PRU)
, style="text-align:right;" , 8,356
, style="text-align:right;" , 1.45%
, style="text-align:right;" , -
, style="text-align:right;" , 51,200
, style="text-align:right;" , 0.60%
, style="text-align:right;" , 2
, style="text-align:right;" , 60,494
, style="text-align:right;" , 0.17%
, style="text-align:right;" , 169
, style="text-align:right;" , 66,131
, style="text-align:right;" , 0.80%
, style="text-align:right;" , -
, -
,
, style="text-align:left;" ,
Independents
, style="text-align:right;" , 10,639
, style="text-align:right;" , 1.85%
, style="text-align:right;" , -
, style="text-align:right;" , 486,826
, style="text-align:right;" , 5.71%
, style="text-align:right;" , 53
, style="text-align:right;" , 258,538
, style="text-align:right;" , 3.08%
, style="text-align:right;" , 316
, style="text-align:right;" , 52,800
, style="text-align:right;" , 0.63%
, style="text-align:right;" , 3
, -
,
, style="text-align:left;" ,
Democratic Forum of Germans in Romania
The Democratic Forum of Germans in Romania (, DFDR; , FDGR; in short or ) is a political party (legally recognized as an association of public utility according to the governmental decision HG 599 as per 4 June 2008) organised on ethnic criteria ...
(; - DFDR/FDGR)
, style="text-align:right;" , -
, style="text-align:right;" , -
, style="text-align:right;" , -
, style="text-align:right;" , 40,348
, style="text-align:right;" , 0.47%
, style="text-align:right;" , 5
, style="text-align:right;" , 40,599
, style="text-align:right;" , 0.48%
, style="text-align:right;" , 81
, style="text-align:right;" , 42,652
, style="text-align:right;" , 0.51%
, style="text-align:right;" , 10
, -
,
, style="text-align:left;" ,
Hungarian People's Party of Transylvania (; - EMNP/PPMT)
, style="text-align:right;" , -
, style="text-align:right;" , -
, style="text-align:right;" , -
, style="text-align:right;" , 21,171
, style="text-align:right;" , 0.24%
, style="text-align:right;" , -
, style="text-align:right;" , 35,019
, style="text-align:right;" , 0.41%
, style="text-align:right;" , 207
, style="text-align:right;" , 38,215
, style="text-align:right;" , 0.46%
, style="text-align:right;" , 6
, -
, style="background-color:#0000ff;" ,
, style="text-align:left;" ,
Coalition for Baia Mare
The Coalition for Baia Mare (, CBM) was a Romanian local electoral alliance formed to contest the 2016 Romanian local elections, 2016 local elections in the municipality of Baia Mare, the seat of Maramureș County. It supported mayor of Baia Mare C ...
( FDGR- PNȚCD- PSRO- UNPR) ( - CBM)
, style="text-align:right;" , -
, style="text-align:right;" , -
, style="text-align:right;" , -
, style="text-align:right;" , 32,111
, style="text-align:right;" , 0.37%
, style="text-align:right;" , 1
, style="text-align:right;" , 20,229
, style="text-align:right;" , 0.24%
, style="text-align:right;" , 11
, style="text-align:right;" , 26,217
, style="text-align:right;" , 0.31%
, style="text-align:right;" , 5
, -
,
, style="text-align:left;" ,
Hungarian Civic Party (; - MPP/PCM)
, style="text-align:right;" , -
, style="text-align:right;" , -
, style="text-align:right;" , -
, style="text-align:right;" , 19,355
, style="text-align:right;" , 0.22%
, style="text-align:right;" , 13
, style="text-align:right;" , 18,993
, style="text-align:right;" , 0.22%
, style="text-align:right;" , 158
, style="text-align:right;" , 16,824
, style="text-align:right;" , 0.20%
, style="text-align:right;" , 6
, -
, style="background-color:#900020;" ,
, style="text-align:left;" , Party for
Argeș and
Muscel ()
, style="text-align:right;" , -
, style="text-align:right;" , -
, style="text-align:right;" , -
, style="text-align:right;" , 14,625
, style="text-align:right;" , 0.17%
, style="text-align:right;" , -
, style="text-align:right;" , 15,049
, style="text-align:right;" , 0.17%
, style="text-align:right;" , 67
, style="text-align:right;" , 14,137
, style="text-align:right;" , 0.17%
, style="text-align:right;" , 2
, -
,
, style="text-align:left;" ,
Other political parties
, style="text-align:right;" , 14,369
, style="text-align:right;" , 2.48%
, style="text-align:right;" , -
, style="text-align:right;" , 213,522
, style="text-align:right;" , 2.28%
, style="text-align:right;" , 15
, style="text-align:right;" , 368,927
, style="text-align:right;" , 4.63%
, style="text-align:right;" , 1,015
, style="text-align:right;" , 275,054
, style="text-align:right;" , 3.24%
, style="text-align:right;" , -
, -
, style="text-align:left;" colspan = 2 , Total:
! style="text-align:right;" , 573,775
! style="text-align:right;" , 100
! style="text-align:right;" , 1
! style="text-align:right;" , 8,477,346
! style="text-align:right;" , 100
! style="text-align:right;" , 3,186
! style="text-align:right;" , 8,310,153
! style="text-align:right;" , 100
! style="text-align:right;" , 40,067
! style="text-align:right;" , 8,197,662
! style="text-align:right;" , 100
! style="text-align:right;" , 1,434
Electoral maps
File:LOCALE 2016 CJ.png, Political map depicting counties according to the county president's party affiliation
File:LOCALE 2016 PRIMARI.png, Political map based on the mayor's party affiliation (denoting only major Romanian cities and towns)
File:Harta alegeri locale 2016 primari.png, Political map depicting the localities won by political party
Notes
References
{{Romanian elections
Local election, 2016
2016 elections in Romania
June 2016 in Romania