New local elections will be held in

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in 2024. The previous Romanian local elections in 2020 were won by the National Liberal Party (PNL), even though the

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(PSD) came in with significantly more County Council (CJ) presidents and mayors than the national liberals. Therefore, the

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winner of the previous Romanian local elections was the Social Democratic Party (PSD), in spite of the

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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

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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. The government which will organize the forthcoming Romanian local elections will very likely be the

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(CNR) with a

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(PSD) Prime Minister. Most opinion polls to date (depicted down below in this article) 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,

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. In stark contrast, several other major cities are shown to favour Save Romania Union (USR) in their public administration thus far and only one the National Liberal Party (PNL).

Opinion polls

National results in 2020

Regional

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Mayor of Bucharest

Sector 1 (Bucharest)

Sector 5 (Bucharest)

Cluj-Napoca

Constanța

Iași

Brașov

Timișoara

Târgu Jiu

Alba Iulia

Current political distribution of administrative mandates at local level in Romania

In the table below are statistically represented all the administrative mandates won nationwide in Romania by the following political parties at the 2020 Romanian local elections as well as the current political distribution of administrative mandates in Romania at local political level as of late May 2022:

Notes

References

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