2024 Romanian local elections

2024 Romanian local elections

← 2020 9 June 2024 2028 →
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   Leader Eugen Tomac Cătălin Drulă Victor Ponta Party PMP USR PRO Leader since 19 February 2022 7 February 2022 3 September 2017
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Local elections are set to be held in Romania in 9 June 2024. They will be the eighth post-1989 local elections in the country. 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 the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats (ALDE) during late March 2022.^[1]

The main six political contenders in the forthcoming Romanian local elections will be the Social Democratic Party (PSD), the National Liberal Party (PNL), Save Romania Union (USR; formerly USR PLUS), the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR/RMDSZ), the People's Movement Party (PMP), and PRO Romania (PRO).