2016 Romanian local elections explained

Local elections were held in Romania on 5 June 2016.^[1]

Using a first past the post system, the following were contested:^[2]

• All the commune, town, and city councils (Local Councils, Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan: Consilii Locale), and the Sectors Local Councils of Bucharest (Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan: Consilii Locale de Sector);
• The 41 County Councils (Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan: Consilii Județene), and the Bucharest Municipal General Council (Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan: Consiliul General Al Municipiului București). The 41 Presidents of the County Councils (Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan: Președinții Consiliilor Județene) will be indirectly elected by the County Councilors;
• All the mayors (Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan: Primarii);
  • Of the communes, cities, and municipalities;
  • Of the Sectors of Bucharest (Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan: Primarii de Sector);
  • The General Mayor of The Municipality of Bucharest (Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan: Primarul General al Municipiului București).

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 (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
(Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan: Partidul Social Democrat - 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
(Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan: Partidul Național Liberal - 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
(Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan: Alianța Liberalilor și Democraților - 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
(Hungarian: Romániai Magyar Demokrata Szövetség; Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan: Uniunea Democrată Maghiară din România - 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
(Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan: Partidul Mișcarea Populară - 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
(Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan: Uniunea Națională pentru Progresul României - 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
(Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan: Uniunea Salvaţi Bucureştiul - 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
(Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan: Partidul Social Românesc - 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
(Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan: Partidul Ecologist Român - 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
(Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan: Partidul România Unită - 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
(German: Demokratisches Forum der Deutschen in Rumänien; Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan: Forumul Democrat al Germanilor din România - 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
(Hungarian: Erdélyi Magyar Néppárt; Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan: Partidul Popular Maghiar din Transilvania - 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 (FDGR-PNȚCD-PSRO-UNPR)
(Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan: Coaliția pentru Baia Mare - 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
(Hungarian: Magyar Polgári Párt; Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan: Partidul Civic Maghiar - 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
(Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan: Partidul pentru 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|}

Notes and References

1. Web site: Guvernul a stabilit data alegerilor locale. Când începe campania electorală. Gândul. Cristina. Andrei. 10 February 2016.
2. Web site: LEGEA PENTRU ALEGEREA AUTORITĂŢILOR ADMINISTRAŢIEI PUBLICE LOCALE . 2013-03-04 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130313054256/http://www.alegeri-romania.ro/pagina/30/legea-alegerilor-electorale-locale-2012.html. 2013-03-13. dead .