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Local elections were held in Romania on 10 June 2012. The Government initially tried to postpone the election to be on the same day with the 2012 Romanian legislative election,[1] but a ruling of the Constitutional court made that option impossible. As of June 2011, a law was passed by the parliament, and promulgated by the president, in which the mayors and the presidents of the County Councils will be elected with in a First Past the Post system.
Will be elected:
- all the villages, communes, cities, and municipal councils (Local Councils, Romanian: Consilii Locale), and the Sectors Local Councils of Bucharest (Romanian: Consilii Locale de Sector)
- the 41 County Councils (Romanian: Consilii Județene), and the Bucharest Municipal General Council (Romanian: Consiliul General Al Municipiului București).
- the 41 Presidents of the County Councils (Romanian: Președinții Consiliilor Județene)
- all the mayors (Romanian: Primarii)
- of the communes, cities, and municipalities
- of the Sectors of Bucharest (Romanian: Primarii de Sector)
- The General Mayor of The Municipality of Bucharest (Romanian: Primarul General al Municipiului București)
Results
Summarize
Perspective
| Party | County Councils Presidents (PCJ) |
County Council seats (CJ) |
Mayors (P) | Local Councils seats (CL) | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | ||||||||
| Social Liberal Union (PSD, PNL, and PC)[a] (Uniunea Social Liberală - USL) |
4,260,709 | 49.71 | 36 | 4,203,007 | 49.68 | 723 | 2,782,792 | 33.99 | 1,292 | 2,630,123 | 32.74 | 12,668 | |||||||
| Social Democratic Party[a] (Partidul Social Democrat - PSD) |
— | — | 22 | 8,666 | 0.10 | 3 | 731,597 | 8.93 | 373 | 682,378 | 8.49 | 4,046 | |||||||
| Centre Right Alliance (PNL and PC)[c] (Alianța de Centru-Dreapta - ACD) |
— | — | 14 | — | — | — | 52,938 | 0.64 | 27 | 43,532 | 0.54 | 244 | |||||||
| National Liberal Party[a] (Partidul Național Liberal - PNL) |
9,249 | 0.10 | 13 | 4,755 | 0.05 | 2 | 586,050 | 7.15 | 263 | 532,488 | 6.63 | 3,101 | |||||||
| Conservative Party[a] (Partidul Conservator) |
— | — | 1 | 611 | 0.00 | 0 | 62,591 | 0.76 | 14 | 69,687 | 0.86 | 381 | |||||||
| Democratic Liberal Party[b] (Partidul Democrat-Liberal - PDL) |
1,268,611 | 14.80 | 2 | 1,289,680 | 15.24 | 212 | 1,241,802 | 15.17 | 488 | 1,116,312 | 13.89 | 6,155 | |||||||
| People's Party – Dan Diaconescu (Partidul Poporului – Dan Diaconescu - PP-DD) |
787,143 | 9.18 | 0 | 757,194 | 8.95 | 134 | 577,195 | 7.05 | 31 | 668,234 | 8.32 | 3,021 | |||||||
| Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (Uniunea Democrată Maghiară din România - UDMR) |
467,420 | 5.45 | 2 | 473,783 | 5.60 | 88 | 400,627 | 4.89 | 202 | 435,205 | 5.41 | 2,248 | |||||||
| National Union for the Progress of Romania (Uniunea Națională pentru Progresul României - UNPR) |
168,900 | 1.97 | 1 | 204,083 | 2.41 | 13 | 205,274 | 2.50 | 24 | 218,465 | 2.72 | 972 | |||||||
| Greater Romania Party (Partidul România Mare - PRM) |
150,907 | 1.76 | 0 | 170,667 | 2.01 | 0 | 107,431 | 1.31 | 6 | 172,114 | 2.14 | 596 | |||||||
| Ecologist Party of Romania (Partidul Ecologist Român - PER) |
63,650 | 0.74 | 0 | 82,581 | 0.97 | 2 | 34,227 | 0.41 | 3 | 59,883 | 0.74 | 177 | |||||||
| Green Party (Partidul Verde - PV) |
80,697 | 0.94 | 0 | 63,508 | 0.75 | 0 | 24,131 | 0.29 | 2 | 39,199 | 0.48 | 113 | |||||||
| Democratic Forum of Germans in Romania (Forumul Democrat al Germanilor din România Demokratischen Forums der Deutschen in Rumänien - FDGR/DFDR) |
69,445 | 0.81 | 0 | 62,085 | 0.73 | 11 | 15,540 | 0.18 | 8 | 18,847 | 0.23 | 57 | |||||||
| Christian Democratic National Peasants' Party (Partidul Național Țărănesc Creștin Democrat - PNȚCD) |
31,077 | 0.36 | 0 | 44,733 | 0.52 | 0 | 19,910 | 0.24 | 3 | 38,549 | 0.47 | 142 | |||||||
| New Generation Party (Partidul Noua Generație - Creștin Democrat - PNG) |
8,377 | 0.09 | 0 | 17,702 | 0.20 | 0 | 12,033 | 0.14 | 1 | 26,381 | 0.32 | 108 | |||||||
| Other competitors[d] | 1,204,432 | 14.09 | 0 | 1,077,031 | 12.79 | 15 | 1,331,402 | 16.26 | 384 | 1,280,049 | 16.02 | 5,092 | |||||||
| Total: | 8,570,617 | 100 | 41 | 8,460,086 | 100 | 1,338 | 8,185,540 | 100 | 3,121 | 8,031,446 | 100 | 39,121 | |||||||
| Invalid votes | — | — | — | — | |||||||||||||||
Notes
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| Source: Central Electoral Bureau provisional results Archived 2013-06-05 at the Wayback Machine | |||||||||||||||||||
| Party | General Mayor of Bucharest (PGMB) |
General Council of Bucharest seats (CGMB) | |||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | ||||||||||||||
| Social Liberal Union[a] (Uniunea Social Liberală) Sorin Oprescu |
430,512 | 54.79 | 1 | 436,513 | 55.65 | 37 | |||||||||||||
| Democratic Liberal Party (Partidul Democrat Liberal) Silviu Prigoană |
134,552 | 17.12 | 0 | 129,644 | 16.52 | 11 | |||||||||||||
| People's Party – Dan Diaconescu (Partidul Poporului – Dan Diaconescu) Horia Mocanu |
74,290 | 9.45 | 0 | 83,764 | 10.67 | 7 | |||||||||||||
| Nicuşor Daniel Dan (Independent) |
66,649 | 8.48 | 0 | 36,948 | 4.71 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| National Union for the Progress of Romania (Uniunea Națională pentru Progresul României) Anghel Iordănescu |
16,095 | 2.04 | 0 | 22,936 | 2.92 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Greater Romania Party (Partidul România Mare) Petre Popeangă |
8,913 | 1.13 | 0 | 14,984 | 1.91 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| New Generation Party (Partidul Noua Generație - Creștin Democrat) George Becali |
25,076 | 3.19 | 0 | 12,279 | 1.56 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Other competitors | 29,652 | 3,77 | 0 | 47,299 | 6.03 | ||||||||||||||
| Total: | 785,739 | 100 | 1 | 784,367 | 100 | 55 | |||||||||||||
| Invalid votes | — | — | |||||||||||||||||
| Source: Central Electoral Bureau final results and attributed mandates | |||||||||||||||||||
Notes
- ^ Sorin Oprescu ran as an independent for the seat of General Mayor of Bucharest, but was supported by the USL.
Electoral maps
Political map depicting counties according to the county president's party affiliation
Political map based on the mayor's party affiliation (denoting only major Romanian cities and towns)
References
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