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.

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2024 Romanian local elections

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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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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).

The government which will organize the forthcoming Romanian local elections will very likely be the Ciolacu Cabinet representing the National Coalition for Romania (CNR) with a Social Democratic (PSD) Prime Minister, most probably in the person of incumbent head of government Marcel Ciolacu.

Most opinion polls to date (depicted in the tables from the sections below) show the Social Democratic Party (PSD) as either the main or overall winning party in several major cities and towns across Romania, including, most notably, the capital, Bucharest.

In Bucharest, incumbent mayor Nicușor Dan has recently expressed his intention to candidate again, hoping that he will be supported by the main centre-right political parties which previously endorsed him in the 2020 Romanian local elections.^[2][3] However, as of October 2023, the National Liberal Party (PNL) already declined its support for Nicușor Dan for another term as Mayor of Bucharest (PGMB).^[4] At the same time, Dan announced he will run as an independent candidate, as in 2020, and that he hopes he will be supported by as many centre-right political parties as possible.

In stark contrast, several other major cities are shown to favour Save Romania Union (USR) in their public administration thus far and others the National Liberal Party (PNL). The current political trend, according to the polls, is that the Social Democratic Party (PSD) is the dominant political party in the south and east of Romania (i.e. in Muntenia, Oltenia, Dobrogea, and Western Moldavia respectively), the National Liberal Party (PNL) in the centre and north of the country (i.e. in Transylvania and Bukovina), and Save Romania Union (USR), sporadically at urban level in the south-western part of the country, more specifically in Banat.

In the table below are statistically represented the vast majority of the administrative mandates won nationwide in Romania by the following 12 political parties (both major and minor) after the 2020 Romanian local elections (based on their total number of elected representatives) as well as their current distribution of administrative mandates previously won in Romania in 2020 at local political level, according to the 4 main categories as follows (statistics correct as of late October 2023):