Bucharest is the capital and largest city of Romania. The metropolis stands on the River Dâmbovița in south-eastern Romania. Its population is officially estimated at 1.76 million residents within a greater metropolitan area of 2.3 million residents, which makes Bucharest the 8th most-populous city in the European Union. The city area measures 240 km2 and comprises 6 districts (Sectoare), while the metropolitan area covers 1,811 km2. Bucharest is a beta global city, a major cultural, political and economic hub, and the country's seat of government.
The Mayor of Bucharest, sometimes known as the General Mayor, is the head of the Bucharest City Hall in Bucharest, Romania, which is responsible for citywide affairs, such as the water system, the transport system and the main boulevards. The title of General Mayor is sometimes used to distinguish the office from that of the mayors that lead each of Bucharest's six administrative sectors, and which are responsible for local area affairs, such as secondary streets, parks, schools and cleaning services. All decisions of the mayor have to be approved by the 55-seat General Council of Bucharest.
Romania elects on a national level a head of state – the president – and a legislature. The president is elected for a five-year term by the people. The Romanian Parliament has two chambers. The Chamber of Deputies has currently 330 members, elected for a four-year term by party-list proportional representation on closed lists. The Senate has currently 136 members, elected for a four-year term by party-list proportional representation on closed lists.
The General Council of Bucharest is the legislative body of the Municipality of Bucharest, and is made up of 55 councillors elected every four years.
Local elections were held in Romania on 1 June 2008, with a runoff for mayors on 15 June 2008.
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, 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.
Iuliu Ilyés is a Romanian engineer and politician of Hungarian ethnicity. A member of the Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR), he was the mayor of Satu Mare for two terms, from 2004 until 2012. Between 1996 and 2004 he was the deputy mayor of the city. He is married to Ildikó and has two children.
Nicușor Dan is a Romanian activist, mathematician, former member of the Chamber of Deputies of Romania as well as founder and former leader of the Romanian political party Save Romania Union (USR). He is currently serving as the Mayor of Bucharest following the 2020 Romanian local elections as an independent politician. He is expected to serve another term as Mayor, following his victory in the 2024 Romanian local elections.
Local elections were held in Romania in 2000 with a runoff for mayors. In which the PDSR won a majority. Bucharest's mayor becoming Traian Băsescu. Who continued the PNT-CD's strong hold over Bucharest's politics
Local elections were held in Romania on 2 June 1996 and a runoff for mayors on 16 June 1996.
Local elections were held in Romania on 5 June 2016.
Cristian Victor Popescu Piedone is a Romanian businessman and politician who served as mayor of Bucharest's Sector 4 from 2008 until 4 November 2015, when he resigned following the Colectiv nightclub fire and the subsequent 2015 Romanian protests.
The Save Bucharest Union was a local Romanian political party that later became the Bucharest branch of the Save Romania Union operating in Bucharest, Romania. The party was founded on 1 July 2015 by Save Bucharest Association (USB) president and civic activist Nicușor Dan.
Clotilde Marie Brigitte Armand is a French-born Romanian politician and businesswoman. Since October 2020, she is Mayor of Bucharest's Sector 1.
Ion Ceban is a Moldovan politician, and the current mayor of Chișinău, Moldova's capital. He is also the leader of the pro-European National Alternative Movement party. Ceban was Vice President of the Moldovan parliament in 2019 and has served as a member of parliament in three legislatures. He also served as a leader of his party's faction in the Chișinău Municipal Council from 2015 to 2019. He has held different positions at the governmental level, starting from the head of a department to Deputy Minister.
Local elections were held in Romania on 27 September 2020. Initially planned for June 2020, the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic led the Government of Romania to postpone the elections to a date no later than 31 December 2020, and extending all the terms of the local offices due to expire on 5 June 2020.
Local elections were held in Romania on 9 June 2024. They were 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 Presidents and mayors than the National Liberals.
The mayor of Brăila, officially the Mayor of the Municipality of Brăila, is the head of the Brăila City Hall in Brăila, Romania. The current mayor of Brăila is PSD member Viorel Marian Dragomir, who was elected in the 2020 Romanian local elections with over 50% of the votes. This is his second term, as he already was the mayor of the city from 2016 to 2020.
The 2020 Bucharestlocal elections took place on 27 September. A total of 3,235 candidates participated for a variety of offices, including General Mayor and General Councilors of the Municipality of Bucharest, as well as mayors and local councilors for each of the city's 6 sectors.
Map depicting the localities according to the colour of the elected mayor
Alternative map for the Romanian counties based on the party of the president of the County Council
Map of the Romanian counties based on the party of the president of the County Council
Map of the Romanian counties based on the party of the mayor of the county capital
Map of the sectors based on the party of the mayor after the 2004 local elections
Map of the sectors based on the party mayor as of 2007
