2020 Cluj County local elections

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2020 Cluj County local elections
Actual Cluj county CoA.svg
 201627 September 2020 (2020-09-27)2024 
Turnout42.65%
 First partySecond party
  No image wide.svg No image wide.svg
Party PNL PSD
Seats before1812
Seats won195
Seat changeIncrease2.svg1Decrease2.svg7
Popular vote117,51633,632
Percentage46.54%13.32%

 Third partyFourth party
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Party USR PLUS UDMR
Seats before-7
Seats won55
Seat changeNewDecrease2.svg2
Popular vote30,70129,154
Percentage12.16%11.55%

President before election

Alin Tișe
PNL

Elected President

Alin Tișe
PNL

In Cluj County, 2020 local elections were held on 27 September. [1] A total of 7,042 candidates took part in the races for a range of local positions, including county president and councilors, local councilors and mayors. [2]

Contents

County Council results

President of County Council [3]
PartyCandidateVotesVotes %
National Liberal Party Alin Tișe127,25150.45
USR-PLUS Alliance Cătălin Sălăgean32,35512.83
Social Democratic Party Alexandru Cordoș30,80812.21
Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania István Vákár28,56611.33
People's Movement Party Vasile Lungu10,7404.26
PRO Romania Remus Lăpușan9,4203.73
Green Party Bogdan Costea6,0572.40
Alliance for the Union of Romanians Alexandru Curea2,8911.15
Greater Romania Party Marius Bărdaș2,1860.87
National Force PartyNarcis Benche1,9340.77
Total252,208100
County Councilors [4] [5]
PartyVotesVotes %SeatsChange
National Liberal Party 117,51646.5419Increase2.svg1
Social Democratic Party 33,63213.325Decrease2.svg7
USR-PLUS Alliance 30,70112.165New
Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania 29,15411.555Decrease2.svg2
People's Movement Party 12,8935.112Increase2.svg2
Others28,60811.330Steady2.svg
Total252,50410036N/A

Local councils results

Local councilors [6]
PartyVotesVotes %Seats
National Liberal Party 114,58644.87422
Social Democratic Party 32,58312.76181
Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania 28,22211.05123
People's Movement Party 13,5925.3268
PRO Romania 10,8194.2460
USR-PLUS Alliance 30,83912.0754
Alliance of Liberals and Democrats 4,7441.8616
Green Party 3,9101.5312
Party of the Roma 2,5551.0011
Independent 4,0141.578
Hungarian Alliance of Transylvania 6150.245
Others8,9123.4913
Total255,391100973

Mayor elections results

Mayors of Cluj County by party [7]
PartyMayors
National Liberal Party 51
Social Democratic Party 11
Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania 9
Independent 4
People's Movement Party 3
USR-PLUS Alliance 1
Green Party 1
Alliance of Liberals and Democrats 1
Total81

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