2020 Prahova County local elections

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2020 Prahova County local elections
Stema Prahova.svg
 201627 September 2020 (2020-09-27)2024 
Turnout35.88% [1]
 First partySecond party
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Party PNL USR PLUS Alliance Alliance for Prahova
Seats before1516
Seats won1711
Seat changeIncrease2.svg2Decrease2.svg5
Popular vote131,17990,442
Percentage45.82%31.59%

 Third partyFourth party
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Party PMP ALDE
Seats before24
Seats won33
Seat changeIncrease2.svg1Decrease2.svg1
Popular vote26,89120,299
Percentage9.39%7.09%

President before election

Bogdan Toader
PSD

Elected President

Iulian Dumitrescu
PNL

The 2020 Prahova Countylocal elections were held on 27 September. [2] A total of 8,098 candidates participated in the elections for a range of local positions, including local councilors, mayors, county councilors and the President of the County Council. [3]

Contents

For this election season in Prahova, National Liberal Party formed an alliance with USR PLUS. [4] Similarly, the Social Democratic Party, PRO Romania and Social Liberal Humanist Party campaigned under the electoral coalition "Alliance for Prahova". [5]

County Council

President of the County Council [6]
PartyCandidateVotesVotes %
PNL USR-PLUS AllianceIulian Dumitrescu137,28646.88
Alliance for PrahovaBogdan-Andrei Toader103,99635.51
People's Movement Party Nicoleta-Cătălina22,7397.76
Ecologist Party of Romania Dan-Aurel Ioniță15,7915.39
Alliance of Liberals and Democrats Narcis-Cătălin Beciu13,0634.46
Total292,875100
Party composition of the County Council [7]
PartyVotesVotes %SeatsChange
PNL USR-PLUS Alliance131,17945.8217Increase2.svg2
Alliance for Prahova90,44231.5911Decrease2.svg5
People's Movement Party 26,8919.393Increase2.svg1
Alliance of Liberals and Democrats 20,2997.093Decrease2.svg1
Prahova in Action Party17,4646.102Increase2.svg2
Total286,27510036N/A

Local councils

Party composition of the local councils [8]
PartyVotesVotes %Seats
National Liberal Party 115,64438.66605
Social Democratic Party 51,74517.30375
People's Movement Party 16,4975.5159
PRO Romania 9,9773.3453
USR-PLUS Alliance 15,7695.2728
Prahova in Action Party10,2983.4427
Alliance of Liberals and Democrats 10,2713.4326
Social Liberal Humanist Party 4,2671.4322
Save Romania Union 4,2941.4414
PNL USR-PLUS Alliance5,5901.8714
Ecologist Party of Romania 4,3041.4413
Green Party 2,9801.0012
Alliance for Băicoi4,6771.5612
Alliance for Prahova13,9324.669
Independent 5,1031.714
Others24,8058.29123
Total299,1531001396

Mayors

Prahova County mayoral elections by party [9]
PartyVotesVotes %Mayors
National Liberal Party 131,14643.0757
Social Democratic Party 53,03917.4230
Save Romania Union 5,1321.692
PRO Romania 8,7172.861
Independent 9,6773.183
Others96,79631.7911
Total304,507100104

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