2023 Lithuanian municipal elections

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Municipal elections across Lithuania, by party.
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Mayoral elections across Lithuania, by party.

Municipal elections in Lithuania were held on 5 March 2023 [1] and saw 1,498 members of the municipal councils and 60 mayors elected to office for a four-year term.

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Election system

Size of cabinet in each municipality varies depending on populations. Lowest population municipalities with up to 5,000 inhabitants have 15 seats, while largest municipalities with over 500,000 inhabitants have 51 seats. [2]

During mayoral elections, a single candidate must receive over 50% in first round, otherwise the top two candidates will participate in second round. If turnout is less than 40% in specific municipality, the candidate must receive at least 20% of all registered votes to win the title.

Changes in regulations

New Lithuanian Elections Codecs came into power on 1 September 2022. With new regulations all elected mayors will no longer have a seat in the municipal council and the number of mayoral terms is now capped at a maximum of three. [3]

Mayoral elections

MunicipalityElected mayor [4]
Akmenė District Municipality Vitalijus Mitrofanovas
Alytus Nerijus Cesiulis
Alytus District Municipality Rasa Vitkauskienė
Anykščiai District Municipality Kęstutis Tubis
Birštonas Municipality Nijolė Dirginčienė
Biržai District Municipality Kęstutis Knizikevičius
Druskininkai Municipality Ričardas Malinauskas
Elektrėnai Municipality Gediminas Ratkevičius
Ignalina District Municipality Laimutis Ragaišis
Jonava District Municipality Mindaugas Sinkevičius
Joniškis District Municipality Vitalijus Gailius
Jurbarkas District Municipality Skirmantas Mockevičius
Kaišiadorys District Municipality Šarūnas Čėsna
Kalvarija Municipality Nerijus Šidlauskas
Kaunas Visvaldas Matijošaitis
Kaunas District Municipality Valerijus Makūnas
Kazlų Rūda Municipality Mantas Varaška
Kelmė District Municipality Idelfonsas Petkevičius
Kėdainiai District Municipality Valentinas Tamulis
Klaipėda Arvydas Vaitkus
Klaipėda District Municipality Bronius Markauskas
Kretinga District Municipality Antanas Kalnius
Kupiškis District Municipality Dainius Bardauskas
Lazdijai District Municipality Ausma Miškinienė
Marijampolė Municipality Povilas Isoda
Mažeikiai District Municipality Rūta Matulaitienė
Molėtai District Municipality Saulius Jauneika
Neringa Municipality Darius Jasaitis
Pagėgiai Municipality Vaidas Bendaravičius
Pakruojis District Municipality Saulius Margis
Palanga Šarūnas Vaitkus
Panevėžys Rytis Mykolas Račkauskas
Panevėžys District Municipality Antanas Pocius
Pasvalys District Municipality Gintautas Gegužinskas
Plungė District Municipality Audrius Klišonis
Prienai District Municipality Alvydas Vaicekauskas
Radviliškis District Municipality Kazimieras Račkauskis
Raseiniai District Municipality Arvydas Nekrošius
Rietavas Municipality Antanas Černeckis
Rokiškis District Municipality Ramūnas Godeliauskas
Skuodas District Municipality Stasys Gutautas
Šakiai District Municipality Raimondas Januševičius
Šalčininkai District Municipality Zdzisław Palewicz
Šiauliai Artūras Visockas
Šiauliai District Municipality Česlovas Greičius
Šilalė District Municipality Tadas Bartkus
Šilutė District Municipality Vytautas Laurinaitis
Širvintos District Municipality Živilė Pinskuvienė
Švenčionys District Municipality Rimantas Klipčius
Tauragė District Municipality Dovydas Kaminskas
Telšiai District Municipality Tomas Katkus
Trakai District Municipality Andrius Šatevičius
Ukmergė District Municipality Darius Varnas
Utena District Municipality Marijus Kaukėnas
Varėna District Municipality Algis Kašėta
Vilkaviškis District Municipality Algirdas Neiberka
Vilnius Valdas Benkunskas
Vilnius District Municipality Robert Duchniewicz
Visaginas Municipality Erlandas Galaguz
Zarasai District Municipality Nijolė Guobienė

Vilnius Mayor

CandidatePartyFirst roundSecond round
Votes%Votes%
Valdas Benkunskas Homeland Union 68,78831.13116,46452.73
Artūras Zuokas Freedom and Justice 47,80521.64104,41247.27
Mykolas Majauskas Independent 23,78910.77
Tomas Vytautas Raskevičius Freedom Party 22,14610.02
Waldemar Tomaszewski Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania 19,0188.61
Vytautas Sinica National Alliance 8,3473.78
Rasa Budbergytė Social Democratic Party of Lithuania 5,6062.54
Lukas Savickas Union of Democrats "For Lithuania" 4,5152.04
Eglė Radvilė Liberals' Movement 4,1061.86
Valdas Tutkus Lithuanian Regions Party 4,0481.83
Ieva Kačinskaitė-Urbonienė Labour Party 3,1831.44
Stasys Jakeliūnas Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union 2,9651.34
Petras Gražulis People and Justice Union 2,3521.06
Aidas Gedvilas Independent 2,1900.99
Remigijus Lapinskas Lithuanian Green Party 1,6610.75
Ramojus Girinskas Young Lithuania 4360.20
Total220,955100.00220,876100.00
Valid votes220,95598.90220,87698.71
Invalid/blank votes2,4641.102,8891.29
Total votes223,419100.00223,765100.00
Registered voters/turnout453,31549.29453,67049.32
Source: VRK (first round), VRK (second round)

Kaunas Mayor

CandidatePartyVotes%
Visvaldas Matijošaitis Public election committee "United Kaunas"77,76259.66
Aurelijus Veryga Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union 16,63912.77
Vytautas Juozapaitis Homeland Union 12,8179.83
Ieva Budraitė Lithuanian Green Party 6,0704.66
Nijolė Putrienė Liberals' Movement 3,8512.95
Gintautas Labanauskas Union of Democrats "For Lithuania" 3,6742.82
Mantas Bertulis Freedom Party 2,9822.29
Darius Razmislevičius Social Democratic Party of Lithuania 2,7202.09
Darius Trečiakauskas Christian Union 1,3751.05
Marijus Velička Labour Party 1,3561.04
Rūta Zabielienė People and Justice Union 5960.46
Dainius Varnas Freedom and Justice 4920.38
Total130,334100.00
Valid votes130,33497.76
Invalid/blank votes2,9862.24
Total votes133,320100.00
Registered voters/turnout247,95853.77
Source: VRK

Klaipėda Mayor

CandidatePartyFirst roundSecond round
Votes%Votes%
Arvydas VaitkusPublic election committee "Loyal to Klaipėda"12,00424.0030,91362.56
Audrius Petrošius Homeland Union 10,42120.8418,50237.44
Remigijus Žemaitaitis Freedom and Justice 10,21220.42
Ligita Girskienė Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union 5,57111.14
Vytautas Grubliauskas Social Democratic Party of Lithuania 3,8437.68
Saulius Budinas Liberals' Movement 3,6817.36
Artūras Bogdanovas Union of Democrats "For Lithuania" 1,1642.33
Birutė Andruškaitė Freedom Party 1,0402.08
Naglis Puteikis People and Justice Union 9551.91
Giedrius Bindza Labour Party 6431.29
Arvydas Ektis Lithuanian Green Party 4760.95
Total50,010100.0049,415100.00
Valid votes50,01098.1549,41598.49
Invalid/blank votes9451.857571.51
Total votes50,955100.0050,172100.00
Registered voters/turnout124,87940.80124,95440.15
Source: VRK (first round), VRK (second round)

Municipal councils' results

PartyMunicipalityMayoral
(first round)		Mayoral
(second round)		Total
seats
Votes%SeatsVotes%SeatsVotes%Seats
Social Democratic Party of Lithuania 204,02918.13358197,79617.281088,83513.81717
Homeland Union 189,39616.83239180,88815.802182,73928.4135
Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union 107,5689.56185107,0559.35056,8058.8388
Liberals' Movement 81,2627.2213585,2857.45430,6914.7759
Union of Democrats "For Lithuania" 78,0526.9312471,4406.24135,7005.5545
Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania 62,3595.545755,5584.85127,2204.2301
Freedom and Justice 60,7945.405580,7577.061113,82317.6912
Labour Party 42,9273.814633,4472.92012,4781.9400
Freedom Party 41,5223.691330,1322.6303,5050.5400
Lithuanian Regions Party 28,9272.575629,1402.5514,3280.6701
Lithuanian Green Party 19,3861.721214,7181.2906,8961.0700
National Alliance 13,1401.1739,2230.8100
People and Justice Union 10,7040.95711,6611.0207,0701.1000
Christian Union 6,1240.5485,8640.5103,0160.4700
Young Lithuania 1,4950.1304360.0400
Samogitian Party 7410.0704890.0400
Public election committees 161,86114.38183190,10316.61665,41810.17511
Coalitions15,3711.37177,0330.6100
Independents 33,5522.9304,7890.7411
Total1,125,658100.001,4981,144,577100.0026643,313100.003460
Valid votes1,125,65896.281,144,57797.89643,31398.66
Invalid/blank votes43,5163.7224,6392.118,7631.34
Total votes1,169,174100.001,169,216100.00652,076100.00
Registered voters/turnout2,389,34248.932,389,34248.931,423,12445.82
Source: VRK

Vilnius City Council

2023 Vilnius City Council Election Results.svg
PartyVotes%Seats
Homeland Union 65,71830.4519
Freedom and Justice 31,53714.619
Freedom Party 29,33013.599
Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania 23,89211.077
Social Democratic Party of Lithuania 13,8116.404
National Alliance 10,4164.833
Liberals' Movement 8,3653.880
Union of Democrats "For Lithuania" 8,3613.870
Labour Party 6,0982.830
Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union 5,0202.330
Lithuanian Regions Party 4,2371.960
Lithuanian Green Party 3,9101.810
People and Justice Union 2,4701.140
Young Lithuania 1,4950.690
Christian Union 1,1910.550
Total215,851100.0051
Valid votes215,85196.64
Invalid/blank votes7,5093.36
Total votes223,360100.00
Registered voters/turnout453,31549.27
Source: VRK

Kaunas City Council

2023 Kaunas City Council Election Results.svg
Party or allianceVotes%Seats
Public election committee "United Kaunas"64,35149.7326
Homeland Union 20,63515.958
Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union 9,8287.604
Social Democratic Party of Lithuania 6,9445.373
Union of Democrats "For Lithuania" 5,3234.110
Lithuanian Green Party 5,0713.920
Freedom Party 4,9543.830
Liberals' Movement 4,7003.630
Strong family - Strong Kaunas Christian Union 3,0492.360
People and Justice Union 0
National Alliance 2,0191.560
Labour Party 1,8721.450
Freedom and Justice 6420.500
Total129,388100.0041
Valid votes129,38898.49
Invalid/blank votes1,9801.51
Total votes131,368100.00
Registered voters/turnout247,95852.98
Source: VRK

Klaipėda City Council

2023 Klaipeda City Council Election Results.svg
PartyVotes%Seats
Public election committee "Loyal to Klaipėda"10,16620.758
Freedom and Justice 9,18818.757
Homeland Union 9,08618.547
Liberals' Movement 4,7669.733
Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union 4,5059.193
Social Democratic Party of Lithuania 3,9778.123
Freedom Party 1,9543.990
Union of Democrats "For Lithuania" 1,8463.770
Lithuanian Green Party 1,2412.530
Labour Party 1,2282.510
People and Justice Union 1,0452.130
Total49,002100.0031
Valid votes49,00294.26
Invalid/blank votes2,9865.74
Total votes51,988100.00
Registered voters/turnout124,87941.63
Source: VRK

References

  1. ↑ "Lithuania looks to hold mayoral, municipal council elections on March 5". lrt.lt. 2022-09-09. Retrieved 2023-03-25.
  2. ↑ LIETUVOS RESPUBLIKOS RINKIMŲ KODEKSO PATVIRTINIMO, ĮSIGALIOJIMO IR ĮGYVENDINIMO KONSTITUCINIS ĮSTATYMAS
  3. ↑ https://www.vrk.lt/naujienos/-/content/10180/5/pradeda-galioti-rinkimu-kodeksas Pradeda galioti
  4. ↑ Merai

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