[6] The Socialist Party-led Coalition of the Future published a poll that predicted the electoral victory of Edi Rama in Tirana, while TV Klan, an Albanian private channel published a poll of the Gani Bobi Institute predicting a victory of Lulzim Basha.

The final tally revealed that Lulzim Basha won the Tirana race by 81 votes more than Edi Rama.

Edi Rama filed an appeal at the Electoral College to overthrow the result and re-instate the 14 May tally that pointed to him as the winner of the election.

All instances rejected Rama's appeal, and on 25 July 2011 Lulzim Basha was sworn in as the new Mayor of Tirana.

The voter turnout in the municipalities (bashki) was: (71.2%) Number of votes and percentage for each subject countrywide.