The 2020 USR-PLUS Alliance (which formally fused into a single political party and changed its name to the Save Romania Union) came in third with respect to popular vote yet failed to obtain an important nationwide representation (for mayors, local councilors or county councilors).
Meanwhile, the PNL enlarged itself at local political level nationwide with the integral absorption of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats (ALDE) during late March 2022.
In response to the formation of an electoral alliance between the two members of the CNR for the 2024 European Parliament election in Romania, as well as locally in some races, the Save Romania Union, People's Movement Party and Force of the Right came together to form the United Right Alliance.
Ahead of the elections, the party organized a recruitment drive to enlarge its presence at a local level.
In Bucharest, incumbent mayor Nicușor Dan had expressed his intention to be a candidate again, hoping that he will be supported by the main centre-right political parties which previously endorsed him in the 2020 Romanian local elections.
[4][5] However, the National Liberal Party declined to support Nicușor Dan for another term as Mayor of Bucharest,[6] choosing instead to form an electoral alliance with the Social Democrats and back a common candidate, namely Cătălin Cîrstoiu.
[7] After a brief scandal surrounding Crîstoiu however, the two parties decided to run opposing candidates for the Mayor of Bucharest election, maintaining the alliance only at the sector level.
For County and Local Councils, the threshold for earning seats is determined by the constituency electoral bureau.
- Political party of the elected County Council President - Political party of the elected County Council President In the table below are statistically represented the vast majority of the administrative mandates won nationwide in Romania by the following 12 political parties (both major and minor) after the 2020 Romanian local elections (based on their total number of elected representatives) as well as their current distribution of administrative mandates previously won in Romania in 2020 at local political level, according to the 4 main categories as follows (statistics correct as of late October 2023): Social conservatism see more Opinion polls for local elections in Romania, 2024 In the table below are highlighted the major electoral scores (or results) obtained by the 6 largest political parties in Romania at the previous local elections which here held in September 2020: In the table below are represented the prospective results of the 6 main political parties active in Romania at local political level for the forthcoming local elections which are going to be held in 2024:
After the announcement of the provisional results, Clotilde Armand and Radu Mihaiu, the Save Romania Union mayors from Sector 1 and Sector 2 of Bucharest, who lost the elections to the PSD-PNL candidates, announced that there had been cases of pre-stamped votes or incorrect counting.
[16] Since June 13, hundreds of USR supporters have started to organize protests in Bucharest daily, demanding a recount of votes or new elections, as well as the resignation of the Social Democrat Toni Greblă from the position of Director of the Permanent Electoral Authority.
[17][18][19][20] However, Social Democrat Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu stated that Greblă shouldn't be dismissed, declaring that "I know it is hard (for USR) to lose, but they must show dignity".