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2023 Lithuanian municipal elections

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

Municipal elections across Lithuania, by party.

Mayoral elections across Lithuania, by party.

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

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.

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.

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.

Candidate	Party	First round	Second round
	Valdas Benkunskas	Homeland Union	68,788	31.13	116,464	52.73
	Artūras Zuokas	Freedom and Justice	47,805	21.64	104,412	47.27
	Mykolas Majauskas	Independent	23,789	10.77
	Tomas Vytautas Raskevičius	Freedom Party	22,146	10.02
	Waldemar Tomaszewski	Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania	19,018	8.61
	Vytautas Sinica	National Alliance	8,347	3.78
	Rasa Budbergytė	Social Democratic Party of Lithuania	5,606	2.54
	Lukas Savickas	Union of Democrats "For Lithuania"	4,515	2.04
	Eglė Radvilė	Liberals' Movement	4,106	1.86
	Valdas Tutkus	Lithuanian Regions Party	4,048	1.83
	Ieva Kačinskaitė-Urbonienė	Labour Party	3,183	1.44
	Stasys Jakeliūnas	Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union	2,965	1.34
	Petras Gražulis	People and Justice Union	2,352	1.06
	Aidas Gedvilas	Independent	2,190	0.99
	Remigijus Lapinskas	Lithuanian Green Party	1,661	0.75
	Ramojus Girinskas	Young Lithuania	436	0.20
Total	220,955	100.00	220,876	100.00

220,955	98.90	220,876	98.71
2,464	1.10	2,889	1.29
223,419	100.00	223,765	100.00
453,315	49.29	453,670	49.32
Source: VRK (first round), VRK (second round)

Candidate	Party	Votes	%
	Visvaldas Matijošaitis	Public election committee "United Kaunas"	77,762	59.66
	Aurelijus Veryga	Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union	16,639	12.77
	Vytautas Juozapaitis	Homeland Union	12,817	9.83
	Ieva Budraitė	Lithuanian Green Party	6,070	4.66
	Nijolė Putrienė	Liberals' Movement	3,851	2.95
	Gintautas Labanauskas	Union of Democrats "For Lithuania"	3,674	2.82
	Mantas Bertulis	Freedom Party	2,982	2.29
	Darius Razmislevičius	Social Democratic Party of Lithuania	2,720	2.09
	Darius Trečiakauskas	Christian Union	1,375	1.05
	Marijus Velička	Labour Party	1,356	1.04
	Rūta Zabielienė	People and Justice Union	596	0.46
	Dainius Varnas	Freedom and Justice	492	0.38
Total	130,334	100.00

130,334	97.76
2,986	2.24
133,320	100.00
247,958	53.77
Source: VRK

Candidate	Party	First round	Second round
	Arvydas Vaitkus	Public election committee "Loyal to Klaipėda"	12,004	24.00	30,913	62.56
	Audrius Petrošius	Homeland Union	10,421	20.84	18,502	37.44
	Remigijus Žemaitaitis	Freedom and Justice	10,212	20.42
	Ligita Girskienė	Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union	5,571	11.14
	Vytautas Grubliauskas	Social Democratic Party of Lithuania	3,843	7.68
	Saulius Budinas	Liberals' Movement	3,681	7.36
	Artūras Bogdanovas	Union of Democrats "For Lithuania"	1,164	2.33
	Birutė Andruškaitė	Freedom Party	1,040	2.08
	Naglis Puteikis	People and Justice Union	955	1.91
	Giedrius Bindza	Labour Party	643	1.29
	Arvydas Ektis	Lithuanian Green Party	476	0.95
Total	50,010	100.00	49,415	100.00

50,010	98.15	49,415	98.49
945	1.85	757	1.51
50,955	100.00	50,172	100.00
124,879	40.80	124,954	40.15
Source: VRK (first round), VRK (second round)


	Homeland Union	65,718	30.45	19
	Freedom and Justice	31,537	14.61	9
	Freedom Party	29,330	13.59	9
	Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania	23,892	11.07	7
	Social Democratic Party of Lithuania	13,811	6.40	4
	National Alliance	10,416	4.83	3
	Liberals' Movement	8,365	3.88	0
	Union of Democrats "For Lithuania"	8,361	3.87	0
	Labour Party	6,098	2.83	0
	Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union	5,020	2.33	0
	Lithuanian Regions Party	4,237	1.96	0
	Lithuanian Green Party	3,910	1.81	0
	People and Justice Union	2,470	1.14	0
	Young Lithuania	1,495	0.69	0
	Christian Union	1,191	0.55	0
Total	215,851	100.00	51

215,851	96.64
7,509	3.36
223,360	100.00
453,315	49.27
Source: VRK


	Public election committee "United Kaunas"	64,351	49.73	26
	Homeland Union	20,635	15.95	8
	Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union	9,828	7.60	4
	Social Democratic Party of Lithuania	6,944	5.37	3
	Union of Democrats "For Lithuania"	5,323	4.11	0
	Lithuanian Green Party	5,071	3.92	0
	Freedom Party	4,954	3.83	0
	Liberals' Movement	4,700	3.63	0
	Strong family - Strong Kaunas		Christian Union	3,049	2.36	0
	People and Justice Union	0
	National Alliance	2,019	1.56	0
	Labour Party	1,872	1.45	0
	Freedom and Justice	642	0.50	0
Total	129,388	100.00	41

129,388	98.49
1,980	1.51
131,368	100.00
247,958	52.98
Source: VRK


	Public election committee "Loyal to Klaipėda"	10,166	20.75	8
	Freedom and Justice	9,188	18.75	7
	Homeland Union	9,086	18.54	7
	Liberals' Movement	4,766	9.73	3
	Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union	4,505	9.19	3
	Social Democratic Party of Lithuania	3,977	8.12	3
	Freedom Party	1,954	3.99	0
	Union of Democrats "For Lithuania"	1,846	3.77	0
	Lithuanian Green Party	1,241	2.53	0
	Labour Party	1,228	2.51	0
	People and Justice Union	1,045	2.13	0
Total	49,002	100.00	31

49,002	94.26
2,986	5.74
51,988	100.00
124,879	41.63
Source: VRK

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