2022 Montenegrin municipal elections

Local elections were held in Montenegro in March and October 2022 in 13 municipalities and early elections in 2 municipalities.

2022 Montenegrin local elections

← 2021 March (Berane and Ulcinj) 23 October (14 municipalities) 2023 →

458 seats in local parliaments

Party Leader Seats +/– DPS Milo Đukanović 110 −86 DF Collective leadership 98 +52 PES! Milojko Spajić 41 +41 BS Ervin Ibrahimović 39 +10 SNP Vladimir Joković 37 −2 DCG Aleksa Bečić 36 −16 SD Damir Šehović 33 −7 URA Dritan Abazović 25 +14 SDP Raško Konjević 23 +10 KSH Gëzim Hajdinaga 11 +4 AO Nazif Cungu 10 −2 BB Radomir Novaković 2 −3 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. Mayoral seats before Mayoral seats after DPS (10) SNP (2) BS (1) SD (1) DF (1) Independent (1) DF (4) PES! (2) DPS (2) URA (1) SNP (1) DCG (1) SD (1) Independent (1) BS (1) DI (1)

In June 2021, President of the Parliament of Montenegro Aleksa Bečić started the initiative for organizing local elections in 17 or 18 municipalities in the same day in 2022.^[1]

President of Montenegro, Milo Đukanović, set elections for 26 January 2022 in Berane and for 27 March Ulcinj.^[2] On 4 February Montenegro Parliament changed the law for elections in municipalities with the goal that all elections are going to be held on one day,^[3] but president Milo Đukanović did not support this change.

President Đukanović set early elections in Tivat and Budva^[4][5] as well as regular elections: in Žabljak and Plužine for 5 June;^[6] elections in Bijelo Polje and Šavnik for 12 June;^[7] and elections in Bar, Danilovgrad, Kolašin and Podgorica for 19 June.^[8]

After the new governing majority (DPS, URA, BS, SD and SNP) was formed, they gave initiative to shift elections in 14 municipalities for 23 October.^[9]

Results

March elections

Berane

Party / Coalition[10][11]	Popular vote	% of vote	Seats	±	Gov't
DPS-SD-BS-LP	3,798	25.6%	9	8	No
SNP	2,821	19%	7	0	No
DF	2,559	17.2%	6	0	Yes
DCG	2,452	16.5%	6	2	Yes
ES	1,601	10.8%	4	4	Yes
PCG	820	5.5%	2	2	Yes
UCG	688	4.6%	1	0	Yes
BIA	115	0.8%	0	0	—

Ulcinj

Party / Coalition[12]	Popular vote	% of vote	Seats	±	Gov't
URA–SD–SDP–AA–PD	4,962	42.7%	14	2	Yes
DPS–BS	2,108	18.2%	6	3	No
DUA–DSCG	2,037	17.5%	6	2	No
Forca	1,674	14.4%	5	3	Yes
DCG	829	7.1%	2	2	No

October elections

Budva

Party / Coalition	Popular vote	% of vote	Seats	±	Gov't
DF	5,690	49.5%	18	7	Yes
DPS–SD–SDP–LP–GI 21 May	3,077	26.8%	9	3	No
DCG–DEMOS	1,500	13.0%	4	2	Yes
URA	604	5.2%	1		Yes
SNP	401	3.5%	1	1	Yes
PCG	127	1.1%	0	1	—
GA	99	0.9%	0		—

Tivat

Party / Coalition	Popular vote	% of vote	Seats	±	Gov't
DPS–SD–SDP–LP	2,604	34.1%	12	2	No
NP–ES–DCG–DSS	2,196	28.7%	10	1	Yes
HGI	657	8.6%	3	1	No
DF	656	8.6%	3	3	Yes
KL	537	7.0%	2	new	Yes
TA–GB	333	4.4%	1	0	Yes
BF	306	4.0%	1	1	Yes
URA–SNP	185	2.4%	-	0	—
AZT	170	2.2%	-	1	—

Plužine

Party / Coalition	Popular vote	% of vote	Seats	±	Gov't
SNP	1,066	55.7%	17	1	Yes
NSD	394	20.6%	6	2	No
DCG–DSS	246	12.9%	4		No
DPS–SD	144	7.5%	2	4	No
URA	63	3.3%	1	new	No

Žabljak

Party / Coalition	Popular vote	% of vote	Seats	±	Gov't
DPS–SD	746	32.1%	10	7	No
DI	489	21.0%	6	new	Yes
DF	412	17.7%	5		Yes
DCG	376	16.2%	5	1	Yes
SNP	210	9.0%	3		Yes
PCG	92	4.0%	1	new	Yes

Bijelo Polje

Party / Coalition	Popular vote	% of vote	Seats	±	Gov't
DPS–SD–SDP–BPP-LP	9,607	38.6%	15	10	Yes
DF	3,510	14.1%	5	1	No
DCG–UCG	3,176	12.7%	5	2	No
BS	2,859	11.5%	4	2	Yes
ES	2,504	10.0%	4	new	No
SNP	1,500	6.0%	2		No
URA	1,255	5.0%	2		No
PCG	229	0.9%	-		—
SPP	125	0.5%	-		—
SSL	107	0.4%	-	new	—
NGZ	45	0.2%	-	new	—

Šavnik

Šavnik elections were particularly noteworthy due to a high amount of incidents and so called "Election Tourists" on the election day which prompted them to organize repeat elections the following Sunday. However, that one was also rendered invalid due to a large amount of incidents. This continued on for several more weeks before the municipal electoral body gave up and didn't organize any further repeat elections.^{[13][14][15][16][17]} As of December 2023, no outcome has been reached, and the pre-election government remains in power.

Party / Coalition	Popular vote	% of vote	Seats	±	Gov't
DCG–ES–UCG
DF–SNP
DPS–SD

Bar

Party / Coalition	Popular vote	% of vote	Seats	±	Gov't
DPS–SDP–LP	8,267	37.6%	15	2	Yes
DCG–ES–UCG	4,014	18.2%	7	4	No
DF	2,698	12.3%	5	4	No
SD	2,290	10.4%	4	3	Yes
URA–Civis–AA	1,815	8.2%	3	2	No
BB	1,141	5.2%	2	3	No
BS	859	3.9%	1		No
SNP	425	1.9%	-	1	—
PCG	375	1.7%	-	1	—
SPP	123	0.6%	-	new	—

Danilovgrad

Party / Coalition	Popular vote	% of vote	Seats	±	Gov't
DPS–SD–LP	2,495	27.1%	10	12	No
ES	2,110	22.9%	8	new	Yes
DF	1,361	14.8%	5	2	Yes
DCG–DSS	1,154	12.5%	4	1	Yes
URA	484	5.2%	2	1	Yes
SDP	364	3.9%	1	1	No
SNP	323	3.5%	1		Yes
Preokret	296	3.2%	1	new	No
UCG-PCG	288	3.1%	1		Yes
21 May	207	2.2%	-	new	—
DNS	135	1.5%	-	new	—

Kolašin

Party / Coalition	Popular vote	% of vote	Seats	±	Gov't
DPS–SDP–SD	1,334	29.5%	9	8	No
DCG–UCG–DSS	1,209	26.7%	9	3	Yes
DF	619	13.7%	4	1	Yes
ES	525	11.6%	3	new	Yes
SNP	404	8.9%	3	1	Yes
ZNK	269	5.9%	2	new	No
URA	161	3.6%	1	new	Yes

Podgorica

Party / Coalition	Popular vote	% of vote	Seats	±	Gov't
DPS–SDP–SD–LP–GI21M–BS–DUA	37,518	38.1%	24	11	No
ES	21,388	21.7%	13	new	Yes
DF–PCG–SCG	17,953	18.2%	11	5	Yes
DCG–UCG–Demos	10,628	10.8%	6	7	Yes
URA–Civis–AA	6,265	6.4%	4	1	Yes
SNP	2,719	2.8%	-	2	—
PP	1,807	1.8%	-	new	—
SSL	220	0.2%	-	new	—

Plav

Party / Coalition	Popular vote	% of vote	Seats	±	Gov't
SD–SDP–DPS	2281	46.7%	16	3	Yes
BS	1046	21.4%	7		Yes
DF–PCG	648	13.3%	4	3	No
URA–AA	549	11.2%	3	2	No
SNP	219	4.5%	1		No
ES	140	2.9%	-	new	—

Pljevlja

Party / Coalition	Popular vote	% of vote	Seats	±	Gov't
DF–SCG–RP	5,620	32.7%	12	8	Yes
DPS–BS–SD–SDP	4,584	26.7%	9	11	No
DCG–UCG–PP	3,545	20.6%	7	2	Yes
ES	2,136	12.4%	4	new	Yes
SNP–URA	1,176	6.8%	2		Yes
SPP	128	0.7%	0		—

Rožaje

Party / Coalition	Popular vote	% of vote	Seats	±	Gov't
BS	7,138	57.9	22	3	Yes
DPS–SD–SDP–LP	2,830	23.0	8	7	No
URA	865	7.0	2	2	No
SPP	764	6.2	2	2	No
ES	277	2.3	0		—
NSD–SNP	236	1.9	0		—
DCG	216	1.7	0		—

Zeta

Party / Coalition	Popular vote	% of vote	Seats	±	Gov't
DF–PCG–SCG	4.502	49.2%	16	new municipality	Yes
DPS–SD–SDP	2.335	25.5%	8	new municipality	No
DCG	1.933	21.1%	7	new municipality	Yes
SNP	384	4.2%	1	new municipality	Yes

List of mayors and local governments

Municipality	Mayor before elections	Party		Mayor after elections	Party		Local government
Podgorica	Ivan Vuković		DPS	Olivera Injac		ES	ES-DF-DCG-URA
Bijelo Polje	Petar Smolović		DPS	Petar Smolović		DPS	DPS-SD-BS-SDP
Bar	Dušan Raičević		DPS	Dušan Raičević		DPS	DPS-SD-SDP
Pljevlja	Rajko Kovačević		DPS	Dario Vraneš		DF	DF-DCG–UCG–PP-ES
Berane	Tihomir Bogavac		SNP	Vuko Todorović		DF	DF-DCG-ES-UCG-PCG
Rožaje	Rahman Husović		BS	Rahman Husović		BS	BS
Ulcinj	Aleksandar Dabović		DPS	Omer Bajraktari		URA	URA-DP-SD-SDP-FORCA
Danilovgrad	Zorica Kovačević		DPS	Aleksandar Grgurović		ES	ES-DF-DCG-URA-SNP-UCG-PCG
Plav	Nihad Canović		SD	Nihad Canović		SD	SD-BS-SDP-DPS
Kolašin	Milosav Bulatović		DPS	Vladimir Martinović		DCG	DCG-UCG-DF-ES-SNP-URA
Žabljak	Veselin Vukićević		DPS	Radoš Žugić		DI	DI-DF-DCG-PCG
Plužine	Mijuško Bajagić		SNP	Slobodan Delić		SNP	SNP–URA
Šavnik	Velimir Perišić		DPS	TBA		TBA	DPS-SD
Budva	Marko Carević		DF	Milo Božović		DF	DF-DCG-URA-SNP
Tivat	Željko Komnenović		Ind.	Željko Komnenović		Ind.	NP–ES–DCG–DSS-DF-KL-TA–GB-BF
Zeta	Tanja Stajović		DPS	Mihailo Asanović		DF	DF-DCG-SNP