2023 Lithuanian municipal elections

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.

Municipal elections across Lithuania, by party.

Mayoral elections across Lithuania, by party.

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

Municipality	Elected 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

Main article: Mayor of Vilnius

Candidate		Party	First round		Second round
			Votes	%	Votes	%
	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
Valid votes			220,955	98.90	220,876	98.71
Invalid/blank votes			2,464	1.10	2,889	1.29
Total votes			223,419	100.00	223,765	100.00
Registered voters/turnout			453,315	49.29	453,670	49.32
Source: VRK (first round), VRK (second round)

Kaunas Mayor

Main article: Mayor of Kaunas

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
Valid votes			130,334	97.76
Invalid/blank votes			2,986	2.24
Total votes			133,320	100.00
Registered voters/turnout			247,958	53.77
Source: VRK

Klaipėda Mayor

Main article: Mayor of Klaipėda

Candidate		Party	First round		Second round
			Votes	%	Votes	%
	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
Valid votes			50,010	98.15	49,415	98.49
Invalid/blank votes			945	1.85	757	1.51
Total votes			50,955	100.00	50,172	100.00
Registered voters/turnout			124,879	40.80	124,954	40.15
Source: VRK (first round), VRK (second round)

Municipal councils' results

Party		Municipality			Mayoral (first round)			Mayoral (second round)			Total seats
		Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats
	Social Democratic Party of Lithuania	204,029	18.13	358	197,796	17.28	10	88,835	13.81	7	17
	Homeland Union	189,396	16.83	239	180,888	15.80	2	182,739	28.41	3	5
	Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union	107,568	9.56	185	107,055	9.35	0	56,805	8.83	8	8
	Liberals' Movement	81,262	7.22	135	85,285	7.45	4	30,691	4.77	5	9
	Union of Democrats "For Lithuania"	78,052	6.93	124	71,440	6.24	1	35,700	5.55	4	5
	Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania	62,359	5.54	57	55,558	4.85	1	27,220	4.23	0	1
	Freedom and Justice	60,794	5.40	55	80,757	7.06	1	113,823	17.69	1	2
	Labour Party	42,927	3.81	46	33,447	2.92	0	12,478	1.94	0	0
	Freedom Party	41,522	3.69	13	30,132	2.63	0	3,505	0.54	0	0
	Lithuanian Regions Party	28,927	2.57	56	29,140	2.55	1	4,328	0.67	0	1
	Lithuanian Green Party	19,386	1.72	12	14,718	1.29	0	6,896	1.07	0	0
	National Alliance	13,140	1.17	3	9,223	0.81	0				0
	People and Justice Union	10,704	0.95	7	11,661	1.02	0	7,070	1.10	0	0
	Christian Union	6,124	0.54	8	5,864	0.51	0	3,016	0.47	0	0
	Young Lithuania	1,495	0.13	0	436	0.04	0				0
	Samogitian Party	741	0.07	0	489	0.04	0				0
	Public election committees	161,861	14.38	183	190,103	16.61	6	65,418	10.17	5	11
	Coalitions	15,371	1.37	17	7,033	0.61	0				0
	Independents				33,552	2.93	0	4,789	0.74	1	1
Total		1,125,658	100.00	1,498	1,144,577	100.00	26	643,313	100.00	34	60
Valid votes		1,125,658	96.28		1,144,577	97.89		643,313	98.66
Invalid/blank votes		43,516	3.72		24,639	2.11		8,763	1.34
Total votes		1,169,174	100.00		1,169,216	100.00		652,076	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		2,389,342	48.93		2,389,342	48.93		1,423,124	45.82
Source: VRK

Vilnius City Council

Party		Votes	%	Seats
	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
Valid votes		215,851	96.64
Invalid/blank votes		7,509	3.36
Total votes		223,360	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		453,315	49.27
Source: VRK

Kaunas City Council

Party or alliance				Votes	%	Seats
	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
Valid votes				129,388	98.49
Invalid/blank votes				1,980	1.51
Total votes				131,368	100.00
Registered voters/turnout				247,958	52.98
Source: VRK

Klaipėda City Council

Party		Votes	%	Seats
	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
Valid votes		49,002	94.26
Invalid/blank votes		2,986	5.74
Total votes		51,988	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		124,879	41.63
Source: VRK