2022 Montenegrin municipal elections

2022 Montenegrin local elections

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458 seats in local parliaments

Party Leader Vote % 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)

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

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]