Politics of Cluj-Napoca
Encyclopedia
The last general local election was hold in 1 June 2008. The threshold was 5%. On the 15 February 2009, a by-election was held for the office of Mayor of Cluj-Napoca, following the nomination of the previous Mayor, Emil Boc
as Prime-Minister
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!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|Votes
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|Justice and Truth Alliance (Alianţa Dreptate si Adevăr)
|align="right" valign=top|43823
|align="right" valign=top|29.57
|align="right" valign=top|9
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|Greater Romania Party
(Partidul România Mare)
|align="right" |30864
|align="right" |20.82
|align="right" |6
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|Social Democratic Party (Partidul Social Democrat)
|align="right" valign=top|30457
|align="right" valign=top|20.55
|align="right" valign=top|6
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|Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania (Uniunea Democrată Maghiară din România)
|align="right" |28172
|align="right" |19.01
|align="right" |6
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|Humanist Party of Romania, now Conservative Party
(Partidul Conservator)
|align="right" |2963
|align="right" |2.0
|align="right" |-
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|Romanian National Unity Party
|align="right" |2015
|align="right" |1.36
|align="right" |-
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|Christian-Democratic National Peasants' Party
|align="right" |1393
|align="right" |0.94
|align="right" |-
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!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=left colspan=2|Parties and alliances
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|Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania (Uniunea Democrată Maghiară din România)
|align="right" |31618
|align="right" |22.50
|align="right" |8
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|Greater Romania Party
(Partidul România Mare)
|align="right" |30762
|align="right" |21.89
|align="right" |8
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|Party of Social Democracy in Romania, now Social Democratic Party (Partidul Social Democrat)
|align="right" valign=top|16605
|align="right" valign=top|11.81
|align="right" valign=top|5
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|Convenţia Democrată Română
(Convenţia Democrată Română)
|align="right" valign=top|10264
|align="right" valign=top|7.30
|align="right" valign=top|3
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|Romanian National Unity Party
|align="right" valign=top|?(no data)
|align="right" valign=top|?(no data)
|align="right" valign=top|3
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|National Liberal Party
(Partidul Naţional Liberal)
|align="right" |5432
|align="right" |3.86
|align="right" |2
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|Party of Alliance for Romania
|align="right" |4606
|align="right" |3.26
|align="right" |2
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|width="75" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|
|width="30" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|
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colspan=5 align=center|Summary of the 1 June 2008 Cluj Napoca Local election results
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|Democratic Liberal Party
(Partidul Democrat)
|align="right" |
|align="right" |
|align="right" |16
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|Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania
(Uniunea Democrată Maghiară din România)
|align="right" |
|align="right" |
|align="right" |5
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|National Liberal Party
(Partidul Naţional Liberal)
|align="right" valign=top|
|align="right" valign=top|
|align="right" valign=top|3
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|Social Democratic Party (Partidul Social Democrat)
|align="right" |
|align="right" |
|align="right" |3
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|Greater Romania Party
(Partidul România Mare)
|align="right" valign=top|
|align="right" valign=top|
|align="right" valign=top|0
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|Conservative Party
(Partidul Conservator)
|align="right" |
|align="right" |
|align="right" |0
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|Christian Social Popular Union (Uniunea Populară Social Creştină)
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|align="right" valign=top|
|align="right" valign=top|0
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|PP (')
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|align="right" valign=top|
|align="right" valign=top|0
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|Green Party
(Partidul Verde)
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|National Initiative Party
(Partidul Iniţiativa Naţionalã)
|align="right" valign=top|
|align="right" valign=top|
|align="right" valign=top|0
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|(PCM)
|align="right" valign=top|
|align="right" valign=top|
|align="right" valign=top|0
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|(UPSS)
|align="right" valign=top|
|align="right" valign=top|
|align="right" valign=top|0
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|Socialist Alliance Party (PAS)
|align="right" valign=top|
|align="right" valign=top|
|align="right" valign=top|0
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|Ecologist Party of Romania
(PER)
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|align="right" valign=top|
|align="right" valign=top|0
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|(PRE)
|align="right" valign=top|
|align="right" valign=top|
|align="right" valign=top|0
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|Christian-Democratic National Peasants' Party
(Partidul Naţional Ţărănesc Creştin Democrat)
|align="right" |
|align="right" |
|align="right" |0
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|(PNG-CD)
|align="right" valign=top|
|align="right" valign=top|
|align="right" valign=top|0
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|Valentin Guia (independent)
|align="right" valign=top|
|align="right" valign=top|
|align="right" valign=top|0
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|style="background-color:#E9E9E9" colspan=2|Total (turnout %)
|width="75" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|
|width="30" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|
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! style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=left colspan=2|Candidates - Parties and alliances
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| Sorin Apostu - Democratic Liberal Party
(Partidul Democrat-Liberal)
| align="right" valign=top|49,234
| align="right" valign=top|56
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| Marius Nicoară
- National Liberal Party
(Partidul Naţional Liberal)
| align="right" |
| align="right" | 23
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| Teodor Pop-Puscas - PSD
+PC
Alliance
(Alianţa PSD+PC)
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| Sorin Oancea - Christian-Democratic National Peasants' Party (Partidul Naţional Ţărănesc Creştin Democrat)
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| Gheorghe Oros - Socialist Alliance Party
(Partidul Alianţa Socialistă)
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| Gheorghe Aştileanu - New Generation Party – Christian Democratic (PArtidul Noua Generaţie - Creştin Democrat)
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| Gergely Balasz - Hungarian Civic Party
(Partidul Civic Maghiar)
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| Laszlo Csaba - Green Party
(Partidul Verde)
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| Grigore Pop - Independent
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| style="background-color:#E9E9E9" colspan=2|Total: 274,300 (turnout 30.19%)
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Emil Boc
Emil Boc is the Prime Minister of Romania, having served since December 2008. In June 2004, he was elected Mayor of Cluj-Napoca, the largest city in Transylvania. Boc is also the president of the Democratic Liberal Party, who designated him as Prime Minister in 2008. On October 13, 2009, his...
as Prime-Minister
Prime Minister of Romania
The Prime Minister of Romania is the head of the Government of Romania. Initially, the office was styled President of the Council of Ministers , when the term "Government" included more than the Cabinet, and the Cabinet was called The Council of Ministers...
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List of mayors
# | Name | Portrait | Born-Died | Took office | Left office | Party |
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Principality of Transylvania | ||||||
József Pataki | April 1861 | ? | ||||
Austro-Hugarian Empire | ||||||
Zsigmond Szentkirályi | 1 September 1867 | 1868 | ||||
Unknown | 1868 | 1874 | ||||
Elek Simon | 1 February 1874 | 1 September 1880 | ||||
Károly Haller | 1 August 1884 | 1 May 1886 | ||||
Géza Albach | 1 May 1886 | 30 June 1898 | ||||
Géza Szvacsina | 1 July 1898 | 30 November 1913 | ||||
Gusztáv Haller | 1 December 1913 | 19 January 1919 | ||||
Kingdom of Romania | ||||||
Iulian Pop Iulian Pop Iulian Pop was an Austro-Hungarian and Romanian lawyer and politician, who became the first Romanian mayor of Cluj on January 19, 1919, one year after Transylvania became part of the Romanian state... |
19 January 1919 | April 1923 | ||||
— | Aurel Moga | April 1923 | April 1923 | |||
Octavian Utalea Octavian Utalea Octavian Utalea became mayor of the municipality of Cluj, Romania on 1 May 1923. He served as mayor until 14 March 1926... |
1 mai 1923 | 14 martie 1926 | ||||
Theodor Mihali | 21 aprilie 1926 | 21 octombrie 1926 | ||||
Vasile Osvadă | 21 octombrie 1926 | 23 iunie 1927 | ||||
Theodor Mihali | 23 iunie 1927 | 24 iulie 1931 | ||||
Kingdom of Hungary (Vienna awards) | ||||||
Kingdom of Romania (restored) | ||||||
Communist Romania | ||||||
Romania | ||||||
Mayor and Municipal Council election 2004
colspan=5 align=center|Summary of the 6 June 2004 Cluj Napoca Local election results|-
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|Justice and Truth Alliance (Alianţa Dreptate si Adevăr)
- National Liberal PartyNational Liberal Party (Romania)The National Liberal Party , abbreviated to PNL, is a centre-right liberal party in Romania. It is the third-largest party in the Romanian Parliament, with 53 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 22 in the Senate: behind the centre-right Democratic Liberal Party and the centre-left Social...
(Partidul Naţional Liberal) - Democratic Party (Partidul Democrat)
|align="right" valign=top|43823
|align="right" valign=top|29.57
|align="right" valign=top|9
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|Greater Romania Party
Greater Romania Party
The Greater Romania Party is a Romanian radical right-wing, ultra-nationalist political party, led by Corneliu Vadim Tudor. The party is sometimes referred to in English as the Great Romania Party....
(Partidul România Mare)
|align="right" |30864
|align="right" |20.82
|align="right" |6
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|Social Democratic Party (Partidul Social Democrat)
|align="right" valign=top|30457
|align="right" valign=top|20.55
|align="right" valign=top|6
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|Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania (Uniunea Democrată Maghiară din România)
|align="right" |28172
|align="right" |19.01
|align="right" |6
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|Humanist Party of Romania, now Conservative Party
Conservative Party (Romania)
The Conservative Party of Romania is a political party formed in 1991, after the fall of Communism, under the name of the Romanian Humanist Party . From 2005 until December 3, 2006, the party was a junior member of the ruling coalition...
(Partidul Conservator)
|align="right" |2963
|align="right" |2.0
|align="right" |-
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|Romanian National Unity Party
Romanian National Unity Party
The Romanian National Unity Party was a political party in Romania between 1990 and 2006.PUNR was the first nationalist party in post-Communist Romania, created in 1990....
|align="right" |2015
|align="right" |1.36
|align="right" |-
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|Christian-Democratic National Peasants' Party
|align="right" |1393
|align="right" |0.94
|align="right" |-
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|style="background-color:#E9E9E9" colspan=2|Total (turnout %)
|width="75" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|
|width="30" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|
|width="30" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|27
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Mayor and Municipal Council election 2000
colspan=5 align=center|Summary of the June 2000 Cluj Napoca Local election results|-
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=left colspan=2|Parties and alliances
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|Votes
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|%
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|Seats
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|Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania (Uniunea Democrată Maghiară din România)
|align="right" |31618
|align="right" |22.50
|align="right" |8
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|Greater Romania Party
Greater Romania Party
The Greater Romania Party is a Romanian radical right-wing, ultra-nationalist political party, led by Corneliu Vadim Tudor. The party is sometimes referred to in English as the Great Romania Party....
(Partidul România Mare)
|align="right" |30762
|align="right" |21.89
|align="right" |8
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|Party of Social Democracy in Romania, now Social Democratic Party (Partidul Social Democrat)
|align="right" valign=top|16605
|align="right" valign=top|11.81
|align="right" valign=top|5
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|Convenţia Democrată Română
Romanian Democratic Convention
The Romanian Democratic Convention was an electoral alliance of several political parties of Romania, active from early 1992 until 2000....
(Convenţia Democrată Română)
|align="right" valign=top|10264
|align="right" valign=top|7.30
|align="right" valign=top|3
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|Romanian National Unity Party
Romanian National Unity Party
The Romanian National Unity Party was a political party in Romania between 1990 and 2006.PUNR was the first nationalist party in post-Communist Romania, created in 1990....
|align="right" valign=top|?(no data)
|align="right" valign=top|?(no data)
|align="right" valign=top|3
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|National Liberal Party
National Liberal Party (Romania)
The National Liberal Party , abbreviated to PNL, is a centre-right liberal party in Romania. It is the third-largest party in the Romanian Parliament, with 53 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 22 in the Senate: behind the centre-right Democratic Liberal Party and the centre-left Social...
(Partidul Naţional Liberal)
|align="right" |5432
|align="right" |3.86
|align="right" |2
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|Party of Alliance for Romania
|align="right" |4606
|align="right" |3.26
|align="right" |2
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|style="background-color:#E9E9E9" colspan=2|Total (turnout 54.5%)
|width="75" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|
|width="30" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|
|width="30" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|31
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Mayor and Municipal Council election 2008
Bolded names represent the parties that entered the Local Council.colspan=5 align=center|Summary of the 1 June 2008 Cluj Napoca Local election results
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|Democratic Liberal Party
Democratic Liberal Party (Romania)
The Democratic Liberal Party is a populist, centre-right party in Romania. It was formed on 15 December 2007, when the Democratic Party merged with the Liberal Democratic Party. From 2004 to 2007, the Democratic Party was part of the governing Justice and Truth Alliance...
(Partidul Democrat)
|align="right" |
|align="right" |
|align="right" |16
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|Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania
(Uniunea Democrată Maghiară din România)
|align="right" |
|align="right" |
|align="right" |5
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|National Liberal Party
National Liberal Party (Romania)
The National Liberal Party , abbreviated to PNL, is a centre-right liberal party in Romania. It is the third-largest party in the Romanian Parliament, with 53 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 22 in the Senate: behind the centre-right Democratic Liberal Party and the centre-left Social...
(Partidul Naţional Liberal)
|align="right" valign=top|
|align="right" valign=top|
|align="right" valign=top|3
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|Social Democratic Party (Partidul Social Democrat)
|align="right" |
|align="right" |
|align="right" |3
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|Greater Romania Party
Greater Romania Party
The Greater Romania Party is a Romanian radical right-wing, ultra-nationalist political party, led by Corneliu Vadim Tudor. The party is sometimes referred to in English as the Great Romania Party....
(Partidul România Mare)
|align="right" valign=top|
|align="right" valign=top|
|align="right" valign=top|0
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|Conservative Party
Conservative Party (Romania)
The Conservative Party of Romania is a political party formed in 1991, after the fall of Communism, under the name of the Romanian Humanist Party . From 2005 until December 3, 2006, the party was a junior member of the ruling coalition...
(Partidul Conservator)
|align="right" |
|align="right" |
|align="right" |0
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|Christian Social Popular Union (Uniunea Populară Social Creştină)
|align="right" valign=top|
|align="right" valign=top|
|align="right" valign=top|0
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|PP (')
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|align="right" valign=top|0
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|Green Party
Green Party (Romania)
The Green Party , often shortened to The Greens is a Romanian political party centred on green politics. It is a member of the European Green Party.-Policies:...
(Partidul Verde)
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|National Initiative Party
National Initiative Party
The National Initiative Party is a small Romanian political party....
(Partidul Iniţiativa Naţionalã)
|align="right" valign=top|
|align="right" valign=top|
|align="right" valign=top|0
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|(PCM)
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|align="right" valign=top|
|align="right" valign=top|0
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|(UPSS)
|align="right" valign=top|
|align="right" valign=top|
|align="right" valign=top|0
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|Socialist Alliance Party (PAS)
|align="right" valign=top|
|align="right" valign=top|
|align="right" valign=top|0
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|Ecologist Party of Romania
Ecologist Party of Romania
The Romanian Ecologist Party was founded by Petre Metanie, a teacher, in 1978 as a political organisation opposed to Nicolae Ceauşescu and the Romanian Communist Party's policy of indiscriminate economic growth, without regard for ecological consequences...
(PER)
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|align="right" valign=top|0
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|(PRE)
|align="right" valign=top|
|align="right" valign=top|
|align="right" valign=top|0
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|Christian-Democratic National Peasants' Party
(Partidul Naţional Ţărănesc Creştin Democrat)
|align="right" |
|align="right" |
|align="right" |0
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|(PNG-CD)
|align="right" valign=top|
|align="right" valign=top|
|align="right" valign=top|0
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|Valentin Guia (independent)
|align="right" valign=top|
|align="right" valign=top|
|align="right" valign=top|0
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|style="background-color:#E9E9E9" colspan=2|Total (turnout %)
|width="75" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|
|width="30" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|
|width="30" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|27
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Mayoral by-election, 2009
colspan=4 align=center|Summary of the 15 February 2009 Cluj-Napoca Local partial election results|-
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=left colspan=2|Candidates - Parties and alliances
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! style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|%
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| Sorin Apostu - Democratic Liberal Party
Democratic Liberal Party (Romania)
The Democratic Liberal Party is a populist, centre-right party in Romania. It was formed on 15 December 2007, when the Democratic Party merged with the Liberal Democratic Party. From 2004 to 2007, the Democratic Party was part of the governing Justice and Truth Alliance...
(Partidul Democrat-Liberal)
| align="right" valign=top|49,234
| align="right" valign=top|56
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| Marius Nicoară
Marius Nicoara
Marius Nicoară is the President of the Cluj County Council, and president of the Cluj National Liberal Party. As President of the County Council he is both the head of the local Legislature and the local Executive .On May 10, 2010, he was filmed while watching...
- National Liberal Party
National Liberal Party (Romania)
The National Liberal Party , abbreviated to PNL, is a centre-right liberal party in Romania. It is the third-largest party in the Romanian Parliament, with 53 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 22 in the Senate: behind the centre-right Democratic Liberal Party and the centre-left Social...
(Partidul Naţional Liberal)
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| align="right" | 23
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| Teodor Pop-Puscas - PSD
Social Democratic Party (Romania)
The Social Democratic Party is the major social-democratic political party in Romania. It was formed in 1992, after the post-communist National Salvation Front broke apart. It adopted its present name after a merger with a minor social-democratic party in 2001. Since its formation, it has always...
+PC
Conservative Party (Romania)
The Conservative Party of Romania is a political party formed in 1991, after the fall of Communism, under the name of the Romanian Humanist Party . From 2005 until December 3, 2006, the party was a junior member of the ruling coalition...
Alliance
National Union PSD+PUR
In 2004, the National Union PSD+PUR was an electoral cartel formed between the Social Democratic Party and the Humanist Party of Romania. It was set up as a counterpart to the Justice and Truth Alliance PNL-PD, only for the 2004 legislative elections and Romanian presidential election.The two...
(Alianţa PSD+PC)
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| Sorin Oancea - Christian-Democratic National Peasants' Party (Partidul Naţional Ţărănesc Creştin Democrat)
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| Gheorghe Oros - Socialist Alliance Party
Socialist Alliance Party
The Socialist Alliance Party is a political party in Romania. It developed out of the wing of the Socialist Party of Labour that objected to the merger of PSM with the Social Democratic Party in July 2003 and wanted PSM to continue to exist as a Marxist party...
(Partidul Alianţa Socialistă)
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| Gheorghe Aştileanu - New Generation Party – Christian Democratic (PArtidul Noua Generaţie - Creştin Democrat)
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| Gergely Balasz - Hungarian Civic Party
Hungarian Civic Party
The Hungarian Civic Party is a political party of the Hungarian minority in Romania. It was founded in 2001 as the Hungarian Civic Union and was formally registered as a party on March 14, 2008...
(Partidul Civic Maghiar)
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| Laszlo Csaba - Green Party
Green Party (Romania)
The Green Party , often shortened to The Greens is a Romanian political party centred on green politics. It is a member of the European Green Party.-Policies:...
(Partidul Verde)
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| Grigore Pop - Independent
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| style="background-color:#E9E9E9" colspan=2|Total: 274,300 (turnout 30.19%)
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