Municipal elections were held across Latvia on 5 June 2021. This was the first election after the Saeima passed a municipal reform in 2020 that reduced the 110 municipalities and 9 cities to 43 municipalities, including 11 state cities and added 5 new Latvian towns: Ādaži, Iecava, Ķekava, Koknese, and Mārupe. In total, 645 councilors were elected to 40 municipal councils across the country. The 60 seats in the Riga City Council is not up for election until 2025, as snap elections were held in August 2020.
On 28 May, following the decision of the Constitutional Court of Latvia that declared a part of the municipal reform about the inclusion of Varakļāni Municipality into the new Rēzekne Municipality unconstitutional, the Central Election Commission (CEC) cancelled elections in the municipalities of both Rēzekne and Madona. The Saeima decided on 1 June to reverse the decision of the CEC and to move forward with the elections in Madona Municipality on 5 June as initially scheduled.
Electoral system All 645 councilors were elected using open-list proportional representation with a 5% electoral threshold. Seats are allocated using the Webster/Sainte-Laguë method. The number of councilors a given municipality were to elect was determined by the Central Election Commission based on the number of residents in that municipality.
+Seat allocation for the 2021 local elections Councilors State Cities Municipalities 13 50 000 residents or less 15 more than 50 000 residents 30 000 residents or less 19 more than 30 000 residents 23 more than 60 000 residents
Participating parties Party Main ideology Political position Lists Municipalities New Conservative Party JKP Conservatism Centre-right National Alliance NA Nationalism Right-wing Harmony S Social democracy Centre-left New Unity JV Liberal conservatism Centre-right Association of Regions LRA Regionalism Centre Regional parties Regionalism Big tent Who Owns the State? KPV LV Right-wing populism Right-wing For Latvia's Development LA Classical liberalism Centre-right Latvian Farmers' Union LZS Agrarianism Centre-right Union of Greens and Farmers ZZS Agrarianism, Green conservatism Centre-right Latvian Green Party LZP Green conservatism Centre-right Latvian Russian Union LKS Russian minority politics Centre-left The Progressives P Social democracy Centre-left Movement For! Par! Social liberalism Centre-left Social Democratic Workers' Party LSDSP Social democracy Centre-left Alternative A New Harmony JS Left-wing populism Left-wing For Stability! S! Populism Centre United for Latvia VL Populism Centre National Alliance "Justice" NST Ultranationalism Far-right For Latvia and Ventspils Ventspils regionalism Centre-right Latvian Revival National conservatism Far-right Liepāja Party Liepāja regionalism Centre-right Christian Democratic Union KDS Christian democracy Centre-right Cooperation (Sadarbība) Socialist Party LSP Socialism Far-left Growth I Centrism Centre
Results
Daugavpils
Jelgava
Jūrmala
Liepāja
Rēzekne
Ventspils
Notes
References
External links 2021 election hub on the Central Election Commission website (in English)