2022 Slovenian local elections

Lokalne volitve v Sloveniji 2022

Basic data
City municipalities:	12
Total municipalities:	212
Mayor candidates:	618
Council member candidates:	18,671
First round
Date:	20 November 2022
Registered voters:	1,683,662
Participation::	802,050
Percent:	47.64 %
Second round
Date:	4 December 2022
Registered voters:	490,639
Participation:	206,547
Percent:	42.10 %
Previous elections
Year:	2018

The 2022 Slovenian local elections were held 20 November (1st) and 4 December (2nd round). Mayors of all 212 municipalities and members of municipal councils were elected.^[1]

Names entered are already automatically old-new mayors, continuing or starting their work in office, because they have no counter-candidates in the elections.

Elected mayors

City municipalities

Ljubljana	Maribor	Kranj	Koper	Celje	Novo mesto

293.822	112.682	57.065	52.630	49.540	37.587
.
Velenje	Nova Gorica	Krško	Ptuj	Murska Sobota	Slovenj Gradec

33.656	31.884	26.224	23.530	18.758	16.591
					Tilen Klugler (GV)

Over 20,000 citizens

Ordinary municipalities with more than 20,000 citizens

Domžale	Kamnik	Sl. Bistrica	Brežice

36.675	29.925	24.462	24.051
.
Škofja Loka	Jesenice	Grosuplje	Žalec

22.667	21.340	21.314	21.210
.

Smaller municiapalities

The rest of all 192 ordinary municiapalities with less than 20,000 citizens

Ajdovščina	Ankaran	Apače	Beltinci	Benedikt
			Marko Virag (GV)	Milan Repič (SLS)
Bistrica ob Sotli	Bled	Bloke	Bohinj	Borovnica
.
Bovec	Braslovče	Brda	Brezovica	Cankova
			Metod Ropret (GV)	Danilo Kacijan (GV)
Cerklje na Gorenj.	Cerknica	Cerkno	Cerkvenjak	Cirkulane
			Marjan Žmavc (GV)
Črenšovci	Črna na Koroškem	Črnomelj	Destrnik	Divača
Vera Markoja (GV)
Dobje	Dobrepolje	Dobrna	Dobrova–P. Gradec	Dobrovnik
Franc Leskovšek (SLS)	Janez Pavlin (GV)			Marjan Kardinar (GV)
Dol pri Ljubljani	Dolenjske Toplice	Dornava	Dravograd	Duplek
Željko Savič (GV)				Mitja Horvat (GV)
Gorenja vas – Poljane	Gorišnica	Gorje	Gornja Radgona	Gornji Grad
Milan Čadež (SDS)				Anton Špeh (GV)
Gornji Petrovci	Grad	Hajdina	Hoče – Slivnica	Hodoš
.
Horjul	Hrastnik	Hrpelje – Kozina	Idrija	Ig
Janko Prebil (NSi)
Ilirska Bistrica	Ivančna Gorica	Izola	Jezersko	Juršinci
.
Kanal ob Soči	Kidričevo	Kobarid	Kobilje	Kočevje
.
Komen	Komenda	Kostanjevica na Krki	Kostel	Kozje
				Milena Kranjc (GV)
Kranjska Gora	Križevci	Kungota	Kuzma	Laško
	Branko Slavinec (GV)	Tamara Šnofl (GV)	Jožef Škalič (GV)
Lenart	Lendava	Litija	Ljubno	Ljutomer
Janez Kramberger (GV)			Franjo Naraločnik (GV)
Logatec	Log – Dragomer	Loška dolina	Loški Potok	Lovrenc na Pohorju
	Miran Stanovnik (GV)			Marko Rakovnik (GV)
Luče	Lukovica	Majšperk	Makole	Markovci
.
Medvode	Mengeš	Metlika	Mežica	Miklavž na Dr. polju
Nejc Smole (GV)
Miren – Kostanjevica	Mirna	Mirna Peč	Mislinja	Mokronog – Trebelno
	Dušan Skerbiš (GV)
Moravče	Moravske Toplice	Mozirje	Muta	Naklo
		Ivan Suhoveršnik (GV)		Ivan Meglič (SLS)
Nazarje	Odranci	Oplotnica	Ormož	Osilnica
Matej Pečovnik (GV)
Pesnica	Piran	Pivka	Podčetrtek	Podlehnik
Gregor Žmak (GV)		Robert Smrdelj (SLS)	Peter Misja (GV)	Sebastian Toplak (GV)
Podvelka	Poljčane	Polzela	Postojna	Prebold
			Igor Marentič (GV)
Preddvor	Prevalje	Puconci	Rače – Fram	Radeče
Rok Roblek (GV)			Branko Ledinek (SLS)	Tomaž Režun (SD)
Radenci	Radlje ob Dravi	Radovljica	Ravne na Koroškem	Razkrižje
			Tomaž Rožen (GV)	Stanko Ivanušič (GV)
Rečica ob Savinji	Renče – Vogrsko	Ribnica	Ribnica na Pohorju	Rogaška Slatina
		Samo Pogorelc (GV)
Rogašovci	Rogatec	Ruše	Selnica ob Dravi	Semič
			Vlasta Krmelj (SDS)	Polona Kambič (GV)
Sevnica	Sežana	Slovenske Konjice	Sodražica	Solčava
			Blaž Milavec (NSi)	Katarina Prelesnik (GV)
Središče ob Dravi	Starše	Straža	Sveta Ana	Sveta Trojica v Sl. gor.
	Stanko Greifoner (GV)
Sveti Andraž v Sl. gor.	Sveti Jurij ob Ščavnici	Sveti Jurij v Slov. gor.	Sveti Tomaž	Šalovci
Darja V. Berlak (GV)		Peter Škrlec (SDS)	Mirko Cvetko (NSi)
Šempeter – Vrtojba	Šenčur	Šentilj	Šentjernej	Šentjur
.
Šentrupert	Škocjan	Škofljica	Šmarje pri Jelšah	Šmarješke Toplice
			Matija Čakš (GV)
Šmartno pri Litiji	Šmartno ob Paki	Šoštanj	Štore	Tabor
.				Marko Semprimožnik (GV)
Tišina	Tolmin	Trbovlje	Trebnje	Trnovska vas
.
Trzin	Tržič	Turnišče	Velika Polana	Velike Lašče
.
Veržej	Videm	Vipava	Vitanje	Vodice
.
Vojnik	Vransko	Vrhnika	Vuzenica	Zagorje ob Savi
.
Zavrč	Zreče	Železniki	Žetale	Žiri
Slavko Pravdič (NSi)			Anton Butolen (GV)
Žirovnica				Žužemberk
.

Elections in city municiapalities

Ljubljana

89,405 votes (39.98%)

Rank	Candidates	Party	Percent
1st round
1	Zoran Janković	Jože Mermal with voters group	61.83 %
2	Nataša Sukič	The Left	9.61 %
3	Aleš Primc	Voice for Children and Families	6.95 %
4	Igor Horvat	Slovenian Democratic Party	6.28 %
5	Tina Bregant	Slovenian People's Party and Our Country	5.96 %
6	Mojca Sojar	New Slovenia	3.19 %
7	Jasminka Dedić	Vesna – Green Party	3.16 %
8	Tomaž Ogrin	Greens of Slovenia and Concretely	1.67 %
9	Jasmin Feratović	Pirate Party	1.62 %

Maribor

1R – 36,011 votes (41.21%)
2R –

Rank	Candidates	Party	Percent
1st round
1	Saša Arsenovič	Andrej Brvar with voters group	36.69 %
2	Franc Kangler	New People's Party of Slovenia	25.46 %
3	Vojko Flis	Freedom Movement	20.29 %
4	Dejan Kaloh	New Slovenia	4.27 %
5	Lidija Divjak Mirnik	List for Justice and Development	3.87 %
6	Boštjan Klun	Social Democrats	2.13 %
7	Josip Rotar	List of Cyclists and Pedestrians	1.31 %
8	Vladimir Šega	The Left	1.14 %
9	Igor Jurišič	Youth Party – European Greens	0.97 %
10	Bernard Memon	New Slovenia	0.96 %
11	Aleksander Kamenik	Aleksander Kamenik Party	0.74 %
12	Matic Matjašič	Youth List. We Connect	0.65 %
13	Nina Beyokol	Pirate Party	0.57 %
14	Miha Recek	Slovenian People's Party and Our Country	0.54 %
15	Franc Jesenek	Party of Slovenian People	0.44 %
2nd round
1	Saša Arsenovič	Andrej Brvar with voters group
2	Franc Kangler	New People's Party of Slovenia

Kranj

1R – 18,867 votes (42.24%)
2R –

Rank	Candidates	Party	Percent
1st round
1	Matjaž Rakovec	Social Democrats	48.23 %
2	Ivo Bajec	SDS, SLS, NSi and Greens of Slovenia	19.50 %
3	Zoran Stevanović	Resni.ca	17.42 %
4	Aleksander Svetelj	More for Kranj	7.67 %
5	Srečko Barbič	Freedom Movement	4.00 %
6	Igor Velov	List for the Development of Kranj	3.19 %
2nd round
1	Matjaž Rakovec	Social Democrats
2	Ivo Bajec	SDS, SLS, NSi and Greens of Slovenia

Koper

22,989 votes (53.86%)

Rank	Candidates	Party	Percent
1st round
1	Aleš Bržan	Aleš Bržan List and Freedom Movement	53.60 %
2	Boris Popovič	Koper Is Ours	37.69 %
3	Igor Colja	Slovenian Democratic Party	2.55 %
4	Peter Bolčič	Trust	2.51 %
5	Jadranka Šturm Kocjan	Social Democrats	2.03 %
6	Alan Medveš	The Left	1.61 %

Celje

1R – 16,310 votes (41.50%)
2R –

Rank	Candidates	Party	Percent
1st round
1	Bojan Šrot	Mayor's Celje List	46.86 %
2	Matija Kovač	Gregor Deleja with voters group	33.14 %
3	Uroš Lesjak	Freedom Movement	9.41 %
4	Sandi Sendelbah	List for Celje	6.25 %
5	Primož Brvar	Social Democrats	4.34 %
2nd round
1	Bojan Šrot	Mayor's Celje List
2	Matija Kovač	Gregor Deleja with voters group

Novo mesto

12,909 votes (43.81%)

Rank	Candidates	Party	Percent
1st round
1	Gregor Macedoni	Boštjan Grobler with voters group	74.51 %
2	Srečko Vovko	Social Democrats	25.49 %

Velenje

12,533 votes (47.35%)

Rank	Candidates	Party	Percent
1st round
1	Peter Dermol	Social Democrats	68.84 %
2	Milan Medved	Herman Arlič with voters group	16.97 %
3	Lidija Črnko	Freedom Movement	6.06 %
4	Benjamin Strozak	Good Country	4.22 %
5	Jože Hribar	Our Velenje	2.40 %
6	Lidija Šolinc	Resni.ca	1.51 %

Nova Gorica

1R – 11,918 votes (46.08%)
2R –

Rank	Candidates	Party	Percent
1st round
1	Samo Turel	Freedom Movement	40.78 %
2	Klemen Miklavič	Majda Smrekar with voters group	25.85 %
3	Damjana Pavlica	Slovenian Democratic Party	14.86 %
4	Tomaž Horvat	Social Democrats	9.14 %
5	Anton Harej	New Slovenia	7.17 %
6	Andreja Pelicon	The Left	2.21 %
2nd round
1	Samo Turel	Freedom Movement
2	Klemen Miklavič	Majda Smrekar with voters group

Krško

1R – 9,855 votes (47.00%)
2R –

Rank	Candidates	Party	Percent
1st round
1	Dušan Šiško	Dejan Stanič with voters group (Dušan Šiško List – Energic for Krško)	24.61 %
2	Janez Kerin	Marta Levičar Magiera with voters group (Blue Direction List)	19.75 %
3	Aleš Zorko	Freedom Movement	18.75 %
4	Iztok Starc	Slovenian People's Party	17.22 %
5	Jože Olovec	Slovenian Democratic Party	9.86 %
6	Janja Starc	Dušan Arh with voters group	9.81 %
2nd round
1	Dušan Šiško	Dejan Stanič with voters group (Dušan Šiško List – Energic for Krško)
2	Janez Kerin	Marta Levičar Magiera with voters group (Blue Direction List)

Ptuj

9,138 votes (47.64%)

Rank	Candidates	Party	Percent
1st round
1	Nuška Gajšek	Social Democrats	64.28 %
2	Andrej Čuš	Milan Klemenc and voters group	16.14 %
3	Franjo Rozman	Slovenian Democratic Party	8.69 %
4	Štefan Petek	Freedom Movement	5.02 %
5	Boštjan Koražija	The Left	1.98 %
6	Robert Križanič	Resni.ca and For a Healthy Society	1.83 %
7	Suzana Lara Krause	Slovenian People's Party	1.74 %
8	Andrej Lacko	Slovenian National Party	0.32 %

Murska Sobota

1R – 8,098 votes (51.15%)
2R –

Rank	Candidates	Party	Percent
1st round
1	Damjan Anželj	Social Democrats	41.86 %
2	Andrej Mešič	Slovenian Democratic Party	32.72 %
3	Mitja Horvat	Freedom Movement	23.09 %
4	Blanka Denko Čeh	Akacije	2.34 %
2nd round
1	Damjan Anželj	Social Democrats
2	Andrej Mešič	Slovenian Democratic Party

Slovenj Gradec

6,398 votes (46.00%)

Rank	Candidates	Party	Percent
1st round
1	Tilen Klugler	Metka Č. Golež with voters group	100,00 %

Statistics

General

Mayor candidates		Council member candidates
Total	618	Total	18,671
Women	107	Women	8,478
Men	511	Men	10,193
City municiapalities	74	City municiapalities	3,446
Rest of municiapalities	544	Rest of municiapalities	15,225
Oldest	82	Oldest	94
Youngest	22	Youngest	18
Elected mayors		Elected council members
Total	212	Total	3,382
Women		Women
Men		Men
Oldest		Oldest
Youngest		Youngest
Highest support % (municiapality)		Most members by municiapality
Lowest support % (municiapality)		Least members by municiapality
Mayor mandates		Participation
8th mandate in the office		1st round – Percentage (%)
7th mandate in the office	1	1st round – Total votes
6th mandate in the office		1st round – Valid votes
5th mandate in the office		1st round – Invalid votes
4th mandate in the office		2nd round – Percentage (%)
3rd mandate in the office		2nd round – Total votes
2nd mandate in the office		2nd round – Valid votes
1st mandate in the office		2nd round – Invalid votes

Elected mayor candidates by parties / lists

Rank	Logo	Suggested by	Candidates	Elected
Rank	Logo	Suggested by	Candidates	1st round	2nd round	Total
1		Non–party candidates with voters support (GV)	270	103	34	137
2		Slovenian People's Party (SLS)	34	13	2	15
3		Social Democrats (SD)	53	10	4	14
4		Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS)	61	11	1	12
5		New Slovenia (NSi)	34	11	0	11
6		Candidates with coalition support^[a]	15	7	2	9
7		Freedom Movement (GS)	1	1	2	3
		Our Inner Carniola (NaNo)	4	1	—	1
		Liberal Democracy of Slovenia (LDS)	2	1	—	1
		Youth Party – European Greens (SMS)	2	1	—	1
		Zagorje Goes Forward	1	1	—	1
		We Know! We Can!. Marko Soršak.	1	1	—	1
		Boris Goličnik List	1	1	—	1
		List For You	1	1	—	1
		Common Miklavž na Dravskem Polju Municipality List	1	1	—	1
		Drot – For Development	1	0	1	1
		Zlatko Usenik List For Progress of Ig Municiapality	1	0	1	1
		Renata Kosec List (Connection and Cooperation List)	1	1	—	1
19		New People's Party of Slovenia (NLS)	2	0	—	0
		Mayor's List for Our Jesenice	1	0	—	0
		Mayor's List of Izola (IŽL)	1	0	—	0
		Mayor of Celje List	1	0	—	0
23		The Left (L)	13	0	—	0
		Resni.ca	9	0	—	0
		Vesna – Green Party	6	0	—	0
		Slovenian National Party (SNS)	6	0	—	0
		Greens of Slovenia (ZS)	4	0	—	0
		Pirate Party (Pirates)	2	0	—	0
		Slovenia Forward (NPS)	2	0	—	0
		Good Country (DD)	2	0	—	0
		Party of Slovenian People (SSN)	2	0	—	0
		Democratic Party of Pensioners of Slovenia (DeSUS)	1	0	—	0
		LESK Voters List	1	0	—	0
		For People of Slovenia (ZLS)	1	0	—	0
		Association for Slovene Littoral (ZZP)	1	0	—	0
		Olive	1	0	—	0
		Concretely	1	0	—	0
		Voice for Children and Families	1	0	—	0
		Socialist Party of Slovenia (SPS)	1	0	—	0
		Koper Is Ours (KJN)	1	0	—	0
		DNK Trbovlje List	1	0	—	0
		Sandi Jaklič List	1	0	—	0
		Aleksander Kamenik List	1	0	—	0
		Cyclists and Pedestrians List	1	0	—	0
		Youth List. We Connect.	1	0	—	0
		Independent List for Improvement of Jesenice	1	0	—	0
		Mitja Kobal List (IŽL)	1	0	—	0
		Vasilij Žbogar List	1	0	—	0
		LTD Toni Dragar – List For All Generations	1	0	—	0
		Igor Zupančič List	1	0	—	0
		Utility Eco List	1	0	—	0
		United – Independent List for Prevalje	1	0	—	0
		Moravška dolina United	1	0	—	0
		Active List	1	0	—	0
		Movement for the Municipality of Piran (GZOP)	1	0	—	0
		More for Kranj	1	0	—	0
		Our Velenje	1	0	—	0
		List for Celje	1	0	—	0
		Acacia Party	1	0	—	0
		Dialogue for Progress	1	0	—	0
		Style	1	0	—	0
		Trust	1	0	—	0
		Together for Mengeš Municipality (SMO) (Together We Can Do More)	1	0	—	0
.		List for Fair Development (of city districts and local communities)	1	0	—	0
Total			618	165	47	212

Notes

^ 15 mayor candidates have coalition support of at least two or more parties (lists)ː
   Svoboda + Levica + SD + DeSUS (BREŽICE)
   SDS + SLS drugačni in povezani (DESTRNIK)
   SDS + Nsi (GROSUPLJE)
   SDS + SD + SLS (HAJDINA)
   Lista Mateja Slaparja + NSi + podpora volivcev (KAMNIK)
   Lista Aleša Bržana + Svoboda (KOPER)
   SDS + NSi + SLS + Zeleni Slovenije (KRANJ)
   SDS + NSi (LENDAVA)
   Zeleni Slovenije + Konkretno (LJUBLJANA)
   SLS + Naša dežela (MARIBOR)
   SLS + SDS + NSi + DeSUS (SL. BISTRICA)
   SLS + SDS (ŠENČUR)
   SD + skupina volivcev (VELENJE)
   NSi + SDS (VOJNIK)
   SDS + NSi (ŽIRI)

References

^ "FEATURE: Three Elections for Slovenia in 2022 – General, Presidential & Local". www.total-slovenia-news.com. Retrieved 2022-09-24.

[2] 15 mayor candidates have coalition support of at least two or more parties (lists)ː
Svoboda + Levica + SD + DeSUS (BREŽICE)
SDS + SLS drugačni in povezani (DESTRNIK)
SDS + Nsi (GROSUPLJE)
SDS + SD + SLS (HAJDINA)
Lista Mateja Slaparja + NSi + podpora volivcev (KAMNIK)
Lista Aleša Bržana + Svoboda (KOPER)
SDS + NSi + SLS + Zeleni Slovenije (KRANJ)
SDS + NSi (LENDAVA)
Zeleni Slovenije + Konkretno (LJUBLJANA)
SLS + Naša dežela (MARIBOR)
SLS + SDS + NSi + DeSUS (SL. BISTRICA)
SLS + SDS (ŠENČUR)
SD + skupina volivcev (VELENJE)
NSi + SDS (VOJNIK)
SDS + NSi (ŽIRI)

[1] "FEATURE: Three Elections for Slovenia in 2022 – General, Presidential & Local". www.total-slovenia-news.com. Retrieved 2022-09-24.

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