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The report discusses the main features of Romania’s county councils, the context and results of their election in 2020, and addresses some theoretical questions raised earlier in the annual reviews of regional elections. It confirms the argument that Romania’s subnational elections have a significant forecasting (barometer) potential: in 2020 their results correctly indicated that no facile right-wing victory was to be expected at the parliamentary elections. The nationalization of the main parties and of the party system is also assessed. Analyzing electoral results in a longer time perspective reveals that most (though not all) counties are strongholds of one of the main political camps, which brings Romania close to an aggregated (as opposed to a replicated) party system at the national level. While this sets limits to party system nationalization, of the other sources formerly contributing to the regionalization of the vote only the Hungarian ethnic parties maintained their relevance in 2020.

The 2020 county elections in Romania: More nationalization, less regionalization