2021 Estonian municipal elections

2021 Estonian municipal elections

17 October 2023
1717 municipal seats
First party Second party Third party   Leader Jüri Ratas Various leaderships Kaja Kallas Party Centre Various electoral coalitions and independents Reform Leader since 6 November 2016 14 April 2018 Last election 27.29%, 297 seats 26.78%, 750 seats 19.49%, 291 seats Seats won 247 754 244 Seat change 50 4 47 Popular vote 142,596 141,861 101,295 Percentage 24.39% 24.27% 17.33% Swing 2.9 pp 2.51 pp 2.16 pp   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Martin Helme Helir-Valdor Seeder Kristina Kallas Party EKRE Isamaa E200 Leader since 4 July 2020 13 May 2017 3 November 2018 Last election 6.70%, 87 seats 7.96%, 152 seats – Seats won 245 140 40 Seat change 158 12 40 Popular vote 77,236 48,848 35,317 Percentage 13.21% 8.36% 6.04% Swing 6.51 pp 0.4 pp 6.04 pp   Seventh party Eighth party   Leader Indrek Saar Züleyxa Izmailova Party SDE Greens Leader since 9 June 2019 27 March 2017 Last election 10.35%, 151 seats 0.80%, 0 seats Seats won 48 2 Seat change 103 2 Popular vote 29,082 6,307 Percentage 4.97% 1.08 Swing 5.38 pp 0.28 pp
Leading party by municipalities:   Centre   Reform   EKRE   Isamaa   Social Democratic   Electoral coalitions

Municipal elections in Estonia were held in October 2021, with advance voting starting on 11 October, and election day on 17 October.

Results

Party		Votes	%
	Estonian Centre Party	142,596	24.39
	Electoral coalitions	141,861	24.27
	Estonian Reform Party	101,295	17.33
	Conservative People's Party of Estonia	77,236	13.21
	Isamaa	48,848	8.36
	Estonia 200	35,317	6.04
	Social Democratic Party	29,082	4.97
	Estonian Greens	6,307	1.08
	Independents	1,770	0.30
	TULE	281	0.05
Total		584,593	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		1,100,647	54.7
Source: Valimised

By municipality

Municipalities	Kesk	Reform	EKRE	Isamaa	E200	SDE	Green	Ind.	Total
Alutaguse Parish	1 (-1)	2 (-2)	2	0	–	–	–	10	15
Anija Parish	4 (-1)	4 (+1)	3	0	–	–	–	8	19
Antsla Parish	0 (-1)	–	2	–	–	–	2	13	17
Elva Parish	2	6 (-4)	7	8	–	–	–	6	29
Häädemeeste Parish	–	0	–	3 (+2)	–	–	–	16	19
Haapsalu	5	2	3 (+2)	–	0	–	–	15	25
Haljala Parish	0 (-2)	3 (-1)	2 (+1)	0	–	–	–	12 (+1)	17
Harku Parish	1	7 (+1)	3 (+1)	4	1	1	0	4	21
Hiiumaa Parish	4 (+3)	3 (+1)	2 (+2)	2	0	7	–	5 (-1)	23
Järva Parish	5 (+4)	4 (-1)	5 (+2)	3	–	–	–	4	21
Jõelähtme Parish	0 (-1)	11 (+1)	3 (+1)	0	1	2 (-1)	0	0	17
Jõgeva Parish	6 (-2)	5 (-1)	3 (+1)	8	–	–	0	5	27
Jõhvi Parish	5 (+2)	3 (+1)	2	0	–	–	–	11	21
Kadrina Parish	–	–	2	–	–	–	–	17 (-6)	19
Kambja Parish	0	6 (-6)	3 (+2)	2	–	–	–	10	21
Kanepi Parish	4 (-2)	8 (-5)	4 (+4)	1	–	–	–	–	17
Kastre Parish	–	–	2	0	0	–	0	15 (+2)	17
Kehtna Parish	–	–	3	0	–	–	–	18	21
Keila	1	11 (-1)	2	2	–	3 (+1)	–	2	21
Kihnu Parish	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	9	9
Kiili Parish	0	1	1	–	–	–	–	15	17
Kohila Parish	0	1	4 (+2)	10	–	–	–	6	21
Kohtla-Järve	12 (-6)	2	0	0	–	5	–	6	25
Kose Parish	–	–	5	–	–	–	–	14 (-4)	19
Kuusalu Parish	1	1	2	–	–	–	–	15	19
Lääne-Harju Parish	–	2 (-2)	2 (+2)	0	–	–	–	17	21
Lääne-Nigula Parish	5 (+5)	4 (+2)	5 (+2)	–	–	–	–	11	25
Lääneranna Parish	4 (+4)	–	3 (+1)	1	–	–	–	13 (-3)	21
Loksa	8 (-5)	–	–	–	–	–	–	7	15
Lüganuse Parish	6	3	–	2	–	–	–	8	19
Luunja Parish	–	–	2	–	–	–	–	15 (-2)	17
Maardu	16 (+1)	0	0	–	–	1	–	4	21
Märjamaa Parish	–	–	5	–	–	–	–	16	21
Muhu Parish	–	1 (-1)	1	13	–	–	–	–	15
Mulgi Parish	7 (-1)	1 (-2)	3 (+3)	6	–	–	–	4	21
Mustvee Parish	6 (+2)	–	5	1	–	–	–	9	21
Narva	10 (-13)	–	0	–	2	–	–	19	31
Narva-Jõesuu	5 (-2)	–	–	–	–	–	–	12	17
Nõo Parish	–	0	1	–	0	–	–	14	15
Otepää Parish	0 (-3)	2 (-3)	3 (+3)	1	1	–	–	10	17
Paide	3 (-2)	3	4 (+2)	3	–	–	–	10	23
Pärnu	5 (-2)	9	10 (+4)	6	0	0 (-1)	0	9 (+2)	39
Peipsiääre Parish	0	–	0	–	–	–	–	21 (+4)	21
Põhja-Pärnumaa Parish	–	–	3 (+3)	–	–	–	–	18 (-3)	21
Põhja-Sakala Parish	3 (+3)	0 (-3)	3 (+3)	2	1	–	–	12 (+3)	21
Põltsamaa Parish	3	3 (+1)	3 (+1)	–	–	1 (-6)	–	11	21
Põlva Parish	6 (-1)	6 (-2)	6 (+4)	3	3	–	–	3 (+1)	27
Raasiku Parish	0	–	2	–	–	–	–	15	17
Rae Parish	0 (-2)	14	3 (+1)	3	4	1 (-3)	–	0	25
Rakvere	4 (+1)	1 (-6)	4 (+2)	8	1	2	0	1 (-1)	21
Rakvere Parish	0 (-1)	–	4 (+3)	2	–	–	–	13	19
Räpina Parish	4 (+1)	5 (-2)	6 (+3)	–	–	0 (-3)	–	6	21
Rapla Parish	–	5	9 (+4)	0	0	–	–	13	27
Rõuge Parish	1 (+1)	–	3 (+2)	–	–	–	–	15	19
Ruhnu Parish	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	7	7
Saarde Parish	0	–	3 (+2)	0	–	–	–	12	15
Saaremaa Parish	4 (+1)	6 (-2)	6 (+4)	5	2	–	0	8	31
Saku Parish	0	3	2	0	0	–	–	16	21
Saue Parish	0	5	3	4	4	0	–	11	27
Setomaa Parish	0 (-1)	–	5	–	–	–	–	10 (-2)	15
Sillamäe	17 (+2)	–	0	–	–	4	–	0	21
Tallinn	38 (-2)	15 (-3)	8 (+2)	5	7	6 (-3)	0	0	79
Tapa Parish	4 (-1)	4	3 (+3)	0	–	–	0	10	21
Tartu	4 (-3)	19 (-1)	8 (+2)	5	8	5 (-3)	0	0	49
Tartu Parish	0	–	4	–	–	–	–	21 (-13)	25
Toila Parish	–	1	–	–	0	–	–	16	17
Tori Parish	3 (-2)	1	5 (+4)	–	–	–	–	14	23
Tõrva Parish	2	11	3 (+3)	2	–	–	–	3	21
Türi Parish	0 (-1)	2 (-1)	3 (+1)	–	–	–	–	18	23
Väike-Maarja Parish	4 (+1)	7	3 (+3)	1	–	–	0	4	19
Valga Parish	8 (-4)	6 (-1)	3 (+2)	–	–	–	0	8	25
Viimsi Parish	3 (+1)	6 (-3)	2	2	3	–	0	5 (+1)	21
Viljandi	2	7 (-1)	4 (+2)	4	2	–	–	8	27
Viljandi Parish	0	6 (+2)	8 (+6)	13	0	–	0	0	27
Vinni Parish	5 (-3)	–	4 (+2)	3	–	–	–	5	17
Viru-Nigula Parish	1 (-4)	–	1	–	–	–	–	19 (+3)	21
Vormsi Parish	2 (+2)	–	–	–	–	–	–	5	7
Võru	1 (-2)	3	5 (+4)	2	–	10 (-1)	–	0	21
Võru Parish	2 (+1)	3 (+1)	4	0	–	–	–	12 (-5)	21
Total	247 (-50)	244 (-47)	245 (+158)	140 (-12)	40	48 (-103)	2 (+2)	754 (+4)	1717 (-12)

Polling

Tallinn

Polling firm	Fieldwork Date	Sample size	Ref	Kesk	EKRE	I	SDE	E200	Green	Others	Lead	Gov.	Opp.
Norstat	24 Sep–13 Oct 2021	≥1,000	17.6	42.3	13.1	6.2	8.8	9.3	2	2.4	24.7	39.5	58.1
Norstat	24 Sep–3 Oct 2021	≥1,000	19.0	39.6	13.2	5.0	8.4	10.9	2	2.4	20.6	39.5	58.1
Kantar Emor	15–29 Sep 2021	≥1,000	20.6	39.2	10.7	5.5	11.3	8.2	2.2	0.9	18.6	46.9	52.2

External links

• Estonian National Electoral Committee