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According to data from the Central Election Commission (CEC), after the elections held on March 3, 2019, 14 members of the Vilnius City Council changed.
More than half of the capital’s council members resigned after the successful elections to the Seimas in October last year.
The representatives of the Freedom Party Vytautas Mitalas, Kasparas Adomaitis, Evelina Dobrovolska, Monika Ošmianskienė, Tomas Vytautas Raskevičius, the representative of the Labor Party Ieva Kačinskaitė-Urbonienė, the conservative Arūnas Valinskas and the representative of the “peasants” Lukas Savicimas were elected the Sevicimas.
In the municipal councils of the Anykščiai, Mažeikiai and Rokiškis districts, seven members have changed since the municipal elections held two years ago.
Six members were replaced by the Klaipėda, Šilalė and Telšiai district municipalities. In Kaunas City Municipalities, Biržai, Kėdainiai and Molėtai Districts, five council members changed during the indicated period.
According to the CEC, there are only three municipalities: the districts of Alytus, Kupiškis and Vilnius, where no council member has changed during the specified period.
Members generally resign for positions incompatible with the job of a city council member. 56.9 percent of these cases are registered. 15.52 percent the powers of the members of the municipal councils ended after their election to the Seimas. 12.64 percent – resigned for personal reasons.
There were also cases in which a member of a municipal council ceased to hold the position because the CEC decision lost his mandate due to incompatible functions (6.9 percent), that is, when the CEC, upon receiving information that a councilor really occupies an incompatible position, powers.
There were also cases in which the powers of the councilors were extinguished due to death (4.02%), when they moved to another municipality (2.29%) or when the councilors were declared guilty by judicial decision (1.72% ). .).
According to the analysis prepared by the CEC, the majority of municipal councilors are men: 1,027 councilors or 68.83 percent. of the total number of members. Women in the municipality have 465 seats or 31.17 percent. of the total.
Analyzing the change in the members of the municipal councils, it is indicated that 24 women came to work in the councils during the mentioned period and currently there are 1% of them. more than after the elections of March 3, 2019.
Of the 60 Lithuanian municipalities, 54 are headed by mayors and five by mayors. The Radviliškis district municipality does not currently have a mayor, having elected former leader Antanas Čeponinis to the Seimas. The new elections of the mayor of the Radviliškis district will be held on April 11.
In some municipalities, the proportion between councilors and councilors is similar. Only in the municipality of Birštonas there are more women than men: eight councilors and seven councilors. There are exactly 12 members and 12 men in the Trakai District Township.
The largest gender disparity in the Marijampolė City Council is three women and 24 men. In the Utena district municipality – three women and 22 men, in Rietavas – three women and 14 men, in Druskininkai, Skuodas district, Kalvarija municipalities there are four women and 21 (Druskininkai), 17 (Skuodas and Kalvarija district) mens.
As of February 15 of this year, the total average age of municipal councilors is 51 years and 3 months.
Most of the members of the municipal councils belong to the age group 55 to 64 years (32.31%). 23.46 percent. Council members are between 45 and 54 years old.
The youngest person to serve as a council member is 20 years old and the oldest is 85 years old. Lithuania’s youngest mayor is 32 years old, the oldest is 68 years old.
The most popular male names of the municipal council members are Kęstutis, Vytautas, Jonas, Antanas, and Saulius. Among the members of the municipal councils, women are mostly Daiva, Nijoliai, Jūračiai, Daliai, Linai and Edita.
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