Vilnius, Lithuania: who represents it, and who is running
Lithuania — 2027 municipal council and mayoral elections (Vilniaus miesto savivaldybės taryba, 51 seats, and the directly elected mayor) votes on 2027-03-07. It elects 51 members of the Vilnius City Municipality Council (open party/committee lists, up to 5 preference votes) and the directly elected Mayor; two-round mayoral vote if no majority.
Holding office2
the sitting council
On the ballot0
0 sitting members running again
· What Vilnius, Lithuania is like — the /local page
National constituency (city hall): Šeškinės–Šnipiškių single-member Seimas constituency (Nr. 6) — city hall, Konstitucijos pr. 3, Šnipiškių seniūnija; plus the nationwide multi-member constituency (70 list seats)
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Mayor
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Valdas Benkunskas Elected unofficial | Mayor (meras) | TS-LKD | Lietuvių Vikipedija |
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National parliament — Member of the Seimas
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mindaugas Lingė ✉️ Elected | Member of the Seimas (Seimo narys) | TS-LKD | Lietuvos Respublikos Seimas |
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Notes on this record
How the lists were read, and what could not be.
- BLOCKED: vilnius.lt (and www., aktai., maps., opendata., api. subdomains), vrk.lt / www.vrk.lt / rezultatai.vrk.lt, e-seimas.lrs.lt, e-tar.lt / www.e-tar.lt and www.rinkejopuslapis.lt all returned a Cloudflare 'Just a moment…' challenge (HTTP 403) to robots.txt itself — not bypassed. lrvalstybe.lt (which mirrors municipal contact lists) has a robots.txt that disallows ClaudeBot outright and disallows all subpaths for '*', so it was not used.
- Municipal: the 51-member council (Vilniaus miesto savivaldybės taryba, elected 2023-03-05) and the deputy mayors (vicemerai) are NOT recorded — the City's own member list is behind Cloudflare and no tier-B list exists (lt.wikipedia 'Vilniaus miesto savivaldybės taryba 2023–2027 m.' is a red link; the parent article only gives outdated faction counts). Re-run when vilnius.lt/lt/savivaldybe/taryba can be read. Mayor Valdas Benkunskas (TS-LKD) taken from lt.wikipedia (tier B, unofficial). Vilnius has 21 seniūnijos (elderates) whose elders are appointed, not elected; only the city-wide body applies.
- Next election: 2027-03-07 municipal council and mayoral elections (date per LRT report of 2026-10-19 citing the VRK; the Seimas resolution on e-seimas could not be read). No official candidate list is published yet (VRK registration not reachable), so no candidates recorded. Later: Seimas general election October 2028; presidential election 2029.
- Provincial: none. Lithuania's 10 counties (apskritys) have had no administration or elected assembly since 2010; Vilnius sits in Vilniaus apskritis, a statistical unit only.
- Federal: Seimas has 141 seats — 71 single-member constituencies (incl. 'Pasaulio lietuvių' for voters abroad) and 70 elected on one nationwide list. Only the city-hall constituency MP is recorded. Single-member constituencies named for Vilnius city neighbourhoods on the Seimas by-constituency list (2024–2028, retrieved 2026-10-21): Antakalnio — Ingrida Šimonytė (TS-LKD); Naujamiesčio–Vilkpėdės — Žygimantas Pavilionis (TS-LKD); Naujininkų–Rasų — Artūras Zuokas (Mišri Seimo narių grupė); Naujosios Vilnios — Liutauras Kazlavickas (TS-LKD); Pašilaičių — Eugenijus Gentvilas (Liberalų sąjūdis); Pilaitės–Karoliniškių — Vytautas Sinica (Mišri Seimo narių grupė); Senamiesčio–Žvėryno — Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen (Liberalų sąjūdis); Šeškinės–Šnipiškių — Mindaugas Lingė (TS-LKD); Verkių — Dainius Kreivys (TS-LKD); Žirmūnų — Paulė Kuzmickienė (TS-LKD). Constituency boundaries vs the city limit could not be checked (VRK blocked); some suburban/district constituencies (e.g. Riešės, Nemenčinės, Vilniaus pietinė, Šalčininkų–Vilniaus, Nalšios pietinė) may touch the municipality's edge. The by-constituency page lists 68 members under 'Daugiamandatė' at retrieval.
- lrs.lt robots.txt: 'User-agent: *' Crawl-delay 20 and Disallow /pls/ (except w5_show/w5_ivairus/w5_sale); /sip/portal.show pages used, spaced >=20 s. Terms (p_r=35577): content © Seimo kanceliarija, all rights reserved; Seimas photographs need the Chancellery's consent, so no MP photo is linked.
- European Parliament: Lithuania elects 11 MEPs in a single nationwide constituency (no sub-national constituencies); official list https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/search/advanced?countryCode=LT (not fetched). No MEPs added.
- standsFor null for both people (no own-words statements read). No home addresses, personal phones or personal emails recorded.
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Sources
Prepared 2026-10-21. Nomination papers are never opened: they carry home addresses. After voting day a candidate list becomes a result; these rows are reconciled, not deleted.