Riga, Latvia: who represents it, and who is running
Riga City Council (Rīgas dome) general election — all 60 seats votes on 2029-06-02. It elects 60 council deputies from one city-wide constituency by open-list proportional representation (5% threshold); the council then elects its chair (the mayor) and deputy chairs. Date set by law (the first Saturday in June, every four years), not yet called. The 15th Saeima election (2026-10-03) has already been held and its results approved on 2026-10-16; the new Saeima first sits on 2026-11-03..
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National constituency (city hall): Rīga electoral constituency (Rīgas vēlēšanu apgabals), 38 of 100 Saeima seats at the 2026 election; it covers the city of Riga and also counts voters abroad
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Mayor
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Viesturs Kleinbergs Elected | Mayor (Rīgas domes priekšsēdētājs) | PRO | Wikipedia |
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Councillor
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agnese Logina Elected | Councillor (Rīgas domes deputāts) | PRO | at large (single city-wide constituency) | CVK |
| Aija Melle Elected | Councillor (Rīgas domes deputāts) | PRO | at large (single city-wide constituency) | CVK |
| Ainārs Šlesers Elected | Councillor (Rīgas domes deputāts) | LPV | at large (single city-wide constituency) | CVK |
| Aleksejs Rosļikovs Elected | Councillor (Rīgas domes deputāts) | ST! | at large (single city-wide constituency) | CVK |
| Alija Turlaja Elected | Councillor (Rīgas domes deputāts) | PRO | at large (single city-wide constituency) | CVK |
| Andrejs Klementjevs Elected | Councillor (Rīgas domes deputāts) | LPV | at large (single city-wide constituency) | CVK |
| Andris Ozols Elected | Councillor (Rīgas domes deputāts) | LPV | at large (single city-wide constituency) | CVK |
| Ansis Pūpols Elected | Councillor (Rīgas domes deputāts) | NA | at large (single city-wide constituency) | CVK |
| Artūrs Klēbahs Elected | Councillor (Rīgas domes deputāts) | SV/AJ | at large (single city-wide constituency) | CVK |
| Dainis Locis Elected | Councillor (Rīgas domes deputāts) | NA | at large (single city-wide constituency) | CVK |
| Dāvis Stalts Elected | Councillor (Rīgas domes deputāts) | JV | at large (single city-wide constituency) | CVK |
| Deniss Kļukins Elected | Councillor (Rīgas domes deputāts) | LPV | at large (single city-wide constituency) | CVK |
| Dzintra Geka-Vaska Elected | Councillor (Rīgas domes deputāts) | JV | at large (single city-wide constituency) | CVK |
| Edgars Bergholcs Elected | Councillor (Rīgas domes deputāts) | AS | at large (single city-wide constituency) | CVK |
| Edgars Ikstens Elected | Councillor (Rīgas domes deputāts) | JV | at large (single city-wide constituency) | CVK |
| Eduards Zivtiņš Elected | Councillor (Rīgas domes deputāts) | LPV | at large (single city-wide constituency) | CVK |
| Edvards Šlesers Elected | Councillor (Rīgas domes deputāts) | LPV | at large (single city-wide constituency) | CVK |
| Einārs Cilinskis Elected | Councillor (Rīgas domes deputāts) | NA | at large (single city-wide constituency) | CVK |
| Elīna Treija Elected | Councillor (Rīgas domes deputāts) | NA | at large (single city-wide constituency) | CVK |
| Ēriks Stendzenieks Elected | Councillor (Rīgas domes deputāts) | LPV | at large (single city-wide constituency) | CVK |
| Ģirts Lapiņš Elected | Councillor (Rīgas domes deputāts) | NA | at large (single city-wide constituency) | CVK |
| Igors Solomatins Elected | Councillor (Rīgas domes deputāts) | SV/AJ | at large (single city-wide constituency) | CVK |
| Inese Andersone Elected | Councillor (Rīgas domes deputāts) | JV | at large (single city-wide constituency) | CVK |
| Inese Voika Elected | Councillor (Rīgas domes deputāts) | JV | at large (single city-wide constituency) | CVK |
| Inna Djeri Elected | Councillor (Rīgas domes deputāts) | SV/AJ | at large (single city-wide constituency) | CVK |
| Jakovs Pliners Elected | Councillor (Rīgas domes deputāts) | ST! | at large (single city-wide constituency) | CVK |
| Jevgēnija Šafraneka Elected | Councillor (Rīgas domes deputāts) | LPV | at large (single city-wide constituency) | CVK |
| Jūlija Sohina Elected | Councillor (Rīgas domes deputāts) | SV/AJ | at large (single city-wide constituency) | CVK |
| Jūlija Stepaņenko Elected | Councillor (Rīgas domes deputāts) | SV/AJ | at large (single city-wide constituency) | CVK |
| Justīne Panteļējeva Elected | Councillor (Rīgas domes deputāts) | PRO | at large (single city-wide constituency) | CVK |
| Kaspars Krištopans Elected | Councillor (Rīgas domes deputāts) | LPV | at large (single city-wide constituency) | CVK |
| Kaspars Spunde Elected | Councillor (Rīgas domes deputāts) | NA | at large (single city-wide constituency) | CVK |
| Laima Geikina Elected | Councillor (Rīgas domes deputāts) | JV | at large (single city-wide constituency) | CVK |
| Lauma Paegļkalna Elected | Councillor (Rīgas domes deputāts) | JV | at large (single city-wide constituency) | CVK |
| Lauris Ērenpreiss Elected | Councillor (Rīgas domes deputāts) | NA | at large (single city-wide constituency) | CVK |
| Liāna Langa Elected | Councillor (Rīgas domes deputāts) | NA | at large (single city-wide constituency) | CVK |
| Linda Ozola Elected | Councillor (Rīgas domes deputāts) | JV | at large (single city-wide constituency) | CVK |
| Ļubova Švecova Elected | Councillor (Rīgas domes deputāts) | SV/AJ | at large (single city-wide constituency) | CVK |
| Maija Armaņeva Elected | Councillor (Rīgas domes deputāts) | LPV | at large (single city-wide constituency) | CVK |
| Mairis Briedis Elected | Councillor (Rīgas domes deputāts) | ST! | at large (single city-wide constituency) | CVK |
| Mairita Lūse Elected | Councillor (Rīgas domes deputāts) | PRO | at large (single city-wide constituency) | CVK |
| Marta Kotello Elected | Councillor (Rīgas domes deputāts) | PRO | at large (single city-wide constituency) | CVK |
| Mārtiņš Eņģelis Elected | Councillor (Rīgas domes deputāts) | PRO | at large (single city-wide constituency) | CVK |
| Mārtiņš Kossovičs Elected | Councillor (Rīgas domes deputāts) | PRO | at large (single city-wide constituency) | CVK |
| Mārtiņš Šics Elected | Councillor (Rīgas domes deputāts) | AS | at large (single city-wide constituency) | CVK |
| Nikolajs Kabanovs Elected | Councillor (Rīgas domes deputāts) | ST! | at large (single city-wide constituency) | CVK |
| Ritvars Jansons Elected | Councillor (Rīgas domes deputāts) | NA | at large (single city-wide constituency) | CVK |
| Roberts Žemaitis Elected | Councillor (Rīgas domes deputāts) | LPV | at large (single city-wide constituency) | CVK |
| Romualds Ražuks Elected | Councillor (Rīgas domes deputāts) | AS | at large (single city-wide constituency) | CVK |
| Rūdolfs Brēmanis Elected | Councillor (Rīgas domes deputāts) | SV/AJ | at large (single city-wide constituency) | CVK |
| Rūta Mežavilka Elected | Councillor (Rīgas domes deputāts) | PRO | at large (single city-wide constituency) | CVK |
| Selīna Vancāne Elected | Councillor (Rīgas domes deputāts) | PRO | at large (single city-wide constituency) | CVK |
| Sergejs Dolgopolovs Elected | Councillor (Rīgas domes deputāts) | LPV | at large (single city-wide constituency) | CVK |
| Valērijs Petrovs Elected | Councillor (Rīgas domes deputāts) | ST! | at large (single city-wide constituency) | CVK |
| Vjačeslavs Stepaņenko Elected | Councillor (Rīgas domes deputāts) | SV/AJ | at large (single city-wide constituency) | CVK |
| Vladislavs Bartaševičs Elected | Councillor (Rīgas domes deputāts) | LPV | at large (single city-wide constituency) | CVK |
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Deputy Mayor
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Edvards Ratnieks Elected | Deputy Mayor (domes priekšsēdētāja vietnieks) | NA | city-wide | Wikipedia |
| Māris Sprindžuks Elected | Deputy Mayor (domes priekšsēdētāja vietnieks) | AS | city-wide | Wikipedia |
| Vilnis Ķirsis Elected | Deputy Mayor (domes priekšsēdētāja vietnieks) | JV | city-wide | Wikipedia |
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National parliament — Member of the Saeima
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agnese Kupača Elected | Member of the Saeima (Saeimas deputāts), 15th Saeima | AS | Rīga electoral constituency (Rīgas vēlēšanu apgabals) | CVK |
| Ainārs Šlesers Elected | Member of the Saeima (Saeimas deputāts), 15th Saeima | LPV | Rīga electoral constituency (Rīgas vēlēšanu apgabals) | CVK |
| Andrejs Judins Elected | Member of the Saeima (Saeimas deputāts), 15th Saeima | JV | Rīga electoral constituency (Rīgas vēlēšanu apgabals) | CVK |
| Andrejs Klementjevs Elected | Member of the Saeima (Saeimas deputāts), 15th Saeima | LPV | Rīga electoral constituency (Rīgas vēlēšanu apgabals) | CVK |
| Andris Kulbergs Elected | Member of the Saeima (Saeimas deputāts), 15th Saeima | AS | Rīga electoral constituency (Rīgas vēlēšanu apgabals) | CVK |
| Andris Šuvajevs Elected | Member of the Saeima (Saeimas deputāts), 15th Saeima | PRO | Rīga electoral constituency (Rīgas vēlēšanu apgabals) | CVK |
| Antoņina Ņenaševa Elected | Member of the Saeima (Saeimas deputāts), 15th Saeima | PRO | Rīga electoral constituency (Rīgas vēlēšanu apgabals) | CVK |
| Artūrs Klēbahs Elected | Member of the Saeima (Saeimas deputāts), 15th Saeima | SV/AJ | Rīga electoral constituency (Rīgas vēlēšanu apgabals) | CVK |
| Baiba Braže Elected | Member of the Saeima (Saeimas deputāts), 15th Saeima | JV | Rīga electoral constituency (Rīgas vēlēšanu apgabals) | CVK |
| Edgars Štelmahers Elected | Member of the Saeima (Saeimas deputāts), 15th Saeima | AS | Rīga electoral constituency (Rīgas vēlēšanu apgabals) | CVK |
| Guntars Vītols Elected | Member of the Saeima (Saeimas deputāts), 15th Saeima | AS | Rīga electoral constituency (Rīgas vēlēšanu apgabals) | CVK |
| Ilze Indriksone Elected | Member of the Saeima (Saeimas deputāts), 15th Saeima | NA | Rīga electoral constituency (Rīgas vēlēšanu apgabals) | CVK |
| Inese Lībiņa-Egnere Elected | Member of the Saeima (Saeimas deputāts), 15th Saeima | JV | Rīga electoral constituency (Rīgas vēlēšanu apgabals) | CVK |
| Inna Djeri Elected | Member of the Saeima (Saeimas deputāts), 15th Saeima | SV/AJ | Rīga electoral constituency (Rīgas vēlēšanu apgabals) | CVK |
| Ivars Āboliņš Elected | Member of the Saeima (Saeimas deputāts), 15th Saeima | NA | Rīga electoral constituency (Rīgas vēlēšanu apgabals) | CVK |
| Jānis Jenzis Elected | Member of the Saeima (Saeimas deputāts), 15th Saeima | AS | Rīga electoral constituency (Rīgas vēlēšanu apgabals) | CVK |
| Jānis Stērninieks Elected | Member of the Saeima (Saeimas deputāts), 15th Saeima | AS | Rīga electoral constituency (Rīgas vēlēšanu apgabals) | CVK |
| Jānis Urtāns Elected | Member of the Saeima (Saeimas deputāts), 15th Saeima | AS | Rīga electoral constituency (Rīgas vēlēšanu apgabals) | CVK |
| Jevgēnija Šafraneka Elected | Member of the Saeima (Saeimas deputāts), 15th Saeima | LPV | Rīga electoral constituency (Rīgas vēlēšanu apgabals) | CVK |
| Jūlija Sohina Elected | Member of the Saeima (Saeimas deputāts), 15th Saeima | SV/AJ | Rīga electoral constituency (Rīgas vēlēšanu apgabals) | CVK |
| Jūlija Stepaņenko Elected | Member of the Saeima (Saeimas deputāts), 15th Saeima | SV/AJ | Rīga electoral constituency (Rīgas vēlēšanu apgabals) | CVK |
| Karīna Miķelsone Elected | Member of the Saeima (Saeimas deputāts), 15th Saeima | AS | Rīga electoral constituency (Rīgas vēlēšanu apgabals) | CVK |
| Krista Burāne Elected | Member of the Saeima (Saeimas deputāts), 15th Saeima | PRO | Rīga electoral constituency (Rīgas vēlēšanu apgabals) | CVK |
| Liene Apine Elected | Member of the Saeima (Saeimas deputāts), 15th Saeima | AS | Rīga electoral constituency (Rīgas vēlēšanu apgabals) | CVK |
| Līga Meņģelsone Elected | Member of the Saeima (Saeimas deputāts), 15th Saeima | AS | Rīga electoral constituency (Rīgas vēlēšanu apgabals) | CVK |
| Ļubova Švecova Elected | Member of the Saeima (Saeimas deputāts), 15th Saeima | SV/AJ | Rīga electoral constituency (Rīgas vēlēšanu apgabals) | CVK |
| Maija Armaņeva Elected | Member of the Saeima (Saeimas deputāts), 15th Saeima | LPV | Rīga electoral constituency (Rīgas vēlēšanu apgabals) | CVK |
| Mairita Lūse Elected | Member of the Saeima (Saeimas deputāts), 15th Saeima | PRO | Rīga electoral constituency (Rīgas vēlēšanu apgabals) | CVK |
| Māris Ozoliņš Elected | Member of the Saeima (Saeimas deputāts), 15th Saeima | AS | Rīga electoral constituency (Rīgas vēlēšanu apgabals) | CVK |
| Mārtiņš Brencis Elected | Member of the Saeima (Saeimas deputāts), 15th Saeima | AS | Rīga electoral constituency (Rīgas vēlēšanu apgabals) | CVK |
| Mārtiņš Hiršs Elected | Member of the Saeima (Saeimas deputāts), 15th Saeima | PRO | Rīga electoral constituency (Rīgas vēlēšanu apgabals) | CVK |
| Natālija Ābola Elected | Member of the Saeima (Saeimas deputāts), 15th Saeima | SV/AJ | Rīga electoral constituency (Rīgas vēlēšanu apgabals) | CVK |
| Nauris Puntulis Elected | Member of the Saeima (Saeimas deputāts), 15th Saeima | NA | Rīga electoral constituency (Rīgas vēlēšanu apgabals) | CVK |
| Regīna Ločmele Elected | Member of the Saeima (Saeimas deputāts), 15th Saeima | LPV | Rīga electoral constituency (Rīgas vēlēšanu apgabals) | CVK |
| Roberts Žemaitis Elected | Member of the Saeima (Saeimas deputāts), 15th Saeima | LPV | Rīga electoral constituency (Rīgas vēlēšanu apgabals) | CVK |
| Rūdolfs Brēmanis Elected | Member of the Saeima (Saeimas deputāts), 15th Saeima | SV/AJ | Rīga electoral constituency (Rīgas vēlēšanu apgabals) | CVK |
| Selma Teodora Levrence Elected | Member of the Saeima (Saeimas deputāts), 15th Saeima | PRO | Rīga electoral constituency (Rīgas vēlēšanu apgabals) | CVK |
| Viesturs Vitovskis Elected | Member of the Saeima (Saeimas deputāts), 15th Saeima | AS | Rīga electoral constituency (Rīgas vēlēšanu apgabals) | CVK |
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Notes on this record
How the lists were read, and what could not be.
- Municipal: the Riga City Council has 60 deputies, elected 2025-06-07 in one city-wide constituency. All 60 come from the CVK list of elected deputies for Rīga (dati.cvk.lv/PV2025/en/ieveletie-deputati/riga/, 'Last updated 20.06.2025'), retrieved 2026-10-21. The seats split JV 9, PRO 11, LPV 13, SV/AJ 8, NA 10, AS 4, ST! 5. That page shows the result as of June 2025. Mandates that changed hands later (resignations, substitutions) could NOT be checked, because riga.lv, the city's own member list, refused HTTPS connections from this client (TCP connection refused on 443; plain HTTP only redirects to HTTPS). Re-check against riga.lv when it can be reached. Riga has no district councils (its districts and suburbs are administrative only), so only the city-wide body is recorded.
- Mayor and deputy mayors: Viesturs Kleinbergs (PRO) was elected council chair (mayor) on 2025-06-27, 34 votes to 22. Vilnis Ķirsis (JV), Edvards Ratnieks (NA) and Māris Sprindžuks (AS) are the three deputy chairs. These rows rest on Wikipedia's Riga City Council infobox (tier B, last edited 2026-10-09), because riga.lv was unreachable. LSM (Latvian public broadcasting) reports from June and July 2025 corroborate them. A web search also returned Rīgas dome decisions from March and May 2026 published on likumi.lv and signed 'Rīgas domes priekšsēdētājs V. Kleinbergs', but likumi.lv refused connections, so they were not opened. The mayor and the three deputies are recorded once, under their leadership office, and are not repeated as Councillor rows (4 + 56 = 60). Wikipedia lists the coalition as PRO, NA, JV and AS (34 seats); party groups have since split (for example SV vs AJ, and two independents), but party is given here as the list the person was elected on.
- Regional tier: none. Riga is a state city (valstspilsēta) with no elected regional government above it. Latvia's planning regions are not directly elected. So no provincial level is recorded.
- National (Saeima): there are 100 seats in 5 multi-member constituencies, filled by open-list PR with a 5% national threshold. City hall (Rātslaukums 1) is in the Rīga constituency, which covers the city of Riga and, under the Saeima Election Law, also counts votes cast abroad. The 15th Saeima election was held 2026-10-03. CVK approved the results on 2026-10-16 and published the elected deputies by constituency (cvk.lv/jaunums/cvk-apstiprina-15-saeimas-velesanu-rezultatus). Rīga elects 38: AS 13, SV/AJ 7, LPV 6, PRO 6, NA 3, JV 3. Nationally: AS 41, LPV 17, SV/AJ 15, NA 10, PRO 10, JV 7; turnout 51.79%. These 38 members-elect are recorded as status 'elected' with termStart 2026-11-03, the first sitting under Satversme Art. 12, which is the day the 14th Saeima's powers end. The outgoing 14th Saeima members for Rīga, still sitting until 2026-11-03, are NOT recorded, because saeima.lv refused connections and titania.saeima.lv disallows all crawling in robots.txt. A coalition and Prime Minister for the 15th Saeima have not been checked. The 14th-Saeima government of Prime Minister Evika Siliņa (JV) stays in office until a new cabinet is confirmed, but this was not verified from an official source.
- Overlap: many council deputies were also elected to the 15th Saeima for Rīga: Ainārs Šlesers, Andrejs Klementjevs, Roberts Žemaitis, Maija Armaņeva and Jevgēnija Šafraneka (LPV); Jūlija Stepaņenko, Rūdolfs Brēmanis, Ļubova Švecova, Jūlija Sohina, Inna Djeri and Artūrs Klēbahs (SV/AJ); and Mairita Lūse (PRO). Eduards Zivtiņš (LPV) and Vjačeslavs Stepaņenko (SV/AJ) were elected in other constituencies (Vidzeme and Latgale). Whether any of them will give up a council seat when the Saeima sits was not checked. Expect council substitutions after 2026-11-03, and re-read the council list then.
- European Parliament: Latvia elects 9 MEPs in one national constituency, with no sub-national constituencies. Last held 2024-06-08; next due in 2029. Official results: https://www.cvk.lv/ep-rezultati. No MEPs are added as people.
- Next election: Riga City Council, 2029-06-02. The date comes from the municipal election law (the first Saturday in June, every four years) and has not yet been called. Wikipedia gives 1 June 2029, which is a Friday, so the date is computed here from the rule; check it at CVK. No official candidate list exists for any election within six months, so no candidates are recorded (running 0).
- Sources and terms: dati.cvk.lv has no robots.txt (404, so no rules). It sets a TS cookie with a spinner page on first contact; that page is a plain reload, not a challenge, and was not solved. www.cvk.lv robots.txt: 'Allow: /'. The cvk.lv footer says 'Visas tiesības aizsargātas' (all rights reserved), with no reuse licence, so only facts are taken. en.wikipedia.org was read via /wiki/ only (CC BY-SA). No photos linked: none were collected from an official source. No emails or phones were recorded. standsFor is null for everyone, because no statements in the people's own words were read. Profile links for council deputies are their CVK candidate pages; Saeima members-elect have no profile link yet.
- Blocked or unreachable: www.riga.lv (connection refused on 443), www.saeima.lv (connection refused), likumi.lv and www.vestnesis.lv (connection refused), vel2025.cvk.lv and sv2026.cvk.lv (no response), ld.riga.lv (HTTP 503), titania.saeima.lv (robots Disallow: /, not used). No block was bypassed, and no proxy or alternative fetcher was used to reach a refused host.
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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.