2025 North Macedonian local elections

2025 North Macedonian local elections

19 October and 2 November 2025 & 11 January 2026

80 municipalities and City of Skopje
Registered1,832,415 (First round)
1,013,357 (Second round)
Turnout46.48% (First round)
40.46% (Second round)
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Hristijan Mickoski Bilall Kasami Venko Filipče
Party VMRO-DPMNE VLEN SDSM
Mayoralities won 55 9 6
Change 13 7 10

  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Ali Ahmeti Maksim Dimitrievski Kurto Dudush
Party National Alliance for Integration ZNAM Union of Roma
Mayoralities won 6 1 1
Change 8 1

  Seventh party Eighth party
 
Leader Beycan İlyas
Party Independent Democratic Party of Turks of Macedonia
Mayoralities won 1 1
Change 1

Local elections were held in North Macedonia on 19 October 2025, with a second round on 2 November 2025. The elections were to elect councilors and mayors in 80 municipalities and the City of Skopje and were announced on 9 August 2025 by the Speaker of the Assembly Afrim Gashi. According to the State Election Commission's calendar, the deadline for submitting candidacies for councilor and mayor lists was 13 September 2025. National issues were dominant in the debates during the elections. The elections had the lowest turnout since the country's independence.