Electoral race in Tirana, the district that decides the fate of the Assembly with 26% of the seats in the 2025 elections

In the May 11 elections for the Tirana district, 913,415 citizens within the Albanian territory will vote, while the number of voters registered by the Diaspora for this electoral zone is 52,431 voters. The number of parliamentary mandates for the Tirana district has been increasing year by year. In the 2009 and 2013 parliamentary elections, there were 32 mandates, in 2017 two were added, going to 34 mandates, in 2021 it went to 36 mandates and in the 2025 elections, due to the increase in the population in the last 4 years, Tirana was added one more parliamentary mandate, where out of 36, there will be 37 seats in the Assembly.

114,642 young people are voting for the first time in Tirana, while 1,081 are not eligible to vote in these elections due to decriminalization.

The Tirana region includes 5 municipalities, Tirana, Vora, Kavaja, Rrogozhina and Kamza. In the 2025 elections, the Tirana region alone holds 26% of the seats in parliament.

In the 2025 elections, 11 political entities are participating, three of which are coalitions, while the total number of voting centers that citizens will be directed to is 1,882. The closed lists of the DP and SP are headed by the heads of the political parties, Sali Berisha for the Democrats and Edi Rama for the Socialists.

The Socialist Party has appointed two political leaders for the Tirana district: Ogerta Manastirliu covers the territory of the capital's municipality, while Elisa Spiropali covers the rest of the district. On the other hand, the Democratic Party has entrusted the campaign to Belind Këlliç. Each political party has sent 12 names on the closed list, while 37 names have been registered for the open lists.

Some of the new parties have chosen to place fictitious names on closed lists as a revolt against the list system, while the party leaders themselves or those who really intend to receive mandates are on an open list where the one who receives one more vote will go to parliament if they manage to collect the necessary votes.

In the 2021 elections, the Socialist Party won 18 seats, the DP 15, the LSI today the Freedom Party 2 seats and Tom Doshi's SP managed to get one seat. The last seat in Tirana for the 2021 elections was won by the DP with 12,156 votes. This figure is indicative of how many votes a new political party will need to get a seat in the capital's electoral zone. (A2 Televizion)