Tbilisi City Assembly

Tbilisi City Assembly თბილისის საკრებულო
Type
Type	Unicameral
Leadership
Chairperson	Giorgi Tkemaladze
Structure
Seats	50
Political groups	Majority (29)   Georgian Dream (29) Minority (21)   National Movement (13)   For Georgia (4)   Lelo (2)   Girchi - More Freedom (1)   For the People (1)
Elections
Voting system	Mixed-member proportional representation
Last election	October 2, 2021
Next election	2025
Meeting place
Tbilisi Assembly Building Tbilisi
Website
http://tbsakrebulo.gov.ge/?lng=eng

The Tbilisi Sakrebulo (Georgian: თბილისის საკრებულო, romanized: tbilisis sak'rebulo) is a representative body in the city government of Tbilisi, Georgia. It is also known in English as the Tbilisi City Council or Tbilisi Assembly. Sakrebulos were established as the legislative branch of local government not only in Tbilisi, but throughout Georgia, by reforms instituted in 1991 as the country declared independence from the Soviet Union.

Assembly building in the 19th century.

Composition

The members of the Sakrebulo are selected through a mixed electoral system. Of the 50 seats, 40 are filled through direct elections in local districts of the city. The remaining 10 members are chosen by political parties and are apportioned according to their support citywide. From 2021 assembly has 29 members from the ruling Georgian Dream, 13 from the United National Movement, 4 from For Georgia, 2 from Lelo, 1 from Girchi - More Freedom and 1 from For the People.

Main Hall, 19th century

Powers

In accordance with the Code of Local Self-Government of the Organic Law of Georgia, the Sakrebulo exercises its powers to define the administrative-territorial organization of the municipality and its identity, organizational activities, determination of the personnel policy of the municipality, regulation and control of the activities of executive bodies; In the fields of municipal property management, social, amenities and household utilities, land use and natural resources use, municipal territory planning, transport and road economy, accounting, support for innovative development and informatization.

The authority of the Sakrebulo in the field of administrative-territorial organization of the municipality and defining its identity includes:

• Creation and abolition of administrative units in the municipality, change of their borders
• Establishment of local self-government symbols - coat of arms, flag and other symbols and make changes in them
• establish the rules for the introduction of honorary titles and awards of the self-governing unit and their award
• names of geographical objects, Establishing the rule of numbering of buildings in the settlements
• Making a decision on creating, joining or leaving a non-profit (non-commercial) legal entity together with other self-governing units.
• approval of the socio-economic development strategy of the self-governing unit
• approval of measures and programs to be taken to attract investments and support innovative development in the territory of the municipality

Election results

The most recent city council election was held on October 2, 2021, and the results were as follows:

Party		Lead candidate	Votes	%	+/–	Seats	+/–
	Georgian Dream	Levan Zhorzholiani	193 486	40.39	12.75	29	10
	National Movement	Sopio Japaridze	133 926	27.96	10.30	13	8
	For Georgia	Levan Dolidze	42 596	8.89	New	4	New
	Lelo	Badri Japaridze	17 373	3.63	New	2	New
	Girchi - More Freedom	Tengiz Kirtadze	15 799	3.29	New	1	New
	For the People	Aleksandre Ratishvili	12 337	2.58	New	1	New
	Citizens	Fatman Barjadze	11 743	2.45	New	0	New
	Droa	Elene Khoshtaria	10 262	2.14	New	0	New
	Alliance of Patriots	Gocha Tevdoradze	7 915	1.65	3.97	0	2
	New Political Center - Girchi	Herman Szabo	7 695	1.61	New	0	New
	Labour Party	Lasha Chkhartishvili	6 293	1.31	2.59	0
	European Georgia	Giorgi Noniashvili	5 575	1.16	8.02	0	3
	Strategy Aghmashenebeli	Sergo Chikhladze	4 817	1.01	2.43	0
	Other		9 133	1.91
Total						50	±
Electorate/voter turnout
Source: [1]

Previous election results

2017

Party		Votes	%	Seats
	Georgian Dream	205,994	53.15	39
	National Movement	68,432	17.66	5
	European Georgia	35,586	9.18	3
	Alliance of Patriots	21,775	5.62	2
	Labour Party	15,112	3.90	0
	Strategy Aghmashenebeli	13,350	3.44	0
	Democratic Movement	12,321	3.18	0
	Republican Party	6,229	1.61	0
Total		411,847	100.0	50
Source: [2] [3]

2014

Party		Votes	%	Seats
	Georgian Dream	151,269	46.01	27
	National Movement	85,858	26.11	7
	United Opposition	34 026	10.35	3
	Alliance of Patriots	20,890	6.35	2
	Independent			1
Total		343,582	100.0	40
Source: [4]

2010

Party		Votes	%	Seats
	National Movement	234,150	52.5	39
	Alliance for Georgia	80,166	17.97	5
	Christian-Democratic Movement	53,748	12.05	3
	United National Council	36,850	8.26	2
	Industry Will Save Georgia	27,791	6.23	1
Source: [5]

2006

Party		Seats (37)	Assembly
	National Movement	34
	Labour Party	1
	RPG-CPG bloc	1
	IWSG	1

2002

Party		Votes	%	Seats
	Labour Party	71,145	25.5	15
	National Movement	66,256	23.75	14
	New Rights	31,695	11.36	7
	Christian Conservative Party	20,284	7.27	4
	Industry Will Save Georgia	19,898	7.13	4
	Revival - XXI bloc	17,682	6.34	3
	Unity	11,516	4.13	2

Notes

a.^ A coalition of Free Democrats, Republican Party, New Rights and Georgia's Way.

b.^ A coalition of Conservative Party, Movement for a Fair Georgia and People's Party.

c.^ A coalition of Democratic Movement, Christian-Democratic Movement and Georgian Troupe.

See also

• Local government in Georgia (country)

External links

• Tbilisi Sakrebulo official web site
• Sakrebulo information on the official Tbilisi web site