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The subject of the article is the media image of the local government elections of 2018, which allows to draw representative opinions of the media elites’ representatives and showing the mainstreams of the political dispute, which appeared during the election campaign. The research covered the most important opinion weeklies in Poland, i.e.: “Newsweek”, “Polityka”, “Wprost”, “Gazeta Polska”, “Do Rzeczy”, “Sieci”. The articles on electoral and self-government topics were analyzed.