In comparative political science considerable debate remains on the role of ideology in local politics and, more specifically, whether the local political conflict can be structured along a “national” left-right dimension. A growing body of empirical research underpins the relevance of left and right at the local level, but these studies are often conducted in the American context, in larger cities and from the perspective of the voters. In order to close these gaps in the literature this paper addresses the shape of the local political conflict by analyzing 257 local party manifestos in Flanders (Belgium). By conducting a computational text analysis with Wordscores I estimate local parties’ policy positions on the general, economic and cultural left-right dimension in small, medium-sized and large municipalities. I find that the order of the local parties on the left-right scales bears very close resemblance to the order in the Flemish party system. Furthermore, the degree of congruence between the municipal and national level is not affected by municipal size.