2019_Madrid_City_Council_election

2019 Madrid City Council election

2019 Madrid City Council election

Municipal election in Madrid, Spain


The 2019 Madrid City Council election, also the 2019 Madrid municipal election, was held on Sunday, 26 May 2019, to elect the 11th City Council of the municipality of Madrid. All 57 seats in the City Council were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with regional elections in twelve autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain, as well as the 2019 European Parliament election.

Quick Facts All 57 seats in the City Council of Madrid 29 seats needed for a majority, Registered ...

The election saw incumbent mayor Manuela Carmena's More Madrid platform becoming the largest political force in the City Council, but the net loss of two seats for the left-from-centre bloc—including the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)—deprived them of a majority. Instead, the opposition People's Party (PP), despite obtaining its worst historical result in a municipal election in Madrid, was able to get its candidate José Luis Martínez-Almeida as the new local mayor through an alliance with the liberal Citizens (Cs) and the far-right Vox.

Electoral system

The City Council of Madrid (Spanish: Ayuntamiento de Madrid) was the top-tier administrative and governing body of the municipality of Madrid, composed of the mayor, the government council and the elected plenary assembly.[1] Elections to the local councils in Spain were fixed for the fourth Sunday of May every four years.[2] Voting for the local assembly was on the basis of universal suffrage, which comprised all nationals over 18 years of age, registered and residing in the municipality of Madrid and in full enjoyment of their political rights, as well as resident non-national European citizens and those whose country of origin allowed Spanish nationals to vote in their own elections by virtue of a treaty.

Local councillors were elected using the D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional representation, with an electoral threshold of five percent of valid votes—which included blank ballots—being applied in each local council.[1][2] Councillors were allocated to municipal councils based on the following scale:

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The mayor was indirectly elected by the plenary assembly. A legal clause required that mayoral candidates earned the vote of an absolute majority of councillors, or else the candidate of the most-voted party in the assembly was to be automatically appointed to the post. In the event of a tie, the appointee would be determined by lot.[1]

Council composition

The table below shows the composition of the political groups in the City Council at the time of dissolution.[3][4]

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Parties and candidates

The electoral law allowed for parties and federations registered in the interior ministry, coalitions and groupings of electors to present lists of candidates. Parties and federations intending to form a coalition ahead of an election were required to inform the relevant Electoral Commission within ten days of the election call, whereas groupings of electors needed to secure the signature of a determined amount of the electors registered in the municipality for which they were seeking election, disallowing electors from signing for more than one list of candidates. For the case of Madrid, as its population was over 1,000,001, at least 8,000 signatures were required.[2]

Below is a list of the main parties and electoral alliances which contested the election:

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Opinion polls

The table below lists voting intention estimates in reverse chronological order, showing the most recent first and using the dates when the survey fieldwork was done, as opposed to the date of publication. Where the fieldwork dates are unknown, the date of publication is given instead. The highest percentage figure in each polling survey is displayed with its background shaded in the leading party's colour. If a tie ensues, this is applied to the figures with the highest percentages. The "Lead" column on the right shows the percentage-point difference between the parties with the highest percentages in a poll. When available, seat projections determined by the polling organisations are displayed below (or in place of) the percentages in a smaller font; 29 seats were required for an absolute majority in the City Council of Madrid.

Color key:

  Poll conducted after legal ban on opinion polls   Exit poll

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Results

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Aftermath

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Notes

  1. Results for Ahora Madrid in the 2015 election.
  2. Results for IUCMLV in the 2015 election.
  3. Within Más Madrid.
  4. Within Ahora Madrid.

References

Opinion poll sources
  1. "Gabilondo gana en la Comunidad y Carmena en el Ayuntamiento, según el sondeo de Telemadrid". Telemadrid (in Spanish). 26 May 2019.
  2. "#emojiPanel Ayto Madrid (24M)". Electomanía (in Spanish). 24 May 2019.
  3. "#emojiPanel Ayto de Madrid (23M)". Electomanía (in Spanish). 23 May 2019.
  4. "#emojiPanel Ayto de Madrid (22M)". Electomanía (in Spanish). 22 May 2019.
  5. "#emojiPanel Ayto de Madrid (21M)". Electomanía (in Spanish). 21 May 2019.
  6. "Encuesta GIPEyOP: Europeas y Locales 2019". GIPEyOP (in Spanish). 20 May 2019.
  7. "#emojiPanel Ayuntamiento de Madrid (20M)". Electomanía (in Spanish). 20 May 2019.
  8. "Carmena, Gabilondo y el pinchazo de Vox". El Confidencial (in Spanish). 20 May 2019.
  9. "Encuesta Madrid: victoria mínima de la derecha". La Razón (in Spanish). 12 May 2019. Archived from the original on 12 May 2019. Retrieved 12 May 2019.
  10. "La victoria de Carmena pende de un hilo". El País (in Spanish). 19 May 2019.
  11. "Carmena gana pero el PP podría gobernar con Cs y Vox". La Razón (in Spanish). 4 February 2019.
  12. "Madrid. Encuesta Invymark para Telemadrid, 28.01.2019". Electograph (in Spanish). 28 January 2019.
  13. "Una encuesta de Carmena le da la alcaldía a Villacís". Libertad Digital (in Spanish). 22 September 2018.
  14. "Carmena pierde apoyos y se aleja de revalidar Madrid". La Razón (in Spanish). 17 September 2018.
  15. "Radiografía del voto" (PDF). La Razón (in Spanish). 17 September 2018. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 September 2018. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
  16. "Intención de voto en el Ayuntamiento de Madrid" (PDF). La Razón (in Spanish). 14 May 2018. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 May 2018. Retrieved 15 May 2018.
  17. "MADRID. Elecciones municipales. Sondeo PSOE. Abril 2018". Electograph (in Spanish). 19 April 2018.
  18. "Encuesta NC Report abril 2017" (PDF). La Razón (in Spanish). 1 May 2017. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 December 2017. Retrieved 1 May 2017.
  19. "Situación política en Madrid". El País (in Spanish). 15 May 2017.
  20. "PP y C's ganarían hoy en el Ayuntamiento de Madrid". La Razón (in Spanish). 25 August 2015.
  21. "Encuesta agosto 2015" (PDF). La Razón (in Spanish). 25 August 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 26 August 2015.
  22. "NC Report / 20 de junio de 2015" (PDF). La Razón (in Spanish). 21 June 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 June 2015. Retrieved 21 June 2015.
Other
  1. Ley 7/1985, de 2 de abril, Reguladora de las Bases del Régimen Local (Law 7) (in Spanish). 2 April 1985. Retrieved 30 June 2020.
  2. Ley Orgánica 5/1985, de 19 de junio, del Régimen Electoral General (Organic Law 5) (in Spanish). 19 June 1985. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
  3. López Macías, Javier (2 March 2019). "Carmona, Arce o Galcerán: Carmena descarta a ocho de sus concejales y hace peligrar la paz en Ahora Madrid". Madrid Diario (in Spanish). Retrieved 12 October 2020.
  4. "Carmena repetirá como candidata a la Alcaldía de Madrid: "Me han convencido"". El Periódico de Catalunya (in Spanish). 10 September 2018. Retrieved 21 January 2019.
  5. "Equo se decanta por una alianza con Carmena y decidirá esta semana entre Errejón y Unidos Podemos". eldiario.es (in Spanish). 19 February 2019. Retrieved 20 February 2019.
  6. "Pepu Hernández, elegido candidato del PSOE a la alcaldía de Madrid". El País (in Spanish). 9 March 2019. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
  7. "Ciudadanos apuesta por Villacís y Aguado para las elecciones de 2019". El Mundo (in Spanish). 8 October 2018. Retrieved 17 January 2019.
  8. Díaz, Sato (3 March 2019). "'Madrid En Pie' se perfila como la alternativa a Carmena por la izquierda". www.cuartopoder.es (in Spanish). Cuarto Poder. Retrieved 3 March 2019.
  9. "Electoral Results Consultation. Congress. April 2019. Madrid Municipality". Ministry of the Interior (in Spanish). Retrieved 1 May 2019.
  10. "Electoral Results Consultation. Congress. June 2016. Madrid Municipality". Ministry of the Interior (in Spanish). Retrieved 12 November 2017.
  11. "Electoral Results Consultation. Congress. December 2015. Madrid Municipality". Ministry of the Interior (in Spanish). Retrieved 12 November 2017.
  12. Rodríguez Domingo, Marta (15 June 2019). "Almeida toma el relevo de Carmena como alcalde de Madrid". ABC. Retrieved 15 June 2019.

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