The 2019 Seville City Council election, also the 2019 Seville municipal election, was held on Sunday, 26 May 2019, to elect the 11th City Council of the municipality of Seville. All 31 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 31 seats in the City Council of Seville 16 seats needed for a majority, Registered ...

2019 Seville City Council election

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All 31 seats in the City Council of Seville 16 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered	540,851 0.8%
Turnout	317,843 (58.8%) 0.7 pp
First party Second party Third party   Leader Juan Espadas Beltrán Pérez Susana Serrano Party PSOE–A PP Adelante Leader since 24 May 2010 16 March 2018 14 April 2015 Last election 11 seats, 32.2% 12 seats, 33.1% 5 seats, 16.0%[lower-alpha 1] Seats won 13 8 4 Seat change 2 4 1 Popular vote 123,933 73,101 44,546 Percentage 39.2% 23.1% 14.1% Swing 7.0 pp 10.0 pp 1.9 pp   Fourth party Fifth party   Leader Álvaro Pimentel Cristina Peláez Party Cs Vox Leader since 27 March 2019 22 April 2019 Last election 3 seats, 9.3% 0 seats, 0.5% Seats won 4 2 Seat change 1 2 Popular vote 39,331 25,122 Percentage 12.5% 8.0% Swing 3.2 pp 7.5 pp
Mayor before election Juan Espadas PSOE Elected Mayor Juan Espadas PSOE

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The City Council of Seville (Spanish: Ayuntamiento de Sevilla) was the top-tier administrative and governing body of the municipality of Seville, 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 Seville 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:

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]

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 sought election, disallowing electors from signing for more than one list of candidates. For the case of Seville, as its population was between 300,001 and 1,000,000, at least 5,000 signatures were required.^[2]

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

More information Candidacy, Parties and alliances ...

Candidacy		Parties and alliances	Leading candidate		Ideology	Previous result		Gov.	Ref.
						Votes (%)	Seats
	PP	List People's Party (PP)		Beltrán Pérez	Conservatism Christian democracy	33.05%	12	N
	PSOE–A	List Spanish Socialist Workers' Party of Andalusia (PSOE–A)		Juan Espadas	Social democracy	32.16%	11	Y
	Adelante	List We Can (Podemos) United Left/The Greens–Assembly for Andalusia (IULV–CA) – Communist Party of Andalusia (PCA) – The Dawn. Marxist Organization OM (La Aurora (om)) – Republican Left (IR) – Feminist Party of Spain (PFE) Andalusian Spring (Primavera Andaluza)		Susana Serrano	Andalusian nationalism Left-wing populism Direct democracy	16.02%[lower-alpha 2]	5	N
	Cs	List Citizens–Party of the Citizenry (Cs)		Álvaro Pimentel	Liberalism	9.29%	3	N
	Vox	List Vox (Vox)		Cristina Peláez	Right-wing populism Ultranationalism National conservatism	0.46%	0	N

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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; 16 seats were required for an absolute majority in the City Council of Seville.

More information Polling firm/Commissioner, Fieldwork date ...

Polling firm/Commissioner	Fieldwork date	Sample size	Turnout					IULV			Lead
2019 municipal election	26 May 2019	—	58.8	23.1 8	39.2 13	12.5 4	[lower-alpha 3]	[lower-alpha 3]	8.0 2	14.1 4	16.1
KeyData/Público[p 1]	19 May 2019	?	70.5	17.8 6	32.4 11	16.5 6	[lower-alpha 3]	[lower-alpha 3]	10.6 3	15.9 5	14.6
Dataestudios/ABC[p 2]	13–16 May 2019	600	?	22.2 7/8	38.1 12/13	14.1 4/5	[lower-alpha 3]	[lower-alpha 3]	5.8 1/2	16.2 5/6	15.9
Sigma Dos/El Mundo[p 3]	13–15 May 2019	400	?	22.2 7	37.1 12/13	14.1 4/5	[lower-alpha 3]	[lower-alpha 3]	7.2 2	16.8 5	14.9
40dB/El País[p 4]	3–8 May 2019	800	?	22.0 7	36.6 12/13	14.5 4/5	[lower-alpha 3]	[lower-alpha 3]	7.7 2	15.4 5	14.6
April 2019 general election[3]	28 Apr 2019	—	76.4	17.7 (6)	32.7 (11)	16.9 (5)	[lower-alpha 3]	[lower-alpha 3]	13.0 (4)	16.3 (5)	15.0
CIS[p 5]	21 Mar–23 Apr 2019	?	?	25.2 8/10	42.3 13/15	10.8 3/4	[lower-alpha 3]	[lower-alpha 3]	2.9 0	15.7 5/6	17.1
ElectoPanel/Electomanía[p 6]	31 Mar–7 Apr 2019	?	?	21.4 7	31.2 10	14.7 5	[lower-alpha 3]	[lower-alpha 3]	10.6 3	17.8 6	9.8
SW Demoscopia/Grupo Viva[p 7]	1–5 Apr 2019	1,002	?	? 8	? 13	? 4	[lower-alpha 3]	[lower-alpha 3]	? 2	? 4	?
ElectoPanel/Electomanía[p 8]	24–31 Mar 2019	?	?	20.0 7	30.9 10	15.4 5	[lower-alpha 3]	[lower-alpha 3]	11.0 3	18.4 6	10.9
ElectoPanel/Electomanía[p 9]	17–24 Mar 2019	?	?	19.9 7	31.0 10	15.5 5	[lower-alpha 3]	[lower-alpha 3]	11.1 3	18.4 6	11.1
ElectoPanel/Electomanía[p 10]	10–17 Mar 2019	?	?	20.1 6	29.5 10	14.8 5	[lower-alpha 3]	[lower-alpha 3]	13.2 4	19.0 6	9.4
ElectoPanel/Electomanía[p 11]	3–10 Mar 2019	?	?	19.7 6	29.0 10	15.5 5	[lower-alpha 3]	[lower-alpha 3]	13.1 4	19.3 6	9.3
ElectoPanel/Electomanía[p 12]	22 Feb–3 Mar 2019	?	?	18.0 6	28.6 10	16.6 6	13.1 5	4.3 0	12.9 4	–	10.6
Dialoga Consultores[p 13]	25 Feb–1 Mar 2019	2,200	?	27.2 9/10	34.5 11/12	12.2 3/4	[lower-alpha 3]	[lower-alpha 3]	8.8 2/3	13.9 4/5	7.3
Dataestudios/ABC[p 14]	11–17 Dec 2018	?	?	17.9 6	30.6 10/11	18.7 6	[lower-alpha 3]	[lower-alpha 3]	9.4 3	17.6 5/6	11.9
2018 regional election[4]	2 Dec 2018	—	62.9	18.8 (6)	25.2 (9)	18.8 (6)	[lower-alpha 3]	[lower-alpha 3]	12.4 (4)	18.9 (6)	6.3
Dataestudios/ABC[p 15][p 16]	12–18 Jun 2018	606	?	18.3 6	40.4 14	20.6 7	[lower-alpha 4]	[lower-alpha 4]	–	11.7 4	19.8
Dataestudios/ABC[p 17]	1–7 Feb 2018	600	?	21.6 7/8	35.5 12/13	22.2 7/8	9.4 3	5.2 0/1	–	–	13.3
SW Demoscopia/Grupo Viva[p 18][p 19]	2 Jul 2017	?	?	28.0 9	33.5 11	? 5	? 4	? 2	–	–	5.5
2016 general election[5]	26 Jun 2016	—	71.1	34.0 (11)	28.0 (9)	13.7 (4)	[lower-alpha 4]	[lower-alpha 4]	0.3 (0)	20.9 (7)	6.0
2015 general election[6]	20 Dec 2015	—	74.0	30.3 (10)	27.4 (9)	13.9 (5)	20.4 (7)	4.8 (0)	0.4 (0)	–	2.9
2015 municipal election	24 May 2015	—	59.5	33.1 12	32.2 11	9.3 3	9.0 3	6.0 2	0.5 0	–	0.9

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