2019_Valencia_City_Council_election

2019 Valencia City Council election

2019 Valencia City Council election

Municipal election in Valencia, Spain


The 2019 Valencia City Council election, also the 2019 Valencia municipal election, was held on Sunday, 26 May 2019, to elect the 11th City Council of the municipality of Valencia. All 33 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.

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The election saw the Coalició Compromís of incumbent mayor Joan Ribó score its first electoral win in the city in history, with the opposition People's Party (PP) under former regional minister María José Catalá scoring its worst result since 1987. This was also the first election since 1987 without the presence of Rita Barberá, the former PP mayor between 1991 and 2015 who had passed away in November 2016. The Socialist Party of the Valencian Country (PSPV–PSOE) recovered somewhat and clung into third place with 19.3% and 7 councillors. The election also resulted in a stagnation for the liberal Citizens (Cs), the entry of the far-right Vox party for the first time and the Unidas Podemos alliance—comprising both Podemos and United Left of the Valencian Country (EUPV)—not reaching the minimum five percent threshold to be entitled to seat allocation.

With the left-from-centre parties—Compromís and PSOE—securing an overall majority of seats against the combined PP–Cs–Vox bloc, Ribó was able to be re-elected for a second term in office as city mayor.

Electoral system

The City Council of Valencia (Valencian: Ajuntament de València, Spanish: Ayuntamiento de Valencia) was the top-tier administrative and governing body of the municipality of Valencia, 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 Valencia 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]

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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 Valencia, 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:

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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; 17 seats were required for an absolute majority in the City Council of Valencia.

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  Poll conducted after legal ban on opinion polls

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Results

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Aftermath

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Notes

  1. Results for VALC (9.82%, 3 seats) and EUPV–EV–ERPV (4.71%, 0 seats) in the 2015 election.
  2. María Dolores Jiménez, former Cs councillor.[4]

References

Opinion poll sources
  1. "Ajustada victoria de la izquierda en el Ayuntamiento de València con ventaja mínima de Compromís sobre el PSOE, según el sondeo en exclusiva de SyM Consulting". El Periódico de Aquí (in Spanish). 26 May 2019.
  2. "#emojiPanel Ayto Valencia (24M)". Electomanía (in Spanish). 24 May 2019.
  3. "#emojiPanel Ayto Valencia (22M)". Electomanía (in Spanish). 23 May 2019.
  4. "#emojiPanel Ayto de Valencia (22M)". Electomanía (in Spanish). 22 May 2019.
  5. "#emojiPanel Ayto Valencia (21M)". Electomanía (in Spanish). 21 May 2019.
  6. "Encuesta GIPEyOP: Europeas y Locales 2019". GIPEyOP (in Spanish). 20 May 2019.
  7. "#emojiPanel Ayuntamiento de Valencia (20M)". Electomanía (in Spanish). 20 May 2019.
  8. "Compromís y PSOE podrían gobernar solos". El Confidencial (in Spanish). 18 May 2019.
  9. "Compromís y PSOE podrían gobernar solos". El Mundo (in Spanish). 18 May 2019.
  10. "Baròmetre municipal d'opinió ciutadana Maig 2018" (PDF). City Council of Valencia (in Catalan). 29 May 2018.
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. "Grups Polítics Corporació 2015-2019". City Council of Valencia (in Valencian). Retrieved 12 October 2020.
  4. Navarro Castelló, Carlos (30 November 2018). "Ciudadanos suspende de militancia a la concejala de València María Dolores Jiménez". eldiario.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 12 October 2020.
  5. "María José Catalá será la candidata del PP a la alcaldía de Valencia". El Confidencial (in Spanish). EFE. 10 January 2019. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
  6. Toledo, Cristóbal (1 October 2018). "Las primarias de Compromís, una carrera para elegir al relevo de Ribó". El Mundo (in Spanish). Valencia. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
  7. Gozalbo, Marta (9 March 2019). "Fernando Giner, candidato oficial de Ciudadanos a la Alcaldía de València". Valencia Plaza (in Spanish). Valencia. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
  8. Plaza, Pablo (27 November 2018). "María Oliver barre en las primarias y será la candidata de Podem a la Alcaldía de València". Valencia Plaza (in Spanish). Valencia. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
  9. Romero, Víctor (4 February 2018). "Sandra Gómez gana las primarias del PSOE en Valencia y asesta una derrota a Ábalos". El Confidencial (in Spanish). Valencia. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
  10. "Sandra Gómez presenta 158 avales para ser candidata del PSPV a la Alcaldía de València en 2019". Valencia Plaza (in Spanish). Valencia. Europa Press. 5 October 2018. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
  11. "Sandra Gómez, arropada por Sánchez en su proclamación". Levante-EMV (in Spanish). EFE. 27 January 2019. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
  12. "El abogado de Vox José Gosálbez, candidato a la Alcaldía de Valencia". El Mundo (in Spanish). Valencia. 22 April 2019. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
  13. "Elecciones 2019 - Província de Valencia / València - Municipi de València". resultats2019.gva.es (in Spanish). Valencian Government. Archived from the original on 28 April 2019. Retrieved 18 May 2019.
  14. "Electoral Results Consultation. Congress. April 2019. Valencia Municipality". Ministry of the Interior (in Spanish). Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  15. "Electoral Results Consultation. Congress. June 2016. Valencia Municipality". Ministry of the Interior (in Spanish). Retrieved 18 May 2019.
  16. "Electoral Results Consultation. Congress. December 2015. Valencia Municipality". Ministry of the Interior (in Spanish). Retrieved 18 May 2019.
  17. "Joan Ribó, alcalde de Valencia". Las Provincias. 15 June 2019. Retrieved 15 June 2019.

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