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2019 Madrid City Council election

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All 57 seats in the City Council of Madrid
29 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered2,397,881 Green arrow up0.5%
Turnout1,635,963 (68.2%)
Red arrow down0.7 pp
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Manuela Carmena José Luis Martínez-Almeida Begoña Villacís
Party Más Madrid PP Cs
Leader since 30 March 2015 28 April 2017 2 March 2015
Last election 20 seats, 31.8%[a] 21 seats, 34.6% 7 seats, 11.4%
Seats won 19 15 11
Seat change Red arrow down1 Red arrow down6 Green arrow up4
Popular vote 505,159 395,344 312,536
Percentage 31.0% 24.3% 19.2%
Swing Red arrow down0.8 pp Red arrow down10.3 pp Green arrow up7.8 pp

  Fourth party Fifth party
 
Leader Pepu Hernández Javier Ortega Smith
Party PSOE Vox
Leader since 9 March 2019 18 April 2019
Last election 9 seats, 15.3% 0 seats, 0.6%
Seats won 8 4
Seat change Red arrow down1 Green arrow up4
Popular vote 224,074 124,969
Percentage 13.7% 7.7%
Swing Red arrow down1.6 pp Green arrow up7.1 pp

Mayor before election

Manuela Carmena
Más Madrid

Elected Mayor

José Luis Martínez-Almeida
PP

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.

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

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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:

Population Councillors
<100 3
101–250 5
251–1,000 7
1,001–2,000 9
2,001–5,000 11
5,001–10,000 13
10,001–20,000 17
20,001–50,000 21
50,001–100,000 25
>100,001 +1 per each 100,000 inhabitants or fraction
+1 if total is an even number

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

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

Parliamentary composition in April 2019
Groups Parties Councillors
Seats Total
People's Party's Municipal Group PP 21 21
Madrid Now Municipal Group Más Madrid 11 20
IU–Madrid 4
Ganemos 4
Equo 1
Socialist Municipal Group in Madrid PSOE 9 9
Citizens–Party of the Citizenry Municipal Group Cs 7 7

Parties and candidates

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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:

Candidacy Parties and
alliances
Leading candidate Ideology Previous result Gov. Ref.
Votes (%) Seats
PP
List
José Luis Martínez-Almeida Conservatism
Christian democracy
34.57% 21 ☒N [5]
Más Madrid
List
Manuela Carmena Progressivism
Participatory democracy
Green politics
31.84%[a] 20 checkY [6]
[7]
PSOE Pepu Hernández Social democracy 15.27% 9 ☒N [8]
Cs Begoña Villacís Liberalism 11.43% 7 ☒N [9]
IU–MpM
List
Carlos Sánchez Mato Anti-capitalism
Communism
1.69%[b] 0 ☒N [10]
[11]
Vox
List
Javier Ortega Smith Right-wing populism
Ultranationalism
National conservatism
0.60% 0 ☒N [12]

Opinion polls

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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; 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

Results

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Summary of the 26 May 2019 City Council of Madrid election results
Parties and alliances Popular vote Seats
Votes % ±pp Total +/−
More Madrid (Más Madrid)1 505,159 30.99 –0.85 19 –1
People's Party (PP) 395,344 24.25 –10.32 15 –6
Citizens–Party of the Citizenry (Cs) 312,536 19.17 +7.74 11 +4
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) 224,074 13.75 –1.52 8 –1
Vox (Vox) 124,969 7.67 +7.07 4 +4
United Left–Municipalist Stand Up Madrid (IU–MpM)2 42,793 2.63 +0.94 0 ±0
Animalist Party Against Mistreatment of Animals (PACMA) 8,226 0.50 –0.09 0 ±0
Union, Progress and Democracy (UPyD) 1,642 0.10 –1.73 0 ±0
More With You (CNTG+) 1,514 0.09 New 0 ±0
Castilian PartyCommoners' Land: Pact (PCAS–TC–PPCCAL–Pacto) 1,477 0.09 +0.06 0 ±0
For a Fairer World (PUM+J) 1,183 0.07 New 0 ±0
Spanish Phalanx of the CNSO (FE–JONS) 774 0.05 –0.08 0 ±0
Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain (PCPE) 741 0.05 –0.03 0 ±0
Humanist Party (PH) 601 0.04 –0.02 0 ±0
Intelligent Madrid (MI) 597 0.04 New 0 ±0
Communist Party of the Workers of Spain (PCTE) 591 0.04 New 0 ±0
Libertarian Party (P–LIB) 476 0.03 –0.01 0 ±0
Spanish Catholic Movement (MCE) 313 0.02 New 0 ±0
Union for Leganés (ULEG) 164 0.01 –0.01 0 ±0
Blank ballots 6,945 0.43 –0.54
Total 1,630,124 57 ±0
Valid votes 1,630,124 99.64 +0.37
Invalid votes 5,839 0.36 –0.37
Votes cast / turnout 1,635,963 68.23 –0.67
Abstentions 761,918 31.77 +0.67
Registered voters 2,397,881
Sources[17][18]
Footnotes:
Popular vote
Más Madrid
30.99%
PP
24.25%
Cs
19.17%
PSOE
13.75%
Vox
7.67%
IU–MpM
2.63%
Others
1.12%
Blank ballots
0.43%
Seats
Más Madrid
33.33%
PP
26.32%
Cs
19.30%
PSOE
14.04%
Vox
7.02%

Aftermath

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Investiture
Ballot → 15 June 2019
Required majority → 29 out of 57
  • PP (15)
  • Cs (11)
  • Vox (4)
30 / 57
checkY
19 / 57
☒N
8 / 57
☒N
Blank ballots
0 / 57
Absentees
0 / 57
Sources[19]

Notes

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  1. ^ a b Results for Ahora Madrid in the 2015 election.
  2. ^ Results for IUCMLV in the 2015 election.
  3. ^ a b c d Within Unidas Podemos.
  4. ^ a b c d e f Within Más Madrid.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab Within Ahora Madrid.

References

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