Madrid City Council election, 1995

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28 May 1995

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All 55 seats in the Madrid City Council
28 seats needed for a majority

Registered

2,529,476

0.2%

Turnout

1,801,310 (71.2%)

12.1 pp

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	José María Álvarez del Manzano	Juan Barranco	Francisco Herrera
Party	PP	PSOE	IU
Leader since	10 October 1986	19 January 1986	7 June 1990
Leader's seat	Madrid	Madrid	Madrid
Last election	30 seats, 47.2%	21 seats, 34.3%	6 seats, 9.6%
Seats won	30	16	9
Seat change	0	5	3
Popular vote	945,634	499,435	279,090
Percentage	52.7%	27.8%	15.6%
Swing	5.5 pp	6.5 pp	6.0 pp

Mayor before election

José María Álvarez del Manzano
PP

Elected Mayor

José María Álvarez del Manzano
PP

The 1995 Madrid City Council election was held on Sunday, 28 May 1995, to elect the city council of the municipality of Madrid. All 55 seats in the City Council were up for election.

People's Party (PP) incumbent José María Álvarez del Manzano again won an absolute majority of seats, improving his position relative to others as he obtained nearly 250,000 votes more than four years before. In contrast, the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) plummeted to one of its worst historical results, obtaining only 16 seats, to the benefit of United Left (IU) which scored its best result to date. Turnout was one of the highest in the history of the city, at 71.2%.

The number of seats in the Madrid City Council was determined by the population count. According to the municipal electoral law, the population-seat relationship on each municipality was to be established on the following scale:

Additionally, for populations greater than 100,000, 1 seat was to be added per each 100,000 inhabitants or fraction, according to the most updated census data, and adding 1 more seat if the resulting seat count gives an even number. As the updated population census for the 1995 election was 3,041,101, the Madrid City Council size was set to 55 seats.

All City Council members were elected in a single multi-member district, consisting of the Madrid municipality, using the D'Hondt method and a closed-list proportional representation system. Voting was on the basis of universal suffrage in a secret ballot. Only lists polling above 5% of valid votes in all of the municipality (which include blank ballots—for none of the above) were entitled to enter the seat distribution.

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