Madrid City Council election, 2011

2007 ←

22 May 2011

→ 2015

All 57 seats in the Madrid City Council 29 seats needed for a majority

Registered	2,308,360 4.0%
Turnout	1,551,613 (67.2%) 1.3 pp
	First party	Second party

Leader	Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón	Jaime Lissavetsky
Party	PP	PSM–PSOE
Leader since	16 October 2002	3 October 2010
Last election	34 seats, 55.6%	18 seats, 30.9%
Seats won	31	15
Seat change	3	3
Popular vote	756,952	364,600
Percentage	49.7%	23.9%
Swing	5.9 pp	7.0 pp

	Third party	Fourth party

Leader	Ángel Pérez	David Ortega
Party	IU	UPyD
Leader since	26 January 2007	9 October 2010
Last election	5 seats, 8.7%	Did not contest
Seats won	6	5
Seat change	1	5
Popular vote	163,706	119,601
Percentage	10.7%	7.9%
Swing	2.0 pp	New party

Mayor before election

Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón
PP

Elected Mayor

Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón
PP

The 2011 Madrid City Council election was held on Sunday, 22 May 2011, to elect the 9th Madrid City Council, the unicameral local legislature of the municipality of Madrid. At stake were all 57 seats in the City Council, determining the Mayor of Madrid.

The People's Party (PP) won its 6th consecutive absolute majority of seats in the City Council, albeit with a diminished voter base, suffering its worst loss of support in the city up until that time (120,000 votes, 6 percentage points and 3 seats were lost from 2007). Only the collapse of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) vote, which obtained the worst result of its history as a result of the criticised José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero's premiership in the national government, was larger. United Left (IU) benefitted from the PSOE debacle, while newly founded Union, Progress and Democracy (UPyD) attracted votes from sectors disenchanted with both PSOE and PP and entered the City Council in the first election in which they stood.

Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón, who was re-elected for a third term in office, left the mayoralty in late 2011 to become Justice Minister, after his party won the 2011 general election and Mariano Rajoy was elected Prime Minister. He was succeeded as mayor by Ana Botella.

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