Madrid City Council election, 2015

Madrid City Council election, 2015

2011 ← 24 May 2015 → 2019

All 57 seats in the Madrid City Council 29 seats needed for a majority Opinion polls Registered 2,386,104 3.4% Turnout 1,642,898 (68.9%) 1.7 pp   First party Second party Third party   Leader Esperanza Aguirre Manuela Carmena Antonio Miguel Carmona Party PP Ahora Madrid PSM–PSOE Leader since 6 March 2015 30 March 2015 6 October 2014 Last election 31 seats, 49.7% Did not contest 15 seats, 23.9% Seats won 21 20 9 Seat change 10 20 6 Popular vote 563,292 519,210 249,152 Percentage 34.6% 31.8% 15.3% Swing 15.1 pp New party 8.6 pp   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Begoña Villacís David Ortega Raquel López Party Cs UPyD IU Leader since 2 March 2015 9 October 2010 26 March 2015 Last election 0 seats, 0.2% 5 seats, 7.9% 6 seats, 10.7% Seats won 7 0 0 Seat change 7 5 6 Popular vote 186,059 29,823 27,869 Percentage 11.4% 1.8% 1.7% Swing 11.2 pp 6.1 pp 9.0 pp

Mayor before election Ana Botella PP Elected Mayor Manuela Carmena Ahora Madrid

Ana Botella
PP

Manuela Carmena
Ahora Madrid

The 2015 Madrid City Council election was held on Sunday, 24 May 2015, to elect the 10th 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.

Standing for the People's Party (PP) was Esperanza Aguirre, former President of Madrid (2003–2012), President of the Spanish Senate (1999–2002) and Minister of Education and Culture (1996–1999), as well as the leader of the PP Madrilenian regional branch since 2004. Aguirre became her party's candidate in March 2015 after a 6-month interlude without a Mayoral candidate, starting in September 2014 when incumbent Mayor Ana Botella declined to stand for re-election. The election would result in the first city's female Mayor being elected after contesting an election as candidate. Ana Botella, the city's first-ever female mayor, had not been the PP candidate for the 2011 election, and had only been elected to the office after Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón's resignation on December 2011.

The election was an unexpectedly close race between Aguirre's PP and former judge Manuela Carmena's Podemos-supported Ahora Madrid platform, obtaining 21 and 20 council seats each. This was a blow to Esperanza Aguirre's expectations of becoming the city's Mayor, as an alliance between Ahora Madrid and the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), which itself suffered from tactical voting to Ahora Madrid and plummeted to 9 council seats, allowed Carmena to become the first non-PP mayor in 24 years.

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