Madrid municipal election, 1995

Madrid City Council election, 1995

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28 May 1995

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

Registered

2,529,476

0.2%

Turnout

1,801,310 (71.2%)

12.0 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
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, also the 1995 Madrid municipal election, was held on Sunday, 28 May 1995, to elect the 5th City Council of the municipality of Madrid. All 55 seats in the City Council were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with regional elections in thirteen autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain.

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 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. Voting for the local assembly was on the basis of universal suffrage, which comprised all nationals over eighteen, registered in the municipality of Madrid and in full enjoyment of their political rights, as well as resident non-nationals whose country of origin allowed Spanish nationals to vote in their own elections by virtue of a treaty.

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