Spanish local elections, 1995

Spanish local elections, 1995

← 1991 28 May 1995 1999 →
65,869 councillors in 8,067 municipal councils 1,034 seats in 38 provincial deputations
Registered	31,953,812 5.7%
Turnout	22,324,852 (69.9%) 7.1 pp
First party Second party Third party   Leader José María Aznar Felipe González Jordi Pujol Party PP PSOE CiU Leader since 4 September 1989 13 October 1974 19 September 1978 Last election 19,298 seats, 25.3% 25,260 seats, 38.3% 4,360 seats, 4.9% Seats won 24,772 21,189 4,240 Seat change 5,474 4,071 120 Popular vote 7,820,392 6,838,607 973,498 Percentage 35.3% 30.8% 4.4% Swing 10.0 pp 7.5 pp 0.5 pp   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Julio Anguita José María Mur Xabier Arzalluz Party IU PAR EAJ/PNV Leader since 12 February 1989 3 August 1987 18 January 1985 Last election 2,614 seats, 8.4% 1,115 seats, 0.7% 993 seats, 1.6% Seats won 3,493 1,050 1,015 Seat change 879 65 22 Popular vote 2,589,780 116,447 313,318 Percentage 11.7% 0.5% 1.4% Swing 3.3 pp 0.2 pp 0.2 pp

The 1995 Spanish local elections were held on Sunday, 28 May 1995, to elect all 65,869 councillors in the 8,067 municipalities of Spain and all 1,034 seats in 38 provincial deputations. The elections were held simultaneously with regional elections in thirteen autonomous communities, as well as local elections in the three foral deputations of the Basque Country and the ten island councils in the Balearic and Canary Islands.

Municipalities in Spain were local corporations with independent legal personality. They had a governing body, the municipal council or corporation, composed of a mayor, deputy mayors and a plenary assembly of councillors. Voting for the local assemblies was on the basis of universal suffrage, with all nationals over eighteen, registered in the corresponding municipality and in full enjoyment of all political rights entitled to vote. The mayor was in turn elected by the plenary assembly, with a legal clause providing for the candidate of the most-voted party to be automatically elected to the post in the event no other candidate was to gather an absolute majority of votes.

Local councillors were elected using the D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional representation, with a threshold of 5 per 100 of valid votes—which included blank ballots—being applied in each local council. Parties not reaching the threshold were not taken into consideration for seat distribution. Councillors were allocated to municipal councils based on the following scale:

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