Spanish local elections, 2011

Spanish local elections, 2011

← 2007 22 May 2011 2015 →
68,230 seats in 8,116 local councils 1,040 seats in 38 provincial deputations 153 seats in 3 Juntas Generales in the Basque Country 157 seats in 7 cabildos in the Canary Islands
Registered	34,713,813 1.3%
Turnout	22,968,281 (66.2%) 2.2 pp
First party Second party Third party   Leader Mariano Rajoy José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero Artur Mas Party PP PSOE CiU Leader since 2 September 2003 22 July 2000 7 January 2002 Last election 23,348 seats, 35.6% 24,029 seats, 34.9% 3,387 seats, 3.3% Seats won 26,507 21,766 3,867 Seat change 3,159 2,263 480 Popular vote 8,476,138 6,275,314 779,188 Percentage 37.5% 27.8% 3.5% Swing 1.9 pp 7.1 pp 0.2 pp   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Cayo Lara Joan Puigcercós Pello Urizar Party IU ERC Bildu Leader since 14 December 2008 7 June 2008 3 April 2011 Last election 2,034 seats, 5.5% 1,591 seats, 1.6% 778 seats, 1.1% Seats won 2,249 1,392 1,139 Seat change 215 199 361 Popular vote 1,437,061 271,503 313,238 Percentage 6.4% 1.2% 1.4% Swing 0.9 pp 0.9 pp 0.3 pp

The 2011 Spanish local elections were held on Sunday, 22 May in Spain, throughout all 8,116 Spain municipalities, simultaneously with regional elections in 13 of the 17 autonomous communities—all except for Andalusia, the Basque Country, Catalonia, and Galicia. All 68,230 councillors were up for election, as well as 153 seats of the 3 Basque Juntas Generales, 157 seats of the 7 Canarian cabildos, 60 seats of the 4 Balearic consells and the indirectly-elected 1,040 seats of the 38 provincial deputations.

The days before the elections were marked by the 2011 Spanish protests which had been held in different cities across Spain since 15 May. The elections resulted in a landslide victory for the opposition People's Party (PP) and other centre-right parties, which won control of all of Spain's largest cities. In Barcelona, held by PSOE-sister party, the Socialists' Party of Catalonia (PSC), since the first local elections in 1979, was won for the first time by the nationalist Convergence and Union (CiU), which also won in Girona. The PSOE only won only in 5 out of Spain's 50 provincial capitals. In the popular vote, it scored its worst result in nationwide-held local elections, with a mere 27.8%, 10 points behind the PP, which obtained 37.5%.

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