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Spanish local elections, 2019

Spanish local elections, 2019

← 2015 26 May 2019

All councillors in municipal councils
All seats in 38 provincial deputations
Opinion polls
  Pedro Sánchez 2018f (cropped).jpg Pablo Iglesias 2018 (cropped).jpg
Leader To be determined Pedro Sánchez Pablo Iglesias
Party PP PSOEPSC Unidas PodemosIUeQuo
Leader since 18 June 2017 15 November 2014
Last election 22,750 c., 27.0% 20,818 c., 25.0% 3,667 c., 14.2%

  Albert Rivera 2017c (cropped).jpg Neus Munté 2016 (cropped).jpg Oriol Junqueras 2016b (cropped).jpg
Leader Albert Rivera Neus Munté Oriol Junqueras
Party Cs JuntsxCat ERC
Leader since 9 July 2006 9 January 2018 17 September 2011
Last election 1,527 c., 6.6% 3,358 c., 3.0% 2,388 c., 2.3%

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Provincial results map for municipal elections

The 2019 Spanish local elections will be held on Sunday, 26 May 2019, to elect all councillors in the municipalities of Spain and all seats in 38 provincial deputations. The elections will be held simultaneously with regional elections in thirteen autonomous communities, as well as local elections in the three foral deputations of the Basque Country, the ten island councils in the Balearic and Canary Islands and the 2019 European Parliament election.

Municipalities in Spain are local corporations with independent legal personality. They have 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 is 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 is 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 is to gather an absolute majority of votes.

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


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