Spanish municipal elections, 1995

Spanish local elections, 1995

1991 ← 28 May 1995 → 1999

65,869 seats in 8,092 local councils 1,034 seats in 38 provincial deputations 153 seats in 3 Juntas Generales in the Basque Country 139 seats in 7 cabildos in the Canary Islands 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, throughout all 8,092 Spain municipalities, simultaneously with regional elections in 13 of the 17 autonomous communities—all except for Andalusia, the Basque Country, Catalonia, and Galicia. All 65,869 councillors were up for election, as well as 153 seats of the 3 Basque Juntas Generales, 139 seats of the 7 Canarian cabildos and the indirectly-elected 1,034 seats of the 38 provincial deputations.

The number of seats in each city council was determined by the population count. According to the municipal electoral law, the population-seat relationship on each municipality was to be established on the following scale:

Additionally, for populations greater than 100,000, 1 seat was to be added per each 100,000 inhabitants or fraction, according to the most updated census data, and adding 1 more seat if the resulting seat count gives an even number.

All city council members were elected in single multi-member districts, consisting of the municipality's territory, using the D'Hondt method and a closed-list proportional representation system. Voting was on the basis of universal suffrage in a secret ballot. Only lists polling above 5% of valid votes in all of the municipality (which include blank ballots—for none of the above) were entitled to enter the seat distribution.

The Spanish municipal electoral law established a clause stating that, if no candidate was to gather an absolute majority of votes to be elected as mayor of a municipality, the candidate of the most-voted party would be automatically elected to the post.

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