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Spanish municipal elections, 2015

Spanish local elections, 2015
Spain
← 2011 24 May 2015 2019 →

67,515 seats in 8,122 local councils
1,040 seats in 38 provincial deputations
153 seats in 3 Juntas Generales in the Basque Country
155 seats in 7 cabildos in the Canary Islands
Opinion polls
Registered 35,099,122 Green Arrow Up Darker.svg1.1%
Turnout 22,781,766 (64.9%)
Red Arrow Down.svg1.3 pp
  First party Second party Third party
  Mariano Rajoy 2015e (cropped).jpg Pedro Sánchez 2016 (cropped).jpg Artur Mas 2015 (cropped).jpg
Leader Mariano Rajoy Pedro Sánchez Artur Mas
Party PP PSOE CiU
Leader since 2 September 2003 26 July 2014 7 January 2002
Last election 26,507 seats, 37.5% 21,766 seats, 27.8% 3,867 seats, 3.5%
Seats won 22,744 20,858 3,336
Seat change Red Arrow Down.svg3,763 Red Arrow Down.svg908 Red Arrow Down.svg531
Popular vote 6,070,176 5,613,733 669,781
Percentage 27.1% 25.0% 3.0%
Swing Red Arrow Down.svg10.4 pp Red Arrow Down.svg2.8 pp Red Arrow Down.svg0.5 pp

  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
  Oriol Junqueras 2016 (cropped).jpg CayoLaraIU2.jpg Albert Rivera 2016a (cropped).jpg
Leader Oriol Junqueras Cayo Lara Albert Rivera
Party ERC IU C's
Leader since 17 September 2011 14 December 2008 9 July 2006
Last election 1,392 seats, 1.2% 2,249 seats, 6.4% 7 seats, 0.2%
Seats won 2,387 2,022 1,516
Seat change Green Arrow Up Darker.svg995 Red Arrow Down.svg227 Green Arrow Up Darker.svg1,509
Popular vote 513,529 1,089,300 1,469,875
Percentage 2.3% 4.9% 6.6%
Swing Green Arrow Up Darker.svg1.1 pp Red Arrow Down.svg1.5 pp Green Arrow Up Darker.svg6.4 pp

The 2015 Spanish local elections were held on Sunday, 24 May 2015, throughout all 8,122 Spain municipalities, simultaneously with regional elections in 13 of the 17 autonomous communities—all except for Andalusia, the Basque Country, Catalonia, and Galicia. All 67,515 councillors were up for election, as well as 153 seats of the 3 Basque Juntas Generales, 153 seats of the 7 Canarian cabildos and the indirectly-elected 1,040 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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