Spanish municipal elections, 2015

Spanish local elections, 2015

← 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 1.1%
Turnout	22,781,766 (64.9%) 1.3 pp
First party Second party Third party   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 3,763 908 531 Popular vote 6,070,176 5,613,733 669,781 Percentage 27.1% 25.0% 3.0% Swing 10.4 pp 2.8 pp 0.5 pp   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   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 995 227 1,509 Popular vote 513,529 1,089,300 1,469,875 Percentage 2.3% 4.9% 6.6% Swing 1.1 pp 1.5 pp 6.4 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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