Madrid City Council election, 1999
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1,494,090 (60.1%) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1999 Madrid City Council election, also the 1999 Madrid municipal election, was held on Sunday, 13 June 1999, to elect the 6th City Council of the municipality of Madrid. All 53 seats in the City Council were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with regional elections in thirteen autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain, as well as the 1999 European Parliament election.
The People's Party (PP) won an absolute majority of seats for a third consecutive time, but, for the first time since the 1987 election the party lost votes and seats. The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) maintained its second place but reverted the decline it had been suffering since 1983. PSOE gains came at the expense of United Left (IU), which lost nearly half of its votes and seats.
As a result, José María Álvarez del Manzano was elected as Mayor of Madrid for a third term in office.
Electoral system
The City Council of Madrid (Spanish: Ayuntamiento de Madrid) was the top-tier administrative and governing body of the municipality of Madrid, composed of the mayor, the government council and the elected plenary assembly. Voting for the local assembly was on the basis of universal suffrage, which comprised all nationals over eighteen, registered in the municipality of Madrid and in full enjoyment of their political rights, as well as resident non-national European citizens and those whose country of origin allowed Spanish nationals to vote in their own elections by virtue of a treaty.[1][2][3]
Local councillors were elected using the D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional representation, with a threshold of 5 percent of valid votes—which included blank ballots—being applied. Parties not reaching the threshold were not taken into consideration for seat distribution.[1][2][3] Councillors were allocated to municipal councils based on the following scale:
| Population | Councillors |
|---|---|
| <250 | 5 |
| 251–1,000 | 7 |
| 1,001–2,000 | 9 |
| 2,001–5,000 | 11 |
| 5,001–10,000 | 13 |
| 10,001–20,000 | 17 |
| 20,001–50,000 | 21 |
| 50,001–100,000 | 25 |
| >100,001 | +1 per each 100,000 inhabitants or fraction +1 if total is an even number |
The mayor was indirectly elected by the plenary assembly. A legal clause required that mayoral candidates earned the vote of an absolute majority of councillors, or else the candidate of the most-voted party in the assembly was to be automatically appointed to the post. In case of a tie, a toss-up would determine the appointee.[3]
The electoral law provided that parties, federations, coalitions and groupings of electors were allowed to present lists of candidates. However, groupings of electors were required to secure the signature of a determined amount of the electors registered in the municipality for which they sought election. For the case of Madrid, as its population was over 1,000,001, at least 8,000 signatures were required. Electors were barred from signing for more than one list of candidates. Concurrently, parties and federations intending to enter in coalition to take part jointly at an election were required to inform the relevant Electoral Commission within ten days of the election being called.[1][2]
Results
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| Parties and coalitions | Popular vote | Seats | ||||
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| Votes | % | ±pp | Total | +/− | ||
| People's Party (PP) | 734,921 | 49.48 | –3.23 | 28 | –2 | |
| Spanish Socialist Workers' Party–Progressives (PSOE–p) | 534,700 | 36.00 | +8.16 | 20 | +4 | |
| United Left (IU) | 128,731 | 8.67 | –6.89 | 5 | –4 | |
| The Greens (LV) | 10,462 | 0.70 | New | 0 | ±0 | |
| The Greens–Green Group (LV–GV) | 8,974 | 0.60 | –0.13 | 0 | ±0 | |
| Centrist Union–Democratic and Social Centre (UC–CDS) | 6,653 | 0.45 | New | 0 | ±0 | |
| Alliance for National Unity (AUN) | 3,500 | 0.24 | New | 0 | ±0 | |
| Union Community of Madrid (UCMA) | 2,658 | 0.18 | New | 0 | ±0 | |
| Humanist Party (PH) | 1,906 | 0.13 | +0.05 | 0 | ±0 | |
| Madrilenian Independent Regional Party (PRIM) | 1,695 | 0.11 | –0.01 | 0 | ±0 | |
| The Phalanx (FE) | 1,580 | 0.11 | New | 0 | ±0 | |
| Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain (PCPE) | 1,488 | 0.10 | New | 0 | ±0 | |
| Independent Spanish Phalanx (FEI) | 1,208 | 0.08 | +0.05 | 0 | ±0 | |
| Natural Law Party (PLN) | 1,188 | 0.08 | New | 0 | ±0 | |
| Commoners' Land–Castilian Nationalist Party (TC–PNC) | 1,099 | 0.07 | New | 0 | ±0 | |
| Republican Action (AR) | 860 | 0.06 | New | 0 | ±0 | |
| Spanish Democratic Party (PADE) | 790 | 0.05 | New | 0 | ±0 | |
| Blank ballots | 43,021 | 2.90 | +1.15 | |||
| Total | 1,485,434 | 53 | –2 | |||
| Valid votes | 1,485,434 | 99.42 | –0.18 | |||
| Invalid votes | 8,656 | 0.58 | +0.18 | |||
| Votes cast / turnout | 1,494,090 | 60.06 | –11.15 | |||
| Abstentions | 993,652 | 39.94 | +11.15 | |||
| Registered voters | 2,487,742 | |||||
| Sources[4][5][6][7] | ||||||
References
- 1 2 3 "General Electoral System Organic Law of 1985". Organic Law No. 5 of 19 June 1985. Official State Gazette (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 December 2016.
- 1 2 3 "Representation of the people Institutional Act". juntaelectoralcentral.es. Central Electoral Commission. Retrieved 16 June 2017.
- 1 2 3 "Regulation of the Basis of Local Regimes Law of 1985". Law No. 7 of 2 April 1985. Official State Gazette (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 August 2017.
- ↑ "Local election results, 13 June 1999" (PDF). juntaelectoralcentral.es (in Spanish). Central Electoral Commission. Retrieved 16 February 2018.
- ↑ "1991-2003 Municipal Elections. Madrid" (PDF). madrid.es (in Spanish). City Council of Madrid. Retrieved 5 December 2017.
- ↑ "Electoral Results Consultation. Municipal. June 1999. Madrid Municipality". infoelectoral.mir.es (in Spanish). Ministry of the Interior. Retrieved 12 November 2017.
- ↑ "Municipal elections in Madrid since 1979". historiaelectoral.com (in Spanish). Electoral History. Retrieved 30 September 2017.