Seville City Council election, 2011

Seville City Council election, 2011
22 May 2011
All 33 seats in the City Council of Seville
17 seats needed for a majority
Registered 546,944 3.3%
Turnout 343,098 (62.7%)
8.1 pp

  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Juan Ignacio Zoido Juan Espadas Antonio Rodrigo
Party PP PSOE–A IULV–CA
Leader since 28 June 2006 24 May 2010 2007
Last election 15 seats, 41.8% 15 seats, 40.5% 3 seats, 8.4%
Seats won 20 11 2
Seat change 5 4 1
Popular vote 166,040 99,168 24,066
Percentage 49.3% 29.5% 7.1%
Swing 7.5 pp 11.0 pp 1.3 pp
Mayor before election

Alfredo Sánchez Monteseirín
PSOE–A

 Elected Mayor

Juan Ignacio Zoido
PP

The 2011 Seville City Council election, also the 2011 Seville municipal election, was held on Sunday, 22 May 2011, to elect the 9th City Council of the municipality of Seville. All 33 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.

Electoral system

The City Council of Seville (Spanish: Ayuntamiento de Sevilla) was the top-tier administrative and governing body of the municipality of Seville, 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 and residing in the municipality of Seville 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
<100 3
101–250 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 Seville, as its population was between 300,001 and 1,000,000, at least 5,000 signatures were required. 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

← Summary of the 22 May 2011 City Council of Seville election results →
Parties and coalitions Popular vote Seats
Votes % ±pp Total +/−
People's Party (PP) 166,04049.31+7.47 20+5
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party of Andalusia (PSOE–A) 99,16829.45–11.01 11–4
United Left/The Greens–Assembly for Andalusia (IULV–CA) 24,0667.15–1.22 2–1
Andalusian Party–Andalusian Plural Space (PA–EPAnd)1 16,0974.78–0.43 0±0
Union, Progress and Democracy (UPyD) 10,9453.25New 0±0
The Greens–Ecological Andalusia (LV–AE) 4,0631.21+0.17 0±0
Citizens for Blank Votes (CenB) 2,0620.61New 0±0
Anti-Bullfighting Party Against Mistreatment of Animals (PACMA) 1,3980.42+0.18 0±0
For a Fairer World (PUM+J) 1,0510.31+0.14 0±0
Humanist Party (PH) 4120.12+0.05 0±0
Group of Independent Citizens (GCI) 4060.12–0.05 0±0
Free and Efficient Election (ele) 3390.10New 0±0
Democratic Majority (MD) 3260.10New 0±0
Internationalist Solidarity and Self-Management (SAIn) 3000.09–0.08 0±0
Spanish Phalanx of the CNSO (FE–JONS) 2580.08–0.01 0±0
National Democracy (DN) 2370.07New 0±0
Andalusian Popular Unity (UPAN) 2040.06New 0±0
Blank ballots 9,3462.78+0.79
Total 336,718 33±0
Valid votes 336,71898.14–1.47
Invalid votes 6,3801.86+1.47
Votes cast / turnout 343,09862.73+8.12
Abstentions 203,84637.27–8.12
Registered voters 546,944
Sources[4][5][6]
Popular vote
PP
 
 49.31%
PSOE–A
 
 29.45%
IULV–CA
 
 7.15%
PA–EPAnd
 
 4.78%
UPyD
 
 3.25%
LV–AE
 
 1.21%
Others
 
 2.08%
Blank ballots
 
 2.78%
Seats
PP
 
 60.61%
PSOE–A
 
 33.33%
IULV–CA
 
 6.06%

References

  1. 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.
  2. 1 2 3 "Representation of the people Institutional Act". juntaelectoralcentral.es. Central Electoral Commission. Retrieved 16 June 2017.
  3. 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.
  4. ↑ "Local election results, 22 May 2011, in Salamanca, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Segovia, Seville, Soria, Tarragona, Teruel, Toledo, Valencia, Valladolid, Biscay, Zamora, Zaragoza, Ceuta and Melilla provinces" (PDF). juntaelectoralcentral.es (in Spanish). Central Electoral Commission. Retrieved 16 February 2018.
  5. ↑ "Electoral Results Consultation. Municipal. May 2011. Seville Municipality". infoelectoral.mir.es (in Spanish). Ministry of the Interior. Retrieved 12 November 2017.
  6. ↑ "Municipal elections in Seville since 1979". historiaelectoral.com (in Spanish). Electoral History. Retrieved 30 September 2017.
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