Valencia City Council election, 1999

Valencia City Council election, 1999
13 June 1999
All 33 seats in the City Council of Valencia
17 seats needed for a majority
Registered 643,516 2.5%
Turnout 403,583 (62.7%)
10.4 pp

  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Rita Barberá Ana Noguera Antonio Montalbán
Party PP PSOE EUPV
Leader since 1991 27 June 1998 19 December 1998
Last election 17 seats, 49.0% 8 seats, 24.1% 5 seats, 14.8%
Seats won 20 11 2
Seat change 3 3 3
Popular vote 214,129 116,437 25,602
Percentage 53.2% 29.0% 6.4%
Swing 4.2 pp 4.9 pp 8.4 pp
District results map for the City Council of Valencia
Mayor before election

Rita Barberá
PP

 Elected Mayor

Rita Barberá
PP

The 1999 Valencia City Council election, also the 1999 Valencia municipal election, was held on Sunday, 13 June 1999, to elect the 6th City Council of the municipality of Valencia. 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, as well as the 1999 European Parliament election.

Electoral system

The City Council of Valencia (Valencian: Ajuntament de Valencia, Spanish: Ayuntamiento de Valencia) was the top-tier administrative and governing body of the municipality of Valencia, 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 Valencia 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 Valencia, 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 13 June 1999 City Council of Valencia election results →
Parties and coalitions Popular vote Seats
Votes % ±pp Total +/−
People's Party (PP) 214,12953.25+4.25 20+3
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) 116,43728.95+4.87 11+3
United Left of the Valencian Country (EUPV) 25,6026.37–8.41 2–3
Valencian Union (UV) 19,0704.74–4.23 0–3
Valencian Nationalist Bloc–The Greens (BNV–EV)1 12,8973.21+2.27 0±0
Valencian Community Alternative (ACV) 3,3890.84New 0±0
Unemployed and Marginalized General Union (UGDM) 5970.15New 0±0
Centrist Union–Democratic and Social Centre (UC–CDS) 5720.14–0.22 0±0
Spanish Phalanx of the CNSO (FE–JONS) 4980.12New 0±0
Federal Republican Left–Federal Republican Party (IRF–PRF) 4760.12New 0±0
Valencian Nationalist Left (ENV) 4320.11±0.00 0±0
Humanist Party (PH) 3640.09+0.01 0±0
Spanish Autonomous League (LAE) 2250.06+0.01 0±0
Blank ballots 7,4431.85+0.67
Total 402,131 33±0
Valid votes 402,13199.64–0.01
Invalid votes 1,4520.36+0.01
Votes cast / turnout 403,58362.72–10.34
Abstentions 239,93337.28+10.34
Registered voters 643,516
Sources[4][5][6][7]
Popular vote
PP
 
 53.25%
PSOE
 
 28.95%
EUPV
 
 6.37%
UV
 
 4.74%
BNV–EV
 
 3.21%
Others
 
 1.63%
Blank ballots
 
 1.85%
Seats
PP
 
 60.61%
PSOE
 
 33.33%
EUPV
 
 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, 13 June 1999" (PDF). juntaelectoralcentral.es (in Spanish). Central Electoral Commission. Retrieved 16 February 2018.
  5. ↑ "Municipal Elections. Valencia" (PDF). valencia.es (in Spanish). City Council of Valencia. Retrieved 5 December 2017.
  6. ↑ "Electoral Results Consultation. Municipal. June 1999. Valencia Municipality". infoelectoral.mir.es (in Spanish). Ministry of the Interior. Retrieved 12 November 2017.
  7. ↑ "Municipal elections in Valencia since 1979". historiaelectoral.com (in Spanish). Electoral History. Retrieved 30 September 2017.
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