Valencia City Council election, 2003

Valencia City Council election, 2003
25 May 2003
All 33 seats in the City Council of Valencia
17 seats needed for a majority
Registered 631,225 1.9%
Turnout 432,366 (68.5%)
5.8 pp

  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Rita Barberá Rafael Rubio Antonio Montalbán
Party PP PSPV–PSOE Entesa
Leader since 1991 25 November 2000 19 December 1998
Last election 20 seats, 53.2% 11 seats, 29.0% 2 seats, 6.4%
Seats won 19 12 2
Seat change 1 1 0
Popular vote 220,548 132,903 31,519
Percentage 51.2% 30.8% 7.3%
Swing 2.0 pp 1.8 pp 0.9 pp
District results map for the City Council of Valencia
Mayor before election

Rita Barberá
PP

 Elected Mayor

Rita Barberá
PP

The 2003 Valencia City Council election, also the 2003 Valencia municipal election, was held on Sunday, 25 May 2003, to elect the 7th 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.

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 25 May 2003 City Council of Valencia election results →
Parties and coalitions Popular vote Seats
Votes % ±pp Total +/−
People's Party (PP) 220,54851.15–2.10 19–1
Socialist Party of the Valencian Country (PSPV–PSOE) 132,90330.82+1.87 12+1
United Left–Valencian Left: Agreement (Entesa) 31,5197.31+0.94 2±0
Valencian Union (UV) 15,5933.62–1.12 0±0
Valencian Nationalist Bloc–Green Left (Bloc–EV) 11,2012.60–0.61 0±0
Cannabis Party for Legalisation and Normalisation (PCLyN) 4,1770.97New 0±0
The Greens of the Valencian Country (EV–LV) 3,3690.78New 0±0
Spain 2000 (E–2000) 8190.19New 0±0
Family and Life Party (PFyV) 7320.17New 0±0
Republican Left of the Valencian Country–Municipal Agreement (ERPV–AM) 6920.16New 0±0
Alternative Citizen Initiative (ICAL) 5320.12New 0±0
Regional Party of the Valencian Community (PRCV) 5090.12New 0±0
Democratic and Social Centre (CDS) 4610.11–0.03 0±0
Federal Republican Party (PRF) 4410.10–0.02 0±0
Internationalist Socialist Workers' Party (POSI) 3540.08New 0±0
Humanist Party (PH) 3000.07–0.02 0±0
Blank ballots 7,0071.63–0.22
Total 431,157 33±0
Valid votes 431,15799.72+0.08
Invalid votes 1,2090.28–0.08
Votes cast / turnout 432,36668.50+5.78
Abstentions 198,85931.50–5.78
Registered voters 631,225
Sources[4][5][6][7]
Popular vote
PP
 
 51.15%
PSPV–PSOE
 
 30.82%
Entesa
 
 7.31%
UV
 
 3.62%
Bloc–EV
 
 2.60%
Others
 
 2.87%
Blank ballots
 
 1.63%
Seats
PP
 
 57.58%
PSPV–PSOE
 
 36.36%
Entesa
 
 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, 25 May 2003" (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. May 2003. 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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