2019 Madrid City Council election

The 2019 Madrid City Council election, also the 2019 Madrid municipal election, was held on Sunday, 26 May 2019, to elect the 11th City Council of the municipality of Madrid. All 57 seats in the City Council were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with regional elections in twelve autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain, as well as the 2019 European Parliament election.

2019 Madrid City Council election

26 May 2019

All 57 seats in the City Council of Madrid
29 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered2,397,881 0.5%
Turnout1,635,963 (68.2%)
0.7 pp
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Manuela Carmena José Luis Martínez-Almeida Begoña Villacís
Party Más Madrid PP Cs
Leader since 30 March 2015 28 April 2017 2 March 2015
Last election 20 seats, 31.8%[lower-alpha 1] 21 seats, 34.6% 7 seats, 11.4%
Seats won 19 15 11
Seat change 1 6 4
Popular vote 505,159 395,344 312,536
Percentage 31.0% 24.3% 19.2%
Swing 0.8 pp 10.3 pp 7.8 pp

  Fourth party Fifth party
 
Leader Pepu Hernández Javier Ortega Smith
Party PSOE Vox
Leader since 9 March 2019 18 April 2019
Last election 9 seats, 15.3% 0 seats, 0.6%
Seats won 8 4
Seat change 1 4
Popular vote 224,074 124,969
Percentage 13.7% 7.7%
Swing 1.6 pp 7.1 pp

Results by percentage of most voted party by district

Mayor before election

Manuela Carmena
Más Madrid

Elected Mayor

José Luis Martínez-Almeida
PP

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 and residing 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 in each local council. Parties not reaching the threshold were not taken into consideration for seat distribution.[1][2][3] Councillors are 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 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]

Parties and alliances

Below is a list of the main parties and electoral alliances which contested the election:

Candidacy Parties and
alliances
Leading candidate Ideology Previous result Gov. Ref.
Votes (%) Seats
PP José Luis Martínez-Almeida Conservatism
Christian democracy
34.57% 21 N [4]
Más Madrid Manuela Carmena Direct democracy
Green politics
31.84%[lower-alpha 1] 20 Y [5]
[6]
PSOE Pepu Hernández Social democracy 15.27% 9 N [7]
Cs Begoña Villacís Liberalism 11.43% 7 N [8]
IU–MpM Carlos Sánchez Mato Anti-capitalism
Communism
1.69%[lower-alpha 2] 0 N [9]
[10]
Vox Javier Ortega Smith Right-wing populism
Ultranationalism
National conservatism
0.60% 0 N [11]

Opinion polls

The table below lists voting intention estimates in reverse chronological order, showing the most recent first and using the dates when the survey fieldwork was done, as opposed to the date of publication. Where the fieldwork dates are unknown, the date of publication is given instead. The highest percentage figure in each polling survey is displayed with its background shaded in the leading party's colour. If a tie ensues, this is applied to the figures with the highest percentages. The "Lead" column on the right shows the percentage-point difference between the parties with the highest percentages in a given poll. When available, seat projections are also displayed below the voting estimates in a smaller font. 29 seats were required for an absolute majority in the City Council of Madrid.

Color key:

  Poll conducted after legal ban on opinion polls   Exit poll

Results

Summary of the 26 May 2019 City Council of Madrid election results
Parties and coalitions Popular vote Seats
Votes % ±pp Total +/−
More Madrid (Más Madrid)1 505,15930.99–0.85 19–1
People's Party (PP) 395,34424.25–10.32 15–6
Citizens–Party of the Citizenry (Cs) 312,53619.17+7.74 11+4
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) 224,07413.75–1.52 8–1
Vox (Vox) 124,9697.67+7.07 4+4
United Left–Municipalist Stand Up Madrid (IU–MpM)2 42,7932.63+0.94 0±0
Animalist Party Against Mistreatment of Animals (PACMA) 8,2260.50–0.09 0±0
Union, Progress and Democracy (UPyD) 1,6420.10–1.73 0±0
More With You (CNTG+) 1,5140.09New 0±0
Castilian PartyCommoners' Land: Pact (PCAS–TC–PPCCAL–Pacto) 1,4770.09+0.06 0±0
For a Fairer World (PUM+J) 1,1830.07New 0±0
Spanish Phalanx of the CNSO (FE–JONS) 7740.05–0.08 0±0
Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain (PCPE) 7410.05–0.03 0±0
Humanist Party (PH) 6010.04–0.02 0±0
Intelligent Madrid (MI) 5970.04New 0±0
Communist Party of the Workers of Spain (PCTE) 5910.04New 0±0
Libertarian Party (P–LIB) 4760.03–0.01 0±0
Spanish Catholic Movement (MCE) 3130.02New 0±0
Union for Leganés (ULEG) 1640.01–0.01 0±0
Blank ballots 6,9450.43–0.54
Total 1,630,124 57±0
Valid votes 1,630,12499.64+0.37
Invalid votes 5,8390.36–0.37
Votes cast / turnout 1,635,96368.23–0.67
Abstentions 761,91831.77+0.67
Registered voters 2,397,881
Sources[16]
Popular vote
Más Madrid
30.99%
PP
24.25%
Cs
19.17%
PSOE
13.75%
Vox
7.67%
IU–MpM
2.63%
Others
1.12%
Blank ballots
0.43%
Seats
Más Madrid
33.33%
PP
26.32%
Cs
19.30%
PSOE
14.04%
Vox
7.02%

Aftermath

Investiture
Ballot → 15 June 2019
Required majority → 29 out of 57
30 / 57
Y
19 / 57
N
8 / 57
N
Blank ballots
0 / 57
Absentees
0 / 57
Sources[17]

Notes

  1. Results for Ahora Madrid in the 2015 election.
  2. Results for IUCMLV in the 2015 election.
  3. Within Unidas Podemos.
  4. Within Más Madrid.
  5. Within Ahora Madrid.

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