2019 Seville City Council election

The 2019 Seville City Council election, also the 2019 Seville municipal election, was held on Sunday, 26 May 2019, to elect the 11th City Council of the municipality of Seville. All 31 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 Seville City Council election
26 May 2019
All 31 seats in the City Council of Seville
16 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered540,851 0.8%
Turnout317,843 (58.8%)
0.7 pp
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Juan Espadas Beltrán Pérez Susana Serrano
Party PSOE–A PP Adelante
Leader since 24 May 2010 16 March 2018 14 April 2015
Last election 11 seats, 32.2% 12 seats, 33.1% 5 seats, 16.0%[lower-alpha 1]
Seats won 13 8 4
Seat change 2 4 1
Popular vote 123,933 73,101 44,546
Percentage 39.2% 23.1% 14.1%
Swing 7.0 pp 10.0 pp 1.9 pp
  Fourth party Fifth party
 
Leader Álvaro Pimentel Cristina Peláez
Party Cs Vox
Leader since 27 March 2019 22 April 2019
Last election 3 seats, 9.3% 0 seats, 0.5%
Seats won 4 2
Seat change 1 2
Popular vote 39,331 25,122
Percentage 12.5% 8.0%
Swing 3.2 pp 7.5 pp
Mayor before election

Juan Espadas
PSOE–A

 Elected Mayor

Juan Espadas
PSOE–A

Electoral system

The City Council of Seville (Spanish: Ayuntamiento de Sevilla) is 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 is on the basis of universal suffrage, which comprises 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 allows Spanish nationals to vote in their own elections by virtue of a treaty.[1][2][3]

Local councillors are elected using the D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional representation, with a threshold of 5 percent of valid votes—which includes blank ballots—being applied in each local council. Parties not reaching the threshold are 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 is indirectly elected by the plenary assembly. A legal clause requires that mayoral candidates earn the vote of an absolute majority of councillors, or else the candidate of the most-voted party in the assembly shall be automatically appointed to the post. In case of a tie, a toss-up would determine the appointee.[3]

The electoral law provides that parties, federations, coalitions and groupings of electors are allowed to present lists of candidates. However, groupings of electors are required to secure the signature of a determined amount of the electors registered in the municipality for which they are seeking election. For the case of Sevilla, as its population was between 300,001 and 1,000,000, at least 5,000 signatures are required. Electors are 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 are required to inform the relevant Electoral Commission within ten days of the election being called.[1][2]

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. 16 seats are required for an absolute majority in the City Council of Seville.

Results
← Summary of the 26 May 2019 City Council of Seville election results
Parties and coalitions Popular vote Seats
Votes % ±pp Total +/−
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party of Andalusia (PSOE–A) 123,93339.24+7.08 13+2
People's Party (PP) 73,10123.15–9.90 8–4
Forward Seville: We Can–United Left–Andalusian Spring (Adelante)1 44,54614.10–1.92 4–1
Citizens–Party of the Citizenry (Cs) 39,33112.45+3.16 4+1
Vox (Vox) 25,1227.95+7.49 2+2
Animalist Party Against Mistreatment of Animals (PACMA) 3,5211.11+0.09 0±0
Andalusia by Herself (AxSí)2 1,0830.34–1.07 0±0
More With You (CNTG+) 8200.26New 0±0
Act (PACT) 7360.23New 0±0
For a Fairer World (PUM+J) 4860.15New 0±0
Feminist Initiative (IFem) 3920.12New 0±0
Advancing For You (Avanzamos) 2060.07New 0±0
Spanish Phalanx of the CNSO (FE–JONS) 1180.04–0.06 0±0
Party of the Immigrant in Spain (PADIE) 1030.03–0.03 0±0
Renaissance and Union of Europe Party (PRUNE) 470.01New 0±0
Blank ballots 2,2810.72–0.41
Total 315,826 31±0
Valid votes 315,82699.37+0.15
Invalid votes 2,0170.63–0.15
Votes cast / turnout 317,84358.77–0.69
Abstentions 223,00841.23+0.69
Registered voters 540,851
Sources[8]
Popular vote
PSOE–A
 
 39.24%
PP
 
 23.15%
Adelante
 
 14.10%
Cs
 
 12.45%
Vox
 
 7.95%
PACMA
 
 1.11%
Others
 
 1.26%
Blank ballots
 
 0.72%
Seats
PSOE–A
 
 41.94%
PP
 
 25.81%
Adelante
 
 12.90%
Cs
 
 12.90%
Vox
 
 6.45%

Notes
  1. Aggregated data for Participa Sevilla, IULV–CA and eQuo in the 2015 election.
  2. Within Adelante.
  3. Within Unidos Podemos.

References
Opinion poll sources
  1. "Elecciones municipales Sevilla 2019: Espadas ganaría, pero tendría que apoyarse en Adelante o Ciudadanos". ABC Sevilla (in Spanish). 20 May 2019.
  2. "Holgada mayoría para Juan Espadas". El Mundo (in Spanish). 18 May 2019.
  3. "Sevilla seguiría en manos socialistas". El País (in Spanish). 19 May 2019.
  4. "Estimaciones de voto en Comunidades Autónomas y grandes ciudades (Estudio nº 3245. Marzo-abril 2019)" (PDF). CIS (in Spanish). 9 May 2019.
  5. "ElectoPanel municipal (12A): muchas ciudades pendientes de un concejal". Electomanía (in Spanish). 12 April 2019.
  6. "Espadas toma ventaja frente a la amenaza de PP, Cs y Vox". Andalucía Información (in Spanish). 1 May 2019.
  7. "ElectoPanel municipales (4A): Madrid en Pie no consigue entrar en el Ayuntamiento". Electomanía (in Spanish). 4 April 2019.
  8. "ElectoPanel Municipales (28M). Mayorías ajustadas en varias ciudades". Electomanía (in Spanish). 28 March 2019.
  9. "ElectoPanel para municipales (21M): situación estable en la última semana". Electomanía (in Spanish). 21 March 2019.
  10. "ElectoPanel grandes áreas metropolitanas 14M: la izquierda resiste en Valencia, Madrid se le escapa a Carmena". Electomanía (in Spanish). 14 March 2019.
  11. "ElectoPanel municipal: distintas mayorías posibles y mucha igualdad en varias ciudades". Electomanía (in Spanish). 7 March 2019.
  12. "Encuesta sobre la situación del municipio de Sevilla" (PDF). Dialoga Consultores (in Spanish). 14 March 2019.
  13. "Vox entra con fuerza, Juan Espadas se estanca y el PP cae al tercer puesto en intención de votos". ABC Sevilla (in Spanish). 30 December 2018.
  14. "Espadas roza la mayoría absoluta y el PP cae a su peor resultado histórico". ABC Sevilla (in Spanish). 25 June 2018.
  15. "SEVILLA. Elecciones municipales. Encuesta Dataestudios para ABC. Junio 2018". Electograph (in Spanish). 25 June 2018.
  16. "El PSOE ganaría las elecciones en Sevilla y el PP caería al tercer puesto tras Ciudadanos". ABC Sevilla (in Spanish). 18 February 2018.
  17. "El PSOE ganaría en Sevilla por el hundimiento del PP". Andalucía Información (in Spanish). 2 July 2017.
  18. "Sondeo electoral Sevilla 2017". SW Demoscopia (in Spanish). 2 July 2017.
Other
  1. "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. "Representation of the people Institutional Act". www.juntaelectoralcentral.es. Central Electoral Commission. Retrieved 16 June 2017.
  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. "Sevilla - Sevilla - Andalucía - Total nacional - Congreso - Elecciones generales España 2019". www.infoelectoral.mir.es (in Spanish). Ministry of the Interior. Retrieved 18 May 2019.
  5. "Elecciones Parlamento de Andalucía 2018 - Andalucía - Sevilla - Sevilla". resultadoseleccionesparlamentoandalucia2018.es (in Spanish). Government of Andalusia. Retrieved 18 May 2019.
  6. "Electoral Results Consultation. Congress. June 2016. Seville Municipality". www.infoelectoral.mir.es (in Spanish). Ministry of the Interior. Retrieved 18 May 2019.
  7. "Electoral Results Consultation. Congress. December 2015. Seville Municipality". www.infoelectoral.mir.es (in Spanish). Ministry of the Interior. Retrieved 18 May 2019.
  8. "Local election results, 26 May 2019, in Salamanca, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Segovia, Sevilla, Soria, Tarragona and Teruel provinces" (PDF). www.juntaelectoralcentral.es (in Spanish). Central Electoral Commission. Retrieved 21 September 2019.
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