2023 Madrid City Council election

The municipal council or corporation is the top-tier administrative and governing body of the municipality of Madrid, composed of the mayor, deputy mayors and a plenary assembly of councillors. Voting for the local assemblies is on the basis of universal suffrage, which comprises 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 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:

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 Madrid, as its population is over 1,000,001, at least 8,000 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]

Below is a list of the main parties and electoral alliances which will likely contest the election:

Candidacy		Parties and alliances	Leading candidate		Ideology	Previous result		Gov.
						Votes (%)	Seats
	Más Madrid	List More Madrid (Más Madrid) Equo (Equo)		TBD	Direct democracy Green politics	30.94%	19	N
	PP	List People's Party (PP)		José Luis Martínez-Almeida	Conservatism Christian democracy	24.23%	15	Y
	Cs	List Citizens–Party of the Citizenry (Cs)		Begoña Villacís	Liberalism	19.13%	11	Y
	PSOE	List Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)		Pepu Hernández	Social democracy	13.72%	8	N
	Vox	List Vox (Vox)		Javier Ortega Smith	Right-wing populism Ultranationalism National conservatism	7.63%	4	N

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 are required for an absolute majority in the City Council of Madrid.

Polling firm/Commissioner	Fieldwork date	Sample size	Turnout								Lead
Hamalgama Métrica/OKDiario[p 1]	8–11 May 2020	1,000	?	18.9 11	34.5 21	10.1 6	17.3 10	8.6 5	–	7.9 4	15.6
GAD3/ABC[p 2][p 3]	24–29 Apr 2020	631	?	8.2 5	44.7 27	5.2 3	25.9 15	7.0 4	–	6.2 3	18.8
electoPanel/electomania.es[p 4]	26–31 Mar 2020	800	?	16.9 10	30.8 19	10.7 6	25.7 15	12.0 7	1.8 0	–	5.1
November 2019 general election[4]	10 Nov 2019	N/A	74.0	6.3 3	27.3 16	8.9 5	26.4 16	16.0 9	–	13.0 8	0.9
electoPanel/electomania.es[p 5]	10 Oct 2019	1,500	?	8.8 5	25.6 16	13.5 8	25.5 15	12.2 7	–	10.9 6	0.1
2019 municipal election	26 May 2019	N/A	68.2	30.9 19	24.2 15	19.1 11	13.7 8	7.6 4	2.6 0	–	6.7

Opinion poll sources

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