2019 Seville City Council election

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2019 Seville City Council election
← 2015 26 May 2019 2023 →
All 31 seats in the City Council of Seville
16 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered 540,851 Red Arrow Down.svg0.8%
Turnout 317,843 (58.8%)
Red Arrow Down.svg0.7 pp
  First party Second party Third party
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Leader Juan Espadas Beltrán Pérez Susana Serrano
Party PSOE-A People's Party of Andalusia 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 Green Arrow Up Darker.svg2 Red Arrow Down.svg4 Red Arrow Down.svg1
Popular vote 123,933 73,101 44,546
Percentage 39.2% 23.1% 14.1%
Swing Green Arrow Up Darker.svg7.0 pp Red Arrow Down.svg10.0 pp Red Arrow Down.svg1.9 pp
  Fourth party Fifth party
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Leader Álvaro Pimentel Cristina Peláez
Party C's Vox (political party)
Leader since 27 March 2019 22 April 2019
Last election 3 seats, 9.3% 0 seats, 0.5%
Seats won 4 2
Seat change Green Arrow Up Darker.svg1 Green Arrow Up Darker.svg2
Popular vote 39,331 25,122
Percentage 12.5% 8.0%
Swing Green Arrow Up Darker.svg3.2 pp Green Arrow Up Darker.svg7.5 pp
Mayor before election

Juan Espadas
PSOE-A

 Elected Mayor

Juan Espadas
PSOE-A

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.

Electoral system

The City Council of Seville (Spanish: Ayuntamiento de Sevilla) was the top-tier administrative and governing body of the municipality of Seville, composed of the mayor, the government council and the elected plenary assembly.[1] Elections to the local councils in Spain were fixed for the fourth Sunday of May every four years.[2]

Voting for the local assembly was on the basis of universal suffrage, which comprised all nationals over 18 years of age, 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 allowed Spanish nationals to vote in their own elections by virtue of a treaty. Local councillors were elected using the D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional representation, with an electoral threshold of five percent of valid votes—which included blank ballots—being applied in each local council.[1][2] Councillors were 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 the event of a tie, the appointee would be determined by lot.[1]

The electoral law allowed for parties and federations registered in the interior ministry, coalitions and groupings of electors to present lists of candidates. Parties and federations intending to form a coalition ahead of an election were required to inform the relevant Electoral Commission within ten days of the election call, whereas groupings of electors needed to secure the signature of a determined amount of the electors registered in the municipality for which they were seeking election, disallowing electors from signing for more than one list of candidates. For the case of Seville, as its population was between 300,001 and 1,000,000, at least 5,000 signatures were required.[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 poll. When available, seat projections determined by the polling organisations are displayed below (or in place of) the percentages in a smaller font; 16 seats were required for an absolute majority in the City Council of Seville.

Results

← Summary of the 26 May 2019 City Council of Seville election results →
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Parties and alliances Popular vote Seats
Votes  % ±pp Total +/−
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party of Andalusia (PSOE–A) 123,933 39.24 +7.08 13 +2
People's Party (PP) 73,101 23.15 –9.90 8 –4
Forward Seville: We Can–United Left–Andalusian Spring (Adelante)1 44,546 14.10 –1.92 4 –1
Citizens–Party of the Citizenry (Cs) 39,331 12.45 +3.16 4 +1
Vox (Vox) 25,122 7.95 +7.49 2 +2
Animalist Party Against Mistreatment of Animals (PACMA) 3,521 1.11 +0.09 0 ±0
Andalusia by Herself (AxSí)2 1,083 0.34 –1.07 0 ±0
More With You (CNTG+) 820 0.26 New 0 ±0
Act (PACT) 736 0.23 New 0 ±0
For a Fairer World (PUM+J) 486 0.15 New 0 ±0
Feminist Initiative (IFem) 392 0.12 New 0 ±0
Advancing For You (Avanzamos) 206 0.07 New 0 ±0
Spanish Phalanx of the CNSO (FE–JONS) 118 0.04 –0.06 0 ±0
Party of the Immigrant in Spain (PADIE) 103 0.03 –0.03 0 ±0
Renaissance and Union of Europe Party (PRUNE) 47 0.01 New 0 ±0
Blank ballots 2,281 0.72 –0.41
Total 315,826 31 ±0
Valid votes 315,826 99.37 +0.15
Invalid votes 2,017 0.63 –0.15
Votes cast / turnout 317,843 58.77 –0.69
Abstentions 223,008 41.23 +0.69
Registered voters 540,851
Sources[7][8]
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Footnotes:
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. ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 2.16 2.17 2.18 2.19 2.20 2.21 2.22 2.23 2.24 2.25 2.26 2.27 2.28 2.29 2.30 2.31 Within Adelante.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Within Unidos Podemos.

References

Opinion poll sources
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Other
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Ley 7/1985, de 2 de abril, Reguladora de las Bases del Régimen Local, Law No. 7 of 2 April 1985 Boletín Oficial del Estado (in Español)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Ley Orgánica 5/1985, de 19 de junio, del Régimen Electoral General, Organic Law No. 5 of 19 June 1985 Boletín Oficial del Estado (in Español)
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