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2015 Seville City Council election

The 2015 Seville City Council election, also the 2015 Seville municipal election, was held on Sunday, 24 May 2015, to elect the 10th 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 thirteen autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain.

2015 Seville City Council election
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All 31 seats in the City Council of Seville
16 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered545,309 Red arrow down0.3%
Turnout324,218 (59.5%)
Red arrow down3.2 pp
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Juan Ignacio Zoido Juan Espadas Javier Millán
Party PP PSOE–A C's
Leader since 28 June 2006 24 May 2010 6 February 2015
Last election 20 seats, 49.3% 11 seats, 29.5% Did not contest
Seats won 12 11 3
Seat change Red arrow down8 Blue arrow right0 Green arrow up3
Popular vote 106,321 103,461 29,888
Percentage 33.1% 32.2% 9.3%
Swing Red arrow down16.2 pp Green arrow up2.7 pp New party
  Fourth party Fifth party
 
Leader Susana Serrano Daniel González Rojas
Party Participa Sevilla IULV–CA
Leader since 14 April 2015 14 February 2015
Last election Did not contest 2 seats, 7.1%
Seats won 3 2
Seat change Green arrow up3 Blue arrow right0
Popular vote 28,969 19,203
Percentage 9.0% 6.0%
Swing New party Red arrow down1.1 pp
Mayor before election

Juan Ignacio Zoido
PP

Elected mayor

Juan Espadas
PSOE

Electoral system

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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

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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 (17 until 1 January 2015).

Color key:

  Poll conducted after legal ban on opinion polls   Exit poll

Results

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← Summary of the 24 May 2015 City Council of Seville election results →
 
Parties and alliances Popular vote Seats
Votes % ±pp Total +/−
People's Party (PP) 106,321 33.05 –16.26 12 –8
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party of Andalusia (PSOE–A) 103,461 32.16 +2.71 11 ±0
Citizens–Party of the Citizenry (C's) 29,888 9.29 New 3 +3
Participate Seville (Participa Sevilla) 28,969 9.01 New 3 +3
United Left/The Greens–Assembly for Andalusia (IULV–CA) 19,203 5.97 –1.18 2 ±0
Let's Win Seville (Ganemos Sevilla) 13,274 4.13 New 0 ±0
Andalusian Party (PA) 4,544 1.41 –3.37 0 ±0
Equo (Equo) 3,332 1.04 New 0 ±0
Animalist Party Against Mistreatment of Animals (PACMA) 3,290 1.02 +0.60 0 ±0
Union, Progress and Democracy (UPyD) 2,711 0.84 –2.41 0 ±0
Vox (Vox) 1,495 0.46 New 0 ±0
Blank Seats (EB) 463 0.14 New 0 ±0
Spanish Phalanx of the CNSO (FE–JONS) 311 0.10 +0.02 0 ±0
Party of the Immigrant in Spain (PADIE) 182 0.06 New 0 ±0
Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain (PCPE) 168 0.05 New 0 ±0
Republican Candidacy (CR) 155 0.05 New 0 ±0
Internationalist Solidarity and Self-Management (SAIn) 139 0.04 –0.05 0 ±0
Andalusian Nationalist People (PNdeA) 89 0.03 New 0 ±0
Andalusian Popular Unity (UPAN) 61 0.02 –0.04 0 ±0
Blank ballots 3,633 1.13 –1.65
Total 321,689 31 –2
Valid votes 321,689 99.22 +1.08
Invalid votes 2,529 0.78 –1.08
Votes cast / turnout 324,218 59.46 –3.27
Abstentions 221,091 40.54 +3.27
Registered voters 545,309
Sources[8][9][10]
Popular vote
PP
 
 33.05%
PSOE–A
 
 32.16%
C's
 
 9.29%
Participa Sevilla
 
 9.01%
IULV–CA
 
 5.97%
Ganemos Sevilla
 
 4.13%
PA
 
 1.41%
eQuo
 
 1.04%
PACMA
 
 1.02%
Others
 
 1.79%
Blank ballots
 
 1.13%
Seats
PP
 
 38.71%
PSOE–A
 
 35.48%
C's
 
 9.68%
Participa Sevilla
 
 9.68%
IULV–CA
 
 6.45%

Notes

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  1. ^ a b c d e Within Participa Sevilla.
  2. ^ Within Ganemos Sevilla.

References

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Opinion poll sources
  1. ^ "El PP perdería la mayoría absoluta en todas las capitales de Andalucía, según las encuestas a pie de urna". eldiario.es (in Spanish). 24 May 2015.
  2. ^ "Vuelco en Sevilla y Huelva, mientras que el PP empata con Podemos en Cádiz". Diario Sur (in Spanish). 24 May 2015.
  3. ^ "Encuestas y resultados - elecciones autonómicas y municipales del 24 de mayo de 2015". GAD3 (in Spanish). 28 May 2015.
  4. ^ "Zoido remonta y podría gobernar con el apoyo de C's en Sevilla". El Mundo (in Spanish). 16 May 2015.
  5. ^ "Intención de voto en el Ayto. de Sevilla. Gráfico". El Mundo (in Spanish). 16 May 2015.
  6. ^ "24M en Sevilla: Incertidumbre hasta el final". El Correo de Andalucía (in Spanish). 16 May 2015.
  7. ^ "SEVILLA, Mayo 2015. Sondeo Deimos". Electograph (in Spanish). 17 May 2015.
  8. ^ "El PSOE ganaría las elecciones en Sevilla con el 32,2 % de los votos". Cadena SER (in Spanish). 18 May 2015.
  9. ^ "El ObSERvatorio de la Cadena SER. Estudio preelectoral de la ciudad de Sevilla (18/5/2015)" (PDF). MyWord (in Spanish). 18 May 2015.
  10. ^ "El PP depende de C's para gobernar en Madrid, Valencia, Sevilla y Málaga". Público (in Spanish). 15 May 2015.
  11. ^ "Ada Colau empata con Trias, Barberá se estrella en Valencia y Podemos tiene la llave en Sevilla". Público (in Spanish). 3 May 2015.
  12. ^ "Tracking de sondeos en las capitales: la derecha sólo puede esperar que Ciudadanos salve al PP". Público (in Spanish). 3 May 2015.
  13. ^ "Zoido volverá a ganar pero quedará a expensas de un pacto con Ciudadanos". ABC Sevilla (in Spanish). 10 May 2015.
  14. ^ "Zoido necesitará pactos para volver a ser alcalde". Diario de Sevilla (in Spanish). 10 May 2015.
  15. ^ "CIUDADES ANDALUZAS 24M, Abril 2015. Sondeo Commentia". Electograph (in Spanish). 11 May 2015.
  16. ^ "Preelectoral elecciones municipales 2015. Sevilla (Estudio nº 3061. Marzo-Abril 2015)" (PDF). CIS (in Spanish). 7 May 2015.
  17. ^ "El PP se echa a la calle para recuperar a las clases medias". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). 8 May 2015.
  18. ^ "Empate en Sevilla entre PP y PSOE tras una debacle 'popular'". El Mundo (in Spanish). 7 April 2015.
  19. ^ "Encuesta electoral: Ayuntamiento de Sevilla. Gráfico". El Mundo (in Spanish). 7 April 2015.
  20. ^ "Un sondeo atribuye al PP el 42,9 por ciento del apoyo electoral y el 29,2 al PSOE". Europa Press (in Spanish). 24 April 2014.
  21. ^ "SEVILLA, Abril 2014. Nexo". Electograph (in Spanish). 24 April 2014.
Other
  1. ^ a b c Ley 7/1985, de 2 de abril, Reguladora de las Bases del Régimen Local (Law 7) (in Spanish). 2 April 1985. Retrieved 30 June 2020.
  2. ^ a b c Ley Orgánica 5/1985, de 19 de junio, del Régimen Electoral General (Organic Law 5) (in Spanish). 19 June 1985. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
  3. ^ "Electoral Information System. Parliament of Andalusia. March 2015. Seville Municipality". juntadeandalucia.es (in Spanish). Government of Andalusia. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
  4. ^ "El reparto del poder territorial en España en 2015" (PDF). desarrollando-ideas.com (in Spanish). 31 October 2014.
  5. ^ "Electoral Results Consultation. European Parliament. May 2014. Seville Municipality". Ministry of the Interior (in Spanish). Retrieved 12 November 2017.
  6. ^ "Electoral Information System. Parliament of Andalusia. March 2012. Seville Municipality". juntadeandalucia.es (in Spanish). Government of Andalusia. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
  7. ^ "Electoral Results Consultation. Congress. November 2011. Seville Municipality". Ministry of the Interior (in Spanish). Retrieved 12 November 2017.
  8. ^ "Local election results, 24 May 2015, in La Rioja, Salamanca, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Segovia, Seville, Soria, Tarragona, Teruel and Toledo provinces" (PDF). Central Electoral Commission (in Spanish). Retrieved 11 February 2018.
  9. ^ "Electoral Results Consultation. Municipal. May 2015. Seville Municipality". Ministry of the Interior (in Spanish). Retrieved 12 November 2017.
  10. ^ "Elecciones municipales en Sevilla (1979 - 2015)". Historia Electoral.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 30 September 2017.
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