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2027 Madrid City Council election

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2027 Madrid City Council election

← 2023 23 May 2027

All 57 seats in the City Council of Madrid
29 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
 
Leader José Luis Martínez-Almeida Rita Maestre Reyes Maroto
Party PP MMVQ PSOE
Leader since 28 April 2017 30 July 2020 21 November 2022
Last election 29 seats, 44.5% 12 seats, 19.1% 11 seats, 16.8%
Current seats 29 12 11
Seats needed In majority Green arrow up17 Green arrow up18

 
Leader Javier Ortega Smith
Party Vox
Leader since 18 April 2019
Last election 5 seats, 9.1%
Current seats 5
Seats needed Green arrow up24

Incumbent Mayor

José Luis Martínez-Almeida
PP



The 2027 Madrid City Council election, also the 2027 Madrid municipal election, will be held on Sunday, 23 May 2027, to elect the 13th City Council of the municipality of Madrid. All 57 seats in the City Council will be up for election. The election will be held simultaneously with regional elections in at least eight autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain.

Electoral system

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The City Council of Madrid (Spanish: Ayuntamiento de Madrid) is the top-tier administrative and governing body of the municipality of Madrid, composed of the mayor, the government council and the elected plenary assembly.[1] Elections to the local councils in Spain are fixed for the fourth Sunday of May every four years.[2] Voting for the local assembly is on the basis of universal suffrage, which comprises all nationals over 18 years of age, 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.

Local councillors are elected using the D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional representation, with an electoral threshold of five percent of valid votes—which includes blank ballots—being applied in each local council.[1][2] 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 is to be automatically appointed to the post. In the event of a tie, the appointee will be determined by lot.[1]

Council composition

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The table below shows the composition of the political groups in the City Council at the present time.

Current Council composition
Groups Parties Councillors
Seats Total
People's Party's Municipal Group PP 29 29
More Madrid Municipal Group Más Madrid 12 12
Socialist Municipal Group in Madrid PSOE 11 11
Vox Municipal Group Vox 5 5

Parties and candidates

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The electoral law allows 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 are required to inform the relevant Electoral Commission within ten days of the election call, whereas groupings of electors need to secure the signature of a determined amount of the electors registered in the municipality for which they seek election, disallowing electors from signing for more than one list of candidates. For the case of Madrid, as its population is over 1,000,001, at least 8,000 signatures are required.[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. Ref.
Votes (%) Seats
PP
List
José Luis Martínez-Almeida Conservatism
Christian democracy
44.49% 29 checkY
MMVQ
List
Rita Maestre Progressivism
Participatory democracy
Green politics
19.14% 12 ☒N
PSOE Reyes Maroto Social democracy 16.76% 11 ☒N
Vox
List
Javier Ortega Smith Right-wing populism
Ultranationalism
National conservatism
9.09% 5 ☒N

Opinion polls

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The tables below list opinion polling results 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.

Voting intention estimates

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The table below lists weighted voting intention estimates. Refusals are generally excluded from the party vote percentages, while question wording and the treatment of "don't know" responses and those not intending to vote may vary between polling organisations. When available, seat projections determined by the polling organisations are displayed below (or in place of) the percentages 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 PP PSOE Vox
CS Sumar SALF Lead
2024 EP election[3] 9 Jun 2024 57.4 41.8
(27)
[a] 27.8
(18)
9.8
(6)
5.0
(3)
1.2
(0)
6.1
(3)
4.2
(0)
14.0
Data10/OKDiario[p 1] 15 May 2024 ? ? 47.4
30
17.0
10
19.2
12
9.3
5
2.8
0
28.2
GAD3/PP[p 2] 7–10 May 2024 808 ? 49.6
30
17.6
11
19.9
12
7.6
4
2.0
0
29.7
IMOP/MM[p 3][p 4] 8–16 Apr 2024 1,410 ? 46.4
29
20.7
13
18.6
11
7.6
4
2.7
0
0.9
0
25.7
2023 general election[3] 23 Jul 2023 73.4 41.8
(25)
[a] 27.3
(16)
12.4
(7)
[a] 16.5
(9)
14.5
2023 municipal election 28 May 2023 69.2 44.5
29
19.1
12
16.8
11
9.1
5
4.9
0
2.9
0
25.4

Notes

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  1. ^ a b c Within Sumar.

References

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Opinion poll sources
  1. ^ "Almeida amplía su mayoría absoluta hasta los 30 concejales a costa de Más Madrid". OKDiario (in Spanish). 15 May 2024.
  2. ^ "Almeida repetiría mayoría absoluta y ganaría un concejal a Vox, según una encuesta electoral". Servimedia (in Spanish). 15 May 2024.
  3. ^ "Una encuesta mantiene la mayoría del PP en Cibeles aunque estancada y con Más Madrid con un edil más liderando oposición". Europa Press (in Spanish). 15 May 2024.
  4. ^ "[M] MADRID. Encuesta IMOP Insights (interna MM) 15/05/2024: PP 46,4% (29), MM-VQ 20,7% (13), PSOE 18,6% (11), VOX 7,6% (4), PODEMOS-IU-AV 2,7%, CS 0,9%". Electográfica (in Spanish). 15 May 2024.
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 15 May 2024.
  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 15 May 2024.
  3. ^ a b "Resultados electorales". Ministry of the Interior (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 July 2024.