2023 Madrid City Council election
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The 2023 Madrid City Council election, also the 2023 Madrid municipal election, will be held on Sunday, 28 May 2023, to elect the 12th 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 seven autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain.
Electoral system
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:
Population | Councillors |
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<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 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]
Parties and alliances
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. | |||
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Votes (%) | Seats | |||||||
width="1" bgcolor="Template:Más Madrid/meta/color"| | Más Madrid | List
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TBD | Direct democracy Green politics |
30.94% | 19 | ||
bgcolor="Template:People's Party of the Community of Madrid/meta/color"| | PP | List
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José Luis Martínez-Almeida | Conservatism Christian democracy |
24.23% | 15 | ||
bgcolor="Template:Citizens (Spanish political party)/meta/color"| | Cs | List |
Begoña Villacís | Liberalism | 19.13% | 11 | ||
bgcolor="Template:Spanish Socialist Workers' Party of the Community of Madrid/meta/color"| | PSOE | List |
Pepu Hernández | Social democracy | 13.72% | 8 | ||
bgcolor="Template:Vox (political party)/meta/color"| | Vox | List
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Javier Ortega Smith | Right-wing populism Ultranationalism National conservatism |
7.63% | 4 |
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. 29 seats are required for an absolute majority in the City Council of Madrid.
Polling firm/Commissioner | Fieldwork date | Sample size | Turnout | Lead | |||||||
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style="background:Template:Más Madrid/meta/color;"| | style="background:Template:People's Party of the Community of Madrid/meta/color;"| | style="background:Template:Citizens (Spanish political party)/meta/color;"| | style="background:Template:Spanish Socialist Workers' Party of the Community of Madrid/meta/color;"| | style="background:Template:Vox (political party)/meta/color;"| | style="background:Template:Madrid En Pie/meta/color;"| | style="background:Template:Unidas Podemos/meta/color;"| | |||||
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 |
style="background:Template:People's Party of the Community of Madrid/meta/color; color:white;"| 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 |
style="background:Template:People's Party of the Community of Madrid/meta/color; color:white;"| 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 |
– | style="background:Template:People's Party of the Community of Madrid/meta/color; color:white;"| 5.1 |
November 2019 general election[4] | 10 Nov 2019 | — | 74.0 | 6.3 3 |
27.3 16 |
8.9 5 |
26.4 16 |
16.0 9 |
– | 13.0 8 |
style="background:Template:People's Party of the Community of Madrid/meta/color; color:white;"| 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 |
style="background:Template:People's Party of the Community of Madrid/meta/color; color:white;"| 0.1 |
2019 municipal election | 26 May 2019 | — | 68.2 | 30.9 19 |
24.2 15 |
19.1 11 |
13.7 8 |
7.6 4 |
2.6 0 |
– | style="background:Template:Más Madrid/meta/color; color:white;"| 6.7 |
References
- Opinion poll sources
- ^ "Almeida arrasa tras su gestión del Covid-19: tendría tantos ediles (21) como la suma de PSOE y Más Madrid". OKDiario (in Spanish). 14 May 2020.
- ^ "El PP roza la mayoría absoluta en Madrid capital y casi dobla al PSOE". ABC (in Spanish). 3 May 2020.
- ^ "Barómetro de ABC/GAD3 Comunidad de Madrid y Ayuntamiento de Madrid (2 y 3 de mayo)". GAD3 (in Spanish). 2 May 2020.
- ^ "MadPanel (3A): Almeida logra la primera plaza. Subida del PSOE y Vox, mientras Más Madrid y Cs caen". electomania.es (in Spanish). 3 April 2020.
- ^ "MadPanel (11Oct): victoria para Almeida muy igualado con Pepu. Más Madrid se hunde sin Carmena y Vox disputa la tercera plaza". electomania.es (in Spanish). 11 October 2019.
- Other
- ^ a b c General Electoral System Organic Law of 1985. Official State Gazette (Organic Law 5) (in Spanish). 19 June 1985. Retrieved 28 December 2016.
- ^ a b c "Representation of the people Institutional Act". www.juntaelectoralcentral.es. Central Electoral Commission. Retrieved 16 June 2017.
- ^ a b c Regulation of the Basis of Local Regimes Law of 1985. Official State Gazette (Law 7) (in Spanish). 2 April 1985. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
- ^ "Electoral Results Consultation. Congress. November 2019. Madrid Municipality". www.infoelectoral.mir.es (in Spanish). Ministry of the Interior. Retrieved 10 June 2020.