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1999 Valencia City Council election
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All 33 seats in the City Council of Valencia
17 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered643,516 2.5%
Turnout403,583 (62.7%)
10.4 pp
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Rita Barberá Ana Noguera Antonio Montalbán
Party PP PSOE IU
Leader since 1991 27 June 1998 19 December 1998
Last election 17 seats, 49.0% 8 seats, 24.1% 5 seats, 14.8%
Seats won 20 11 2
Seat change 3 3 3
Popular vote 214,129 116,437 25,602
Percentage 53.2% 29.0% 6.4%
Swing 4.2 pp 4.9 pp 8.4 pp
Mayor before election

Rita Barberá
PP

Elected mayor

Rita Barberá
PP

The 1999 Valencia City Council election, also the 1999 Valencia municipal election, was held on Sunday, 13 June 1999, to elect the 6th City Council of the municipality of Valencia. All 33 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, as well as the 1999 European Parliament election.

Electoral system

The City Council of Valencia (Template:Lang-ca-valencia, Template:Lang-es) was the top-tier administrative and governing body of the municipality of Valencia, 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 eighteen, registered in the municipality of Valencia 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 a threshold of five percent of valid votes—which included blank ballots—being applied in each local council. Parties not reaching the threshold were not taken into consideration for seat distribution.[1][2] Councillors were allocated to municipal councils based on the following scale:

Population Councillors
<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, a toss-up would determine the appointee.[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 Valencia, 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 given poll. When available, seat projections are also displayed below the voting estimates in a smaller font. 17 seats were required for an absolute majority in the City Council of Valencia.

Results

← Summary of the 13 June 1999 City Council of Valencia election results →
Parties and coalitions Popular vote Seats
Votes % ±pp Total +/−
width="1" bgcolor="Template:People's Party of the Valencian Community/meta/color"| People's Party (PP) 214,129 53.25 +4.25 20 +3
bgcolor="Template:Socialist Party of the Valencian Country/meta/color"| Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) 116,437 28.95 +4.87 11 +3
bgcolor="Template:United Left of the Valencian Country/meta/color"| United Left of the Valencian Country (EUPV) 25,602 6.37 –8.41 2 –3
bgcolor="Template:Valencian Union/meta/color"| Valencian Union (UV) 19,070 4.74 –4.23 0 –3
bgcolor="Template:Valencian Nationalist Bloc/meta/color"| Valencian Nationalist Bloc–The Greens (BNV–EV)1 12,897 3.21 +2.27 0 ±0
Valencian Community Alternative (ACV) 3,389 0.84 New 0 ±0
Unemployed and Marginalized General Union (UGDM) 597 0.15 New 0 ±0
bgcolor="Template:Democratic and Social Centre (Spain)/meta/color"| Centrist Union–Democratic and Social Centre (UC–CDS) 572 0.14 –0.22 0 ±0
bgcolor="Template:Falange Española de las JONS (1976)/meta/color"| Spanish Phalanx of the CNSO (FE–JONS) 498 0.12 New 0 ±0
bgcolor="Template:Republican Left (Spain, 1977)/meta/color"| Federal Republican Left–Federal Republican Party (IRF–PRF) 476 0.12 New 0 ±0
bgcolor="Template:Valencian Nationalist Left/meta/color"| Valencian Nationalist Left (ENV) 432 0.11 ±0.00 0 ±0
bgcolor="Template:Humanist Party (Spain)/meta/color"| Humanist Party (PH) 364 0.09 +0.01 0 ±0
Spanish Autonomous League (LAE) 225 0.06 +0.01 0 ±0
Blank ballots 7,443 1.85 +0.67
Total 402,131 33 ±0
Valid votes 402,131 99.64 –0.01
Invalid votes 1,452 0.36 +0.01
Votes cast / turnout 403,583 62.72 –10.34
Abstentions 239,933 37.28 +10.34
Registered voters 643,516
Sources[4][5][6][7]
Popular vote
PP
 
 53.25%
PSOE
 
 28.95%
EUPV
 
 6.37%
UV
 
 4.74%
BNV–EV
 
 3.21%
Others
 
 1.63%
Blank ballots
 
 1.85%
Seats
PP
 
 60.61%
PSOE
 
 33.33%
EUPV
 
 6.06%

References

Opinion poll sources
  1. ^ "Barberá amplía su victoria en Valencia". El País (in Spanish). 6 June 1999.
  2. ^ "Valencia: Barberá, mayoría de calle". El Mundo (in Spanish). 30 May 1999.
  3. ^ "ELECCIONES 13-J /BALANCE DE LAS ENCUESTAS". El Mundo (in Spanish). 6 June 1999.
  4. ^ "El PP conserva su poder municipal, autonómico y europeo, e IU se hunde". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). 5 June 1999.
  5. ^ "Una encuesta da al PP la mayoría absoluta y otorga escaños al BNV". El País (in Spanish). 4 May 1999.
Other
  1. ^ a b c Ley 7/1985, de 2 de abril, Reguladora de las Bases del Régimen Local. Boletín Oficial del Estado (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. Boletín Oficial del Estado (Organic Law 5) (in Spanish). 19 June 1985. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
  3. ^ "Electoral Results Consultation. Congress. March 1996. Valencia Municipality". Ministry of the Interior (in Spanish). Retrieved 12 November 2017.
  4. ^ "Local election results, 13 June 1999" (PDF). Central Electoral Commission (in Spanish). Retrieved 16 February 2018.
  5. ^ "Municipal Elections. Valencia" (PDF). www.valencia.es (in Spanish). City Council of Valencia. Retrieved 5 December 2017.
  6. ^ "Electoral Results Consultation. Municipal. June 1999. Valencia Municipality". Ministry of the Interior (in Spanish). Retrieved 12 November 2017.
  7. ^ "Eleccions municipals a València (1979 - 2015)". Historia Electoral.com (in Catalan). Retrieved 30 September 2017.
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