2015 Seville City Council election

Election in the Spanish municipality of Seville

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
Registered| 545,309 0.3%
Turnout| 324,218 (59.5%)
3.2 pp
|  | First party  | Second party  | Third party

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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  | 8  | 0  | 3
Popular vote  | 106,321  | 103,461  | 29,888
Percentage  | 33.1%  | 32.2%  | 9.3%
Swing  | 16.2 pp | 2.7 pp | New party

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| Fourth party  | Fifth party
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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  | 3  | 0
Popular vote  | 28,969  | 19,203
Percentage  | 9.0%  | 6.0%
Swing  | New party | 1.1 pp

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| Mayor before election

Juan Ignacio Zoido

| Elected mayor

Juan Espadas
PSOE

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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.

## 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

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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 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. In 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

Polling firm/Commissioner  | Fieldwork date  | Sample size  | Turnout  |  |  | IULV |  |  |  |  |  | Lead

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2015 municipal election | 24 May 2015  | —  | 59.5  | 33.1
12 | 32.2
11 | 6.0
2 | 1.4
0 | 0.8
0 | 9.0
3 | 9.3
3 | 4.1
0 | 0.9
TNS Demoscopia/RTVE–FORTA[p 1][p 2] | 24 May 2015  | ?  | ?  | ?
10/12 | ?
12/14 | 6.7
1/2 | –  | –  | ?
3/4 | 9.6
3/4 | –  | ?
GAD3/Antena 3[p 3] | 11–22 May 2015  | ?  | ?  | ?
11/12 | ?
13/14 | ?
0/1 | –  | –  | ?
3/4 | ?
2 | –  | ?
Sigma Dos/El Mundo[p 4][p 5] | 13–14 May 2015  | 500  | ?  | 34.8
12/13 | 32.6
11/12 | 7.4
2 | –  | –  | 6.1
2 | 10.4
3 | 4.2
0 | 2.2
Deimos/El Correo de Andalucía[p 6][p 7] | 11–14 May 2015  | 806  | ?  | 30.0
11 | 31.7
11 | 6.9
2 | 1.7
0 | 1.4
0 | 8.1
3 | 12.8
4 | 3.6
0 | 1.7
MyWord/Cadena SER[p 8][p 9] | 27 Apr–14 May 2015  | 800  | ?  | 31.6
10/12 | 32.2
10/12 | 4.3
0/1 | 0.7
0 | 1.3
0 | 15.0
4/6 | 11.4
4 | [a] | 0.6
JM&A/Público[p 10] | 12 May 2015  | ?  | ?  | ?
13 | ?
10 | –  | –  | –  | ?
6 | ?
4 | –  | ?
JM&A/Público[p 11][p 12] | 3 May 2015  | ?  | ?  | 28.1
10 | 30.3
10 | 5.9
2 | 2.0
0 | 0.5
0 | 17.2
6 | 14.2
5 | [a] | 2.2
IMC/ABC[p 13] | 29–30 Apr 2015  | 410  | ?  | 33.4
12/13 | 30.2
10/11 | 5.2
0/1 | –  | –  | 11.0
3/4 | 13.2
4/5 | [a] | 3.2
Commentia/Grupo Joly[p 14][p 15] | 27–29 Apr 2015  | 401  | ?  | 35.5
12 | 31.3
10 | 4.9
0/1 | –  | –  | 13.1
4/5 | 11.5
4 | [a] | 4.2
CIS[p 16][p 17] | 23 Mar–19 Apr 2015  | 997  | ?  | 32.4
11/12 | 28.5
10 | 5.0
1 | –  | 1.0
0 | [b] | 12.6
4 | 13.4
4/5 | 3.9
Sigma Dos/El Mundo[p 18][p 19] | 26–27 Mar 2015  | 500  | ?  | 31.3
10/11 | 33.2
11/12 | 4.6
0/1 | –  | –  | 14.6
4/5 | 11.9
4 | [a] | 1.9
2015 regional election[3] | 22 Mar 2015  | —  | 68.3  | 27.1
(9) | 30.8
(11) | 5.4
(1) | 1.0
(0) | 2.1
(0) | 18.0
(6) | 11.5
(4) | –  | 3.7
Llorente & Cuenca[4] | 31 Oct 2014  | ?  | ?  | ?
14/15 | ?
9/10 | ?
3 | –  | ?
0/1 | ?
6/8 | –  | –  | ?
2014 EP election[5] | 25 May 2014  | —  | 47.6  | 27.8
(11) | 30.0
(12) | 9.6
(3) | 1.4
(0) | 8.0
(3) | 9.8
(4) | 2.3
(0) | –  | 2.2
Nexo[p 20][p 21] | 24 Mar–4 Apr 2014  | 402  | 54.2  | 42.9
16/18 | 29.2
11/12 | 9.3
3/4 | –  | 5.3
2 | –  | –  | –  | 13.7
2012 regional election[6] | 25 Mar 2012  | —  | 65.1  | 42.8
(16) | 37.4
(14) | 9.4
(3) | 2.5
(0) | 4.6
(0) | –  | –  | –  | 5.1
2011 general election[7] | 20 Nov 2011  | —  | 71.1  | 44.3
(16) | 36.4
(13) | 6.6
(2) | 1.8
(0) | 6.8
(2) | –  | –  | –  | 7.9
2011 municipal election | 22 May 2011  | —  | 62.7  | 49.3
20 | 29.5
11 | 7.1
2 | 4.8
0 | 3.3
0 | –  | –  | –  | 19.8

## 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

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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

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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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