1991 Valencia City Council election

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1991 Valencia City Council election
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  1987 26 May 1991 1995  

All 33 seats in the City Council of Valencia
17 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered591,436 Green Arrow Up Darker.svg 7.2%
Turnout375,043 (63.4%)
Red Arrow Down.svg 8.1 pp
 First partySecond partyThird party
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Leader Clementina Ródenas Rita Barberá Vicente González Lizondo
Party PSOE PP UV
Leader since13 January 1989199130 August 1982
Last election13 seats, 36.8%7 seats, 19.3% [lower-alpha 1] 7 seats, 19.9%
Seats won1398
Seat change Arrow Blue Right 001.svg 0 Green Arrow Up Darker.svg 2 Green Arrow Up Darker.svg 1
Popular vote139,27295,23880,500
Percentage37.3%25.5%21.6%
Swing Green Arrow Up Darker.svg 0.5 pp Green Arrow Up Darker.svg 6.2 pp Green Arrow Up Darker.svg 1.7 pp

 Fourth partyFifth party
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Leader Manuel Moret Luis Gil-Orozco
Party EU CDS
Leader since19911991
Last election2 seats (IUUPV) [lower-alpha 2] 4 seats, 11.3%
Seats won30
Seat change Green Arrow Up Darker.svg 1 Red Arrow Down.svg 4
Popular vote29,8557,774
Percentage8.0%2.1%
Swing n/a Red Arrow Down.svg 9.2 pp

Mayor before election

Clementina Ródenas
PSOE

Elected mayor

Rita Barberá
PP

The 1991 Valencia City Council election, also the 1991 Valencia municipal election, was held on Sunday, 26 May 1991, to elect the 4th 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.

Contents

Electoral system

The City Council of Valencia (Valencian : Ajuntament de València, Spanish : Ayuntamiento de Valencia) 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 18 years of age, registered in the municipality of Valencia and in full enjoyment of their political rights, as well as resident non-nationals 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:

PopulationCouncillors
<2505
251–1,0007
1,001–2,0009
2,001–5,00011
5,001–10,00013
10,001–20,00017
20,001–50,00021
50,001–100,00025
>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 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 poll. When available, seat projections determined by the polling organisations are displayed below (or in place of) the percentages in a smaller font; 17 seats were required for an absolute majority in the City Council of Valencia.

Results

Summary of the 26 May 1991 City Council of Valencia election results
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Parties and alliancesPopular voteSeats
Votes %±pp Total+/−
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)139,27237.30+0.5513±0
People's Party (PP)195,23825.50+6.229+2
Valencian Union (UV)80,50021.56+1.698+1
United Left of the Valencian Country (EU)229,8558.00 n/a 3+1
The Greens (LV)8,9452.40New0±0
Democratic and Social Centre (CDS)7,7742.08–9.260–4
Valencian People's Union (UPV)25,9821.60n/a0±0
Valencian Radical Socialist Party (PRSV)8780.24New0±0
National Front (FN)6280.17New0±0
Left Platform (PCE (m–l)–CRPE)34820.13–0.020±0
Spanish Phalanx of the CNSO (FE–JONS)3860.10New0±0
Blank ballots3,7110.99–0.14
Total373,41833±0
Valid votes373,41899.57+0.90
Invalid votes1,6250.43–0.90
Votes cast / turnout375,04363.41–8.11
Abstentions216,39336.59+8.11
Registered voters591,436
Sources [5] [6] [7] [8]
Footnotes:
Popular vote
PSOE
37.30%
PP
25.50%
UV
21.56%
EU
8.00%
LV
2.40%
CDS
2.08%
UPV
1.60%
Others
0.64%
Blank ballots
0.99%
Seats
PSOE
39.39%
PP
27.27%
UV
24.24%
EU
9.09%

Notes

  1. Aggregated data for AP and PDP–CV in the 1987 election.
  2. Within the IUUPV alliance in the 1987 election.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Within PP.

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References

Opinion poll sources
  1. 1 2 3 "Las elecciones de 26-5-91". CEPC (in Spanish). August 1991.
  2. "UV y PP pueden gobernar Valencia si pactan". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). 20 May 1991.
  3. "El ascenso del PP hace peligrar al PSOE en Madrid, Sevilla y Valencia". El País (in Spanish). 19 May 1991.
  4. "Ficha técnica". El País (in Spanish). 19 May 1991.
Other
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