2011 Seville City Council election

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2011 Seville City Council election
Flag of Sevilla, Spain.svg
  2007 22 May 2011 2015  

All 33 seats in the City Council of Seville
17 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered546,944 Red Arrow Down.svg 3.3%
Turnout343,098 (62.7%)
Green Arrow Up Darker.svg 8.1 pp
 First partySecond partyThird party
  Juan Ignacio Zoido 2014b (cropped).jpg Juan Espadas 2015c (cropped).jpg Antonio Rodrigo Torrijos 2009 (cropped).jpg
Leader Juan Ignacio Zoido Juan Espadas Antonio Rodrigo
Party PP PSOE–A IULV–CA
Leader since28 June 200624 May 20102007
Last election15 seats, 41.8%15 seats, 40.5%3 seats, 8.4%
Seats won20112
Seat change Green Arrow Up Darker.svg 5 Red Arrow Down.svg 4 Red Arrow Down.svg 1
Popular vote166,04099,16824,066
Percentage49.3%29.5%7.1%
Swing Green Arrow Up Darker.svg 7.5 pp Red Arrow Down.svg 11.0 pp Red Arrow Down.svg 1.3 pp

Mayor before election

Alfredo Sánchez Monteseirín
PSOE

Elected mayor

Juan Ignacio Zoido
PP

The 2011 Seville City Council election, also the 2011 Seville municipal election, was held on Sunday, 22 May 2011, to elect the 9th City Council of the municipality of Seville. 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 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:

PopulationCouncillors
<1003
101–2505
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 Seville, 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 Seville.

Results

Summary of the 22 May 2011 City Council of Seville election results
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Parties and alliancesPopular voteSeats
Votes %±pp Total+/−
People's Party (PP)166,04049.31+7.4720+5
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party of Andalusia (PSOE–A)99,16829.45–11.0111–4
United Left/The Greens–Assembly for Andalusia (IULV–CA)24,0667.15–1.222–1
Andalusian Party–Andalusian Plural Space (PA–EPAnd)116,0974.78–0.430±0
Union, Progress and Democracy (UPyD)10,9453.25New0±0
The Greens–Ecological Andalusia (LV–AE)4,0631.21+0.170±0
Citizens for Blank Votes (CenB)2,0620.61New0±0
Anti-Bullfighting Party Against Mistreatment of Animals (PACMA)1,3980.42+0.180±0
For a Fairer World (PUM+J)1,0510.31+0.140±0
Humanist Party (PH)4120.12+0.050±0
Group of Independent Citizens (GCI)4060.12–0.050±0
Free and Efficient Election (ele)3390.10New0±0
Democratic Majority (MD)3260.10New0±0
Internationalist Solidarity and Self-Management (SAIn)3000.09–0.080±0
Spanish Phalanx of the CNSO (FE–JONS)2580.08–0.010±0
National Democracy (DN)2370.07New0±0
Andalusian Popular Unity (UPAN)2040.06New0±0
Blank ballots9,3462.78+0.79
Total336,71833±0
Valid votes336,71898.14–1.47
Invalid votes6,3801.86+1.47
Votes cast / turnout343,09862.73+8.12
Abstentions203,84637.27–8.12
Registered voters546,944
Sources [6] [7] [8]
Footnotes:
Popular vote
PP
49.31%
PSOE–A
29.45%
IULV–CA
7.15%
PA–EPAnd
4.78%
UPyD
3.25%
LV–AE
1.21%
Others
2.08%
Blank ballots
2.78%
Seats
PP
60.61%
PSOE–A
33.33%
IULV–CA
6.06%

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 Undecided and/or abstentionists excluded.

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