2015 Madrid City Council election

2015 Madrid City Council election

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All 57 seats in the City Council of Madrid 29 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered	2,386,120 3.4%
Turnout	1,644,093 (68.9%) 1.7 pp
First party Second party Third party   Leader Esperanza Aguirre Manuela Carmena Antonio Miguel Carmona Party PP Ahora Madrid PSOE Leader since 6 March 2015 30 March 2015 6 October 2014 Last election 31 seats, 49.7% Did not contest 15 seats, 23.9% Seats won 21 20 9 Seat change 10 20 6 Popular vote 564,154 519,721 249,286 Percentage 34.6% 31.8% 15.3% Swing 15.1 pp New party 8.6 pp   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Begoña Villacís David Ortega Raquel López Party C's UPyD IUCM–LV Leader since 2 March 2015 9 October 2010 26 March 2015 Last election 0 seats, 0.2% 5 seats, 7.9% 6 seats, 10.7% Seats won 7 0 0 Seat change 7 5 6 Popular vote 186,487 29,812 27,651 Percentage 11.4% 1.8% 1.7% Swing 11.2 pp 6.1 pp 9.0 pp
Mayor before election Ana Botella PP Elected Mayor Manuela Carmena Ahora Madrid

A municipal election was held in Madrid on Sunday, 24 May 2015, to elect the 10th City Council of the municipality. All 57 seats in the City Council were up for election. It was held concurrently with regional elections in thirteen autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain.

Leading the People's Party (PP) local list was Esperanza Aguirre, former president of the Community of Madrid (2003–2012), president of the Senate of Spain (1999–2002) and minister of Education and Culture (1996–1999), as well as the leader of the regional PP branch since 2004. Mayor Ana Botella, who succeeded Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón early into his term in December 2011, had declined re-election in September 2014. The election was an unexpectedly close race between Aguirre's PP and former judge Manuela Carmena's Podemos-supported Ahora Madrid (English: Madrid Now) platform. The collapse in the PP vote and the loss of its absolute majority allowed Carmena to gain power through an alliance with the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), resulting in the first left-wing government in the city since 1989.

The PSOE suffered heavily from tactical voting to Ahora Madrid after it became apparent throughout the campaign that the left-of-centre vote was coalescing around Carmena's coalition. The newcomer liberal Citizens (Spanish : Ciudadanos) party also entered the City Council for the first time, collecting votes disenchanted with the PP and replacing Union, Progress and Democracy (UPyD) as the main centrist local force. United Left (IU) fell below the 5% threshold and failed to gain any representation for the first time in history.

Overview

Under the 1978 Constitution, the governance of municipalities in Spain—part of the country's local government system—was centered on the figure of city councils (Spanish : ayuntamientos), local corporations with independent legal personality composed of a mayor, a government council and an elected legislative assembly. ^{[1] [2]} In the case of Madrid, the top-tier administrative and governing body was the City Council of Madrid. ^[3]

Electoral system

Voting for local assemblies was on the basis of universal suffrage, which comprised all nationals over 18 years of age, registered and residing in the municipality of Madrid and in full enjoyment of their political rights (provided that they were not sentenced—by a final court ruling—to deprivation of the right to vote), 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. ^{[2] [4] [5]}

Local councillors were elected using the D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional voting system, with an electoral threshold of five percent of valid votes (which included blank ballots) being applied in each municipality. ^[6] Each municipality constituted a multi-member constituency, entitled a number of seats based on the following scale: ^[7]

Population	Councillors
<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 law did not provide for by-elections to fill vacated seats; instead, any vacancies that occurred after the proclamation of candidates and into the legislative term were to be covered by the successive candidates in the list and, when required, by the designated substitutes. ^[8]

The mayor was indirectly elected by the local assembly. ^[2] A legal clause required candidates to earn the vote of an absolute majority of councillors, or else the candidate of the most-voted party was to be automatically appointed to the post. In the event of a tie, the appointee was to be determined by lot. ^[9]

Election date

The term of city councils in Spain expired four years after the date of their previous election, with election day being fixed for the fourth Sunday of May every four years (as of 2025, this has been the year before a leap year). ^[10] Local councils could not be dissolved before the expiry of their term, except in cases of mismanagement that seriously harmed the public interest and implied a breach of constitutional obligations, in which case the Council of Ministers could—optionally—agree to call a by-election. ^[11]

Elections to local councils not bound to the open council system were officially called on 31 March 2015 with the publication of the corresponding decree in the BOE, setting election day for 24 May. ^[12]

Parties and candidates

The electoral law allowed for parties and federations registered in the interior ministry, alliances and groupings of electors to present lists of candidates. Parties and federations intending to form an alliance 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 sought election, disallowing electors from signing for more than one list of candidates. In the case of Madrid, as its population was over 1,000,001, at least 8,000 signatures were required. ^[13] Additionally, a balanced composition of men and women was required in the electoral lists, so that candidates of either sex made up at least 40 percent of the total composition. ^[14]

Below is a list of the main parties and electoral alliances which contested the election:

Candidacy		Parties and alliances	Leading candidate		Ideology	Previous result		Gov.	Ref.
						Vote %	Seats
	PP	List People's Party (PP)		Esperanza Aguirre	Conservatism Christian democracy	49.7%	31		[15] [16]
	PSOE	List Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)		Antonio Miguel Carmona	Social democracy	23.9%	15		[17]
	IUCM–LV	List United Left of the Community of Madrid (IUCM) – The Dawn Marxist Organization (La Aurora (OM)) – Republican Left (IR) – Open Left (IzAb) The Greens (LV)		Raquel López	Socialism Communism	10.7%	6		[18]
	UPyD	List Union, Progress and Democracy (UPyD)		David Ortega	Social liberalism Radical centrism	7.9%	5		[19]
	C's	List Citizens–Party of the Citizenry (C's)		Begoña Villacís	Liberalism	0.2%	0		[20]
	Ahora Madrid	List We Can (Podemos) Let's Win Madrid (Ganemos Madrid) Communist Party of Madrid (PCM) Equo (Equo) Assembly for Madrid (CxM) For a Fairer World (PUM+J)		Manuela Carmena	Progressivism Participatory democracy	Did not contest			[21] [22]

Campaign

Electoral debates were held in Telemadrid between the candidates of the PP, PSOE, IU, UPyD, Vox, Citizens and Ahora Madrid in the last week of campaign, between 18 and 20 May. The most expected and tense moment came with the debate between PP candidate Esperanza Aguirre and AM Manuela Carmena, as the most-likely candidates to become the next Mayor of the city. Aguirre immediately accused Carmena of saying in the past that "ETA members had suffered a lot", trying to link the former judge with the terrorist group, as well as trying to discredit Carmena's career in the judiciary, which was seen as a furious attack of Aguirre on Carmena. The latter, visibly surprised, counterattacked responding that Aguirre was acting arrogantly and contemptuous to others and accusing her of allowing corruption to spread during her tenure as president of Madrid. "Please go, you've caused a lot of harm" said Carmena to Aguirre. ^[23]

In the last days of the campaign, especially following her debate with Aguirre, several celebrities such as actors Pilar Bardem, Carlos Bardem, Loles León, Goya Toledo, Paco León, playwright Cristina Rota, lawyer and former politician Cristina Almeida and journalist Ernesto Ekaizer expressed their support for Carmena's candidacy, with actress Eva Hache going on to say through the Twitter social network that "I don't know if we are Manuela but surely we are not the other [in reference to Aguirre]. VOTE." ^{[24] [25]} Carmena had also received the support of dozens of artists who created drawings in support of Carmena's and Ahora Madrid candidacy, with the drawings themselves becoming viral in the social networks. ^[26] Following the Telemadrid debate, after which Aguirre was highly criticised for her aggressive behaviour towards Carmena, ^[27] supporters cast the drawings next to Aguirre's home in Malasaña. ^[28] On 21 May, a Carmena's act in the center of Madrid exceeded its capacity, originally scheduled for 800 people, resulting in the closing of a street and in Carmena herself apologizing to the around 1,500 people outside that were not able to enter. ^[29]

Opinion polls

The tables below list opinion polling results 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.

Voting intention estimates

The table below lists weighted voting intention estimates. Refusals are generally excluded from the party vote percentages, while question wording and the treatment of "don't know" responses and those not intending to vote may vary between polling organisations. When available, seat projections determined by the polling organisations are displayed below (or in place of) the percentages in a smaller font; 29 seats were required for an absolute majority in the City Council of Madrid.

Color key:

  Poll conducted after legal ban on opinion polls  Exit poll

Polling firm/Commissioner	Fieldwork date	Sample size	Turnout									Lead
2015 municipal election	24 May 2015	—	68.9	34.6 21	15.3 9	1.7 0	1.8 0	11.4 7	[a]	[a]	31.8 20	2.8
TNS Demoscopia/RTVE–FORTA [p 1] [p 2]	24 May 2015	?	?	31.9 19/22	15.5 9/10	2.0 0	1.5 0	10.8 6/7	[a]	[a]	33.8 20/23	1.9
GAD3/Antena 3 [p 3]	11–22 May 2015	?	?	? 21/23	? 9/10	–	–	? 7/8	[a]	[a]	? 17/19	?
PP [p 4]	20 May 2015	?	?	? 21	? 11	? 3	–	? 9	[a]	[a]	? 13	?
Idea Nomina Data/Público [p 5]	17 May 2015	1,000	?	34.0– 36.0 21/24	17.0– 19.0 10/12	3.0– 4.5 0	1.5– 2.5 0	15.0– 17.0 9/11	[a]	[a]	22.0– 25.0 14/15	11.0– 12.0
Metroscopia/El País [p 6] [p 7] [p 8]	13–14 May 2015	1,000	70	29.7 19	17.2 11	4.3 0	0.8 0	16.4 10	[a]	[a]	27.8 17	1.9
NC Report/La Razón [p 9] [p 10]	13–14 May 2015	600	?	35.2 23	20.1 13	4.1 0	2.8 0	16.2 10	[a]	[a]	16.9 11	15.1
Sigma Dos/El Mundo [p 11] [p 12]	12–13 May 2015	800	?	36.4 22/24	19.2 12/13	4.6 0	1.6 0	14.7 9	[a]	[a]	20.2 12/13	16.2
JM&A/Público [p 13]	12 May 2015	?	?	? 22	? 12	–	–	? 10	[a]	[a]	? 13	?
Sigma Dos/Mediaset [p 14]	4–7 May 2015	?	?	36.9 23/25	20.3 12/13	3.6 0	1.3 0	16.1 10	[a]	[a]	17.6 10/11	16.6
MyWord/Cadena SER [p 15] [p 16]	29 Apr–6 May 2015	801	?	34.4 21/23	17.6 10/12	2.9 0/3	1.1 0	17.0 10/11	[a]	[a]	21.6 13	12.8
JM&A/Público [p 17] [p 18]	3 May 2015	?	?	33.4 21	20.3 12	5.4 3	1.2 0	15.3 9	[a]	[a]	20.5 12	12.9
InvyMark/laSexta [p 19] [p 20]	27–30 Apr 2015	?	?	36.1 24	18.5 12	4.3 0	1.9 0	15.5 10	[a]	[a]	17.3 11	17.6
Metroscopia/El País [p 21] [p 22]	27–28 Apr 2015	600	69	34.6 22	17.2 10	4.2 0	0.6 0	16.9 10	[a]	[a]	24.3 15	10.3
Cámara de Comercio [p 18] [p 23]	23 Apr 2015	?	?	35.3 21	18.5 11	6.7 4	1.4 0	11.8 7	[a]	[a]	23.6 14	11.7
Deimos Estadística [p 24]	16–23 Apr 2015	605	77.1	37.6 24/25	26.1 16	4.3 0	2.3 0	14.8 8/9	[a]	[a]	12.3 8/9	11.5
GAD3/ABC [p 25]	13–20 Apr 2015	608	?	34.5 21/23	21.2 13/14	4.6 0/3	1.1 0	15.6 9/10	[a]	[a]	18.2 11/12	13.3
Encuestamos [p 26]	2–20 Apr 2015	600	?	32.9 19/22	22.1 13/15	4.7 0/3	0.8 0	14.8 8/9	[a]	[a]	21.8 12/14	10.8
CIS [p 27] [p 28]	23 Mar–19 Apr 2015	927	?	34.5 22/23	18.8 12	4.2 0	3.2 0	14.9 9/10	[a]	[a]	20.8 13/14	13.7
Sigma Dos/Mediaset [p 29]	14–16 Apr 2015	?	?	36.8 23/24	17.5 10/11	4.9 0/3	1.4 0	16.8 10	[a]	[a]	18.6 11/12	18.2
PP [p 30]	3 Apr 2015	?	?	34.0– 36.0	18.0– 19.0	5.0– 6.0	2.0– 3.0	14.0– 16.0	[a]	[a]	21.0– 22.0	13.0– 14.0
Sigma Dos/El Mundo [p 31] [p 32]	25–26 Mar 2015	800	?	34.5 20/22	18.7 11	6.4 3/4	1.4 0	15.1 9	[a]	[a]	21.2 12/13	13.3
Metroscopia/El País [p 8]	19–20 Feb 2015	?	?	31.0 20	22.5 14	4.5 0	2.1 0	14.2 9	[b]	21.9 14	–	8.5
PP [p 33] [p 34]	18 Feb 2015	?	? [c]	? 30	? 8	? 3	? 3	? 4	[b]	? 9	–	?
			? [d]	? 26	? 9	? 3	? 4	? 6	[b]	? 9	–	?
InvyMark/laSexta [p 35]	12–13 Feb 2015	?	?	40.1 26	21.5 14	5.0 3	4.8 0	6.5 4	[b]	14.9 10	–	18.6
Metroscopia/El País [p 8]	11 Feb 2015	?	?	29.5 19	24.7 16	3.8 0	4.1 0	11.7 7	[b]	22.6 15	–	4.8
PP [p 36] [p 37]	4 Feb 2015	?	?	? 23	? 17	–	–	? 4	[b]	? 13	–	?
Metroscopia/El País [p 8]	26 Jan 2015	?	?	28.7 18	22.0 14	8.3 5	7.2 4	8.5 5	[b]	18.6 11	–	6.7
Sigma Dos/El Mundo [p 38] [p 39]	1–14 Nov 2014	800	?	31.4 20/21	19.5 12/13	6.8 4	7.7 4/5	4.3 0	24.6 15/16	–	–	6.8
Llorente & Cuenca [p 40]	31 Oct 2014	?	?	? 21/24	? 11/13	? 5/7	? 5/7	–	? 11/13	–	–	?
GAD3/ABC [p 41]	5–11 Sep 2014	600	71	42.1 26	14.4 9	7.7 4	10.4 6	5.3 3	15.1 9	–	–	27.0
2014 EP election	25 May 2014	—	50.0	32.4 (23)	18.2 (13)	10.3 (7)	9.6 (7)	4.7 (0)	10.5 (7)	–	–	14.2
Metroscopia/El País [p 42] [p 43]	24–28 Apr 2014	600	60	32.5 21	23.4 15	20.8 14	11.6 7	–	–	–	–	9.1
InvyMark/laSexta [p 44]	21 Apr 2014	?	?	39.4 25	23.5 14	14.8 9	15.6 9	–	–	–	–	15.9
Metroscopia/El País [p 45] [p 46]	13 May 2013	600	55.2	30.2 21	22.1 15	20.5 14	11.2 7	–	–	–	–	8.1
GAD3/ABC [p 47]	9–13 Jan 2012	400	?	51.2 32/33	22.8 14/15	8.1 4/5	9.2 5/6	–	–	–	–	28.4
2011 general election	20 Nov 2011	—	75.2	51.6 (32)	25.7 (15)	7.9 (4)	9.8 (6)	–	–	–	–	25.9
2011 municipal election	22 May 2011	—	67.2	49.7 31	23.9 15	10.7 6	7.9 5	0.2 0	–	–	–	25.8

Voting preferences

The table below lists raw, unweighted voting preferences.

Polling firm/Commissioner	Fieldwork date	Sample size									?	N	Lead
2015 municipal election	24 May 2015	—	23.6	10.4	1.2	1.2	7.8	[a]	[a]	21.8	—	31.1	1.8
Metroscopia/El País [p 8]	13–14 May 2015	1,000	20.4	11.7	3.3	0.6	11.1	[a]	[a]	19.1	27.3	3.9	1.3
MyWord/Cadena SER [p 16]	29 Apr–6 May 2015	801	14.7	7.5	2.6	1.4	13.4	[a]	[a]	17.6	30.1	7.0	2.9
Metroscopia/El País [p 22]	27–28 Apr 2015	600	23.0	12.2	3.0	0.3	12.0	[a]	[a]	17.2	25.8	4.8	5.8
CIS [p 27]	23 Mar–19 Apr 2015	927	20.1	12.7	2.7	1.2	10.6	[a]	[a]	16.9	24.4	9.0	3.2
2014 EP election	25 May 2014	—	16.0	9.0	5.1	4.8	2.3	5.2	–	–	—	50.0	7.0
2011 general election	20 Nov 2011	—	38.5	19.2	5.9	7.3	–	–	–	–	—	24.8	19.3
2011 municipal election	22 May 2011	—	32.8	15.8	7.1	5.2	0.1	–	–	–	—	32.8	17.0

Victory preferences

The table below lists opinion polling on the victory preferences for each party in the event of a municipal election taking place.

Polling firm/Commissioner	Fieldwork date	Sample size			Other/ None	?	Lead
Metroscopia/El País [p 43]	24–28 Apr 2014	600	23.0	19.0	58.0		4.0

Victory likelihood

The table below lists opinion polling on the perceived likelihood of victory for each party in the event of a municipal election taking place.

Polling firm/Commissioner	Fieldwork date	Sample size				Other/ None	?	Lead
Metroscopia/El País [p 43]	24–28 Apr 2014	600	62.0	14.0	1.0	23.0		48.0

Results

← Summary of the 24 May 2015 City Council of Madrid election results →

Parties and alliances		Popular vote			Seats
		Votes	%	±pp	Total	+/−
	People's Party (PP)	564,154	34.57	−15.12	21	−10
	Madrid Now (Ahora Madrid)	519,721	31.84	New	20	+20
	Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)	249,286	15.27	−8.66	9	−6
	Citizens–Party of the Citizenry (C's)	186,487	11.43	+11.24	7	+7
	Union, Progress and Democracy (UPyD)	29,812	1.83	−6.02	0	−5
	United Left of the Community of Madrid–The Greens (IUCM–LV)	27,651	1.69	−9.06	0	−6
	Vox (Vox)	9,867	0.60	New	0	±0
	Animalist Party Against Mistreatment of Animals (PACMA)	9,599	0.59	+0.13	0	±0
	The Greens–Green Group (LV–GV)	5,409	0.33	New	0	±0
	United Free Citizens (CILUS)	2,512	0.15	New	0	±0
	Spanish Phalanx of the CNSO (FE–JONS)	2,089	0.13	±0.00	0	±0
	Blank Seats (EB)	1,895	0.12	New	0	±0
	The National Coalition (LCN)	1,259	0.08	New	0	±0
	Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain (PCPE)	1,226	0.08	−0.06	0	±0
	Humanist Party (PH)	1,015	0.06	−0.07	0	±0
	Spanish Alternative (AES)	998	0.06	−0.25	0	±0
	Multi-Cultural Party of Social Justice (MJS)	789	0.05	New	0	±0
	Libertarian Party (P–LIB)	617	0.04	New	0	±0
	Internationalist Solidarity and Self-Management (SAIn)	543	0.03	New	0	±0
	Internationalist Socialist Workers' Party (POSI)	528	0.03	−0.04	0	±0
	Castilian Party–Commoners' Land: Pact (PCAS–TC: Pacto)	490	0.03	−0.03	0	±0
	Union for Leganés (ULEG)	270	0.02	−0.05	0	±0
Blank ballots		15,825	0.97	−1.87
Total		1,632,042			57	±0
Valid votes		1,632,042	99.27	+1.09
Invalid votes		12,051	0.73	−1.09
Votes cast / turnout		1,644,093	68.90	+1.68
Abstentions		742,027	31.10	−1.68
Registered voters		2,386,120
Sources [30] [31] [32] [33]

Popular vote

PP			34.57%
Ahora Madrid			31.84%
PSOE			15.27%
C's			11.43%
UPyD			1.83%
IUCM–LV			1.69%
Others			2.40%
Blank ballots			0.97%

Seats

PP			36.84%
Ahora Madrid			35.09%
PSOE			15.79%
C's			12.28%

Aftermath

Investiture
Ballot →		13 June 2015
Required majority →		29 out of 57
	Manuela Carmena (AM) • Ahora Madrid (20) • PSOE (9)	29 / 57	Y
	Esperanza Aguirre (PP) • PP (21)	21 / 57	N
	Begoña Villacís (C's) • C's (7)	7 / 57	N
	Blank ballots	0 / 57
	Absentees	0 / 57
Sources [30] [34]

Notes

1. Within Ahora Madrid.
2. Within Ganemos.
3. Esperanza Aguirre as PP candidate hypothesis.
4. No specified PP candidate.

References

Opinion poll sources

1. "El PP habría ganado las elecciones autonómicas en Madrid pero insuficiente para gobernar". Telemadrid (in Spanish). 24 May 2015.
2. "Ahora Madrid, el partido más votado en la capital según la encuesta a pie de urna". Kantar (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. "El último 'tracking' del PP deja a la izquierda a dos ediles de la mayoría absoluta en el Ayuntamiento de Madrid". infoLibre (in Spanish). 20 May 2015.
5. "Aguirre logra cerrar filas entre los votantes del PP pero será desbancada si no obtiene apoyo de C's". Público (in Spanish). 17 May 2015.
6. "Empate técnico entre el PP y la lista apoyada por Podemos en Madrid". El País (in Spanish). 17 May 2015.
7. "Situación política en el municipio de Madrid". El País (in Spanish). 17 May 2015.
8. "Sondeo preelectoral en el municipio de Madrid". Blogs El País (in Spanish). 18 May 2015.
9. "Aguirre gana en Madrid, pero sin mayoría absoluta". La Razón (in Spanish). 15 May 2015.
10. "Intención de voto en el Ayuntamiento de Madrid" (PDF). La Razón (in Spanish). 15 May 2015.
11. "El PP se recupera y Podemos sigue por delante del PSOE en intención del voto al Ayuntamiento de Madrid". El Mundo (in Spanish). 15 May 2015.
12. "Intención de voto y valoración en el Ayuntamiento de Madrid. Gráfico". El Mundo (in Spanish). 15 May 2015.
13. "El PP depende de C's para gobernar en Madrid, Valencia, Sevilla y Málaga". Público (in Spanish). 15 May 2015.
14. "El PP conserva Madrid con Podemos y Ciudadanos acechando al PSOE". Telecinco (in Spanish). 24 April 2015.
15. "Esperanza Aguirre podrá ser alcaldesa pero en minoría". Cadena SER (in Spanish). 12 May 2015.
16. "El ObSERvatorio de la Cadena SER. Estudio preelectoral de la ciudad de Madrid (12/5/2015)" (PDF). MyWord (in Spanish). 12 May 2015.
17. "Ada Colau empata con Trias, Barberá se estrella en Valencia y Podemos tiene la llave en Sevilla". Público (in Spanish). 3 May 2015.
18. "Tracking de sondeos en las capitales: la derecha sólo puede esperar que Ciudadanos salve al PP". Público (in Spanish). 3 May 2015.
19. "El Partido Popular perdería la mayoría absoluta en el Ayuntamiento y en la Comunidad de Madrid". laSexta (in Spanish). 2 May 2015.
20. "MADRID, Abril 2015. Sondeo Invymark". Electográfica (in Spanish). 2 May 2015.
21. "El PP gana en Madrid pero tendrá que pactar con Ciudadanos". El País (in Spanish). 2 May 2015.
22. "Situación política en el municipio de Madrid". El País (in Spanish). 2 May 2015.
23. "MADRID, Abril 2015. Sondeo Cámara de Comercio". Electográfica (in Spanish). 23 April 2015.
24. "El PP ganaría en el Ayuntamiento y la Comunidad de Madrid sin mayoría absoluta". eldiario.es (in Spanish). 24 April 2015.
25. "El PP gana en Madrid, pero necesitará a Ciudadanos para poder gobernar". ABC (in Spanish). 26 April 2015.
26. "Esperanza Aguirre gana en Madrid pero necesita a Ciudadanos para gobernar". Encuestamos (in Spanish). 25 April 2015. Archived from the original on 2015-05-12.
27. "Preelectoral elecciones autonómicas y municipales 2015. Ciudad de Madrid (Estudio nº 3065. Marzo-Abril 2015)". CIS (in Spanish). 7 May 2015.
28. "El PP se echa a la calle para recuperar a las clases medias". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). 8 May 2015.
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1. Constitution (1978) , art. 140.
2. LBRL (1985) , art. 19.
3. LBRL (1985) , arts. 121–132.
4. Constitution (1978) , art. 13.
5. LOREG (1985) , arts. 2–3 & 176.
6. LOREG (1985) , arts. 163 & 180.
7. LOREG (1985) , art. 179.
8. LOREG (1985) , arts. 46, 48 & 182.
9. LOREG (1985) , art. 196.
10. LOREG (1985) , arts. 42 & 194.
11. LBRL (1985) , art. 61.
12. Real Decreto 233/2015, de 30 de marzo, por el que se convocan elecciones locales y a las Asambleas de Ceuta y Melilla para el 24 de mayo de 2015 (PDF) (Royal Decree 233/2015). Official State Gazette (in Spanish). 30 March 2015. Retrieved 10 November 2025.
13. LOREG (1985) , arts. 44 & 187.
14. LOREG (1985) , art. 44 bis.
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27. Escolar, Ignacio (19 May 2015). "Si no votas al PP, votas a ETA". eldiario.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 8 November 2025.
28. "Simpatizantes de Carmena proyectan su rostro junto a la casa de Esperanza Aguirre". Público (in Spanish). Madrid. 20 May 2015. Retrieved 8 November 2025.
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33. "Acuerdo de 1 de julio de 2015, de la Junta Electoral Central, por el que se procede a la publicación del resumen de los resultados de las elecciones locales convocadas por Real Decreto 233/2015, de 30 de marzo, y celebradas el 24 de mayo de 2015, según los datos que figuran en las actas de proclamación remitidas por cada una de las Juntas Electorales de Zona. Provincias: León, Lleida, Lugo, Madrid, Málaga, Murcia, Navarra, Ourense, Palencia, Las Palmas y Pontevedra" (PDF). Official State Gazette (in Spanish) (191): 72457–73122. 11 August 2015. ISSN   0212-033X . Retrieved 5 November 2025.
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