2015 Zaragoza City Council election

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2015 Zaragoza City Council election
Zaragoza (ciudad).svg
  2011 24 May 2015 2019  

All 31 seats in the City Council of Zaragoza
16 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered502,076 Green Arrow Up Darker.svg 1.2%
Turnout328,920 (65.5%)
Green Arrow Up Darker.svg 0.4 pp
 First partySecond partyThird party
  Eloy Suarez 2015 (cropped).jpg Pedro Santisteve 2015b (cropped).jpg Carlos Perez Anadon 2015 (cropped).jpg
Leader Eloy Suárez Pedro Santisteve Carlos Pérez Anadón
Party PP ZGZ PSOE
Leader since3 December 20101 March 20157 October 2014
Last election15 seats, 41.3%3 seats, 7.9% [lower-alpha 1] 10 seats, 27.1%
Seats won1096
Seat change Red Arrow Down.svg 5 Green Arrow Up Darker.svg 6 Red Arrow Down.svg 4
Popular vote87,56980,05560,807
Percentage26.9%24.6%18.7%
Swing Red Arrow Down.svg 14.4 pp Green Arrow Up Darker.svg 16.7 pp Red Arrow Down.svg 8.4 pp

 Fourth partyFifth party
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Leader Elena Martínez Ortín Juan Martín Expósito
Party C's CHA
Leader since14 April 201518 December 2018
Last electionDid not contest3 seats, 9.2%
Seats won42
Seat change Green Arrow Up Darker.svg 4 Red Arrow Down.svg 1
Popular vote40,01822,067
Percentage12.3%6.8%
SwingNew party Red Arrow Down.svg 2.4 pp

Mayor before election

Juan Alberto Belloch
PSOE

Elected Mayor

Pedro Santisteve
ZGZ

The 2015 Zaragoza City Council election, also the 2015 Zaragoza municipal election, was held on Sunday, 24 May 2015, to elect the 10th City Council of the municipality of Zaragoza. 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.

Contents

Electoral system

The City Council of Zaragoza (Spanish : Ayuntamiento de Zaragoza) was the top-tier administrative and governing body of the municipality of Zaragoza, 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 Zaragoza 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 Zaragoza, 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; 16 seats were required for an absolute majority in the City Council of Zaragoza.

Color key:

  Poll conducted after legal ban on opinion polls  Exit poll

Results

Summary of the 24 May 2015 City Council of Zaragoza election results
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Parties and alliancesPopular voteSeats
Votes %±pp Total+/−
People's Party (PP)87,56926.88–14.3810–5
Zaragoza in Common (ZGZ)180,05524.57+16.659+6
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)60,80718.67–8.476–4
Citizens–Party of the Citizenry (C's)40,01812.28New4+4
Aragonese Union (CHA)22,0676.77–2.472–1
Aragonese Party (PAR)9,1852.82–1.720±0
Union, Progress and Democracy (UPyD)4,9281.51–2.070±0
Blank Seats (EB)4,4261.36New0±0
Animalist Party Against Mistreatment of Animals (PACMA)3,8491.18+0.850±0
Commitment with Aragon (CCA)2,0880.64+0.310±0
The Greens–Green Group (LV–GV)1,8180.56+0.090±0
Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain (PCPE)9000.28+0.160±0
Republican Social Movement (MSR)6290.19New0±0
Aragonese Bloc (BAR)4650.14New0±0
Aragonese State (EAR)4530.14New0±0
Federation of Independents of Aragon (FIA)3740.11–0.040±0
Blank ballots6,1451.89–1.69
Total325,77631±0
Valid votes325,77699.04+0.52
Invalid votes3,1440.96–0.52
Votes cast / turnout328,92065.51+0.38
Abstentions173,15634.49–0.38
Registered voters502,076
Sources [7] [8] [9]
Footnotes:
Popular vote
PP
26.88%
ZGZ
24.57%
PSOE
18.67%
C's
12.28%
CHA
6.77%
PAR
2.82%
UPyD
1.51%
EB
1.36%
PACMA
1.18%
Others
2.06%
Blank ballots
1.89%
Seats
PP
32.26%
ZGZ
29.03%
PSOE
19.35%
C's
12.90%
CHA
6.45%

Notes

  1. Data for IU in the 2011 election.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Within ZGZ.
  3. 1 2 Undecided and/or abstentionists excluded.
  4. Within IU.
  5. Within PP.

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Opinion poll sources
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