2019 Zaragoza City Council election

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2019 Zaragoza City Council election
Zaragoza (ciudad).svg
  2015 26 May 2019 2023  

All 31 seats in the City Council of Zaragoza
16 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered505,756 Green Arrow Up Darker.svg 0.7%
Turnout332,813 (65.8%)
Green Arrow Up Darker.svg 0.3 pp
 First partySecond partyThird party
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Leader Pilar Alegría Jorge Azcón Sara Fernández
Party PSOE PP Cs
Leader since28 September 20184 December 20189 March 2019
Last election6 seats, 18.7%10 seats, 26.9%4 seats, 12.3%
Seats won1086
Seat change Green Arrow Up Darker.svg 4 Red Arrow Down.svg 2 Green Arrow Up Darker.svg 2
Popular vote92,82373,06560,552
Percentage28.0%22.0%18.3%
Swing Green Arrow Up Darker.svg 9.3 pp Red Arrow Down.svg 4.9 pp Green Arrow Up Darker.svg 6.0 pp

 Fourth partyFifth partySixth party
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Leader Pedro Santisteve Violeta Barba Julio Calvo
Party ZGZ PodemosEquo Vox
Leader since1 March 20158 February 201922 April 2019
Last election9 seats, 24.6%Did not contestDid not contest
Seats won322
Seat change Red Arrow Down.svg 6 Green Arrow Up Darker.svg 2 Green Arrow Up Darker.svg 2
Popular vote33,42320,55120,458
Percentage10.1%6.2%6.2%
Swing Red Arrow Down.svg 14.5 pp New partyNew party

Mayor before election

Pedro Santisteve
ZGZ

Elected Mayor

Jorge Azcón
PP

The 2019 Zaragoza City Council election, also the 2019 Zaragoza municipal election, was held on Sunday, 26 May 2019, to elect the 11th 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 twelve autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain, as well as the 2019 European Parliament election.

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 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; 16 seats were required for an absolute majority in the City Council of Zaragoza.

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  Exit poll

Voting preferences

The table below lists raw, unweighted voting preferences.

Results

Summary of the 26 May 2019 City Council of Zaragoza election results
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Parties and alliancesPopular voteSeats
Votes %±pp Total+/−
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)92,82328.00+9.3310+4
People's Party (PP)73,06522.04–4.848–2
Citizens–Party of the Citizenry (Cs)60,55218.27+5.996+2
Zaragoza in Common: United Left–Let's Win ZaragozaAnticapitalists (ZGZ)33,42310.08–14.493–6
We CanEquo (Podemos–Equo)20,5516.20New2+2
Vox (Vox)20,4586.17New2+2
Aragonese Union (CHA)15,3114.62–2.150–2
Aragonese Party (PAR)5,6081.69–1.130±0
Ñ Platform (PAÑ)2,5840.78New0±0
Animalist Party Against Mistreatment of Animals (PACMA)2,0790.63–0.550±0
Giving More (Demos+)7820.24New0±0
Blank Seats (EB)7680.23–1.130±0
Communist Party of the Workers of Spain (PCTE)2290.07New0±0
Social Aragonese Movement (MAS)2190.07New0±0
Spanish Phalanx of the CNSO (FE–JONS)2120.06New0±0
Aragonese Land (TA)1880.06New0±0
Federation of Independents of Aragon (FIA)1840.06–0.050±0
Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain (PCPE)1640.05–0.230±0
Aragonese State (EAR)1600.05–0.090±0
Blank ballots2,1120.64–1.25
Total331,47231±0
Valid votes331,47299.60+0.56
Invalid votes1,3420.40–0.56
Votes cast / turnout332,81465.81+0.28
Abstentions172,94234.19–0.28
Registered voters505,756
Sources [8] [9]
Popular vote
PSOE
28.00%
PP
22.04%
Cs
18.27%
ZGZ
10.08%
PodemosEquo
6.20%
Vox
6.17%
CHA
4.62%
PAR
1.69%
Others
2.28%
Blank ballots
0.64%
Seats
PSOE
32.26%
PP
25.81%
Cs
19.35%
ZGZ
9.68%
Vox
6.45%
PodemosEquo
6.45%

Notes

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Opinion poll sources
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  2. "El PSOE, primera fuerza política en los ayuntamientos de Zaragoza, Huesca y Teruel". Heraldo de Aragón (in Spanish). 26 May 2019.
  3. "El PSOE se reforzaría en Valencia, Zaragoza y Sevilla pese al auge de Cs y la irrupción de Vox". Público (in Spanish). 20 May 2019.
  4. "La izquierda sería mayoritaria en Zaragoza con el PSOE como primera fuerza". Heraldo de Aragón (in Spanish). 20 May 2019.
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