2023 Seville City Council election

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2023 Seville City Council election
Flag of Sevilla, Spain.svg
  2019 28 May 2023

All 31 seats in the City Council of Seville
16 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered531,886 Red Arrow Down.svg 1.7%
Turnout326,118 (61.3%)
Green Arrow Up Darker.svg 2.5 pp
 First partySecond partyThird party
  Jose Luis Sanz 2023 (cropped).jpg Antonio Munoz 2018 (cropped).jpg Cristina Pelaez 2023 (cropped).jpg
Leader José Luis Sanz Antonio Muñoz Cristina Peláez
Party PP PSOE–A Vox
Leader since21 July 20213 January 20222015
Last election8 seats, 23.1%13 seats, 39.2%2 seats, 8.0%
Seats won14123
Seat change Green Arrow Up Darker.svg 6 Red Arrow Down.svg 1 Green Arrow Up Darker.svg 1
Popular vote132,778110,20428,727
Percentage41.2%34.2%8.9%
Swing Green Arrow Up Darker.svg 18.1 pp Red Arrow Down.svg 5.0 pp Green Arrow Up Darker.svg 0.9 pp

 Fourth partyFifth party
  Susana Hornillo 2023 (cropped).jpg Portrait placeholder.svg
Leader Susana Hornillo Miguel Ángel Aumesquet
Party Con Andalucía CS
Leader since27 January 20239 November 2022
Last election3 seats (Adelante) [lower-alpha 1] 4 seats, 12.5%
Seats won20
Seat change Red Arrow Down.svg 1 Red Arrow Down.svg 4
Popular vote22,8035,069
Percentage7.1%1.6%
Swing n/a Red Arrow Down.svg 10.9 pp

Mayor before election

Antonio Muñoz
PSOE

Elected mayor

José Luis Sanz
PP

The 2023 Seville City Council election, also the 2023 Seville municipal election, was held on Sunday, 28 May 2023, to elect the 12th City Council of the municipality of Seville. 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.

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]

Parties and candidates

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 sought 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]

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

CandidacyParties and
alliances
Leading candidateIdeologyPrevious resultGov.Ref.
Votes (%)Seats
PSOE–A Antonio Munoz 2018 (cropped).jpg Antonio Muñoz Social democracy 39.24%13Yes check.svg [3]
[4]
PP
List
Jose Luis Sanz 2023 (cropped).jpg José Luis Sanz Conservatism
Christian democracy
23.15%8X mark.svg [5]
Con
Andalucía
List
Susana Hornillo 2023 (cropped).jpg Susana Hornillo Left-wing populism
Direct democracy
Democratic socialism
14.10% [lower-alpha 2] 4X mark.svg [6]
Adelante
Andalucía
List
  • Anti-capitalists (Anticapitalistas)
  • Andalusian Spring (Primavera Andaluza)
  • Andalusian Left (IzA)
  • Defend Andalusia (Defender Andalucía)
Portrait placeholder.svg Sandra Heredia Andalusian nationalism
Left-wing populism
Anti-capitalism
X mark.svg [7]
CS Portrait placeholder.svg Miguel Ángel Aumesquet Liberalism 12.45%4X mark.svg [8]
[9]
Vox
List
Cristina Pelaez 2023 (cropped).jpg Cristina Peláez Right-wing populism
Ultranationalism
National conservatism
7.95%2X mark.svg [10]

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 Seville.

Results

Summary of the 28 May 2023 City Council of Seville election results →
SevilleCouncilDiagram2023.svg
Parties and alliancesPopular voteSeats
Votes %±pp Total+/−
People's Party (PP)132,77841.17+18.0214+6
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party of Andalusia (PSOE–A)110,20434.17–5.0712–1
Vox (Vox)28,7278.91+0.963+1
With Andalusia (PodemosIUMPAVE–IdPAAVLVALTER)122,8037.07 n/a 2–1
Forward Andalusia (Adelante Andalucía)111,9743.71n/a0–1
Citizens–Party of the Citizenry (CS)5,0691.57–10.880–4
Animalist Party with the Environment (PACMA)24,3441.35+0.240±0
Blank Seats (EB)1,0930.34New0±0
For a Fairer World (PUM+J)8480.26+0.110±0
Communist Party of the Workers of Spain (PCTE)5860.18New0±0
Spanish Phalanx of the CNSO (FE–JONS)2100.07+0.030±0
Blank ballots3,8571.20+0.48
Total322,49331±0
Valid votes322,49398.89–0.48
Invalid votes3,6251.11+0.48
Votes cast / turnout326,11861.31+2.54
Abstentions205,76838.69–2.54
Registered voters531,886
Sources [13]
Footnotes:
Popular vote
PP
41.17%
PSOE–A
34.17%
Vox
8.91%
ConA
7.07%
Adelante
3.71%
CS
1.57%
PACMA
1.35%
Others
0.85%
Blank ballots
1.20%
Seats
PP
45.16%
PSOE–A
38.71%
Vox
9.68%
ConA
6.45%

Notes

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