2007 Seville City Council election

The 2007 Seville City Council election, also the 2007 Seville municipal election, was held on Sunday, 27 May 2007, to elect the 8th 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.

2007 Seville City Council election

27 May 2007
All 33 seats in the City Council of Seville 17 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered	565,792 2.8%
Turnout	308,999 (54.6%) 4.0 pp
First party Second party Third party   Leader Juan Ignacio Zoido Alfredo Sánchez Monteseirín Antonio Rodrigo Party PP PSOE–A IULV–CA Leader since 28 June 2006 27 June 1998 2007 Last election 12 seats, 35.2% 14 seats, 38.6% 3 seats, 9.0% Seats won 15 15 3 Seat change 3 1 0 Popular vote 128,776 124,534 25,772 Percentage 41.8% 40.5% 8.4% Swing 6.6 pp 1.9 pp 0.6 pp
Mayor before election Alfredo Sánchez Monteseirín PSOE–A Elected Mayor Alfredo Sánchez Monteseirín PSOE–A

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 eighteen, registered 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 a threshold of five percent of valid votes—which included blank ballots—being applied in each local council. Parties not reaching the threshold were not taken into consideration for seat distribution.[1][2] Councillors were allocated to municipal councils based on the following scale:

Population	Councillors
<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 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, a toss-up would determine the appointee.[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 given poll. When available, seat projections are also displayed below the voting estimates in a smaller font. 17 seats were required for an absolute majority in the City Council of Seville.

Color key:

  Exit poll

Polling firm/Commissioner	Fieldwork date	Sample size	Turnout				IULV	Lead
2007 municipal election	27 May 2007	N/A	54.6	40.5 15	41.8 15	4.5 0	8.4 3	1.3
Ipsos/RTVE–FORTA[p 1]	27 May 2007	?	?	? 15/17	? 14/16	? 0/1	? 2/3	?
Opina/El País[p 2][p 3]	14 May 2007	600	?	45.0 16/17	37.0 13	5.0 0/1	9.5 3	8.0
Opina/Cadena SER[p 4]	13 May 2007	?	?	42.9 15/16	41.6 15	5.0 0/1	8.0 3	1.3
Estio/El Correo[p 5]	8–12 May 2007	1,300	?	42.1 15	40.7 14/15	5.5 1/2	7.0 2	1.4
Ipsos/Grupo Joly[p 5]	30 Apr–11 May 2007	800	?	38.5 13/14	38.1 13/14	9.0 3	8.5 3	0.4
Metroscopia/ABC[p 6]	9–10 May 2007	800	60.0	42.5 14/15	41.7 14/15	5.0 0/1	8.8 2/3	0.8
Sigma Dos/El Mundo[p 7]	2–9 May 2007	400	?	42.5 14/16	41.5 14/15	5.2 0/2	7.1 2	1.0
CIS[p 8]	9–29 Apr 2007	1,000	?	42.8 15	36.9 12/13	8.6 3	8.3 2/3	5.9
Insomer/PA[p 9]	15–18 Apr 2007	1,100	?	37.1 13	38.6 13/14	13.7 4	7.8 2	1.5
Ipsos/Grupo Joly[p 10]	1 Mar 2007	?	?	39.7 14/15	35.0 12/13	10.4 3	9.6 3	4.7
CANP/El Correo[p 11]	5–14 Feb 2007	1,100	?	38.6 14	38.7 14	8.1 2	8.6 3	0.1
Sociatae Estudios/PP[p 12]	27 Nov–15 Dec 2006	1,500	?	34.7 12/13	39.8 14/15	10.7 3	10.2 3	5.1
Insomer/PA[p 13][p 14]	16–24 Nov 2006	1,100	?	35.1 12	41.5 14	12.4 4	8.9 3	6.4
Ipsos/Grupo Joly[p 15]	16 Apr 2006	?	?	38.0 14	36.7 13/14	10.0 3	9.0 3	1.3
El Correo[p 16]	3 Apr 2006	?	?	38.6 14/15	35.0 13/14	12.3 3	9.0 2	3.6
Sigma Dos/PP[p 17]	9–10 May 2005	600	?	39.2 13/14	39.0 13/14	8.6 3	9.2 3	0.2
2004 EP election[3]	13 Jun 2004	N/A	42.0	50.4 18	39.8 15	3.2 0	4.7 0	10.6
2004 regional election[4]	14 Mar 2004	N/A	76.3	48.8 17	33.1 12	5.8 2	7.3 2	15.7
2004 general election[5]	14 Mar 2004	N/A	76.3	52.4 19	34.5 12	3.8 0	5.6 2	17.9
2003 municipal election	25 May 2003	N/A	58.5	38.6 14	35.2 12	12.3 4	9.0 3	3.4

Results

← Summary of the 27 May 2007 City Council of Seville election results →

Parties and coalitions		Popular vote			Seats
		Votes	%	±pp	Total	+/−
	People's Party (PP)	128,776	41.84	+6.64	15	+3
	Spanish Socialist Workers' Party of Andalusia (PSOE–A)	124,534	40.46	+1.86	15	+1
	United Left/The Greens–Assembly for Andalusia (IULV–CA)	25,772	8.37	–0.60	3	±0
	Andalusian Party (PA)	13,839	4.50	–7.82	0	–4
	The Greens 2007 (LV2007)	3,207	1.04	–0.30	0	±0
	Socialist Party of Andalusia (PSA)	2,179	0.71	+0.17	0	±0
	Anti-Bullfighting Party Against Mistreatment of Animals (PACMA)	724	0.24	New	0	±0
	Republican Left (IR)	593	0.19	New	0	±0
	Internationalist Solidarity and Self-Management (SAIn)	525	0.17	New	0	±0
	For a Fairer World (PUM+J)	523	0.17	New	0	±0
	Group of Independent Citizens (GCI)	519	0.17	–0.14	0	±0
	Spanish Phalanx of the CNSO (FE–JONS)^1	280	0.09	±0.00	0	±0
	Humanist Party (PH)	221	0.07	–0.02	0	±0
Blank ballots		6,110	1.99	–0.48
Total		307,802			33	±0
Valid votes		307,802	99.61	+0.05
Invalid votes		1,197	0.39	–0.05
Votes cast / turnout		308,999	54.61	–3.94
Abstentions		256,793	45.39	+3.94
Registered voters		565,792
Sources[6][7][8]

Popular vote PP   41.84% PSOE–A   40.46% IULV–CA   8.37% PA   4.50% LV2007   1.04% Others   1.81% Blank ballots   1.99%

Seats PP   45.45% PSOE–A   45.45% IULV–CA   9.09%

References

Opinion poll sources

1. "La encuesta de Ipsos no pronostica cambios en las principales capitales andaluzas". 20 Minutos (in Spanish). 27 May 2007.
2. "El PP se crece en Madrid y Valencia y el PSOE amarra Barcelona y Sevilla". El País (in Spanish). 21 May 2007.
3. "Los socialistas acarician la mayoría absoluta en Sevilla". El País (in Spanish). 21 May 2007.
4. "Los socialistas revalidarán su gobierno en Sevilla". Cadena SER (in Spanish). 13 May 2007.
5. "Tres encuestas dan un empate técnico al PSOE y PP en Ayuntamiento de Sevilla". 20 minutos (in Spanish). 21 May 2007.
6. "El PP recorta distancias y logra en estos momentos un empate técnico con el PSOE". ABC Sevilla (in Spanish). 20 May 2007.
7. "Una encuesta de 'El Mundo' da más concejales a PSOE y PP, con reedición de mandato por parte socialista". Europa Press (in Spanish). 14 May 2007.
8. "Preelectoral elecciones municipales 2007. Sevilla (Estudio nº 2686. Abril 2007)". CIS (in Spanish). 11 May 2007.
9. "El PSOE baja, el PP sube y empatan en intención de voto". ABC Sevilla (in Spanish). 22 April 2007.
10. "Los partidos reciben con satisfacción y distancia la foto fija de las encuestas". El País (in Spanish). 1 March 2007.
11. "Una encuesta sitúa en empate técnico los resultados de las municipales en Sevilla". El País (in Spanish). 5 March 2007.
12. "Una encuesta da al PP el triunfo en las municipales por cinco puntos". ABC Sevilla (in Spanish). 9 January 2007.
13. "Una encuesta del PA da la mayoría a un gobierno del PP con los andalucistas". ABC Sevilla (in Spanish). 12 December 2006.
14. "Un sondeo del PA da la victoria al PP en Sevilla y atribuye 4 ediles a su candidato". El País (in Spanish). 12 December 2006.
15. "Una encuesta de Joly prevé que PSOE e IU volverán a gobernar al sumar 17 ediles en las municipales de 2007". Europa Press (in Spanish). 16 April 2006.
16. "El PSOE y el PP se levantan la moral". ABC Sevilla (in Spanish). 3 April 2006.
17. "El PP aumenta hasta dos concejales y el PSOE se mantiene, según un sondeo". ABC Sevilla (in Spanish). 15 May 2005.

Other

1. "Ley 7/1985, de 2 de abril, Reguladora de las Bases del Régimen Local". Law No. 7 of 2 April 1985. Boletín Oficial del Estado (in Spanish). Retrieved 30 June 2020.
2. "Ley Orgánica 5/1985, de 19 de junio, del Régimen Electoral General". Organic Law No. 5 of 19 June 1985. Boletín Oficial del Estado (in Spanish). Retrieved 30 January 2020.
3. "Electoral Results Consultation. European Parliament. June 2004. Seville Municipality". www.infoelectoral.mir.es (in Spanish). Ministry of the Interior. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
4. "Electoral Information System. Parliament of Andalusia. March 2004. Seville Municipality". juntadeandalucia.es (in Spanish). Government of Andalusia. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
5. "Electoral Results Consultation. Congress. March 2004. Seville Municipality". www.infoelectoral.mir.es (in Spanish). Ministry of the Interior. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
6. "Local election results, 27 May 2007" (PDF). www.juntaelectoralcentral.es (in Spanish). Central Electoral Commission. Retrieved 16 February 2018.
7. "Electoral Results Consultation. Municipal. May 2007. Seville Municipality". www.infoelectoral.mir.es (in Spanish). Ministry of the Interior. Retrieved 12 November 2017.
8. "Municipal elections in Seville since 1979". historiaelectoral.com (in Spanish). Electoral History. Retrieved 30 September 2017.