2015 Seville City Council election

The 2015 Seville City Council election, also the 2015 Seville municipal election, was held on Sunday, 24 May 2015, to elect the 10th 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 thirteen autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain.

2015 Seville City Council election

24 May 2015
All 31 seats in the City Council of Seville 16 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered	545,309 0.3%
Turnout	324,218 (59.5%) 3.2 pp
First party Second party Third party   Leader Juan Ignacio Zoido Juan Espadas Javier Millán Party PP PSOE–A C's Leader since 28 June 2006 24 May 2010 6 February 2015 Last election 20 seats, 49.3% 11 seats, 29.5% Did not contest Seats won 12 11 3 Seat change 8 0 3 Popular vote 106,321 103,461 29,888 Percentage 33.1% 32.2% 9.3% Swing 16.2 pp 2.7 pp New party   Fourth party Fifth party   Leader Susana Serrano Daniel González Rojas Party Participa Sevilla IULV–CA Leader since 14 April 2015 14 February 2015 Last election Did not contest 2 seats, 7.1% Seats won 3 2 Seat change 3 0 Popular vote 28,969 19,203 Percentage 9.0% 6.0% Swing New party 1.1 pp
Mayor before election Juan Ignacio Zoido PP Elected Mayor Juan Espadas 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 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 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
<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 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. 16 seats were required for an absolute majority in the City Council of Seville (17 until 1 January 2015).

Color key:

  Poll conducted after legal ban on opinion polls   Exit poll

Polling firm/Commissioner	Fieldwork date	Sample size	Turnout			IULV						Lead
2015 municipal election	24 May 2015	N/A	59.5	33.1 12	32.2 11	6.0 2	1.4 0	0.8 0	9.0 3	9.3 3	4.1 0	0.9
TNS Demoscopia/RTVE–FORTA[p 1][p 2]	24 May 2015	?	?	? 10/12	? 12/14	6.7 1/2	–	–	? 3/4	9.6 3/4	–	?
GAD3/Antena 3[p 3]	11–22 May 2015	?	?	? 11/12	? 13/14	? 0/1	–	–	? 3/4	? 2	–	?
Sigma Dos/El Mundo[p 4][p 5]	13–14 May 2015	500	?	34.8 12/13	32.6 11/12	7.4 2	–	–	6.1 2	10.4 3	4.2 0	2.2
Deimos/El Correo de Andalucía[p 6][p 7]	11–14 May 2015	806	?	30.0 11	31.7 11	6.9 2	1.7 0	1.4 0	8.1 3	12.8 4	3.6 0	1.7
MyWord/Cadena SER[p 8][p 9]	27 Apr–14 May 2015	800	?	31.6 10/12	32.2 10/12	4.3 0/1	0.7 0	1.3 0	15.0 4/6	11.4 4	[lower-alpha 1]	0.6
JM&A/Público[p 10]	12 May 2015	?	?	? 13	? 10	–	–	–	? 6	? 4	–	?
JM&A/Público[p 11][p 12]	3 May 2015	?	?	28.1 10	30.3 10	5.9 2	2.0 0	0.5 0	17.2 6	14.2 5	[lower-alpha 1]	2.2
IMC/ABC[p 13]	29–30 Apr 2015	410	?	33.4 12/13	30.2 10/11	5.2 0/1	–	–	11.0 3/4	13.2 4/5	[lower-alpha 1]	3.2
Commentia/Grupo Joly[p 14][p 15]	27–29 Apr 2015	401	?	35.5 12	31.3 10	4.9 0/1	–	–	13.1 4/5	11.5 4	[lower-alpha 1]	4.2
CIS[p 16][p 17]	23 Mar–19 Apr 2015	997	?	32.4 11/12	28.5 10	5.0 1	–	1.0 0	[lower-alpha 2]	12.6 4	13.4 4/5	3.9
Sigma Dos/El Mundo[p 18][p 19]	26–27 Mar 2015	500	?	31.3 10/11	33.2 11/12	4.6 0/1	–	–	14.6 4/5	11.9 4	[lower-alpha 1]	1.9
2015 regional election[3]	22 Mar 2015	N/A	68.3	27.1 9	30.8 11	5.4 1	1.0 0	2.1 0	18.0 6	11.5 4	–	3.7
2014 EP election[4]	25 May 2014	N/A	47.6	27.8 11	30.0 12	9.6 3	1.4 0	8.0 3	9.8 4	2.3 0	–	2.2
Nexo[p 20][p 21]	24 Mar–4 Apr 2014	402	54.2	42.9 16/18	29.2 11/12	9.3 3/4	–	5.3 2	–	–	–	13.7
2012 regional election[5]	25 Mar 2012	N/A	65.1	42.8 16	37.4 14	9.4 3	2.5 0	4.6 0	–	–	–	5.1
2011 general election[6]	20 Nov 2011	N/A	71.1	44.3 16	36.4 13	6.6 2	1.8 0	6.8 2	–	–	–	7.9
2011 municipal election	22 May 2011	N/A	62.7	49.3 20	29.5 11	7.1 2	4.8 0	3.3 0	–	–	–	19.8

Results

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

Parties and coalitions		Popular vote			Seats
		Votes	%	±pp	Total	+/−
	People's Party (PP)	106,321	33.05	–16.26	12	–8
	Spanish Socialist Workers' Party of Andalusia (PSOE–A)	103,461	32.16	+2.71	11	±0
	Citizens–Party of the Citizenry (C's)	29,888	9.29	New	3	+3
	Participate Seville (Participa Sevilla)	28,969	9.01	New	3	+3
	United Left/The Greens–Assembly for Andalusia (IULV–CA)	19,203	5.97	–1.18	2	±0
	Let's Win Seville (Ganemos Sevilla)	13,274	4.13	New	0	±0
	Andalusian Party (PA)	4,544	1.41	–3.37	0	±0
	Equo (Equo)	3,332	1.04	New	0	±0
	Animalist Party Against Mistreatment of Animals (PACMA)	3,290	1.02	+0.60	0	±0
	Union, Progress and Democracy (UPyD)	2,711	0.84	–2.41	0	±0
	Vox (Vox)	1,495	0.46	New	0	±0
	Blank Seats (EB)	463	0.14	New	0	±0
	Spanish Phalanx of the CNSO (FE–JONS)	311	0.10	+0.02	0	±0
	Party of the Immigrant in Spain (PADIE)	182	0.06	New	0	±0
	Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain (PCPE)	168	0.05	New	0	±0
	Republican Candidacy (CR)	155	0.05	New	0	±0
	Internationalist Solidarity and Self-Management (SAIn)	139	0.04	–0.05	0	±0
	Andalusian Nationalist People (PNdeA)	89	0.03	New	0	±0
	Andalusian Popular Unity (UPAN)	61	0.02	–0.04	0	±0
Blank ballots		3,633	1.13	–1.65
Total		321,689			31	–2
Valid votes		321,689	99.22	+1.08
Invalid votes		2,529	0.78	–1.08
Votes cast / turnout		324,218	59.46	–3.27
Abstentions		221,091	40.54	+3.27
Registered voters		545,309
Sources[7][8][9]

Popular vote PP   33.05% PSOE–A   32.16% C's   9.29% Participa Sevilla   9.01% IULV–CA   5.97% Ganemos Sevilla   4.13% PA   1.41% eQuo   1.04% PACMA   1.02% Others   1.79% Blank ballots   1.13%

Seats PP   38.71% PSOE–A   35.48% C's   9.68% Participa Sevilla   9.68% IULV–CA   6.45%

Notes

1. Within Participa Sevilla.
2. Within Ganemos Sevilla.

References

Opinion poll sources

1. "El PP perdería la mayoría absoluta en todas las capitales de Andalucía, según las encuestas a pie de urna". eldiario.es (in Spanish). 24 May 2015.
2. "Vuelco en Sevilla y Huelva, mientras que el PP empata con Podemos en Cádiz". Diario Sur (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. "Zoido remonta y podría gobernar con el apoyo de C's en Sevilla". El Mundo (in Spanish). 16 May 2015.
5. "Intención de voto en el Ayto. de Sevilla. Gráfico". El Mundo (in Spanish). 16 May 2015.
6. "24M en Sevilla: Incertidumbre hasta el final". El Correo de Andalucía (in Spanish). 16 May 2015.
7. "SEVILLA, Mayo 2015. Sondeo Deimos". Electograph (in Spanish). 17 May 2015.
8. "El PSOE ganaría las elecciones en Sevilla con el 32,2 % de los votos". Cadena SER (in Spanish). 18 May 2015.
9. "El ObSERvatorio de la Cadena SER. Estudio preelectoral de la ciudad de Sevilla (18/5/2015)" (PDF). MyWord (in Spanish). 18 May 2015.
10. "El PP depende de C's para gobernar en Madrid, Valencia, Sevilla y Málaga". Público (in Spanish). 15 May 2015.
11. "Ada Colau empata con Trias, Barberá se estrella en Valencia y Podemos tiene la llave en Sevilla". Público (in Spanish). 3 May 2015.
12. "Tracking de sondeos en las capitales: la derecha sólo puede esperar que Ciudadanos salve al PP". Público (in Spanish). 3 May 2015.
13. "Zoido volverá a ganar pero quedará a expensas de un pacto con Ciudadanos". ABC Sevilla (in Spanish). 10 May 2015.
14. "Zoido necesitará pactos para volver a ser alcalde". Diario de Sevilla (in Spanish). 10 May 2015.
15. "CIUDADES ANDALUZAS 24M, Abril 2015. Sondeo Commentia". Electograph (in Spanish). 11 May 2015.
16. "Preelectoral elecciones municipales 2015. Sevilla (Estudio nº 3061. Marzo-Abril 2015)" (PDF). CIS (in Spanish). 7 May 2015.
17. "El PP se echa a la calle para recuperar a las clases medias". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). 8 May 2015.
18. "Empate en Sevilla entre PP y PSOE tras una debacle 'popular'". El Mundo (in Spanish). 7 April 2015.
19. "Encuesta electoral: Ayuntamiento de Sevilla. Gráfico". El Mundo (in Spanish). 7 April 2015.
20. "Un sondeo atribuye al PP el 42,9 por ciento del apoyo electoral y el 29,2 al PSOE". Europa Press (in Spanish). 24 April 2014.
21. "SEVILLA, Abril 2014. Nexo". Electograph (in Spanish). 24 April 2014.

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 Information System. Parliament of Andalusia. March 2015. Seville Municipality". juntadeandalucia.es (in Spanish). Government of Andalusia. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
4. "Electoral Results Consultation. European Parliament. May 2014. Seville Municipality". www.infoelectoral.mir.es (in Spanish). Ministry of the Interior. Retrieved 12 November 2017.
5. "Electoral Information System. Parliament of Andalusia. March 2012. Seville Municipality". juntadeandalucia.es (in Spanish). Government of Andalusia. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
6. "Electoral Results Consultation. Congress. November 2011. Seville Municipality". www.infoelectoral.mir.es (in Spanish). Ministry of the Interior. Retrieved 12 November 2017.
7. "Local election results, 24 May 2015, in La Rioja, Salamanca, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Segovia, Seville, Soria, Tarragona, Teruel and Toledo provinces" (PDF). www.juntaelectoralcentral.es (in Spanish). Central Electoral Commission. Retrieved 11 February 2018.
8. "Electoral Results Consultation. Municipal. May 2015. Seville Municipality". www.infoelectoral.mir.es (in Spanish). Ministry of the Interior. Retrieved 12 November 2017.
9. "Municipal elections in Seville since 1979". historiaelectoral.com (in Spanish). Electoral History. Retrieved 30 September 2017.