2019 Spanish local elections

2019 Spanish local elections

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All 66,979 councillors in 8,131 municipal councils All 1,038 seats in 38 provincial deputations
Opinion polls
Registered	35,275,287 0.5%
Turnout	22,996,370 (65.2%) 0.3 pp
First party Second party Third party   Leader Pedro Sánchez Pablo Casado Albert Rivera Party PSOE PP Cs Leader since 18 June 2017 21 July 2018 9 July 2006 Last election 20,878 c., 25.0% 464 p. seats 22,744 c., 27.1% 483 p. seats 1,516 c., 6.6% 41 p. seats Popular vote 6,704,071 5,163,360 2,089,018 Percentage 29.4% 22.7% 9.2% Swing 4.4 pp 4.4 pp 2.6 pp Councillors 22,377 20,382 2,793 Councillors +/– 1,499 2,362 1,277 Prov. seats 548 417 61 Prov. seats +/– 84 66 20   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Pablo Iglesias Santiago Abascal Oriol Junqueras Party Unidas Podemos–IU–Equo Vox ERC–AM Leader since 15 November 2014 20 September 2014 17 September 2011 Last election 4,080 c., 12.9%[a] 112 p. seats 17 c., 0.3% 0 p. seats 2,387 c., 2.3% 32 p. seats Popular vote 2,006,649 843,389 829,126 Percentage 8.8% 3.7% 3.6% Swing 4.1 pp 3.4 pp 1.3 pp Councillors 2,665 547 3,125 Councillors +/– 1,415 530 738 Prov. seats 70 13 47 Prov. seats +/– 42 13 15
Provincial results map for municipal elections

The 2019 Spanish local elections were held on Sunday, 26 May 2019, to elect all 66,979 councillors in the 8,131 municipalities of Spain and all 1,038 seats in 38 provincial deputations.^[1] The elections were held simultaneously with regional elections in twelve autonomous communities, as well as elections in the three foral deputations of the Basque Country, the four island councils in the Balearic Islands, the seven island cabildos in the Canary Islands and the European Parliament.

The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), invigorated from its general election win the previous month, emerged as the largest political party in the elections overall for the first time since 2007, scoring first place in the popular vote for the first time since 2003 and achieving its largest margin of victory over the People's Party (PP) since the 1991 elections. Conversely, the PP scored its worst result in local elections in Spain since the People's Alliance result in 1987, but managed to hold out against a surging Citizens (Cs), which secured disappointing results after falling barely one percentage point short of overcoming the PP in the April general election. The alliance of Podemos and United Left (IU), Unidas Podemos, lost much of the ground gained in the 2015 local elections, whereas results for the emerging far-right Vox were very modest.

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