2021 Madrilenian regional election

2021 Madrilenian regional election

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All 136 seats in the Assembly of Madrid 69 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered	5,112,813 1.1%
Turnout	3,667,806 (71.7%) 7.4 pp
First party Second party Third party   Leader Isabel Díaz Ayuso Mónica García Ángel Gabilondo Party PP Más Madrid PSOE Leader since 13 January 2019 10 July 2020 21 February 2015 Last election 30 seats, 22.2% 20 seats, 14.7% 37 seats, 27.3% Seats won 65 24 24 Seat change 35 4 13 Popular vote 1,631,608 619,215 612,622 Percentage 44.8% 17.0% 16.8% Swing 22.6 pp 2.3 pp 10.5 pp   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Rocío Monasterio Pablo Iglesias Edmundo Bal Party Vox Podemos–IU Cs Leader since 18 April 2019 28 March 2021 22 March 2021 Last election 12 seats, 8.9% 7 seats, 5.6% 26 seats, 19.5% Seats won 13 10 0 Seat change 1 3 26 Popular vote 333,403 263,871 130,237 Percentage 9.1% 7.2% 3.6% Swing 0.2 pp 1.6 pp 15.9 pp
President before election Isabel Díaz Ayuso PP Elected President Isabel Díaz Ayuso PP

The 2021 Madrilenian regional election was held on Tuesday, 4 May 2021, to elect the 12th Assembly of the Community of Madrid. All 136 seats in the Assembly were up for election. This marked the first time that a regional premier in Madrid made use of the presidential prerogative to call an early election.

On 10 March 2021 after the unexpected announcement by the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) and Citizens (Cs) of moves to bring down People's Party-led governments in the Region of Murcia, Madrilenian president Isabel Díaz Ayuso broke her alliance with Cs and called a snap election in the Community of Madrid for 4 May, a move which she had unsuccessfully attempted twice in 2020. Despite both the PSOE and Más Madrid preventively filing motions of no confidence in an attempt to thwart Ayuso's move, the next day the Assembly's bureau provisionally acknowledged the parliamentary dissolution, though it announced a complaint against Ayuso's election call. Subsequently, the second deputy prime minister of Spain and Unidas Podemos national leader, Pablo Iglesias, announced he would be stepping down from his national cabinet posts in order to run as his alliance's leading candidate in the regional election.

The election resulted in a landslide victory for Ayuso's PP, which fell four seats short of an overall majority and secured more votes and seats than all three main leftist parties combined, in what was the best performance since 2011. The vote share of both the PSOE and Cs collapsed, with the former being surpassed by Más Madrid and the latter failing to win any seats. In the election aftermath, Iglesias announced his farewell from Spanish politics and his resignation from all of his political and institutional posts. The strong result for the PP, fueled by Ayuso's controversial personality and charisma as well as a general feeling of exhaustion in the region in response to restrictions enforced to curb the COVID-19 pandemic by the Spanish government of Pedro Sánchez, meant that it was not dependent on the far-right Vox's explicit support to form a government, though it still required its confidence-and-supply to pass laws.