2023 Spanish local elections

2023 Spanish local elections

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All 66,976 councillors in 8,132 municipal councils All 1,424 provincial/island seats in 44 provinces[a]
Opinion polls
Registered	35,534,425 0.7%
Turnout	22,714,076 (63.9%) 1.3 pp
First party Second party Third party   Leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo Pedro Sánchez Santiago Abascal Party PP PSOE Vox Leader since 2 April 2022 18 June 2017 20 September 2014 Last election 20,382 c., 22.7% 417 p. seats 22,377 c., 29.4% 548 p. seats 547 c., 3.7% 13 p. seats Popular vote 7,077,604 6,298,423 1,605,961 Percentage 31.6% 28.1% 7.2% Swing 8.9 pp 1.3 pp 3.5 pp Councillors 23,451 20,805 1,671 Councillors +/– 3,069 1,572 1,124 Prov. seats 527 492 49 Prov. seats +/– 110 56 36   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Ione Belarra Laura Borràs Oriol Junqueras Party Unidas Podemos JxCat ERC Leader since 13 June 2021 4 June 2022 17 September 2011 Last election 2,659 c., 8.8% 70 p. seats 2,804 c., 2.5% 35 p. seats 3,125 c., 3.6% 47 p. seats Popular vote 1,406,170 553,872 526,242 Percentage 6.3% 2.5% 2.4% Swing 2.5 pp 0.0 pp 1.2 pp Councillors 1,938 2,687 2,906 Councillors +/– 721 117 219 Prov. seats 31 40 36 Prov. seats +/– 39 5 11
Provincial results map for municipal elections

The 2023 Spanish local elections were held on Sunday, 28 May 2023, to elect all 66,976 councillors in the municipalities of Spain, all 1,191 provincial seats in 41 provinces (including 38 indirectly-elected provincial deputations and the three directly-elected Basque General Assemblies) and 233 seats in eleven island councils (seven Canarian island cabildos and four Balearic island councils, all directly-elected). The elections were held simultaneously with regional elections in twelve autonomous communities.

The elections took place following a period of instability dominated by the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020 and its political and economical consequences, including the worst worldwide recession since the Great Depression resulting from the massive lockdowns enforced to reduce the spread of SARS-CoV-2, as well as the economic impact of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.

The People's Party (PP) emerged as the first political force and was able to flip the control of a large number of major cities, despite winning the popular vote to the ruling Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) by just three percentage points. This outcome prompted Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez to call a snap general election for July, which led to an insufficient PP victory and to Sánchez's re-election.
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