Spanish municipal elections, 2011

The 2011 Spanish municipal elections were held on the candidate of the most-voted party will be automatiSunday, 22 May in Spain, to elect the 68,230 councillors cally elected to the post.[3]
of all 8,116 local councils.[1] Regional elections were held
the same day in 13 of the 17 autonomous communities;
Andalusia, Catalonia, Galicia, and the Basque Country 2 Results
having separate electoral cycles.[2]
The days before the elections were marked by the protests 2.1
which had been held in dierent cities across Spain since
15 May.

3 Municipal governments

The elections resulted in a landslide victory for the opposition Peoples Party (PP) and other centre-right parties, which won control of all of Spains largest cities.
In Barcelona, held by PSOE-sister party, the Socialists
Party of Catalonia (PSC), since the rst local elections
in 1979, was won for the rst time by the nationalist
Convergence and Union (CiU), which also won in Girona.
The PSOE only won only in 5 out of Spains 50 provincial
capitals. In the popular vote, it scored its worst result in
nationwide-held local elections, with a mere 27.8%, 10
points behind the PP, which obtained 37.5%.

3.1 Shift of control

The following table shows Spanish municipalities over
50,000 inhabitants as well as provincial capitals; the latter
of which are marked in bold. Note that the party shown
is not necessarily the one that won the election in each
council, but rather, the one whose candidate was elected
to the mayoralty.

Following the election, the PSOE named Deputy Prime 3.2

Minister Alfredo Prez Rubalcaba as prime ministerial
candidate for the next general election, initially scheduled
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for March 2012, and nally held in November 2011.[1]

Overall

Summary

Footnotes

[1] Ross-Thomas, Emma (4 April 2011). Spains Decit

Fight Risks Setback as Zapatero Bows Out of 2012 Election. Bloomberg.

Electoral system

[2] FACTBOX-Spain regional and municipal elections May

22. Reuters. 2011-05-11. Retrieved 2011-05-22.

The number of seats in each city council is determined by

the population count. According to the municipal electoral law, the population-seat relationship on each municipality is to be established on the following scale:

[3] Organic Law 5/1985, of 19 June, of the General Electoral Regime. Title III, Special Provisions for Municipal
Elections..

Additionally, for populations greater than 100,000, 1 seat

is to be added per each 100,000 inhabitants or fraction,
according to the most updated census data, and adding 1
more seat if the resulting seat count gives an even number.

5 External links
(Spanish) El Pais election results website

All city council members are elected in single multimember districts, consisting of the municipalitys territory, using the D'Hondt method and a closed-list
proportional representation system. Voting is on the basis
of universal surage in a secret ballot. Only lists polling
above 5% of valid votes in all of the municipality (which
include blank ballotsfor none of the above) are entitled
to enter the seat distribution.
The Spanish municipal electoral law establishes a clause
stating that, if no candidate is to gather an absolute majority of votes to be elected as mayor of a municipality,
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