2003 Madrid City Council election

2003 Madrid City Council election

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All 55 seats in the City Council of Madrid 28 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered	2,483,123 0.2%
Turnout	1,711,613 (68.9%) 8.8 pp
First party Second party Third party   Leader Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón Trinidad Jiménez Inés Sabanés Party PP PSOE IU Leader since 16 October 2002 2 June 2002 23 June 1998 Last election 28 seats, 49.5% 20 seats, 36.0% 5 seats, 8.7% Seats won 30 21 4 Seat change 2 1 1 Popular vote 874,264 625,148 123,015 Percentage 51.3% 36.7% 7.2% Swing 1.8 pp 0.7 pp 1.5 pp
Mayor before election José María Álvarez del Manzano PP Elected Mayor Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón PP

The 2003 Madrid City Council election, also the 2003 Madrid municipal election, was held on Sunday, 25 May 2003, to elect the 7th City Council of the municipality of Madrid. All 55 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.

The People's Party (PP) under President of the Community of Madrid Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón, who was succeeding the retiring José María Álvarez del Manzano, managed to revert the near-tie situation predicted by opinion polls between his party and the PSOE-IU bloc. Gallardón went on to win a comfortable absolute majority both in votes and seats, reverting the 1999 result in which it had seemed that party's support had begun to decline. The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) under Trinidad Jiménez obtained its best result since it was ousted from power in 1989, despite it not being enough to recover the mayoralty. United Left (IU) continued on its long-term decline and lost another seat, scoring its worst result since 1987.

A remarkable event for this election was that both main parties' contenders (Ruiz-Gallardón and Jiménez) were cousins, despite belonging to opposing parties.