2011 Spanish local elections

2011 Spanish local elections

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All 68,230 councillors in 8,116 municipal councils
All 1,040 seats in 38 provincial deputations
Opinion polls
Registered34,713,813 Red arrow down1.3%
Turnout22,969,005 (66.2%)
Green arrow up2.2 pp
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Mariano Rajoy José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero Cayo Lara
Party PP PSOE IUICV
Leader since 2 September 2003 22 July 2000 14 December 2008
Last election 23,014 c., 35.1% 24,029 c., 34.9% 2,591 c., 7.0%
Seats won 26,510 21,783 2,650
Seat change Green arrow up3,496 Red arrow down2,246 Green arrow up59
Popular vote 8,476,647 6,287,389 1,681,462
Percentage 37.5% 27.8% 7.4%
Swing Green arrow up2.4 pp Red arrow down7.1 pp Green arrow up0.4 pp

  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Artur Mas Rosa Díez Iñigo Urkullu
Party CiU UPyD EAJ/PNV
Leader since 27 November 2004 26 September 2007 2 December 2007
Last election 3,387 c., 3.3% Did not contest 1,043 seats, 1.4%
Seats won 3,896 152 882
Seat change Green arrow up509 Green arrow up152 Red arrow down161
Popular vote 781,287 465,125 327,183
Percentage 3.5% 2.1% 1.4%
Swing Green arrow up0.2 pp New party Blue arrow right0.0 pp

Provincial results map for municipal elections

The 2011 Spanish local elections were held on Sunday, 22 May 2011, to elect all 68,230 councillors in the 8,116 municipalities of Spain and all 1,040 seats in 38 provincial deputations.[1][2] The elections were held simultaneously with regional elections in thirteen autonomous communities, as well as local elections in the three foral deputations of the Basque Country and the eleven island councils in the Balearic and Canary Islands.

The days before the elections were marked by the 2011 Spanish protests which had been held in different cities across Spain since 15 May. The elections resulted in a landslide victory for the opposition People's Party (PP) and other centre-right parties, which won control of all of Spain's largest cities. In Barcelona, held by PSOE-sister party, the Socialists' Party of Catalonia (PSC), since the first local elections in 1979, was won for the first time by the nationalist Convergence and Union (CiU), which also won in Girona. The PSOE only won only in 5 out of Spain's 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%.

Following the election, the PSOE named Deputy Prime Minister Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba as prime ministerial candidate for the next general election, initially scheduled for March 2012, and finally held in November 2011.[3]

  1. ^ "Municipal elections in Spain 1979–2011". interior.gob.es (in Spanish). Ministry of the Interior. Archived from the original on 12 August 2017. Retrieved 12 August 2017.
  2. ^ "Provincial deputation elections since 1979" (in Spanish). historiaelectoral.com. Retrieved 24 September 2017.
  3. ^ Ross-Thomas, Emma (4 April 2011). "Spain's Deficit Fight Risks Setback as Zapatero Bows Out of 2012 Election". Bloomberg.