2019 Madrid City Council election

2019 Madrid City Council election

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All 57 seats in the City Council of Madrid
29 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered2,397,881 Green arrow up0.5%
Turnout1,635,963 (68.2%)
Red arrow down0.7 pp
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Manuela Carmena José Luis Martínez-Almeida Begoña Villacís
Party Más Madrid PP Cs
Leader since 30 March 2015 28 April 2017 2 March 2015
Last election 20 seats, 31.8%[a] 21 seats, 34.6% 7 seats, 11.4%
Seats won 19 15 11
Seat change Red arrow down1 Red arrow down6 Green arrow up4
Popular vote 505,159 395,344 312,536
Percentage 31.0% 24.3% 19.2%
Swing Red arrow down0.8 pp Red arrow down10.3 pp Green arrow up7.8 pp

  Fourth party Fifth party
 
Leader Pepu Hernández Javier Ortega Smith
Party PSOE Vox
Leader since 9 March 2019 18 April 2019
Last election 9 seats, 15.3% 0 seats, 0.6%
Seats won 8 4
Seat change Red arrow down1 Green arrow up4
Popular vote 224,074 124,969
Percentage 13.7% 7.7%
Swing Red arrow down1.6 pp Green arrow up7.1 pp

Mayor before election

Manuela Carmena
Más Madrid

Elected Mayor

José Luis Martínez-Almeida
PP

The 2019 Madrid City Council election, also the 2019 Madrid municipal election, was held on Sunday, 26 May 2019, to elect the 11th City Council of the municipality of Madrid. All 57 seats in the City Council were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with regional elections in twelve autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain, as well as the 2019 European Parliament election.

The election saw incumbent mayor Manuela Carmena's More Madrid platform becoming the largest political force in the City Council, but the net loss of two seats for the left-from-centre bloc—including the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)—deprived them of a majority. Instead, the opposition People's Party (PP), despite obtaining its worst historical result in a municipal election in Madrid, was able to get its candidate José Luis Martínez-Almeida as the new local mayor through an alliance with the liberal Citizens (Cs) and the far-right Vox.
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