2015 Madrid City Council election

2015 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
Registered	2,386,120 3.4%
Turnout	1,644,093 (68.9%) 1.7 pp
First party Second party Third party   Leader Esperanza Aguirre Manuela Carmena Antonio Miguel Carmona Party PP Ahora Madrid PSOE Leader since 6 March 2015 30 March 2015 6 October 2014 Last election 31 seats, 49.7% Did not contest 15 seats, 23.9% Seats won 21 20 9 Seat change 10 20 6 Popular vote 564,154 519,721 249,286 Percentage 34.6% 31.8% 15.3% Swing 15.1 pp New party 8.6 pp   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Begoña Villacís David Ortega Raquel López Party C's UPyD IUCM–LV Leader since 2 March 2015 9 October 2010 26 March 2015 Last election 0 seats, 0.2% 5 seats, 7.9% 6 seats, 10.7% Seats won 7 0 0 Seat change 7 5 6 Popular vote 186,487 29,812 27,651 Percentage 11.4% 1.8% 1.7% Swing 11.2 pp 6.1 pp 9.0 pp
Mayor before election Ana Botella PP Elected Mayor Manuela Carmena Ahora Madrid

The 2015 Madrid City Council election, also the 2015 Madrid municipal election, was held on Sunday, 24 May 2015, to elect the 10th 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 thirteen autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain.

Leading the People's Party (PP) local list was Esperanza Aguirre, former president of the Community of Madrid (2003–2012), president of the Senate of Spain (1999–2002) and minister of Education and Culture (1996–1999), as well as the leader of the regional PP branch since 2004. Mayor Ana Botella, who succeeded Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón early into his term in December 2011, had declined re-election in September 2014. The election was an unexpectedly close race between Aguirre's PP and former judge Manuela Carmena's Podemos-supported Ahora Madrid (English: Madrid Now) platform. The collapse in the PP vote and the loss of its absolute majority allowed Carmena to gain power through an alliance with the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), resulting in the first left-wing government in the city since 1989.

The PSOE suffered heavily from tactical voting to Ahora Madrid after it became apparent throughout the campaign that the left-of-centre vote was coalescing around Carmena's coalition. The newcomer liberal Citizens (Spanish: Ciudadanos) party also entered the City Council for the first time, collecting votes disenchanted with the PP and replacing Union, Progress and Democracy (UPyD) as the main centrist local force. United Left (IU) fell below the 5% threshold and failed to gain any representation for the first time in history.