2019 Madrid City Council election

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.

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
Registered	2,397,881 0.5%
Turnout	1,635,963 (68.2%) 0.7 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 1 6 4 Popular vote 505,159 395,344 312,536 Percentage 31.0% 24.3% 19.2% Swing 0.8 pp 10.3 pp 7.8 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 1 4 Popular vote 224,074 124,969 Percentage 13.7% 7.7% Swing 1.6 pp 7.1 pp
Mayor before election Manuela Carmena Más Madrid Elected Mayor José Luis Martínez-Almeida PP

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.

Electoral system

The City Council of Madrid (Spanish: Ayuntamiento de Madrid) was the top-tier administrative and governing body of the municipality of Madrid, composed of the mayor, the government council and the elected plenary assembly.^[1] Elections to the local councils in Spain were fixed for the fourth Sunday of May every four years.^[2] Voting for the local assembly was on the basis of universal suffrage, which comprised all nationals over 18 years of age, registered and residing in the municipality of Madrid and in full enjoyment of their political rights, as well as resident non-national European citizens and those whose country of origin allowed Spanish nationals to vote in their own elections by virtue of a treaty.

Local councillors were elected using the D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional representation, with an electoral threshold of five percent of valid votes—which included blank ballots—being applied in each local council.^[1][2] Councillors were allocated to municipal councils based on the following scale:

Population	Councillors
<100	3
101–250	5
251–1,000	7
1,001–2,000	9
2,001–5,000	11
5,001–10,000	13
10,001–20,000	17
20,001–50,000	21
50,001–100,000	25
>100,001	+1 per each 100,000 inhabitants or fraction +1 if total is an even number

The mayor was indirectly elected by the plenary assembly. A legal clause required that mayoral candidates earned the vote of an absolute majority of councillors, or else the candidate of the most-voted party in the assembly was to be automatically appointed to the post. In the event of a tie, the appointee would be determined by lot.^[1]

Council composition

The table below shows the composition of the political groups in the City Council at the time of dissolution.^[3][4]

Parliamentary composition in April 2019

Groups		Parties		Councillors
				Seats	Total
	People's Party's Municipal Group		PP	21	21
	Madrid Now Municipal Group		Más Madrid	11	20
			IU–Madrid	4
			Ganemos	4
			Equo	1
	Socialist Municipal Group in Madrid		PSOE	9	9
	Citizens–Party of the Citizenry Municipal Group		Cs	7	7

Parties and candidates

The electoral law allowed for parties and federations registered in the interior ministry, coalitions and groupings of electors to present lists of candidates. Parties and federations intending to form a coalition ahead of an election were required to inform the relevant Electoral Commission within ten days of the election call, whereas groupings of electors needed to secure the signature of a determined amount of the electors registered in the municipality for which they were seeking election, disallowing electors from signing for more than one list of candidates. In the case of Madrid, as its population was over 1,000,001, at least 8,000 signatures were required.^[2]

Below is a list of the main parties and electoral alliances which contested the election:

Candidacy		Parties and alliances	Leading candidate		Ideology	Previous result		Gov.	Ref.
						Vote %	Seats
	PP	List People's Party (PP)		José Luis Martínez-Almeida	Conservatism Christian democracy	34.6%	21		[5]
	Más Madrid	List More Madrid (Más Madrid) Equo (Equo)		Manuela Carmena	Progressivism Participatory democracy Green politics	31.8% [a]	20		[6] [7]
	PSOE	List Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)		Pepu Hernández	Social democracy	15.3%	9		[8]
	Cs	List Citizens–Party of the Citizenry (Cs)		Begoña Villacís	Liberalism	11.4%	7		[9]
	IU–MpM	List United Left–Madrid (IU–Madrid) Anticapitalists Madrid (Anticapitalistas Madrid) Municipalist Group (Bancada Municipalista)		Carlos Sánchez Mato	Anti-capitalism Communism	1.7% [b]	0		[10] [11]
	Vox	List Vox (Vox)		Javier Ortega Smith	Right-wing populism Ultranationalism National conservatism	0.6%	0		[12]

Opinion polls

The table below lists voting intention estimates in reverse chronological order, showing the most recent first and using the dates when the survey fieldwork was done, as opposed to the date of publication. Where the fieldwork dates are unknown, the date of publication is given instead. The highest percentage figure in each polling survey is displayed with its background shaded in the leading party's colour. If a tie ensues, this is applied to the figures with the highest percentages. The "Lead" column on the right shows the percentage-point difference between the parties with the highest percentages in a poll. When available, seat projections determined by the polling organisations are displayed below (or in place of) the percentages in a smaller font; 29 seats were required for an absolute majority in the City Council of Madrid.

Color key:

  Poll conducted after legal ban on opinion polls   Exit poll

Polling firm/Commissioner	Fieldwork date	Sample size	Turnout											Lead
2019 municipal election	26 May 2019	—	68.2	24.3 15	–	13.7 8	19.2 11	2.6 0	7.7 4	0.5 0	–	–	31.0 19	6.7
Sigma Dos/Telemadrid[p 1][p 2]	26 May 2019	?	?	19.4 11/12	–	13.8 8/9	18.3 10/11	3.1 0	8.0 4/5	–	–	–	35.6 21/23	16.2
ElectoPanel/Electomanía[p 3]	22–23 May 2019	?	?	21.3 13	–	17.1 10	19.3 11	1.5 0	7.9 4	–	–	–	31.3 19	10.0
ElectoPanel/Electomanía[p 4]	21–22 May 2019	?	?	20.7 12	–	17.1 10	20.0 12	1.6 0	7.5 4	–	–	–	31.1 19	10.4
ElectoPanel/Electomanía[p 5]	20–21 May 2019	?	?	20.7 12	–	17.2 10	20.2 12	1.7 0	7.7 4	–	–	–	31.0 19	10.3
ElectoPanel/Electomanía[p 6]	19–20 May 2019	?	?	20.6 12	–	17.0 10	20.3 12	1.4 0	7.5 4	–	–	–	31.1 19	10.5
GIPEyOP[p 7]	7–20 May 2019	121	?	22.7 14	–	11.5 7	22.2 13	4.8 0	8.8 5	–	–	–	29.0 18	6.3
GAD3/ABC[p 8]	19 May 2019	?	?	20.5 11/13	–	17.3 9/11	18.9 10/12	0.9 0	6.8 4	–	–	–	32.4 19/21	11.9
SocioMétrica/El Español[p 9]	19 May 2019	900	?	23.9 15/16	–	15.3 9/10	14.4 8/9	–	6.6 3/4	–	–	–	32.9 20/21	9.0
ElectoPanel/Electomanía[p 10]	16–19 May 2019	?	?	20.1 12	–	17.4 10	20.3 12	1.5 0	8.0 4	–	–	–	30.9 19	10.6
Top Position[p 11][p 12]	16–18 May 2019	1,200	?	20.3 12	–	17.2 10	18.8 11	–	9.9 6	–	–	–	30.7 18	10.4
Demoscopia Servicios/ESdiario[13]	13–18 May 2019	1,200	?	21.4 13	–	17.3 10	19.5 11	–	8.0 4	–	–	–	31.6 19	10.2
IMOP/El Confidencial[p 13][p 14]	14–17 May 2019	800	72.0	23.5 14	–	16.3 9/10	17.6 11	1.5 0	6.1 3	–	–	–	31.4 19/20	7.9
ElectoPanel/Electomanía[p 15]	13–16 May 2019	?	?	20.1 12	–	18.2 11	21.0 12	1.9 0	8.7 5	–	–	–	28.3 17	7.3
KeyData/Público[p 16]	15 May 2019	?	?	21.1 13	–	18.1 10	19.7 12	–	9.6 5	–	–	–	28.0 17	6.9
DYM/El Independiente[p 17]	10–15 May 2019	495	?	22.2 12/13	–	17.5 10	18.0 10/11	–	9.1 5	–	–	–	31.4 19/20	9.2
Metroscopia/Henneo[p 18][p 19]	10–14 May 2019	800	76	23.3 14	–	13.5 8	19.7 11	3.0 0	8.9 5	–	–	–	31.4 19	8.1
Sigma Dos/El Mundo[p 20]	10–13 May 2019	500	?	21.6 12/14	–	16.6 9/10	16.5 9/10	1.5 0	6.7 4	–	–	–	34.8 20/22	13.2
ElectoPanel/Electomanía[p 21]	10–13 May 2019	?	?	20.6 12	–	18.4 11	21.3 13	2.1 0	9.5 5	–	–	–	25.7 16	4.4
NC Report/La Razón[p 22]	11 May 2019	?	?	21.5 13	–	18.5 11	19.4 12	3.1 0	7.9 4	–	–	–	27.5 17	6.0
ElectoPanel/Electomanía[p 23]	7–10 May 2019	?	?	20.0 12	–	18.6 11	21.9 13	2.0 0	9.9 6	–	–	–	24.6 15	2.7
40dB/El País[p 24][p 25]	3–9 May 2019	801	?	19.1 11/12	–	14.0 8	20.0 12	–	6.7 4	–	–	–	35.2 21/22	15.2
ElectoPanel/Electomanía[p 26]	4–7 May 2019	?	?	19.5 12	–	18.0 11	22.5 13	2.1 0	10.2 6	–	–	–	24.7 15	2.2
ElectoPanel/Electomanía[p 27]	29 Apr–4 May 2019	?	?	19.4 12	–	18.1 11	22.9 14	2.6 0	9.9 6	–	–	–	24.0 14	1.1
April 2019 general election[14]	28 Apr 2019	—	78.9	20.9 (12)	–	27.0 (16)	19.9 (12)	[c]	12.7 (7)	1.2 (0)	[c]	16.5 (10)	–	6.9
CIS[p 28]	21 Mar–23 Apr 2019	?	?	23.8 13/15	–	18.4 10/12	14.2 8/9	2.2 0	5.8 2/3	–	–	–	33.8 21/23	10.0
ElectoPanel/Electomanía[p 29]	31 Mar–7 Apr 2019	?	?	22.5 14	–	15.1 9	18.8 11	2.8 0	13.7 8	–	–	–	23.8 15	1.3
InvyMark/Telemadrid[p 30]	3 Apr 2019	400	?	21.5 13	–	16.4 10	17.2 10	1.0 0	17.3 10	–	–	–	24.1 14	2.6
ElectoPanel/Electomanía[p 31]	24–31 Mar 2019	?	?	22.0 13	–	15.1 9	19.4 12	2.8 0	13.8 8	–	–	–	23.6 15	1.6
ElectoPanel/Electomanía[p 32]	17–24 Mar 2019	?	?	22.4 14	–	15.4 9	19.1 11	–	13.5 8	–	–	–	25.2 15	2.8
PP[p 33]	23 Mar 2019	?	?	? 13	–	? 9	? 10	–	? 10	–	–	–	? 15	?
ElectoPanel/Electomanía[p 34]	10–17 Mar 2019	?	?	22.6 13	–	14.6 9	18.0 11	–	15.8 9	–	–	–	25.6 15	3.0
InvyMark/Telemadrid[p 35]	12 Mar 2019	400	?	22.5 13	–	14.3 8	19.0 11	1.1 0	14.9 9	–	–	–	25.8 16	3.3
ElectoPanel/Electomanía[p 36]	3–10 Mar 2019	?	?	22.4 13	–	14.1 8	18.8 11	–	15.6 9	–	–	–	25.9 16	3.5
ElectoPanel/Electomanía[p 37]	22 Feb–3 Mar 2019	?	?	21.9 13	–	14.1 9	19.1 12	–	15.6 9	–	–	–	26.0 16	4.1
InvyMark/Telemadrid[p 38]	11–15 Feb 2019	400	?	21.8 13	–	13.5 8	21.0 12	1.3 0	14.7 9	–	–	–	25.5 15	3.7
Equipo MEG/PSOE[p 39]	30 Jan–3 Feb 2019	800	?	18.2 10	–	20.9 12	18.1 10	5.1 3	15.1 9	–	–	–	21.7 13	0.8
NC Report/La Razón[p 40]	31 Jan–2 Feb 2019	600	67.8	22.4 14	–	13.2 8	20.7 13	–	10.9 6	–	–	–	26.9 16	4.5
Celeste-Tel/eldiario.es[p 41]	23–30 Jan 2019	400	?	21.9 13	–	13.7 8	21.8 13	2.3 0	8.2 5	–	–	–	28.4 18	6.5
InvyMark/Telemadrid[p 42]	29 Jan 2019	400	?	22.2 13	–	12.0 7	22.1 13	[d]	14.2 8	–	[d]	–	26.1 16	3.9
InvyMark/Telemadrid[p 43][p 44]	14–15 Jan 2019	400	?	21.8 13	–	12.6 7	22.7 14	[d]	12.8 7	–	[d]	–	26.5 16	3.8
ElectoPanel/Electomanía[p 45]	9–10 Dec 2018	480	?	13.0 8	–	11.0 6	23.8 15	[d]	13.4 8	0.5 0	[d]	–	32.0 20	8.2
ElectoPanel/Electomanía[p 46]	1–8 Nov 2018	450	?	21.9 13/14	26.5 16/17	18.2 11	24.9 14/15	[e]	4.8 0/3	0.5 0	[e]	–	–	1.7
AM[p 47]	22 Sep 2018	?	?	22.6	24.9	16.9	28.3	[e]	–	–	[e]	–	–	3.4
NC Report/La Razón[p 48][p 49]	11–14 Sep 2018	800	67.4	30.1 20	27.0 18	14.0 9	15.9 10	[e]	–	–	[e]	–	–	3.1
NC Report/La Razón[p 50][p 51]	3–14 May 2018	800	70.2	24.4 16	23.4 15	16.3 11	22.7 15	[e]	2.8 0	3.2 0	[e]	–	–	1.0
Metroscopia/El País[p 52][p 53]	23 Apr–10 May 2018	1,600	68	19.7 11/12	28.8 17/18	14.9 9	31.2 19	[e]	–	–	[e]	–	–	2.4
InvyMark/laSexta[p 54][p 55]	23–27 Apr 2018	?	?	23.8 14	26.8 16	17.7 11	27.1 16	[e]	–	–	[e]	–	–	0.3
GAD3/ABC[p 56]	18–27 Apr 2018	?	?	21.4 13	28.2 17	16.5 10	29.1 17	[e]	–	–	[e]	–	–	0.9
Sigma Dos/El Mundo[p 57]	24–26 Apr 2018	500	?	22.4 13/14	30.4 18/19	12.6 7/8	27.8 17/18	[e]	–	–	[e]	–	–	2.6
Equipo MEG/PSOE[p 58][p 59]	13–18 Apr 2018	1,180	?	23.9 14	19.2 12	23.8 14	23.5 14	5.3 3	–	–	[e]	–	–	0.1
SocioMétrica/El Español[p 60]	23–30 Mar 2018	600	?	23.5 15	24.0 15	12.4 7	28.0 17	5.9 3	1.7 0	0.8 0	[e]	–	–	4.0
NC Report/La Razón[p 61][p 62]	26–29 Apr 2017	700	63.6	36.2 22	31.4 19	14.9 9	12.2 7	[e]	–	–	[e]	–	–	4.8
InvyMark/laSexta[p 63]	26–27 Apr 2017	?	?	31.0 19	31.8 19	17.2 10	14.6 9	[e]	–	–	[e]	–	–	0.8
Metroscopia/El País[p 64][p 65]	24–26 Apr 2017	600	72	24.2 15	31.8 19	16.0 10	21.4 13	[e]	–	–	[e]	–	–	7.6
2016 general election[15]	26 Jun 2016	—	73.8	40.2 (24)	–	19.0 (11)	16.6 (10)	[c]	0.5 (0)	1.0 (0)	[c]	21.2 (12)	–	19.0
2015 general election[16]	20 Dec 2015	—	76.6	35.8 (22)	–	17.0 (10)	17.4 (10)	5.3 (3)	0.7 (0)	0.7 (0)	20.8 (12)	–	–	15.0
GAD3/ABC[p 66]	4–10 Sep 2015	502	?	33.7 21	29.1 18	17.4 10	13.8 8	–	–	–	[e]	–	–	4.6
NC Report/La Razón[p 67][p 68]	26 Jul–8 Aug 2015	900	65.7	35.0 22	30.1 18	14.5 9	13.5 8	2.7 0	–	–	[e]	–	–	4.9
NC Report/La Razón[p 69][p 70]	16–20 Jun 2015	900	?	35.7 22	32.9 20	13.0 8	12.6 7	1.3 0	–	–	[e]	–	–	2.8
2015 municipal election	24 May 2015	—	68.9	34.6 21	31.8 20	15.3 9	11.4 7	1.7 0	0.6 0	0.6 0	[e]	–	–	2.8

Results

← Summary of the 26 May 2019 City Council of Madrid election results →

Parties and alliances		Popular vote			Seats
		Votes	%	±pp	Total	+/−
	More Madrid (Más Madrid)1	505,159	30.99	−0.85	19	−1
	People's Party (PP)	395,344	24.25	−10.32	15	−6
	Citizens–Party of the Citizenry (Cs)	312,536	19.17	+7.74	11	+4
	Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)	224,074	13.75	−1.52	8	−1
	Vox (Vox)	124,969	7.67	+7.07	4	+4
	United Left–Municipalist Stand Up Madrid (IU–MpM)2	42,793	2.63	+0.94	0	±0
	Animalist Party Against Mistreatment of Animals (PACMA)	8,226	0.50	−0.09	0	±0
	Union, Progress and Democracy (UPyD)	1,642	0.10	−1.73	0	±0
	More With You (CNTG+)	1,514	0.09	New	0	±0
	Castilian Party–Commoners' Land: Pact (PCAS–TC–PPCCAL–Pacto)	1,477	0.09	+0.06	0	±0
	For a Fairer World (PUM+J)	1,183	0.07	New	0	±0
	Spanish Phalanx of the CNSO (FE–JONS)	774	0.05	−0.08	0	±0
	Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain (PCPE)	741	0.05	−0.03	0	±0
	Humanist Party (PH)	601	0.04	−0.02	0	±0
	Intelligent Madrid (MI)	597	0.04	New	0	±0
	Communist Party of the Workers of Spain (PCTE)	591	0.04	New	0	±0
	Libertarian Party (P–LIB)	476	0.03	−0.01	0	±0
	Spanish Catholic Movement (MCE)	313	0.02	New	0	±0
	Union for Leganés (ULEG)	164	0.01	−0.01	0	±0
Blank ballots		6,945	0.43	−0.54
Total		1,630,124			57	±0
Valid votes		1,630,124	99.64	+0.37
Invalid votes		5,839	0.36	−0.37
Votes cast / turnout		1,635,963	68.23	−0.67
Abstentions		761,918	31.77	+0.67
Registered voters		2,397,881
Sources[17][18]
Footnotes: 1 More Madrid results are compared to Madrid Now totals in the 2015 election. 2 United Left–Municipalist Stand Up Madrid results are compared to United Left of the Community of Madrid–The Greens totals in the 2015 election.

Popular vote Más Madrid   30.99% PP   24.25% Cs   19.17% PSOE   13.75% Vox   7.67% IU–MpM   2.63% Others   1.12% Blank ballots   0.43%

Seats Más Madrid   33.33% PP   26.32% Cs   19.30% PSOE   14.04% Vox   7.02%

Aftermath

Investiture
Ballot →		15 June 2019
Required majority →		29 out of 57
	José Luis Martínez-Almeida (PP) • PP (15) • Cs (11) • Vox (4)	30 / 57	Y
	Manuela Carmena (Más Madrid) • Más Madrid (19)	19 / 57	N
	Pepu Hernández (PSOE) • PSOE (8)	8 / 57	N
	Blank ballots	0 / 57
	Absentees	0 / 57
Sources[19]

Notes

1. Results for Ahora Madrid in the 2015 election.
2. Results for IUCM–LV in the 2015 election.
3. Within Unidas Podemos.
4. Within Más Madrid.
5. Within Ahora Madrid.