2023 Madrid City Council election

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2023 Madrid City Council election
← 2019 28 May 2023
All 57 seats in the City Council of Madrid
29 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
  Rita Maestre 2019 (cropped).jpg José Luis Martínez-Almeida 2019b (cropped).jpg Begoña Villacís 2019 (cropped).jpg
Leader Rita Maestre José Luis Martínez-Almeida Begoña Villacís
Party Más Madrid PP Cs
Leader since 30 July 2020 28 April 2017 2 March 2015
Last election 19 seats, 31.0% 15 seats, 24.3% 11 seats, 19.2%
Current seats 16 15 11
Seats needed Green Arrow Up Darker.svg13 Green Arrow Up Darker.svg14 Green Arrow Up Darker.svg18
  Portrait placeholder.svg Javier Ortega Smith 2018 (cropped).jpg
Leader Javier Ortega Smith
Party PSOE Vox
Leader since 11 December 2021 18 April 2019
Last election 8 seats, 13.7% 4 seats, 7.7%
Current seats 8 4
Seats needed Green Arrow Up Darker.svg21 Green Arrow Up Darker.svg25
Incumbent Mayor

José Luis Martínez-Almeida
PP



The 2023 Madrid City Council election, also the 2023 Madrid municipal election, will be held on Sunday, 28 May 2023, to elect the 12th City Council of the municipality of Madrid. All 57 seats in the City Council will be up for election. The election will be held simultaneously with regional elections in at least seven autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain.

Electoral system[]

The City Council of Madrid (Spanish: Ayuntamiento de Madrid) is 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 are fixed for the fourth Sunday of May every four years.[2]

Voting for the local assembly is on the basis of universal suffrage, which comprises all nationals over eighteen, 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 allows Spanish nationals to vote in their own elections by virtue of a treaty. Local councillors are elected using the D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional representation, with an electoral threshold of five percent of valid votes—which includes blank ballots—being applied in each local council.[1][2] Councillors are 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 is indirectly elected by the plenary assembly. A legal clause requires that mayoral candidates earn the vote of an absolute majority of councillors, or else the candidate of the most-voted party in the assembly shall be automatically appointed to the post. In the event of a tie, the appointee will be determined by lot.[1]

Council composition[]

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

Current parliamentary composition
Groups Parties Councillors
Seats Total
More Madrid Municipal Group Más Madrid 16 16
People's Party's Municipal Group PP 15 15
Citizens–Party of the Citizenry Municipal Group Cs 11 11
Socialist Municipal Group in Madrid PSOE 8 8
Vox Municipal Group Vox 4 4
Mixed Group Recupera Madrid 3[a] 3

Parties and candidates[]

The electoral law allows 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 are required to inform the relevant Electoral Commission within ten days of the election call, whereas groupings of electors need to secure the signature of a determined amount of the electors registered in the municipality for which they seek election, disallowing electors from signing for more than one list of candidates. For the case of Madrid, as its population is over 1,000,001, at least 8,000 signatures are required.[2]

Below is a list of the main parties and electoral alliances which will likely contest the election:

Candidacy Parties and
alliances 		Leading candidate Ideology Previous result Gov. Ref.
Votes (%) Seats
Más Madrid
List
 Rita Maestre 2019 (cropped).jpg Rita Maestre Progressivism
Participatory democracy
Green politics 		30.99% 19 ☒N [6]
PP
List
 José Luis Martínez-Almeida 2019b (cropped).jpg José Luis Martínez-Almeida Conservatism
Christian democracy 		24.25% 15 checkY [7]
Cs
List
 Begoña Villacís 2019 (cropped).jpg Begoña Villacís Liberalism 19.17% 11 checkY [8]
PSOE
List
 Portrait placeholder.svg Mercedes González Social democracy 13.75% 8 ☒N [9]
Vox
List
 Javier Ortega Smith 2018 (cropped).jpg Javier Ortega Smith Right-wing populism
Ultranationalism
National conservatism 		7.67% 4 ☒N

In March 2021, four Más Madrid city councillors, including former lieutenant mayor Marta Higueras, splitted into the Mixed Group to form "Recover Madrid" (Spanish: Recupera Madrid), a platform aiming at "preserving" the original project of former mayor Manuela Carmena under a more moderate and pragmatic line,[10] draining material and economic resources from the Más Madrid group,[11] and becoming involved in controversial choices such as the approval of the 2022 budget of José Luis Martínez-Almeida which also saw one of Recupera Madrid's councillors, Felipe Llamas, resigning from his post in disagreement.[12][13] The platform has announced its intention not to contest the next municipal election, instead seeking to find accommodation within Spanish second deputy prime minister and Labour minister Yolanda Díaz's planned platform.[14]

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 are required for an absolute majority in the City Council of Madrid.

Polling firm/Commissioner Fieldwork date Sample size Turnout Más Madrid.svg PP Cs PSOE Vox IU–Madrid Logo Unidas Podemos 2019b.png Lead
ElectoPanel/Electomanía[p 1] 17–18 Feb 2022 876 ? 31.3
20 		27.9
17 		9.3
5 		13.0
8 		11.7
7 		[b] 4.3
0 		3.4
Sigma Dos/El Mundo[p 2][p 3] 3–6 Nov 2021 622 ? 25.1
15 		35.4
22 		8.4
4 		12.2
7 		6.9
4 		[b] 9.8
5 		10.3
2021 regional election[15] 4 May 2021 N/A 75.6 17.9
(11) 		45.3
(28) 		3.7
(0) 		16.1
(9) 		8.1
(5) 		[b] 7.5
(4) 		27.4
ElectoPanel/Electomanía[p 4] 17 Mar 2021 1,000 ? 14.3
9 		42.0
26 		2.1
0 		22.1
14 		9.2
5 		[b] 8.5
5 		19.9
ElectoPanel/Electomanía[p 5] 1 Jul–25 Sep 2020 ? ? 22.9
14 		35.5
21 		7.6
4 		23.4
14 		7.8
4 		1.1
0 		– 12.1
Sigma Dos/Telemadrid[p 6][p 7] 19–22 Jun 2020 ? ? 18.6
11 		38.5
23 		8.2
4 		21.6
13 		5.7
3 		[b] 5.1
3 		16.9
Hamalgama Métrica/OKDiario[p 8] 8–11 May 2020 1,000 ? 18.9
11 		34.5
21 		10.1
6 		17.3
10 		8.6
5 		[b] 7.9
4 		15.6
GAD3/ABC[p 9][p 10] 24–29 Apr 2020 631 ? 8.2
5 		44.7
27 		5.2
3 		25.9
15 		7.0
4 		[b] 6.2
3 		18.8
ElectoPanel/Electomanía[p 11] 26–31 Mar 2020 800 ? 16.9
10 		30.8
19 		10.7
6 		25.7
15 		12.0
7 		1.8
0 		– 5.1
November 2019 general election[16] 10 Nov 2019 N/A 74.0 6.3
(3) 		27.3
(16) 		8.9
(5) 		26.4
(16) 		16.0
(9) 		[b] 13.0
(8) 		0.9
ElectoPanel/Electomanía[p 12] 10 Oct 2019 1,500 ? 8.8
5 		25.6
16 		13.5
8 		25.5
15 		12.2
7 		[b] 10.9
6 		0.1
2019 municipal election 26 May 2019 N/A 68.2 30.9
19 		24.2
15 		19.1
11 		13.7
8 		7.6
4 		2.6
0 		– 6.7

Notes[]

  1. ^ Marta Higueras, José Manuel Calvo and Luis Cueto, former Más Madrid councillors.[4][5]
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i Within Unidas Podemos.

References[]

Opinion poll sources
  1. ^ "MadPanel (19F): subida de la izquierda, que se sitúa al borde de arrebatarle la alcaldía a Almeida". Electomanía (in Spanish). 19 February 2022.
  2. ^ "Almeida crece pero se queda lejos de la gran mayoría que mantiene Ayuso". El Mundo (in Spanish). 9 November 2021.
  3. ^ "MADRID. Encuesta SigmaDos 09/11/2021: PODEMOS-IU 9,8% (5), MÁS MADRID 25,1% (15), PSOE 12,2% (7), Cs 8,4% (4), PP 35,4% (22), VOX 6,9% (4)". Electograph (in Spanish). 9 November 2021.
  4. ^ "ChulaPanel (17M): Subida de Ayuso e Iglesias en la CAM. En el Ayuntamiento, Almeida necesitaría a Vox para tener mayoría y Villacís se quedaría sin escaño". Electomanía (in Spanish). 17 March 2021.
  5. ^ "MadPanel (27S): Almeida atrae votos de Vox y Cs, pero la subida de Ahora Madrid deja a la izquierda a un concejal de quitarle la alcaldía". Electomanía (in Spanish). 27 September 2020.
  6. ^ "Almeida ganaría las elecciones en Madrid con comodidad a costa de Ciudadanos y Vox". Telemadrid (in Spanish). 1 July 2020.
  7. ^ "Aprobados y suspensos para los líderes políticos del Ayuntamiento de Madrid". Telemadrid (in Spanish). 1 July 2020.
  8. ^ "Almeida arrasa tras su gestión del Covid-19: tendría tantos ediles (21) como la suma de PSOE y Más Madrid". OKDiario (in Spanish). 14 May 2020.
  9. ^ "El PP roza la mayoría absoluta en Madrid capital y casi dobla al PSOE". ABC (in Spanish). 3 May 2020.
  10. ^ "Barómetro de ABC/GAD3 Comunidad de Madrid y Ayuntamiento de Madrid (2 y 3 de mayo)". GAD3 (in Spanish). 2 May 2020.
  11. ^ "MadPanel (3A): Almeida logra la primera plaza. Subida del PSOE y Vox, mientras Más Madrid y Cs caen". Electomanía (in Spanish). 3 April 2020.
  12. ^ "MadPanel (11Oct): victoria para Almeida muy igualado con Pepu. Más Madrid se hunde sin Carmena y Vox disputa la tercera plaza". Electomanía (in Spanish). 11 October 2019.
Other
  1. ^ a b c "Ley 7/1985, de 2 de abril, Reguladora de las Bases del Régimen Local". Law No. 7 of 2 April 1985. Boletín Oficial del Estado (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 July 2021.
  2. ^ a b c "Ley Orgánica 5/1985, de 19 de junio, del Régimen Electoral General". Organic Law No. 5 of 19 June 1985. Boletín Oficial del Estado (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 July 2021.
  3. ^ "El Pleno. Composición. Corporación actual". City Council of Madrid (in Spanish). Retrieved 12 October 2020.
  4. ^ "Cuatro ediles de Más Madrid se separan del grupo y forman 'Recupera Madrid' para ser "fieles al proyecto original"" (in Spanish). Europa Press. 4 March 2021. Retrieved 24 August 2021.
  5. ^ "Los cuatro ediles de Recupera Madrid formarán el grupo mixto" (in Spanish). Cadena SER. 24 August 2021. Retrieved 24 August 2021.
  6. ^ De Vega, Luis (30 July 2020). "Rita Maestre, elegida portavoz de Más Madrid en una reunión sin Marta Higueras". El País (in Spanish). Madrid. Retrieved 12 October 2020.
  7. ^ Pérez Mendoza, Sofía (15 June 2021). "Almeida aspira "a conseguir lo mismo que Ayuso" en 2023 y se abre ya a integrar a miembros de Ciudadanos y Vox". eldiario.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 16 January 2022.
  8. ^ Mateo, Juan José (14 January 2022). "La cuenta atrás de Begoña Villacís". El País (in Spanish). Madrid. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
  9. ^ Peiró, Patricia (11 December 2021). "Mercedes González se lanza a por la alcaldía de Madrid: "Es el momento de dar un paso adelante"". El País (in Spanish). Madrid. Retrieved 12 December 2021.
  10. ^ "Cuatro ediles de Más Madrid se separan del grupo y forman 'Recupera Madrid' para ser "fieles al proyecto original"" (in Spanish). Madrid: Europa Press. 4 March 2021. Retrieved 9 November 2021.
  11. ^ "Recupera Madrid suma recursos materiales y económicos restándoselos a Más Madrid". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). Agencias. 28 September 2021. Retrieved 9 November 2021.
  12. ^ "El alcalde de Madrid saca adelante los presupuestos con el apoyo de los ediles 'carmenistas'". Cinco Días (in Spanish). 27 December 2021. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
  13. ^ "Un díscolo de Más Madrid rechaza apoyar los presupuestos de Almeida y deja el acta". El Confidencial (in Spanish). Europa Press. 28 December 2021. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
  14. ^ Marín, Elena (26 October 2021). "Recupera Madrid busca cobijo electoral en la plataforma de Yolanda Díaz". El Periódico de España (in Spanish). Retrieved 16 January 2022.
  15. ^ "Elecciones a la Asamblea de Madrid del 4 de mayo de 2021. Comunidad de Madrid > Madrid". resultados2021.comunidad.madrid (in Spanish). Community of Madrid. Retrieved 5 May 2021.
  16. ^ "Electoral Results Consultation. Congress. November 2019. Madrid Municipality". Ministry of the Interior (in Spanish). Retrieved 10 June 2020.
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