2023 Seville City Council election
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The 2023 Seville City Council election, also the 2023 Seville municipal election, will be held on Sunday, 28 May 2023, to elect the 12th City Council of the municipality of Seville. All 31 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 Seville (Spanish: Ayuntamiento de Sevilla) is the top-tier administrative and governing body of the municipality of Seville, 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 Seville 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 |
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| <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]
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 Seville, as its population is between 300,001 and 1,000,000, at least 5,000 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. | |||
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| Votes (%) | Seats | ||||||||
| PSOE–A | List |
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Antonio Muñoz | Social democracy | 39.24% | 13 | 
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| PP | List
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José Luis Sanz | Conservatism Christian democracy |
23.15% | 8 | 
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| Podemos– IULV���CA |
List
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Susana Serrano | Left-wing populism Direct democracy Democratic socialism |
14.10%[b] | 4 |
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| Adelante Andalucía |
List
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Sandra Heredia | Andalusian nationalism Left-wing populism Anti-capitalism |
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| Cs | List |
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Álvaro Pimentel | Liberalism | 12.45% | 4 |
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| Vox | List
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Cristina Peláez | Right-wing populism Ultranationalism National conservatism |
7.95% | 2 |
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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; 16 seats are required for an absolute majority in the City Council of Seville.
| Polling firm/Commissioner | Fieldwork date | Sample size | Turnout | 
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Lead |
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| SW Demoscopia[p 1] | 9–17 Dec 2021 | 1,007 | ? | 38.6 13/14 |
33.2 11/12 |
– | 4.3 0/1 |
10.2 3/4 |
– | 11.3 3/4 |
5.4 |
| GAD3/ABC[p 2] | 15–24 Jun 2021 | 1,010 | ? | 37.6 13 |
35.9 12/13 |
9.1 2/3 |
2.8 0 |
10.8 3 |
– | – | 1.7 |
| ElectoPanel/Electomanía[p 3] | 5 Mar 2021 | 600 | ? | 38.6 14 |
24.9 9 |
– | 4.9 0 |
15.0 5 |
9.2 3 |
4.8 0 |
13.7 |
| SW Demoscopia/Grupo Viva[p 4] | 8–15 Jun 2020 | 1,006 | ? | 40.8 13/14 |
22.5 7/8 |
12.3 3/4 |
7.7 2/3 |
12.9 3/4 |
– | – | 18.3 |
| November 2019 general election[7] | 10 Nov 2019 | N/A | 72.2 | 31.8 (11) |
21.8 (7) |
– | 8.2 (2) |
17.5 (6) |
14.6 (5) |
– | 10.0 |
| 2019 municipal election | 26 May 2019 | N/A | 58.8 | 39.2 13 |
23.1 8 |
14.1 4 |
12.5 4 |
8.0 2 |
– | – | 16.1 |
Notes[]
References[]
- Opinion poll sources
- ^ "Sondeo Sevilla ciudad". SW Demoscopia (in Spanish). 28 December 2021.
- ^ "Empate virtual entre la izquierda y la derecha tras la caída de Cs". ABC Sevilla (in Spanish). 27 June 2021.
- ^ "AndPanel Sevilla (5M): el PSOE mantendría la alcaldía. Vox sube y Cs y ANSR se quedan fuera". Electomanía (in Spanish). 5 March 2021. Archived from the original on 5 March 2021. Retrieved 5 March 2021.
- ^ "Espadas volvería a ser alcalde de Sevilla con una "mayoría suficiente"". Andalucía Información (in Spanish). 22 June 2020.
- Other
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Guzmán, María José (28 November 2021). "Espadas y un relevo en la Alcaldía consumado". Diario de Sevilla (in Spanish). Retrieved 30 November 2021.
- ^ Ruesga, Manuel (14 December 2021). "Antonio Muñoz, nuevo alcalde de Sevilla antes de que termine enero". Diario de Sevilla (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 December 2021.
- ^ Morente, Antonio (21 July 2021). "José Luis Sanz confirma que será el candidato del PP a la Alcaldía de Sevilla". elDiario.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 October 2021.
- ^ Morente, Antonio (21 July 2021). "La concejal de Adelante Sevilla Sandra Heredia pasa a ser no adscrita tras su expulsión de Podemos". ElDiario.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 29 July 2021.
- ^ "Electoral Results Consultation. Congress. November 2019. Seville Municipality". Ministry of the Interior (in Spanish). Retrieved 5 July 2021.
- 2023 elections in Spain
- Elections in Seville