2023_Madrilenian_regional_election

2023 Madrilenian regional election

2023 Madrilenian regional election

Spanish election


The 2023 Madrilenian regional election was held on Sunday, 28 May 2023, to elect the 13th Assembly of the Community of Madrid. All 135 seats in the Assembly were up for election. Because regional elections in the Community of Madrid were mandated for the fourth Sunday of May every four years, the 2021 snap election did not alter the term of the four-year legislature starting in 2019. The election was held simultaneously with regional elections in eleven other autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain.

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Overview

Electoral system

The Assembly of Madrid was the devolved, unicameral legislature of the autonomous community of Madrid, having legislative power in regional matters as defined by the Spanish Constitution and the Madrilenian Statute of Autonomy, as well as the ability to vote confidence in or withdraw it from a regional president.[1] Voting for the Assembly was on the basis of universal suffrage, which comprised all nationals over 18 years of age, registered in the Community of Madrid and in full enjoyment of their political rights. Amendments to the electoral law in 2022 abolished the "begged" or expat vote system (Spanish: Voto rogado), under which Spaniards abroad were required to apply for voting before being permitted to vote.[2] The expat vote system was attributed responsibility for a major decrease in the turnout of Spaniards abroad during the years it had been in force.[3]

All members of the Assembly of Madrid were elected using the D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional representation, with a threshold of five percent of valid votes—which included blank ballots—being applied regionally. The Assembly was entitled to one member per each 50,000 inhabitants or fraction greater than 25,000.[1][4]

Election date

The term of the Assembly of Madrid expired four years after the date of its previous election, with elections to the Assembly being fixed for the fourth Sunday of May every four years. The previous ordinary election was held on 26 May 2019, setting the election date for the Assembly on Sunday, 28 May 2023.[1][4][5]

The president had the prerogative to dissolve the Assembly of Madrid and call a snap election, provided that no motion of no confidence was in process, no nationwide election was due and some time requirements were met: namely, that dissolution did not occur either during the first legislative session or within the legislature's last year ahead of its scheduled expiry, nor before one year had elapsed since a previous dissolution.[6] In the event of an investiture process failing to elect a regional president within a two-month period from the first ballot, the Assembly was to be automatically dissolved and a fresh election called. Any snap election held as a result of these circumstances would not alter the period to the next ordinary election, with elected deputies merely serving out what remained of their four-year terms.[1]

The election to the Assembly of Madrid was officially triggered on 4 April 2023 after the publication of the election decree in the Official Gazette of the Community of Madrid (BOCM), scheduling for the chamber to convene on 13 June.[7]

Parliamentary composition

The table below shows the composition of the parliamentary groups in the Assembly at the time of dissolution.[8][9]

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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 at least 0.5 percent of the electorate in the Community of Madrid, disallowing electors from signing for more than one list of candidates.[4][5]

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

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Campaign

Party slogans

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Election debates

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Opinion polls

The tables below list opinion polling results 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.

Graphical summary

Local regression trend line of poll results from 4 May 2021 to 28 May 2023, with each line corresponding to a political party.

Voting intention estimates

The table below lists weighted voting intention estimates. Refusals are generally excluded from the party vote percentages, while question wording and the treatment of "don't know" responses and those not intending to vote may vary between polling organisations. When available, seat projections determined by the polling organisations are displayed below (or in place of) the percentages in a smaller font; 68 seats were required for an absolute majority in the Assembly of Madrid (69 until January 2023).

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  Poll conducted after legal ban on opinion polls

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Voting preferences

The table below lists raw, unweighted voting preferences.

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Preferred President

The table below lists opinion polling on leader preferences to become president of the Community of Madrid.

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Results

Overall

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Aftermath

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Notes

  1. Denotes a main invitee attending the event.
  2. Denotes a main invitee not attending the event, sending a surrogate in their place.
  3. Broadcast nationwide
  4. In the Community of Madrid, the debate was broadcast on La 1 (6.5%, 96,000) and 24 Horas (2.2%, 32,000). Nationwide, the debate was broadcast on 24 Horas, obtaining an audience of 1.0% (102,000).[26]
  5. Vote+Simpathy figures with undecided and/or abstentionists excluded.

References

Opinion poll sources
  1. "Sondeo: el PP obtendría mayoría absoluta en Madrid y arrebataría al PSOE la C. Valenciana y Aragón con el apoyo de Vox". RTVE (in Spanish). 28 May 2023.
  2. "ElectoPanel Autonómico (13M)". Electomanía (in Spanish). 13 May 2023.
  3. "ElectoPanel Autonómico (6M)". Electomanía (in Spanish). 6 May 2023.
  4. "ElectoPanel Autonómico (29A)". Electomanía (in Spanish). 29 April 2023.
  5. "ElectoPanel Autonómico (22A)". Electomanía (in Spanish). 22 April 2023.
  6. "Ayuso alcanza la mayoría absoluta". ABC (in Spanish). 13 May 2023.
  7. "EP Autonómico 8A – comienza el juego". Electomanía (in Spanish). 8 April 2023.
  8. "EP Com. Madrid (15E): Ayuso alcanza el 45% del voto". Electomanía (in Spanish). 15 January 2023.
  9. "CAMPanel (31Ag): Ayuso lograría hoy la mayoría absoluta". Electomanía (in Spanish). 31 August 2021.
Other
  1. Ley Orgánica 3/1983, de 25 de febrero, de Estatuto de Autonomía de la Comunidad de Madrid (Organic Law 3) (in Spanish). 25 February 1983. Retrieved 22 February 2017.
  2. Reig Pellicer, Naiara (16 December 2015). "Spanish elections: Begging for the right to vote". cafebabel.co.uk. Retrieved 17 July 2017.
  3. Araque Conde, Pilar (8 June 2022). "El Congreso acaba con el voto rogado: diez años de trabas burocráticas para los residentes en el extranjero". Público (in Spanish). Madrid. Retrieved 31 July 2022.
  4. Ley 11/1986, de 16 de diciembre, Electoral de la Comunidad de Madrid (Law 11) (in Spanish). 16 November 1986. Retrieved 22 February 2017.
  5. Ley Orgánica 5/1985, de 19 de junio, del Régimen Electoral General (Organic Law 5) (in Spanish). 19 June 1985. Retrieved 8 April 2023.
  6. "Elecciones autonómicas a la Asamblea de Madrid (1983-2021)". Historia Electoral.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 10 October 2021.
  7. "Grupos Parlamentarios". Assembly of Madrid (in Spanish). Retrieved 10 October 2021.
  8. Cervilla, Paloma (20 May 2022). "Ayuso, elegida presidenta del PP de Madrid con el 99,12 por ciento de los votos". ABC (in Spanish). Retrieved 25 May 2023.
  9. "Juan Lobato será el nuevo secretario general del PSOE-M". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). 23 October 2021. Archived from the original on 26 October 2021. Retrieved 26 October 2021.
  10. "Lobato se postula como candidato del PSOE a la Presidencia de la Comunidad de Madrid y pide la unidad de la izquierda". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). Madrid. Agencias. 19 September 2022. Retrieved 20 September 2022.
  11. "Rocío Monasterio, de nuevo candidata de Vox a la presidencia de la Comunidad de Madrid". 20 minutos (in Spanish). 18 January 2023. Retrieved 24 April 2023.
  12. "Pablo Iglesias abandona la política tras el "fracaso" de la izquierda en Madrid". El País (in Spanish). 4 May 2021. Retrieved 5 May 2021.
  13. "Podemos e IU alcanzan un preacuerdo para presentarse juntos a las elecciones de Madrid". El Confidencial (in Spanish). Europa Press. 14 December 2022. Retrieved 18 December 2022.
  14. "'Ganas', el lema de la campaña electoral de Díaz Ayuso para el 28M". Madrid es Noticia (in Spanish). 12 April 2023. Retrieved 17 May 2023.
  15. "Maestre y García arrancan en Vallecas la cuenta atrás para "lo próximo"". Madrid Actual (in Spanish). 11 May 2023. Retrieved 17 May 2023.
  16. "Vox apela al «voto seguro» en una pegada de carteles en Madrid con momentos de tensión". The Objective (in Spanish). 12 May 2023. Retrieved 17 May 2023.
  17. "FDF (3%) empata con Energy y coloca a "Fast & Furious 7" como lo más visto". FórmulaTV (in Spanish). 25 May 2023. Retrieved 25 May 2023.
  18. "Elecciones a la Asamblea de Madrid 2023" (PDF). Boletín Oficial de la Comunidad de Madrid (in Spanish) (136): 215–217. 9 June 2023. ISSN 1989-4791.
  19. Medialdea, Sara; Calleja, Mariano (22 June 2023). "Ayuso, presidenta de la Comunidad de Madrid con la mayoría absoluta del PP y la abstención de Vox". ABC (in Spanish). Madrid. Retrieved 23 June 2023.

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