2023_Seville_City_Council_election

2023 Seville City Council election

Spanish local election

The 2023 Seville City Council election, also the 2023 Seville municipal election, was held on Sunday, 28 May 2023, to elect the 12th City Council of the municipality of Seville. All 31 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.

Quick Facts All 31 seats in the City Council of Seville 16 seats needed for a majority, Registered ...

2023 Seville City Council election

← 2019

28 May 2023

All 31 seats in the City Council of Seville
16 seats needed for a majority

Opinion polls

Registered

531,886

1.7%

Turnout

326,118 (61.3%)

2.5 pp

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	José Luis Sanz	Antonio Muñoz	Cristina Peláez
Party	PP	PSOE–A	Vox
Leader since	21 July 2021	3 January 2022	22 April 2019
Last election	8 seats, 23.1%	13 seats, 39.2%	2 seats, 8.0%
Seats won	14	12	3
Seat change	6	1	1
Popular vote	132,778	110,204	28,727
Percentage	41.2%	34.2%	8.9%
Swing	18.1 pp	5.0 pp	0.9 pp

	Fourth party	Fifth party

Leader	Susana Hornillo	Miguel Ángel Aumesquet
Party	Con Andalucía	CS
Leader since	27 January 2023	9 November 2022
Last election	3 seats (Adelante)^{[lower-alpha 1]}	4 seats, 12.5%
Seats won	2	0
Seat change	1	4
Popular vote	22,803	5,069
Percentage	7.1%	1.6%
Swing	n/a	10.9 pp

Mayor before election

Antonio Muñoz
PSOE

Elected Mayor

José Luis Sanz
PP

Electoral system

The City Council of Seville (Spanish: Ayuntamiento de Sevilla) was 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 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 Seville 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:

More information Population, Councillors ...

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]

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 sought election, disallowing electors from signing for more than one list of candidates. For the case of Seville, as its population was between 300,001 and 1,000,000, at least 5,000 signatures were required.^[2]

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

More information Candidacy, Parties and alliances ...

Candidacy		Parties and alliances	Leading candidate		Ideology	Previous result		Gov.	Ref.
Candidacy		Parties and alliances	Leading candidate		Ideology	Votes (%)	Seats	Gov.	Ref.
	PSOE–A	List Spanish Socialist Workers' Party of Andalusia (PSOE–A)		Antonio Muñoz	Social democracy	39.24%	13	Y	^[3] ^[4]
	PP	List People's Party (PP)		José Luis Sanz	Conservatism Christian democracy	23.15%	8	N	^[5]
	Con Andalucía	List We Can (Podemos) United Left/The Greens–Assembly for Andalusia (IULV–CA) – Communist Party of Andalusia (PCA) – The Dawn. Marxist Organization OM (La Aurora (om)) – Republican Left (IR) More Country Andalusia (Más País–Andalucía) Greens Equo (Verdes Equo) Andalusian People's Initiative (IdPA) Green Alliance (AV) Andalusian Greens (LV) Republican Alternative (ALTER)		Susana Hornillo	Left-wing populism Direct democracy Democratic socialism	14.10%^{[lower-alpha 2]}	4	N	^[6]
	Adelante Andalucía	List Anti-capitalists (Anticapitalistas) Andalusian Spring (Primavera Andaluza) Andalusian Left (IzA) Defend Andalusia (Defender Andalucía)		Sandra Heredia	Andalusian nationalism Left-wing populism Anti-capitalism	14.10%^{[lower-alpha 2]}	4	N	^[7]
	CS	List Citizens–Party of the Citizenry (CS)		Miguel Ángel Aumesquet	Liberalism	12.45%	4	N	^[8] ^[9]
	Vox	List Vox (Vox)		Cristina Peláez	Right-wing populism Ultranationalism National conservatism	7.95%	2	N	^[10]

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 were required for an absolute majority in the City Council of Seville.

More information Polling firm/Commissioner, Fieldwork date ...

Polling firm/Commissioner	Fieldwork date	Sample size	Turnout							IULV			Lead
Polling firm/Commissioner	Fieldwork date	Sample size	Turnout										Lead

2023 municipal election	28 May 2023	—	61.3	34.2 12	41.2 14	–	1.6 0	8.9 3	^{[lower-alpha 3]}	^{[lower-alpha 3]}	7.1 2	3.7 0	7.0

GAD3/RTVE–FORTA^{[p 1]}	12–27 May 2023	?	?	37.0 13	38.0 13/14	–	2.0 0	10.0 3	^{[lower-alpha 3]}	^{[lower-alpha 3]}	5.0 1/2	4.0 0	1.0
NC Report/La Razón^{[p 2]}	22 May 2023	?	?	37.8 13	36.1 13	–	–	9.4 3	^{[lower-alpha 3]}	^{[lower-alpha 3]}	8.3 2	–	1.7
Sigma Dos/El Mundo^{[p 3]}	15–18 May 2023	1,200	?	38.1 13/14	36.1 12/13	–	2.0 0	9.4 3	^{[lower-alpha 3]}	^{[lower-alpha 3]}	8.2 2	4.1 0	2.0
GAD3/ABC^{[p 4]}	9–18 May 2023	800	?	36.9 13	36.4 13	–	2.2 0	10.4 3	^{[lower-alpha 3]}	^{[lower-alpha 3]}	6.2 2	3.8 0	0.5
40dB/Prisa^{[p 5]}^{[p 6]}	12–17 May 2023	800	?	36.9 12/13	34.9 12	–	2.5 0	8.7 3	^{[lower-alpha 3]}	^{[lower-alpha 3]}	8.9 3	4.9 0/1	2.0
DYM/Henneo^{[p 7]}	10–15 May 2023	?	?	38.8 13/14	35.4 11/12	–	–	9.6 3	^{[lower-alpha 3]}	^{[lower-alpha 3]}	9.0 2/3	4.2 0	3.4
Dataestudios/ABC^{[p 8]}	10–15 May 2023	603	?	36.7 13	38.3 13/14	–	2.6 0	9.5 2/3	^{[lower-alpha 3]}	^{[lower-alpha 3]}	5.9 1/2	3.9 0/1	1.6
SocioMétrica/El Español^{[p 9]}	8–14 May 2023	?	?	38.2 13/14	33.1 11/12	–	2.4 0	11.2 3/4	^{[lower-alpha 3]}	^{[lower-alpha 3]}	8.8 2/3	4.3 0	5.1
Data10/OKDiario^{[p 10]}	9–11 May 2023	1,500	?	37.2 13	36.1 12	–	1.7 0	9.1 3	^{[lower-alpha 3]}	^{[lower-alpha 3]}	8.4 2	5.2 1	1.1
Sigma Dos/Antena 3^{[p 11]}	27 Apr 2023	?	?	37.7 13/14	36.3 12/13	–	–	? 3	^{[lower-alpha 3]}	^{[lower-alpha 3]}	? 2	–	1.4
CIS^{[p 12]}^{[p 13]}	10–26 Apr 2023	1,012	?	39.6 14/15	33.0 12/13	–	2.8 0	7.7 2/3	^{[lower-alpha 3]}	^{[lower-alpha 3]}	9.7 3	–	6.6
NC Report/La Razón^{[p 14]}	24 Apr 2023	?	59.3	35.5 12	36.9 13	–	–	8.8 3	^{[lower-alpha 3]}	^{[lower-alpha 3]}	8.6 3	–	1.4
IMOP/El Confidencial^{[p 15]}	17–19 Apr 2023	809	60	37.6 13	35.9 12	–	1.4 0	9.4 3	^{[lower-alpha 3]}	^{[lower-alpha 3]}	8.9 3	3.7 0	1.7
Social Data/Grupo Viva^{[p 16]}	10–12 Apr 2023	607	?	38.2 13/14	36.7 12/13	–	1.8 0	7.3 2/3	^{[lower-alpha 3]}	^{[lower-alpha 3]}	8.7 2/3	3.8 0/1	1.5
Sigma Dos/El Mundo^{[p 17]}	10–15 Feb 2023	500	?	37.1 12/13	36.7 12/13	–	1.5 0	8.2 2/3	^{[lower-alpha 3]}	^{[lower-alpha 3]}	8.5 2/3	5.9 0/1	0.4
PSOE^{[p 18]}	5 Feb 2023	?	?	? 14	? 11/12	–	? 0	? 2/3	^{[lower-alpha 3]}	^{[lower-alpha 3]}	? 3	–	?
CENTRA/CEA^{[p 19]}	27 Oct–2 Nov 2022	1,500	?	37.2 12/13	40.0 13/14	–	3.2 0	6.3 2	^{[lower-alpha 3]}	^{[lower-alpha 3]}	9.6 2/3	–	2.8
Dataestudios/ABC^{[p 20]}	5–13 Oct 2022	600	?	37.0 13	38.3 13/14	–	2.2 0	8.2 2/3	5.9 2	4.6 0	–	–	1.3
2022 regional election^[11]	19 Jun 2022	—	64.5	24.3 (8)	41.4 (15)	–	4.3 (0)	11.6 (4)	^{[lower-alpha 4]}	^{[lower-alpha 4]}	8.0 (2)	7.3 (2)	17.1
SW Demoscopia^{[p 21]}	9–17 Dec 2021	1,007	?	38.6 13/14	33.2 11/12	–	4.3 0/1	10.2 3/4	^{[lower-alpha 3]}	^{[lower-alpha 3]}	11.3 3/4	–	5.4
GAD3/ABC^{[p 22]}	15–24 Jun 2021	1,010	?	37.6 13	35.9 12/13	–	2.8 0	10.8 3	^{[lower-alpha 3]}	^{[lower-alpha 3]}	9.1 2/3	–	1.7
ElectoPanel/Electomanía^{[p 23]}	5 Mar 2021	600	?	38.6 14	24.9 9	–	4.9 0	15.0 5	^{[lower-alpha 3]}	^{[lower-alpha 3]}	9.2 3	4.8 0	13.7
SW Demoscopia/Grupo Viva^{[p 24]}	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	^{[lower-alpha 5]}	^{[lower-alpha 5]}	–	–	18.3
November 2019 general election^[12]	10 Nov 2019	—	72.2	31.8 (11)	21.8 (7)	–	8.2 (2)	17.5 (6)	^{[lower-alpha 3]}	^{[lower-alpha 3]}	14.6 (5)	–	10.0

2019 municipal election	26 May 2019	—	58.8	39.2 13	23.1 8	14.1 4	12.5 4	8.0 2	^{[lower-alpha 5]}	^{[lower-alpha 5]}	–	–	16.1

Results

More information Parties and alliances, Popular vote ...

← Summary of the 28 May 2023 City Council of Seville election results →
Parties and alliances		Popular vote			Seats

Parties and alliances		Votes	%	±pp	Total	+/−
	People's Party (PP)	132,778	41.17	+18.02	14	+6
	Spanish Socialist Workers' Party of Andalusia (PSOE–A)	110,204	34.17	–5.07	12	–1
	Vox (Vox)	28,727	8.91	+0.96	3	+1
	With Andalusia (Podemos–IU–MPA–VE–IdPA–AV–LV–ALTER)¹	22,803	7.07	n/a	2	–1

	Forward Andalusia (Adelante Andalucía)¹	11,974	3.71	n/a	0	–1
	Citizens–Party of the Citizenry (CS)	5,069	1.57	–10.88	0	–4
	Animalist Party with the Environment (PACMA)²	4,344	1.35	+0.24	0	±0
	Blank Seats (EB)	1,093	0.34	New	0	±0
	For a Fairer World (PUM+J)	848	0.26	+0.11	0	±0
	Communist Party of the Workers of Spain (PCTE)	586	0.18	New	0	±0
	Spanish Phalanx of the CNSO (FE–JONS)	210	0.07	+0.03	0	±0
Blank ballots		3,857	1.20	+0.48

Total		322,493			31	±0

Valid votes		322,493	98.89	–0.48
Invalid votes		3,625	1.11	+0.48
Votes cast / turnout		326,118	61.31	+2.54
Abstentions		205,768	38.69	–2.54
Registered voters		531,886

Sources^[13]
Footnotes: ¹ Within the Forward Seville: We Can–United Left–Andalusian Spring alliance in the 2019 election. ² Animalist Party with the Environment results are compared to Animalist Party Against Mistreatment of Animals totals in the 2019 election.

More information Popular vote ...

Popular vote

PP			41.17%
PSOE–A			34.17%
Vox			8.91%
ConA			7.07%
Adelante			3.71%
CS			1.57%
PACMA			1.35%
Others			0.85%
Blank ballots			1.20%

More information Seats ...

Seats

PP			45.16%
PSOE–A			38.71%
Vox			9.68%
ConA			6.45%

Notes

Within the Adelante alliance in the 2019 election.
Results for Adelante in the 2019 election.
Within ConA.
Within Por Andalucía.
Within Adelante Andalucía.

References

Opinion poll sources

[p 1]
"El PP podría recuperar el Ayuntamiento de Sevilla con el apoyo de Vox, según TVE y FORTA". elDiario.es (in Spanish). 28 May 2023.
[p 2]
"Elecciones municipales: Sánchez ganaría Barcelona, pero perdería Sevilla". La Razón (in Spanish). 22 May 2023.
[p 3]
"El PP cerca al PSOE en Sevilla y con Vox podría voltear la gran capital de Sánchez". El Mundo (in Spanish). 21 May 2023.
[p 4]
"La fortaleza de Vox permitirá a José Luis Sanz gobernar Sevilla sin ganar las elecciones el 28M". ABC (in Spanish). 21 May 2023.
[p 5]
"El PSOE aventajaría por la mínima al PP en Sevilla". El País. 22 May 2023.
[p 6]
"Informe preelectoral para el Ayuntamiento de Sevilla. Mayo 2023" (PDF). 40dB. 22 May 2023.
[p 7]
"Encuesta DYM. Muñoz revalidaría la Alcaldía de Sevilla con el apoyo de la izquierda, pero un solo edil podría dar la mayoría al PP y Vox". 20 minutos (in Spanish). 17 May 2023.
[p 8]
"José Luis Sanz saca ventaja a Antonio Muñoz y suma para que el PP gobierne Sevilla el 28M". ABC (in Spanish). 17 May 2023.
[p 9]
"Antonio Muñoz ganaría Sevilla para el PSOE y podría gobernar con el apoyo de Con Andalucía". El Español (in Spanish). 19 May 2023.
[P 10]
"El PP roza el 'sorpasso' en Sevilla a un PSOE que necesitará a Podemos y a Adelante para gobernar". OKDiario (in Spanish). 14 May 2023.
[P 11]
"Ventaja del PSOE sobre el PP pero no se asegura mantener el ayuntamiento de Sevilla en las elecciones del 28M, según el sondeo de Sigma Dos". Antena 3 (in Spanish). 27 April 2023.
[P 12]
"Preelectoral elecciones municipales y autonómicas 2023. Sevilla municipio (Estudio nº 3402. Abril 2023)" (PDF). CIS (in Spanish). 11 May 2023.
[P 13]
"Estimación de voto. Municipios, grandes ciudades y Comunidades Autónomas (Estudio nº 3402. Abril 2023)" (PDF). CIS (in Spanish). 11 May 2023.
[P 14]
"El PP se hace con Valencia y Sevilla y el PSOE gana en Barcelona". La Razón (in Spanish). 24 April 2023.
[P 15]
"El PSOE mantiene Sevilla por la mínima: el PP está a un escaño de ganarle la alcaldía". El Confidencial (in Spanish). 25 April 2023.
[P 16]
"Antonio Muñoz revalidaría la Alcaldía de Sevilla al ser la lista más votada". Andalucía Información (in Spanish). 20 April 2023.
[P 17]
"El PP, a 2.172 votos de superar al PSOE en Sevilla, la mayor ciudad en manos de Sánchez". Sigma Dos (in Spanish). 20 February 2023.
[P 18]
"Guerra de encuestas por la Alcaldía de Sevilla". Diario de Sevilla (in Spanish). 5 February 2023.
[P 19]
"Estudio Opinión Pública Capitales Andaluzas 2023. Especial Elecciones Municipales. Enero 2023". CEA (in Spanish). 30 January 2023.
[P 20]
"Sondeo Sevilla ciudad". ABC (in Spanish). 24 October 2022.
[P 21]
"Sondeo Sevilla ciudad". SW Demoscopia (in Spanish). 28 December 2021.
[P 22]
"Empate virtual entre la izquierda y la derecha tras la caída de Cs". ABC Sevilla (in Spanish). 27 June 2021.
[P 23]
"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.
[P 24]
"Espadas volvería a ser alcalde de Sevilla con una "mayoría suficiente"". Andalucía Información (in Spanish). 22 June 2020.

Other

[1]
Ley 7/1985, de 2 de abril, Reguladora de las Bases del Régimen Local (Law 7) (in Spanish). 2 April 1985. Retrieved 9 December 2023.
[2]
Ley Orgánica 5/1985, de 19 de junio, del Régimen Electoral General (Organic Law 5) (in Spanish). 19 June 1985. Retrieved 9 December 2023.
[3]
Guzmán, María José (28 November 2021). "Espadas y un relevo en la Alcaldía consumado". Diario de Sevilla (in Spanish). Retrieved 30 November 2021.
[4]
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.
[5]
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.
[6]
Morente, Antonio (26 January 2023). "La izquierda sella una alianza electoral en Sevilla con la líder de Podemos como candidata a la Alcaldía de la capital". elDiario.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 20 February 2023.
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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.
[8]
"Álvaro Pimentel no encabezará la candidatura de Ciudadanos a las municipales en Sevilla". ABC Sevilla (in Spanish). 26 September 2022. Retrieved 26 September 2022.
[9]
"Ciudadanos designa a Miguel Ángel Aumesquet como candidato a la Alcaldía de Sevilla". ABC Sevilla (in Spanish). 9 November 2022. Retrieved 8 December 2022.
[10]
Maestre, Romualdo (30 December 2022). "Cristina Peláez repite como candidata de Vox a la alcaldía de Sevilla". ABC Sevilla (in Spanish). Retrieved 12 January 2023.
[11]
"Resultados provisionales: Sevilla, Sevilla". resultados.eleccionesparlamentoandalucia2022.es/ (in Spanish). Government of Andalusia. Retrieved 20 June 2022.
[12]
"Electoral Results Consultation. Congress. November 2019. Seville Municipality". Ministry of the Interior (in Spanish). Retrieved 5 July 2021.
[13]
"Resolución de 5 de julio de 2023, de la Presidencia de la Junta Electoral Central, por la que se procede a la publicación del resumen de los resultados de las elecciones locales convocadas por Real Decreto 207/2023, de 3 de abril, y celebradas el 28 de mayo de 2023, según los datos que figuran en las actas de proclamación remitidas por cada una de las Juntas Electorales de Zona. Provincias: Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Segovia, Sevilla, Soria, Tarragona, Teruel, Toledo, Valencia, Valladolid, Zamora y Zaragoza. Ciudades Autónomas de Ceuta y Melilla" (PDF). Boletín Oficial del Estado (in Spanish) (261): 145194–146077. 1 November 2023. ISSN 0212-033X.

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