2023_Valencia_City_Council_election

2023 Valencia City Council election

2023 Valencia City Council election

Spanish local election on 28 May


The 2023 Valencia City Council election, also the 2023 Valencia municipal election, was held on Sunday, 28 May 2023, to elect the 12th City Council of the municipality of Valencia. All 33 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 33 seats in the City Council of Valencia 17 seats needed for a majority, Registered ...

Electoral system

The City Council of Valencia (Valencian: Ajuntament de València, Spanish: Ayuntamiento de Valencia) was the top-tier administrative and governing body of the municipality of Valencia, 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 Valencia 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:

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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]

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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 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 Valencia, 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:

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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 26 May 2019 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; 17 seats were required for an absolute majority in the City Council of Valencia.

Color key:

  Poll conducted after legal ban on opinion polls

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Results

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References

Opinion poll sources
  1. "El PP guanya les eleccions i governaria la Generalitat i les tres capitals, segons el sondeig de GAD3". À Punt (in Catalan). 28 May 2023.
  2. "Encuesta elecciones Valencia". GAD3 (in Spanish). 3 May 2023.
  3. "Baròmetre Municipal d'Opinió Ciutadana" (PDF). City Council of Valencia (in Catalan). 23 December 2022.
  4. "La derecha consolida sus opciones de gobernar en Valencia con 18 concejales". El Periódico de Aquí (in Spanish). 18 December 2022.
  5. "Estimación elecciones Valencia". GAD3 (in Spanish). 25 November 2022.
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. "Grups Polítics. Corporació 2019 - 2023. Dades biogràfiques". City Council of Valencia (in Valencian). Retrieved 12 October 2020.
  4. Navalón, Teresa (15 December 2021). "Ribó aplaza la decisión sobre su candidatura a la alcaldía de València hasta el próximo verano". Valencia Plaza (in Spanish). Valencia. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
  5. "Catalá dice que el congreso que la elegirá presidenta del PP local será "punto de partida" para ganar en 2023". 20 minutos (in Spanish). Valencia. Europa Press. 6 July 2020. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
  6. Plaza, Pablo; Navalón, Teresa (15 October 2021). "Sandra Gómez: "Tengo muy claro que voy a ser candidata a la Alcaldía de València en 2023"". Valencia Plaza (in Spanish). Valencia. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
  7. Moreno, P. (6 September 2022). "Fernando Giner será candidato de Cs a la alcaldía de Valencia en 2023". Valencia Plaza (in Spanish). Valencia. Retrieved 12 May 2023.
  8. "Vox designa como candidato a la Alcaldía de Valencia al catedrático Juan Manuel Badenas". ABC (in Spanish). Valencia. 10 February 2023. Retrieved 12 February 2023.
  9. "Electoral Results Consultation. Congress. November 2019. Valencia Municipality". Ministry of the Interior (in Spanish). Retrieved 10 June 2020.

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