1995 Madrid City Council election
{{Infobox election
| election_name = 1995 Madrid City Council election
| country = City of Madrid
| type = parliamentary
| ongoing = no
| previous_election = 1991 Madrid City Council election
| previous_year = 1991
| next_election = 1999 Madrid City Council election
| next_year = 1999
| outgoing_members =
| elected_members =
| seats_for_election = All 55 seats in the City Council of Madrid
| majority_seats = 28
| opinion_polls = #Opinion polls
| registered = 2,529,476 File:Green Arrow Up Darker.svg0.2%
| turnout = 1,801,310 (71.2%)
File:Green Arrow Up Darker.svg12.0 pp
| election_date = 28 May 1995
| image1 = 170x170px
| leader1 = José María Álvarez del Manzano
| party1 = People's Party of the Community of Madrid
| leader_since1 = 10 October 1986
| last_election1 = 30 seats, 47.2%
| seats1 = 30
| seat_change1 = File:Arrow Blue Right 001.svg0
| popular_vote1 = 945,634
| percentage1 = 52.7%
| swing1 = File:Green Arrow Up Darker.svg5.5 pp
| image2 = 170x170px
| leader2 = Juan Barranco
| party2 = Madrilenian Socialist Federation
| leader_since2 = 19 January 1986
| last_election2 = 21 seats, 34.3%
| seats2 = 16
| seat_change2 = File:Red Arrow Down.svg5
| popular_vote2 = 499,435
| percentage2 = 27.8%
| swing2 = File:Red Arrow Down.svg6.5 pp
| image3 = 170x170px
| leader3 = Francisco Herrera
| party3 = IU
| colour3 = 732021
| leader_since3 = 7 June 1990
| last_election3 = 6 seats, 9.6%
| seats3 = 9
| seat_change3 = File:Green Arrow Up Darker.svg3
| popular_vote3 = 279,090
| percentage3 = 15.6%
| swing3 = File:Green Arrow Up Darker.svg6.0 pp
| map_image =
| map_size =
| map_caption =
| title = Mayor
| before_election = José María Álvarez del Manzano
| before_party = People's Party of the Community of Madrid
| after_election = José María Álvarez del Manzano
| after_party = People's Party of the Community of Madrid
}}
The 1995 Madrid City Council election, also the 1995 Madrid municipal election, was held on Sunday, 28 May 1995, to elect the 5th City Council of the municipality of Madrid. All 55 seats in the City Council were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with regional elections in thirteen autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain.
People's Party (PP) incumbent José María Álvarez del Manzano again won an absolute majority of seats, improving his position relative to others as he obtained nearly 250,000 votes more than four years before. In contrast, the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) plummeted to one of its worst historical results, obtaining only 16 seats, to the benefit of United Left (IU) which scored its best result to date. Turnout was one of the highest in the history of the city, at 71.2%.
Electoral system
The City Council of Madrid ({{langx|es|Ayuntamiento de Madrid}}) was the top-tier administrative and governing body of the municipality of Madrid, composed of the mayor, the government council and the elected plenary assembly.{{cite act |title=Ley 7/1985, de 2 de abril, Reguladora de las Bases del Régimen Local |type=Law |number=7 |language=es |date=2 April 1985 |url=https://www.boe.es/buscar/act.php?id=BOE-A-1985-5392&tn=1&p=19941231 |access-date=30 June 2020}} Elections to the local councils in Spain were fixed for the fourth Sunday of May every four years.{{cite act |title=Ley Orgánica 5/1985, de 19 de junio, del Régimen Electoral General |type=Organic Law |number=5 |language=es |date=19 June 1985 |url=https://www.boe.es/buscar/act.php?id=BOE-A-1985-11672&tn=1&p=19950324 |access-date=30 January 2020}} Voting for the local assembly was on the basis of universal suffrage, which comprised all nationals over 18 years of age, registered in the municipality of Madrid and in full enjoyment of their political rights, as well as resident non-nationals 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. Councillors were allocated to municipal councils based on the following scale:
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! width="200"| Councillors |
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<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 |
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.
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 were seeking election, disallowing electors from signing for more than one list of candidates. In the case of Madrid, as its population was over 1,000,001, at least 8,000 signatures were required.
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; 28 seats were required for an absolute majority in the City Council of Madrid.
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! style="width:250px;" rowspan="2"| Polling firm/Commissioner ! style="width:125px;" rowspan="2"| Fieldwork date ! style="width:50px;" rowspan="2"| Sample size ! style="width:45px;" rowspan="2"| Turnout ! style="width:35px;"| File:People's Party (Spain) Logo (1993-2000).svg ! style="width:35px;"| File:Logo PSOE, 1976-2001.svg ! style="width:35px;"| File:Logo-izquierda-unida2.png ! style="width:30px;" rowspan="2"| Lead |
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| 28 May 1995 | {{N/A}} | 71.2 | {{Party shading/PP}}| 52.7 | 27.8 | 15.6 | style="background:{{party color|People's Party of the Community of Madrid}}; color:white;"| 24.9 |
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Demoscopia/El País{{cite web |title=El PSOE se hunde en las principales ciudades |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1995/05/21/espana/801007232_850215.html |language=es |work=El País |date=21 May 1995}}{{cite web |title=El PP cree que la encuesta publicada por un diario madrileño tiene como objetivo alarmar a los electores e impulsar el voto de izquierda |url=http://hemeroteca.abc.es/nav/Navigate.exe/hemeroteca/madrid/abc/1995/05/22/023.html |language=es |work=ABC |date=22 May 1995}}
| 10–15 May 1995 |? |? | {{Party shading/PP}}| 53.5 | 22.9 | 18.8 | style="background:{{party color|People's Party of the Community of Madrid}}; color:white;"| 30.6 |
CIS{{cite web |title=Preelectoral Municipales Madrid (Estudio nº 2159. Abril-Mayo 1995) |url=http://www.cis.es/cis/export/sites/default/-Archivos/Marginales/2140_2159/2159/e215900.html |language=es |work=CIS |date=10 May 1995}}{{cite web |title=Estudio CIS nº 2159. Ficha técnica |url=http://www.cis.es/cis/export/sites/default/-Archivos/Marginales/2140_2159/2159/FT2159.pdf |language=es |work=CIS |date=10 May 1995}}
| 24 Apr–10 May 1995 | 697 | 68.4 | {{Party shading/PP}}| 53.3 | 28.6 | 14.6 | style="background:{{party color|People's Party of the Community of Madrid}}; color:white;"| 24.7 |
Sigma Dos/El Mundo
| 3–7 May 1995 |? |? | {{Party shading/PP}}| 53.4 | 22.2 | 20.3 | style="background:{{party color|People's Party of the Community of Madrid}}; color:white;"| 31.2 |
Gruppo/ABC{{cite web |title=El Partido Popular reforzará su mayoría absoluta |url=http://hemeroteca.abc.es/nav/Navigate.exe/hemeroteca/madrid/abc/1995/05/02/025.html |language=es |work=ABC |date=2 May 1995}}{{cite web |title=Encuesta de Gruppo para ABC/Resultados municipales |url=http://hemeroteca.abc.es/nav/Navigate.exe/hemeroteca/madrid/abc/1995/05/06/028.html |language=es |work=ABC |date=6 May 1995}}
| 9–14 Feb 1995 | 400 |? | {{Party shading/PP}}| 51.8 | 21.6 | 21.4 | style="background:{{party color|People's Party of the Community of Madrid}}; color:white;"| 30.2 |
style="background:#EFEFEF;"
| 1994 EP election{{cite web |url=http://www.infoelectoral.mir.es/min/busquedaAvanzadaAction.html?vuelta=1&codTipoEleccion=7&codPeriodo=199406&codEstado=99&codComunidad=12&codProvincia=28&codMunicipio=79&codDistrito=0&codSeccion=0&codMesa=0 |title=Electoral Results Consultation. European Parliament. June 1994. Madrid Municipality |language=es |website=Ministry of the Interior |access-date=12 November 2017}} | 12 Jun 1994 | {{N/A}} | 61.4 | {{Party shading/PP}}| 53.9 | 22.4 | 17.6 | style="background:{{party color|People's Party of the Community of Madrid}}; color:white;"| 31.5 |
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| 1993 general election{{cite web |url=http://www.infoelectoral.mir.es/min/busquedaAvanzadaAction.html?vuelta=1&codTipoEleccion=2&codPeriodo=199306&codEstado=99&codComunidad=12&codProvincia=28&codMunicipio=79&codDistrito=0&codSeccion=0&codMesa=0 |title=Electoral Results Consultation. Congress. June 1993. Madrid Municipality |language=es |website=Ministry of the Interior |access-date=12 November 2017}} | 6 Jun 1993 | {{N/A}} | 79.6 | {{Party shading/PP}}| 47.8 | 32.0 | 13.7 | style="background:{{party color|People's Party of the Community of Madrid}}; color:white;"| 15.8 |
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| 26 May 1991 | {{N/A}} | 59.2 | {{Party shading/PP}}| 47.2 | 34.3 | 9.7 | style="background:{{party color|People's Party of the Community of Madrid}}; color:white;"| 12.9 |
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Results
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|+ ← Summary of the 28 May 1995 City Council of Madrid election results → | |||
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style="text-align:left;" rowspan="2" colspan="2" width="525"| Parties and alliances
! colspan="3"| Popular vote ! colspan="2"| Seats | |||
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width="75"| Votes
! width="45"| % ! width="45"| ±pp ! width="35"| Total ! width="35"| +/− | |||
width="1" style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|People's Party of the Community of Madrid}}"|
| align="left"| People's Party (PP) | 945,634 | 52.71 | style="color:green;"| +5.48
| 30 | ±0 |
style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Madrilenian Socialist Federation}}"|
| align="left"| Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) | 499,435 | 27.84 | style="color:red;"| –6.47
| 16 | style="color:red;"| –5 |
style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|United Left of the Community of Madrid}}"|
| align="left"| United Left (IU) | 279,090 | 15.56 | style="color:green;"| +5.84
| 9 | style="color:green;"| +3 |
colspan="7" bgcolor="#C0C0C0"| | |||
style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|The Greens–Green Group}}"|
| align="left"| The Greens–Green Group (LV–GV) | 13,013 | 0.73 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Platform of Independents of Spain}}"|
| align="left"| Platform of Independents of Spain (PIE) | 11,734 | 0.65 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|The Alternative Greens}}"|
| align="left"| The Alternative Greens (LVA)1 | 6,073 | 0.34 | style="color:green;"| +0.05
| 0 | ±0 |
style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Madrilenian Independent Regional Party}}"|
| align="left"| Madrilenian Independent Regional Party (PRIM) | 2,228 | 0.12 | style="color:red;"| –0.06
| 0 | ±0 |
style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Humanist Party (Spain)}}"|
| align="left"| Humanist Platform (PH) | 1,450 | 0.08 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Falange Española de las JONS (1976)}}"|
| align="left"| Spanish Phalanx of the CNSO (FE–JONS) | 1,244 | 0.07 | style="color:red;"| –0.06
| 0 | ±0 |
style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Revolutionary Workers' Party (Spain)}}"|
| align="left"| Revolutionary Workers' Party (POR) | 1,097 | 0.06 | ±0.00
| 0 | ±0 |
style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Workers' Revolutionary Party (Spain)}}"|
| align="left"| Workers' Revolutionary Party (PRT)2 | 622 | 0.03 | style="color:red;"| –0.17
| 0 | ±0 |
style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Falange Española Independiente}}"|
| align="left"| Independent Spanish Phalanx (FEI) | 615 | 0.03 | style="color:red;"| –0.01
| 0 | ±0 |
style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Coalition for a New Socialist Party}}"|
| align="left"| Coalition for a New Socialist Party (NPS)3 | 487 | 0.03 | style="color:red;"| –0.02
| 0 | ±0 |
align="left" colspan="2"| Blank ballots
| 31,467 | 1.75 | style="color:green;"| +0.54
| bgcolor="#E9E9E9" colspan="2"| | |
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| align="left" colspan="2"| Total | 1,794,189 | bgcolor="#E9E9E9" colspan="2"|
| 55 | style="color:red;"| –2 | |
colspan="7" bgcolor="#E9E9E9"| | |||
align="left" colspan="2"| Valid votes
| 1,794,189 | 99.60 | style="color:red;"| –0.03
| bgcolor="#E9E9E9" colspan="2" rowspan="5"| | |
align="left" colspan="2"| Invalid votes
| 7,121 | 0.40 | style="color:green;"| +0.03 | |
style="font-weight:bold;"
| align="left" colspan="2"| Votes cast / turnout | 1,801,310 | 71.21 | style="color:green;"| +12.06 | |
align="left" colspan="2"| Abstentions
| 728,166 | 28.79 | style="color:red;"| –12.06 | |
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| align="left" colspan="2"| Registered voters | 2,529,476 | bgcolor="#E9E9E9" colspan="2"| | ||
colspan="7" bgcolor="#E9E9E9"| | |||
align="left" colspan="7"| Sources{{cite web |url=http://www.juntaelectoralcentral.es/cs/jec/documentos/LOCALES_1995_ResultadosSuplemento.pdf |title=Local election results, 28 May 1995 |language=es |website=Central Electoral Commission |access-date=16 February 2018}}{{cite web |url=http://www.infoelectoral.mir.es/min/busquedaAvanzadaAction.html?vuelta=1&codTipoEleccion=4&codPeriodo=199505&codEstado=99&codComunidad=12&codProvincia=28&codMunicipio=79&codDistrito=0&codSeccion=0&codMesa=0 |title=Electoral Results Consultation. Municipal. May 1995. Madrid Municipality |language=es |website=Ministry of the Interior |access-date=12 November 2017}}{{cite web |url=http://www.historiaelectoral.com/mmadrid.html |title=Elecciones Municipales en Madrid (1979 - 2015) |language=es |website=Historia Electoral.com |access-date=30 September 2017}} | |||
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| 1 The Alternative Greens results are compared to Green Union totals in the 1991 election. | 2 Workers' Revolutionary Party results are compared to Workers' Socialist Party totals in the 1991 election. | 3 Coalition for a New Socialist Party results are compared to Alliance for the Republic totals in the 1991 election.}}}} |
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{{bar percent|PP|{{party color|People's Party of the Community of Madrid}}|52.71}}
{{bar percent|PSOE|{{party color|Madrilenian Socialist Federation}}|27.84}}
{{bar percent|IU|{{party color|United Left of the Community of Madrid}}|15.56}}
{{bar percent|Others|#777777|2.15}}
{{bar percent|Blank ballots|#DDDDDD|1.75}}
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{{bar percent|PP|{{party color|People's Party of the Community of Madrid}}|54.55}}
{{bar percent|PSOE|{{party color|Madrilenian Socialist Federation}}|29.09}}
{{bar percent|IU|{{party color|United Left of the Community of Madrid}}|16.36}}
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References
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