| Election Name: | 2015 Zaragoza City Council election |
| Country: | Zaragoza |
| Type: | parliamentary |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 2011 Zaragoza City Council election |
| Previous Year: | 2011 |
| Next Election: | 2019 Zaragoza City Council election |
| Next Year: | 2019 |
| Seats For Election: | All 31 seats in the City Council of Zaragoza |
| Majority Seats: | 16 |
| Opinion Polls: |
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| Registered: | 502,076 |
| Turnout: | 328,920 (65.5%) 0.4 pp |
| Election Date: | 24 May 2015 |
| Leader1: | Eloy Suárez |
| Party1: | People's Party of Aragon |
| Leader Since1: | 3 December 2010 |
| Last Election1: | 15 seats, 41.3% |
| Seats1: | 10 |
| Seat Change1: | 5 |
| Popular Vote1: | 87,569 |
| Percentage1: | 26.9% |
| Swing1: | 14.4 pp |
| Leader2: | Pedro Santisteve |
| Party2: | Zaragoza en Común |
| Leader Since2: | 1 March 2015 |
| Last Election2: | 3 seats, 7.9% |
| Seats2: | 9 |
| Seat Change2: | 6 |
| Popular Vote2: | 80,055 |
| Percentage2: | 24.6% |
| Swing2: | 16.7 pp |
| Leader3: | Carlos Pérez Anadón |
| Party3: | Socialists' Party of Aragon |
| Leader Since3: | 7 October 2014 |
| Last Election3: | 10 seats, 27.1% |
| Seats3: | 6 |
| Seat Change3: | 4 |
| Popular Vote3: | 60,807 |
| Percentage3: | 18.7% |
| Swing3: | 8.4 pp |
| Leader4: | Elena Martínez Ortín |
| Party4: | C's |
| Colour4: | EB6109 |
| Leader Since4: | 14 April 2015 |
| Last Election4: | Did not contest |
| Seats4: | 4 |
| Seat Change4: | 4 |
| Popular Vote4: | 40,018 |
| Percentage4: | 12.3% |
| Swing4: | New party |
| Leader5: | Juan Martín Expósito |
| Party5: | Chunta Aragonesista |
| Leader Since5: | 18 December 2018 |
| Last Election5: | 3 seats, 9.2% |
| Seats5: | 2 |
| Seat Change5: | 1 |
| Popular Vote5: | 22,067 |
| Percentage5: | 6.8% |
| Swing5: | 2.4 pp |
| Mayor | |
| Before Election: | Juan Alberto Belloch |
| Before Party: | Socialists' Party of Aragon |
| After Election: | Pedro Santisteve |
| After Party: | Zaragoza en Común |
The 2015 Zaragoza City Council election, also the 2015 Zaragoza municipal election, was held on Sunday, 24 May 2015, to elect the 10th City Council of the municipality of Zaragoza. All 31 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.
The City Council of Zaragoza (Spanish; Castilian: Ayuntamiento de Zaragoza) was the top-tier administrative and governing body of the municipality of Zaragoza, 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 Zaragoza 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:
| 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]
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. For the case of Zaragoza, as its population was between 300,001 and 1,000,000, at least 5,000 signatures were required.[2]
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 Zaragoza.
| Polling firm/Commissioner | Fieldwork date | Sample size | Turnout | Lead | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 municipal election | 24 May 2015 | 65.5 | 26.9 | 18.7 | 6.8 | 2.8 | 1.5 | 12.3 | 24.6 | 2.3 | |||||
| TNS Demoscopia/RTVE–FORTA[3] [4] | 24 May 2015 | ? | ? | 24.1 | 16.5 | 6.9 | – | – | 12.4 | 27.7 | 3.6 | ||||
| GAD3/Antena 3[5] | 11–22 May 2015 | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | – | – | ? | ? | ? | ||||
| SoydeZaragoza.es[6] | 16–17 May 2015 | 900 | ? | ? | ? | ? | – | – | ? | ? | ? | ||||
| JM&A/Público[7] | 12 May 2015 | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | – | – | ? | ? | ? | ||||
| JM&A/Público[8] [9] | 3 May 2015 | ? | ? | 25.8 | 20.2 | 6.8 | 3.6 | 1.4 | 16.3 | 22.0 | 3.8 | ||||
| GAD3/ABC[10] | 20–29 Apr 2015 | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | – | – | ? | ? | ? | ||||
| A+M/Heraldo de Aragón[11] [12] [13] | 15–17 Apr 2015 | 1,056 | 68.7 | 27.0 | 20.3 | 7.8 | 4.1 | 1.2 | 15.0 | 20.5 | 6.5 | ||||
| CIS[14] [15] | 23 Mar–20 Apr 2015 | 741 | ? | 27.3 | 20.0 | 7.1 | 4.4 | – | 14.4 | 21.8 | 5.5 | ||||
| ZEC[16] [17] | 24–29 Mar 2015 | 380 | 65.5 | 24.5 | 20.0 | 4.0 | 3.0 | 1.5 | 17.5 | 23.5 | 1.0 | ||||
| Llorente & Cuenca[18] | 31 Oct 2014 | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | – | – | ? | ||
| 2014 EP election[19] | 25 May 2014 | 48.6 | 24.4 | 20.6 | 5.0 | 10.5 | – | 10.0 | 11.0 | 3.6 | – | 3.8 | |||
| AC–MyWord/El Periódico[20] [21] | 11 May 2014 | ? | 61.5 | 27.3 | 25.3 | 6.3 | 12.8 | 2.2 | 8.8 | – | – | – | 2.0 | ||
| A+M/Heraldo de Aragón[22] [23] | 6–12 Mar 2014 | 1,000 | 61.2 | 32.1 | 29.4 | 8.7 | 7.2 | 5.2 | 10.8 | – | – | – | 2.7 | ||
| AC Consultores/El Periódico[24] [25] | 19 Jan 2014 | ? | 59.0 | 27.0 | 27.0 | 12.0 | 17.0 | 3.0 | 7.0 | – | – | – | Tie | ||
| AC Consultores/El Periódico[26] | 21 Apr 2013 | ? | 57.0 | 21.0 | 32.0 | 12.0 | 18.0 | 2.0 | 14.0 | – | – | – | 11.0 | ||
| 2011 general election[27] | 20 Nov 2011 | 72.8 | 45.8 | 29.3 | 12.7 | 7.4 | – | – | – | 16.5 | |||||
| 2011 municipal election | 22 May 2011 | 65.1 | 41.3 | 27.1 | 9.2 | 7.9 | 4.5 | 3.6 | – | – | – | 14.2 | |||
| Parties and alliances | Popular vote | Seats | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | ±pp | Total | +/− | |||
| People's Party (PP) | 87,569 | 26.88 | –14.38 | 10 | –5 | ||
| Zaragoza in Common (ZGZ)1 | 80,055 | 24.57 | +16.65 | 9 | +6 | ||
| Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) | 60,807 | 18.67 | –8.47 | 6 | –4 | ||
| Citizens–Party of the Citizenry (C's) | 40,018 | 12.28 | New | 4 | +4 | ||
| Aragonese Union (CHA) | 22,067 | 6.77 | –2.47 | 2 | –1 | ||
| Aragonese Party (PAR) | 9,185 | 2.82 | –1.72 | 0 | ±0 | ||
| Union, Progress and Democracy (UPyD) | 4,928 | 1.51 | –2.07 | 0 | ±0 | ||
| Blank Seats (EB) | 4,426 | 1.36 | New | 0 | ±0 | ||
| Animalist Party Against Mistreatment of Animals (PACMA) | 3,849 | 1.18 | +0.85 | 0 | ±0 | ||
| Commitment with Aragon (CCA) | 2,088 | 0.64 | +0.31 | 0 | ±0 | ||
| The Greens–Green Group (LV–GV) | 1,818 | 0.56 | +0.09 | 0 | ±0 | ||
| Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain (PCPE) | 900 | 0.28 | +0.16 | 0 | ±0 | ||
| Republican Social Movement (MSR) | 629 | 0.19 | New | 0 | ±0 | ||
| Aragonese Bloc (BAR) | 465 | 0.14 | New | 0 | ±0 | ||
| Aragonese State (EAR) | 453 | 0.14 | New | 0 | ±0 | ||
| Federation of Independents of Aragon (FIA) | 374 | 0.11 | –0.04 | 0 | ±0 | ||
| Blank ballots | 6,145 | 1.89 | –1.69 | ||||
| Total | 325,776 | 31 | ±0 | ||||
| Valid votes | 325,776 | 99.04 | +0.52 | ||||
| Invalid votes | 3,144 | 0.96 | –0.52 | ||||
| Votes cast / turnout | 328,920 | 65.51 | +0.38 | ||||
| Abstentions | 173,156 | 34.49 | –0.38 | ||||
| Registered voters | 502,076 | ||||||
| Sources[28] [29] [30] | |||||||
