| Election Name: | 2019 Seville City Council election |
| Country: | Seville |
| Type: | parliamentary |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 2015 Seville City Council election |
| Previous Year: | 2015 |
| Next Election: | 2023 Seville City Council election |
| Next Year: | 2023 |
| Seats For Election: | All 31 seats in the City Council of Seville |
| Majority Seats: | 16 |
| Opinion Polls: |
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| Registered: | 540,851 0.8% |
| Turnout: | 317,843 (58.8%) 0.7 pp |
| Election Date: | 26 May 2019 |
| Leader1: | Juan Espadas |
| Party1: | PSOE–A |
| Leader Since1: | 24 May 2010 |
| Last Election1: | 11 seats, 32.2% |
| Seats1: | 13 |
| Seat Change1: | 2 |
| Popular Vote1: | 123,933 |
| Percentage1: | 39.2% |
| Swing1: | 7.0 pp |
| Leader2: | Beltrán Pérez |
| Party2: | People's Party of Andalusia |
| Leader Since2: | 16 March 2018 |
| Last Election2: | 12 seats, 33.1% |
| Seats2: | 8 |
| Seat Change2: | 4 |
| Popular Vote2: | 73,101 |
| Percentage2: | 23.1% |
| Swing2: | 10.0 pp |
| Leader3: | Susana Serrano |
| Party3: | Adelante |
| Leader Since3: | 14 April 2015 |
| Last Election3: | 5 seats, 16.0% |
| Seats3: | 4 |
| Seat Change3: | 1 |
| Popular Vote3: | 44,546 |
| Percentage3: | 14.1% |
| Swing3: | 1.9 pp |
| Leader4: | Álvaro Pimentel |
| Party4: | Citizens (Spanish political party) |
| Leader Since4: | 27 March 2019 |
| Last Election4: | 3 seats, 9.3% |
| Seats4: | 4 |
| Seat Change4: | 1 |
| Popular Vote4: | 39,331 |
| Percentage4: | 12.5% |
| Swing4: | 3.2 pp |
| Leader5: | Cristina Peláez |
| Party5: | Vox (political party) |
| Leader Since5: | 2015 |
| Last Election5: | 0 seats, 0.5% |
| Seats5: | 2 |
| Seat Change5: | 2 |
| Popular Vote5: | 25,122 |
| Percentage5: | 8.0% |
| Swing5: | 7.5 pp |
| Mayor | |
| Before Election: | Juan Espadas |
| Before Party: | Spanish Socialist Workers' Party of Andalusia |
| After Election: | Juan Espadas |
| After Party: | Spanish Socialist Workers' Party of Andalusia |
The 2019 Seville City Council election, also the 2019 Seville municipal election, was held on Sunday, 26 May 2019, to elect the 11th 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, as well as the 2019 European Parliament election.
The City Council of Seville (Spanish; Castilian: 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:
| 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 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:
| Candidacy | Parties and alliances | Leading candidate | Ideology | Previous result | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes (%) | Seats | |||||||||
| PP | Beltrán Pérez | Conservatism Christian democracy | 33.05% | |||||||
| PSOE–A | Juan Espadas | Social democracy | 32.16% | |||||||
| Adelante | Susana Serrano | Andalusian nationalism Left-wing populism Direct democracy | 16.02% | |||||||
| Cs | Álvaro Pimentel | Liberalism | 9.29% | |||||||
| Vox | Cristina Peláez | Right-wing populism Ultranationalism National conservatism | 0.46% | |||||||
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.
| Polling firm/Commissioner | Fieldwork date | Sample size | Turnout | IULV | Lead | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 municipal election | 26 May 2019 | 58.8 | 23.1 | 39.2 | 12.5 | 8.0 | 14.1 | 16.1 | ||||
| KeyData/Público[3] | 19 May 2019 | ? | 70.5 | 17.8 | 32.4 | 16.5 | 10.6 | 15.9 | 14.6 | |||
| Dataestudios/ABC[4] | 13–16 May 2019 | 600 | ? | 22.2 | 38.1 | 14.1 | 5.8 | 16.2 | 15.9 | |||
| Sigma Dos/El Mundo[5] | 13–15 May 2019 | 400 | ? | 22.2 | 37.1 | 14.1 | 7.2 | 16.8 | 14.9 | |||
| 40dB/El País[6] | 3–8 May 2019 | 800 | ? | 22.0 | 36.6 | 14.5 | 7.7 | 15.4 | 14.6 | |||
| April 2019 general election[7] | 28 Apr 2019 | 76.4 | 17.7 | 32.7 | 16.9 | 13.0 | 16.3 | 15.0 | ||||
| CIS[8] | 21 Mar–23 Apr 2019 | ? | ? | 25.2 | 42.3 | 10.8 | 2.9 | 15.7 | 17.1 | |||
| ElectoPanel/Electomanía[9] | 31 Mar–7 Apr 2019 | ? | ? | 21.4 | 31.2 | 14.7 | 10.6 | 17.8 | 9.8 | |||
| SW Demoscopia/Grupo Viva[10] | 1–5 Apr 2019 | 1,002 | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | |||
| ElectoPanel/Electomanía[11] | 24–31 Mar 2019 | ? | ? | 20.0 | 30.9 | 15.4 | 11.0 | 18.4 | 10.9 | |||
| ElectoPanel/Electomanía[12] | 17–24 Mar 2019 | ? | ? | 19.9 | 31.0 | 15.5 | 11.1 | 18.4 | 11.1 | |||
| ElectoPanel/Electomanía[13] | 10–17 Mar 2019 | ? | ? | 20.1 | 29.5 | 14.8 | 13.2 | 19.0 | 9.4 | |||
| ElectoPanel/Electomanía[14] | 3–10 Mar 2019 | ? | ? | 19.7 | 29.0 | 15.5 | 13.1 | 19.3 | 9.3 | |||
| ElectoPanel/Electomanía[15] | 22 Feb–3 Mar 2019 | ? | ? | 18.0 | 28.6 | 16.6 | 13.1 | 4.3 | 12.9 | – | 10.6 | |
| Dialoga Consultores[16] | 25 Feb–1 Mar 2019 | 2,200 | ? | 27.2 | 34.5 | 12.2 | 8.8 | 13.9 | 7.3 | |||
| Dataestudios/ABC[17] | 11–17 Dec 2018 | ? | ? | 17.9 | 30.6 | 18.7 | 9.4 | 17.6 | 11.9 | |||
| 2018 regional election[18] | 2 Dec 2018 | 62.9 | 18.8 | 25.2 | 18.8 | 12.4 | 18.9 | 6.3 | ||||
| Dataestudios/ABC[19] [20] | 12–18 Jun 2018 | 606 | ? | 18.3 | 40.4 | 20.6 | – | 11.7 | 19.8 | |||
| Dataestudios/ABC[21] | 1–7 Feb 2018 | 600 | ? | 21.6 | 35.5 | 22.2 | 9.4 | 5.2 | – | – | 13.3 | |
| SW Demoscopia/Grupo Viva[22] [23] | 2 Jul 2017 | ? | ? | 28.0 | 33.5 | ? | ? | ? | – | – | 5.5 | |
| 2016 general election[24] | 26 Jun 2016 | 71.1 | 34.0 | 28.0 | 13.7 | 0.3 | 20.9 | 6.0 | ||||
| 2015 general election[25] | 20 Dec 2015 | 74.0 | 30.3 | 27.4 | 13.9 | 20.4 | 4.8 | 0.4 | – | 2.9 | ||
| 2015 municipal election | 24 May 2015 | 59.5 | 33.1 | 32.2 | 9.3 | 9.0 | 6.0 | 0.5 | – | 0.9 | ||
| Parties and alliances | Popular vote | Seats | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | ±pp | Total | +/− | |||
| Spanish Socialist Workers' Party of Andalusia (PSOE–A) | 123,933 | 39.24 | +7.08 | 13 | +2 | ||
| People's Party (PP) | 73,101 | 23.15 | –9.90 | 8 | –4 | ||
| Forward Seville: We Can–United Left–Andalusian Spring (Adelante)1 | 44,546 | 14.10 | –1.92 | 4 | –1 | ||
| Citizens–Party of the Citizenry (Cs) | 39,331 | 12.45 | +3.16 | 4 | +1 | ||
| Vox (Vox) | 25,122 | 7.95 | +7.49 | 2 | +2 | ||
| Animalist Party Against Mistreatment of Animals (PACMA) | 3,521 | 1.11 | +0.09 | 0 | ±0 | ||
| Andalusia by Herself (AxSí)2 | 1,083 | 0.34 | –1.07 | 0 | ±0 | ||
| More With You (CNTG+) | 820 | 0.26 | New | 0 | ±0 | ||
| Act (PACT) | 736 | 0.23 | New | 0 | ±0 | ||
| For a Fairer World (PUM+J) | 486 | 0.15 | New | 0 | ±0 | ||
| Feminist Initiative (IFem) | 392 | 0.12 | New | 0 | ±0 | ||
| Advancing For You (Avanzamos) | 206 | 0.07 | New | 0 | ±0 | ||
| Spanish Phalanx of the CNSO (FE–JONS) | 118 | 0.04 | –0.06 | 0 | ±0 | ||
| Party of the Immigrant in Spain (PADIE) | 103 | 0.03 | –0.03 | 0 | ±0 | ||
| Renaissance and Union of Europe Party (PRUNE) | 47 | 0.01 | New | 0 | ±0 | ||
| Blank ballots | 2,281 | 0.72 | –0.41 | ||||
| Total | 315,826 | 31 | ±0 | ||||
| Valid votes | 315,826 | 99.37 | +0.15 | ||||
| Invalid votes | 2,017 | 0.63 | –0.15 | ||||
| Votes cast / turnout | 317,843 | 58.77 | –0.69 | ||||
| Abstentions | 223,008 | 41.23 | +0.69 | ||||
| Registered voters | 540,851 | ||||||
| Sources[26] [27] | |||||||