| Election Name: | 2019 Zaragoza City Council election |
| Country: | Zaragoza |
| Type: | parliamentary |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 2015 Zaragoza City Council election |
| Previous Year: | 2015 |
| Next Election: | 2023 Zaragoza City Council election |
| Next Year: | 2023 |
| Seats For Election: | All 31 seats in the City Council of Zaragoza |
| Majority Seats: | 16 |
| Opinion Polls: |
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| Registered: | 505,756 |
| Turnout: | 332,813 (65.8%) 0.3 pp |
| Election Date: | 26 May 2019 |
| Leader1: | Pilar Alegría |
| Party1: | Socialists' Party of Aragon |
| Leader Since1: | 28 September 2018 |
| Last Election1: | 6 seats, 18.7% |
| Seats1: | 10 |
| Seat Change1: | 4 |
| Popular Vote1: | 92,823 |
| Percentage1: | 28.0% |
| Swing1: | 9.3 pp |
| Leader2: | Jorge Azcón |
| Party2: | People's Party of Aragon |
| Leader Since2: | 4 December 2018 |
| Last Election2: | 10 seats, 26.9% |
| Seats2: | 8 |
| Seat Change2: | 2 |
| Popular Vote2: | 73,065 |
| Percentage2: | 22.0% |
| Swing2: | 4.9 pp |
| Leader3: | Sara Fernández |
| Party3: | Citizens (Spanish political party) |
| Leader Since3: | 9 March 2019 |
| Last Election3: | 4 seats, 12.3% |
| Seats3: | 6 |
| Seat Change3: | 2 |
| Popular Vote3: | 60,552 |
| Percentage3: | 18.3% |
| Swing3: | 6.0 pp |
| Leader4: | Pedro Santisteve |
| Party4: | Zaragoza en Común |
| Leader Since4: | 1 March 2015 |
| Last Election4: | 9 seats, 24.6% |
| Seats4: | 3 |
| Seat Change4: | 6 |
| Popular Vote4: | 33,423 |
| Percentage4: | 10.1% |
| Swing4: | 14.5 pp |
| Leader5: | Violeta Barba |
| Party5: | Podemos–Equo |
| Colour5: | 5A205A |
| Leader Since5: | 8 February 2019 |
| Last Election5: | Did not contest |
| Seats5: | 2 |
| Seat Change5: | 2 |
| Popular Vote5: | 20,551 |
| Percentage5: | 6.2% |
| Swing5: | New party |
| Leader6: | Julio Calvo |
| Party6: | Vox (political party) |
| Leader Since6: | 22 April 2019 |
| Last Election6: | Did not contest |
| Seats6: | 2 |
| Seat Change6: | 2 |
| Popular Vote6: | 20,458 |
| Percentage6: | 6.2% |
| Swing6: | New party |
| Mayor | |
| Before Election: | Pedro Santisteve |
| Before Party: | Zaragoza en Común |
| After Election: | Jorge Azcón |
| After Party: | PP |
The 2019 Zaragoza City Council election, also the 2019 Zaragoza municipal election, was held on Sunday, 26 May 2019, to elect the 11th 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 twelve autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain, as well as the 2019 European Parliament election.
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. 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 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.
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; 16 seats were required for an absolute majority in the City Council of Zaragoza.
| Polling firm/Commissioner | Fieldwork date | Sample size | Turnout | Lead | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 municipal election | 26 May 2019 | 65.8 | 22.0 | 10.1 | 28.0 | 18.3 | 4.6 | 1.7 | 6.2 | 6.2 | – | 6.0 | |||
| GfK/FORTA[3] [4] [5] | 26 May 2019 | ? | ? | 18.2 | 10.9 | 27.6 | 15.3 | 6.5 | 3.2 | 9.6 | 5.6 | – | 9.4 | ||
| KeyData/Público[6] | 19 May 2019 | ? | 66.2 | 16.9 | 11.7 | 24.0 | 17.7 | 4.8 | 2.2 | 8.0 | 8.1 | – | 6.3 | ||
| A+M/Heraldo de Aragón[7] | 9–10 May 2019 | 800 | 68.5 | 21.1 | 10.3 | 22.5 | 19.3 | 6.7 | 2.0 | 11.1 | 5.0 | – | 1.4 | ||
| 40dB/El País[8] | 3–8 May 2019 | 800 | ? | 17.8 | 14.0 | 26.1 | 15.1 | 5.2 | – | 10.4 | 7.4 | – | 8.3 | ||
| April 2019 general election[9] | 28 Apr 2019 | 78.5 | 17.2 | – | 30.5 | 21.5 | – | – | 12.5 | 14.9 | 9.0 | ||||
| CIS[10] | 21 Mar–23 Apr 2019 | ? | ? | 24.2 | 13.0 | 23.5 | 10.7 | 5.7 | 3.7 | 11.8 | 2.7 | – | 0.7 | ||
| ElectoPanel/Electomanía[11] | 31 Mar–7 Apr 2019 | ? | ? | 23.9 | 6.1 | 28.9 | 13.3 | 5.9 | 2.6 | 6.6 | 10.2 | – | 5.0 | ||
| ElectoPanel/Electomanía[12] | 24–31 Mar 2019 | ? | ? | 23.6 | ? | 29.9 | 13.5 | 5.9 | 2.8 | 6.5 | 10.0 | – | 6.3 | ||
| ElectoPanel/Electomanía[13] | 17–24 Mar 2019 | ? | ? | 23.6 | 11.6 | 29.9 | 13.5 | 5.9 | 2.8 | 10.0 | – | 6.3 | |||
| ElectoPanel/Electomanía[14] | 10–17 Mar 2019 | ? | ? | 24.1 | 11.9 | 28.6 | 12.7 | 5.8 | 2.9 | 11.7 | – | 4.5 | |||
| ElectoPanel/Electomanía[15] | 3–10 Mar 2019 | ? | ? | 23.6 | 12.1 | 28.2 | 13.3 | 5.7 | 3.0 | 11.6 | – | 4.6 | |||
| ElectoPanel/Electomanía[16] | 22 Feb–3 Mar 2019 | ? | ? | 24.1 | 12.0 | 27.9 | 13.5 | 5.6 | 3.0 | 11.1 | – | 3.8 | |||
| A+M/Heraldo de Aragón[17] | 3–4 Oct 2018 | 800 | 64.5 | 27.3 | 15.2 | 25.6 | 18.5 | 4.9 | 1.6 | 3.0 | – | 1.7 | |||
| A+M/Heraldo de Aragón[18] [19] | 11–15 Apr 2018 | 800 | 65.0 | 23.9 | 19.5 | 21.8 | 21.4 | 4.9 | 3.6 | – | – | 2.1 | |||
| Fundación DFA/City Council[20] [21] [22] | 8 Nov–1 Dec 2017 | 1,430 | ? | 23.9 | 18.7 | 19.5 | 17.5 | 9.6 | – | – | – | 4.4 | |||
| A+M/Heraldo de Aragón[23] [24] | 22–27 Nov 2017 | 600 | 69.2 | 25.8 | 17.3 | 23.4 | 16.7 | 7.4 | 2.6 | – | – | 2.4 | |||
| 2016 general election[25] | 26 Jun 2016 | 72.6 | 33.8 | – | 22.9 | 17.7 | – | 0.3 | 21.8 | 10.9 | |||||
| 2015 general election[26] | 20 Dec 2015 | 75.6 | 29.1 | – | 20.2 | 18.8 | 20.7 | 7.0 | 0.4 | – | 8.4 | ||||
| 2015 municipal election | 24 May 2015 | 65.5 | 26.9 | 24.6 | 18.7 | 12.3 | 6.8 | 2.8 | – | – | 2.3 | ||||
The table below lists raw, unweighted voting preferences.
| Polling firm/Commissioner | Fieldwork date | Sample size | Lead | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 municipal election | 26 May 2019 | 14.2 | 6.5 | 18.1 | 11.8 | 3.1 | 1.1 | 4.0 | 4.0 | – | 34.2 | 3.9 | ||||
| April 2019 general election | 28 Apr 2019 | 13.4 | – | 23.8 | 16.8 | – | – | 9.8 | 11.6 | 21.5 | 7.0 | |||||
| CIS[27] | 21 Mar–23 Apr 2019 | ? | 11.4 | 5.8 | 10.2 | 3.0 | 1.0 | 0.8 | 4.8 | 1.2 | – | 50.4 | 8.4 | 1.2 | ||
| Fundación DFA/City Council[28] | 13 Sep–18 Oct 2018 | 2,072 | 8.4 | 9.8 | 11.6 | 8.6 | 2.4 | 0.2 | – | – | 38.7 | 14.1 | 1.8 | |||
| Fundación DFA/City Council | 8 Nov–1 Dec 2017 | 1,430 | 9.0 | 8.5 | 11.7 | 11.0 | 2.7 | 0.6 | – | – | 42.2 | 8.5 | 0.7 | |||
| 2016 general election | 26 Jun 2016 | 24.4 | – | 16.5 | 12.8 | – | 0.2 | 15.7 | 27.4 | 7.9 | ||||||
| 2015 general election | 20 Dec 2015 | 21.9 | – | 15.2 | 14.1 | 15.6 | 5.3 | 0.3 | – | 24.4 | 6.3 | |||||
| 2015 municipal election | 24 May 2015 | 17.4 | 15.9 | 12.1 | 8.0 | 4.4 | 1.8 | – | – | 34.5 | 1.5 | |||||
| Parties and alliances | Popular vote | Seats | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | ±pp | Total | +/− | |||
| Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) | 92,823 | 28.00 | +9.33 | 10 | +4 | ||
| People's Party (PP) | 73,065 | 22.04 | –4.84 | 8 | –2 | ||
| Citizens–Party of the Citizenry (Cs) | 60,552 | 18.27 | +5.99 | 6 | +2 | ||
| Zaragoza in Common | 33,423 | 10.08 | –14.49 | 3 | –6 | ||
| We Can–Equo (Podemos–Equo) | 20,551 | 6.20 | New | 2 | +2 | ||
| Vox (Vox) | 20,458 | 6.17 | New | 2 | +2 | ||
| Aragonese Union (CHA) | 15,311 | 4.62 | –2.15 | 0 | –2 | ||
| Aragonese Party (PAR) | 5,608 | 1.69 | –1.13 | 0 | ±0 | ||
| Ñ Platform (PAÑ) | 2,584 | 0.78 | New | 0 | ±0 | ||
| Animalist Party Against Mistreatment of Animals (PACMA) | 2,079 | 0.63 | –0.55 | 0 | ±0 | ||
| Giving More (Demos+) | 782 | 0.24 | New | 0 | ±0 | ||
| Blank Seats (EB) | 768 | 0.23 | –1.13 | 0 | ±0 | ||
| Communist Party of the Workers of Spain (PCTE) | 229 | 0.07 | New | 0 | ±0 | ||
| Social Aragonese Movement (MAS) | 219 | 0.07 | New | 0 | ±0 | ||
| Spanish Phalanx of the CNSO (FE–JONS) | 212 | 0.06 | New | 0 | ±0 | ||
| Aragonese Land (TA) | 188 | 0.06 | New | 0 | ±0 | ||
| Federation of Independents of Aragon (FIA) | 184 | 0.06 | –0.05 | 0 | ±0 | ||
| Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain (PCPE) | 164 | 0.05 | –0.23 | 0 | ±0 | ||
| Aragonese State (EAR) | 160 | 0.05 | –0.09 | 0 | ±0 | ||
| Blank ballots | 2,112 | 0.64 | –1.25 | ||||
| Total | 331,472 | 31 | ±0 | ||||
| Valid votes | 331,472 | 99.60 | +0.56 | ||||
| Invalid votes | 1,342 | 0.40 | –0.56 | ||||
| Votes cast / turnout | 332,814 | 65.81 | +0.28 | ||||
| Abstentions | 172,942 | 34.19 | –0.28 | ||||
| Registered voters | 505,756 | ||||||
| Sources[29] [30] | |||||||