Madrid City Council election, 1999

Madrid City Council election, 1999
Madrid
13 June 1999

All 53 seats in the Madrid City Council
27 seats needed for a majority
Registered 2,488,296 Decrease1.6%
Turnout 1,494,090 (60.0%)
Decrease11.2 pp
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader José María Álvarez del Manzano Fernando Morán Inés Sabanés
Party PP PSM–PSOE IU
Leader since 10 October 1986 28 June 1998 23 June 1998
Last election 30 seats, 52.7% 16 seats, 27.8% 9 seats, 15.6%
Seats won 28 20 5
Seat change Decrease2 Increase4 Decrease4
Popular vote 734,921 534,700 128,731
Percentage 49.5% 36.0% 8.7%
Swing Decrease3.2 pp Increase8.2 pp Decrease6.9 pp

Mayor before election

José María Álvarez del Manzano
PP

Elected Mayor

José María Álvarez del Manzano
PP

The 1999 Madrid City Council election was held on Sunday, 13 June 1999, to elect the 6th Madrid City Council, the unicameral local legislature of the municipality of Madrid. At stake were all seats in the City Council, determining the Mayor of Madrid. The number of members decreased from 55 to 53 compared to the previous election.

The People's Party (PP) won an absolute majority of seats for a third consecutive time, but, for the first time since the 1987 election the party lost votes and seats. The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) maintained its second place but reverted the decline it had been suffering since 1983. PSOE gains came at the expense of United Left (IU), which lost nearly half of its votes and seats.

As a result, José María Álvarez del Manzano was elected as Mayor of Madrid for a third term in office.

Electoral system

The number of seats in the Madrid City Council was determined by the population count. According to the municipal electoral law, the population-seat relationship on each municipality was to be established on the following scale:

Inhabitants Seats
<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

Additionally, for populations greater than 100,000, 1 seat was to be added per each 100,000 inhabitants or fraction, according to the most updated census data, and adding 1 more seat if the resulting seat count gives an even number. As the updated population census for the 1999 election was 2,881,506, the Madrid City Council size was set to 53 seats.

All City Council members were elected in a single multi-member district, consisting of the Madrid municipality, using the D'Hondt method and a closed-list proportional representation system. Voting was on the basis of universal suffrage in a secret ballot. Only lists polling above 5% of valid votes in all of the municipality (which include blank ballotsfor none of the above) were entitled to enter the seat distribution.

The Spanish municipal electoral law established a clause stating that, if no candidate was to gather an absolute majority of votes to be elected as mayor of a municipality, the candidate of the most-voted party would be automatically elected to the post.[1]

Results

Summary of the 13 June 1999 Madrid City Council election results
Party Vote Seats
Votes % ±pp Won +/−
People's Party (PP) 734,921 49.48 Decrease3.23 28 Decrease2
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) 534,700 36.00 Increase8.16 20 Increase4
United Left (IU) 128,731 8.67 Decrease6.89 5 Decrease4
The Greens (LV) 10,462 0.70 New 0 ±0
The Greens-Green Group (LV-GV) 8,974 0.60 Decrease0.13 0 ±0
Centrist Union-Democratic and Social Centre (UC-CDS) 6,653 0.45 New 0 ±0
Alliance for National Unity (AUN) 3,500 0.24 New 0 ±0
Union Community of Madrid (UCMA) 2,658 0.18 New 0 ±0
Humanist Party (PH) 1,906 0.13 Increase0.05 0 ±0
Madrilian Independent Regional Party (PRIM) 1,695 0.11 Decrease0.01 0 ±0
The Falange (FE) 1,580 0.11 New 0 ±0
Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain (PCPE) 1,488 0.10 New 0 ±0
Blank ballots 43,021 2.90 Increase1.15
Total 1,485,434 100.00 53 Decrease2
Valid votes 1,485,434 99.42 Decrease0.18
Invalid votes 8,656 0.58 Increase0.18
Votes cast / turnout 1,494,090 60.04 Decrease11.17
Abstentions 994,206 39.96 Increase11.17
Registered voters 2,488,296
Source: Ministry of the Interior
Vote share
PP
 
49.48%
PSOE
 
36.00%
IU
 
8.67%
Others
 
2.95%
Blank ballots
 
2.90%
City council seats
PP
 
52.83%
PSOE
 
37.34%
IU
 
9.43%

References

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