2023 Madrid City Council election

The 2023 Madrid City Council election, also the 2023 Madrid municipal election, will be held on Sunday, 28 May 2023, to elect the 12th City Council of the municipality of Madrid. All 57 seats in the City Council will be up for election. The election will be held simultaneously with regional elections in at least seven autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain.

2023 Madrid City Council election
28 May 2023
All 57 seats in the City Council of Madrid
29 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
 
Leader Rita Maestre José Luis Martínez-Almeida Begoña Villacís
Party Más Madrid PP Cs
Leader since 30 July 2020 28 April 2017 2 March 2015
Last election 19 seats, 31.0% 15 seats, 24.3% 11 seats, 19.2%
Current seats 19 15 11
Seats needed 10 14 18
 
Leader Pepu Hernández Javier Ortega Smith
Party PSOE Vox
Leader since 9 March 2019 18 April 2019
Last election 8 seats, 13.7% 4 seats, 7.7%
Current seats 8 4
Seats needed 21 25
Incumbent Mayor

José Luis Martínez-Almeida
PP

Electoral system

The City Council of Madrid (Spanish: Ayuntamiento de Madrid) is the top-tier administrative and governing body of the municipality of Madrid, composed of the mayor, the government council and the elected plenary assembly.[1]

Voting for the local assembly is on the basis of universal suffrage, which comprises all nationals over eighteen, registered and residing in the municipality of Madrid and in full enjoyment of their political rights, as well as resident non-national European citizens and those whose country of origin allows Spanish nationals to vote in their own elections by virtue of a treaty. Local councillors are elected using the D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional representation, with a threshold of five percent of valid votes—which includes blank ballots—being applied in each local council. Parties not reaching the threshold are not taken into consideration for seat distribution.[1][2] Councillors are 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 is indirectly elected by the plenary assembly. A legal clause requires that mayoral candidates earn the vote of an absolute majority of councillors, or else the candidate of the most-voted party in the assembly shall be automatically appointed to the post. In the event of a tie, a toss-up would determine the appointee.[1]

The electoral law allows 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 are required to inform the relevant Electoral Commission within ten days of the election call, whereas groupings of electors need to secure the signature of a determined amount of the electors registered in the municipality for which they are seeking election, disallowing electors from signing for more than one list of candidates. For the case of Madrid, as its population is over 1,000,001, at least 8,000 signatures are required.[2]

Parliamentary status

The table below shows the status of the different political groups in the City Council at the present time.[3]

Current parliamentary composition
Groups Parties Councillors
Seats Total
More Madrid Municipal Group Más Madrid 19 19
People's Party's Municipal Group PP 15 15
Citizens–Party of the Citizenry Municipal Group Cs 11 11
Socialist Municipal Group in Madrid PSOE 8 8
Vox Municipal Group Vox 4 4

Parties and candidates

Below is a list of the main parties and electoral alliances which will likely contest the election:

Candidacy Parties and
alliances		 Leading candidate Ideology Previous result Gov. Ref.
Votes (%) Seats
Más Madrid Rita Maestre Progressivism
Participatory democracy
Green politics		 30.99% 19 N [4]
PP José Luis Martínez-Almeida Conservatism
Christian democracy		 24.25% 15 Y
Cs Begoña Villacís Liberalism 19.17% 11 Y
PSOE Pepu Hernández Social democracy 13.75% 8 N
Vox Javier Ortega Smith Right-wing populism
Ultranationalism
National conservatism		 7.67% 4 N

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 given poll. When available, seat projections are also displayed below the voting estimates in a smaller font. 29 seats are required for an absolute majority in the City Council of Madrid.

Polling firm/Commissioner Fieldwork date Sample size Turnout Lead
ElectoPanel/Electomanía[p 1] 1 Jul–25 Sep 2020 ? ? 22.9
14		 35.5
21		 7.6
4		 23.4
14		 7.8
4		 1.1
0		 – 12.1
Sigma Dos/Telemadrid[p 2][p 3] 19–22 Jun 2020 ? ? 18.6
11		 38.5
23		 8.2
4		 21.6
13		 5.7
3		 – 5.1
3		 16.9
Hamalgama Métrica/OKDiario[p 4] 8–11 May 2020 1,000 ? 18.9
11		 34.5
21		 10.1
6		 17.3
10		 8.6
5		 – 7.9
4		 15.6
GAD3/ABC[p 5][p 6] 24–29 Apr 2020 631 ? 8.2
5		 44.7
27		 5.2
3		 25.9
15		 7.0
4		 – 6.2
3		 18.8
ElectoPanel/Electomanía[p 7] 26–31 Mar 2020 800 ? 16.9
10		 30.8
19		 10.7
6		 25.7
15		 12.0
7		 1.8
0		 – 5.1
November 2019 general election[5] 10 Nov 2019 N/A 74.0 6.3
3		 27.3
16		 8.9
5		 26.4
16		 16.0
9		 – 13.0
8		 0.9
ElectoPanel/Electomanía[p 8] 10 Oct 2019 1,500 ? 8.8
5		 25.6
16		 13.5
8		 25.5
15		 12.2
7		 – 10.9
6		 0.1
2019 municipal election 26 May 2019 N/A 68.2 30.9
19		 24.2
15		 19.1
11		 13.7
8		 7.6
4		 2.6
0		 – 6.7

References
Opinion poll sources
  1. "MadPanel (27S): Almeida atrae votos de Vox y Cs, pero la subida de Ahora Madrid deja a la izquierda a un concejal de quitarle la alcaldía". Electomanía (in Spanish). 27 September 2020.
  2. "Almeida ganaría las elecciones en Madrid con comodidad a costa de Ciudadanos y Vox". Telemadrid (in Spanish). 1 July 2020.
  3. "Aprobados y suspensos para los líderes políticos del Ayuntamiento de Madrid". Telemadrid (in Spanish). 1 July 2020.
  4. "Almeida arrasa tras su gestión del Covid-19: tendría tantos ediles (21) como la suma de PSOE y Más Madrid". OKDiario (in Spanish). 14 May 2020.
  5. "El PP roza la mayoría absoluta en Madrid capital y casi dobla al PSOE". ABC (in Spanish). 3 May 2020.
  6. "Barómetro de ABC/GAD3 Comunidad de Madrid y Ayuntamiento de Madrid (2 y 3 de mayo)". GAD3 (in Spanish). 2 May 2020.
  7. "MadPanel (3A): Almeida logra la primera plaza. Subida del PSOE y Vox, mientras Más Madrid y Cs caen". Electomanía (in Spanish). 3 April 2020.
  8. "MadPanel (11Oct): victoria para Almeida muy igualado con Pepu. Más Madrid se hunde sin Carmena y Vox disputa la tercera plaza". Electomanía (in Spanish). 11 October 2019.
Other
  1. "Ley 7/1985, de 2 de abril, Reguladora de las Bases del Régimen Local". Law No. 7 of 2 April 1985. Boletín Oficial del Estado (in Spanish). Retrieved 30 June 2020.
  2. "Ley Orgánica 5/1985, de 19 de junio, del Régimen Electoral General". Organic Law No. 5 of 19 June 1985. Boletín Oficial del Estado (in Spanish). Retrieved 30 January 2020.
  3. "El Pleno. Composición. Corporación actual". City Council of Madrid (in Spanish). Retrieved 12 October 2020.
  4. De Vega, Luis (30 July 2020). "Rita Maestre, elegida portavoz de Más Madrid en una reunión sin Marta Higueras". El País (in Spanish). Madrid. Retrieved 12 October 2020.
  5. "Electoral Results Consultation. Congress. November 2019. Madrid Municipality". Ministry of the Interior (in Spanish). Retrieved 10 June 2020.
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