All 55 seats in the City Council of Madrid 28 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered
2,483,123 0.2%
Turnout
1,711,613 (68.9%) 8.8 pp
First party
Second party
Third party
Leader
Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón
Trinidad Jiménez
Inés Sabanés
Party
PP
PSOE
IU
Leader since
16 October 2002
2 June 2002
23 June 1998
Last election
28 seats, 49.5%
20 seats, 36.0%
5 seats, 8.7%
Seats won
30
21
4
Seat change
2
1
1
Popular vote
874,264
625,148
123,015
Percentage
51.3%
36.7%
7.2%
Swing
1.8 pp
0.7 pp
1.5 pp
Mayor before election
José María Álvarez del Manzano
PP
Elected Mayor
Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón
PP
The 2003 Madrid City Council election, also the 2003 Madrid municipal election, was held on Sunday, 25 May 2003, to elect the 7th City Council of the municipality of Madrid. All 55 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 People's Party (PP) under President of the Community of Madrid Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón, who was succeeding the retiring José María Álvarez del Manzano, managed to revert the near-tie situation predicted by opinion polls between his party and the PSOE-IU bloc. Gallardón went on to win a comfortable absolute majority both in votes and seats, reverting the 1999 result in which it had seemed that party's support had begun to decline. The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) under Trinidad Jiménez obtained its best result since it was ousted from power in 1989, despite it not being enough to recover the mayoralty. United Left (IU) continued on its long-term decline and lost another seat, scoring its worst result since 1987.
A remarkable event for this election was that both main parties' contenders (Ruiz-Gallardón and Jiménez) were cousins, despite belonging to opposing parties.
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