For the regional elections held concurrently, see 2011 Spanish regional elections.
2011 Spanish local elections
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All 68,230 councillors in 8,116 municipal councils All 1,040 seats in 38 provincial deputations
Opinion polls
Registered
34,713,813 1.3%
Turnout
22,969,005 (66.2%) 2.2 pp
First party
Second party
Third party
Leader
Mariano Rajoy
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
Cayo Lara
Party
PP
PSOE
IU–ICV
Leader since
2 September 2003
22 July 2000
14 December 2008
Last election
23,014 c., 35.1%
24,029 c., 34.9%
2,591 c., 7.0%
Seats won
26,510
21,783
2,650
Seat change
3,496
2,246
59
Popular vote
8,476,647
6,287,389
1,681,462
Percentage
37.5%
27.8%
7.4%
Swing
2.4 pp
7.1 pp
0.4 pp
Fourth party
Fifth party
Sixth party
Leader
Artur Mas
Rosa Díez
Iñigo Urkullu
Party
CiU
UPyD
EAJ/PNV
Leader since
27 November 2004
26 September 2007
2 December 2007
Last election
3,387 c., 3.3%
Did not contest
1,043 seats, 1.4%
Seats won
3,896
152
882
Seat change
509
152
161
Popular vote
781,287
465,125
327,183
Percentage
3.5%
2.1%
1.4%
Swing
0.2 pp
New party
0.0 pp
Provincial results map for municipal elections
The 2011 Spanish local elections were held on Sunday, 22 May 2011, to elect all 68,230 councillors in the 8,116 municipalities of Spain and all 1,040 seats in 38 provincial deputations.[1][2] The elections were held simultaneously with regional elections in thirteen autonomous communities, as well as local elections in the three foral deputations of the Basque Country and the eleven island councils in the Balearic and Canary Islands.
The days before the elections were marked by the 2011 Spanish protests which had been held in different cities across Spain since 15 May. The elections resulted in a landslide victory for the opposition People's Party (PP) and other centre-right parties, which won control of all of Spain's largest cities. In Barcelona, held by PSOE-sister party, the Socialists' Party of Catalonia (PSC), since the first local elections in 1979, was won for the first time by the nationalist Convergence and Union (CiU), which also won in Girona. The PSOE only won only in 5 out of Spain's 50 provincial capitals. In the popular vote, it scored its worst result in nationwide-held local elections, with a mere 27.8%, 10 points behind the PP, which obtained 37.5%.
Following the election, the PSOE named Deputy Prime Minister Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba as prime ministerial candidate for the next general election, initially scheduled for March 2012, and finally held in November 2011.[3]
^"Municipal elections in Spain 1979–2011". interior.gob.es (in Spanish). Ministry of the Interior. Archived from the original on 12 August 2017. Retrieved 12 August 2017.
^"Provincial deputation elections since 1979" (in Spanish). historiaelectoral.com. Retrieved 24 September 2017.
^Ross-Thomas, Emma (4 April 2011). "Spain's Deficit Fight Risks Setback as Zapatero Bows Out of 2012 Election". Bloomberg.
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