All 57 seats in the City Council of Madrid 29 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered
2,386,120 3.4%
Turnout
1,644,093 (68.9%) 1.7 pp
First party
Second party
Third party
Leader
Esperanza Aguirre
Manuela Carmena
Antonio Miguel Carmona
Party
PP
Ahora Madrid
PSOE
Leader since
6 March 2015
30 March 2015
6 October 2014
Last election
31 seats, 49.7%
Did not contest
15 seats, 23.9%
Seats won
21
20
9
Seat change
10
20
6
Popular vote
564,154
519,721
249,286
Percentage
34.6%
31.8%
15.3%
Swing
15.1 pp
New party
8.6 pp
Fourth party
Fifth party
Sixth party
Leader
Begoña Villacís
David Ortega
Raquel López
Party
C's
UPyD
IUCM–LV
Leader since
2 March 2015
9 October 2010
26 March 2015
Last election
0 seats, 0.2%
5 seats, 7.9%
6 seats, 10.7%
Seats won
7
0
0
Seat change
7
5
6
Popular vote
186,487
29,812
27,651
Percentage
11.4%
1.8%
1.7%
Swing
11.2 pp
6.1 pp
9.0 pp
Mayor before election
Ana Botella
PP
Elected Mayor
Manuela Carmena
Ahora Madrid
The 2015 Madrid City Council election, also the 2015 Madrid municipal election, was held on Sunday, 24 May 2015, to elect the 10th City Council of the municipality of Madrid. All 57 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.
Leading the People's Party (PP) local list was Esperanza Aguirre, former president of the Community of Madrid (2003–2012), president of the Senate of Spain (1999–2002) and minister of Education and Culture (1996–1999), as well as the leader of the regional PP branch since 2004. Mayor Ana Botella, who succeeded Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón early into his term in December 2011, had declined re-election in September 2014. The election was an unexpectedly close race between Aguirre's PP and former judge Manuela Carmena's Podemos-supported Ahora Madrid (English: Madrid Now) platform. The collapse in the PP vote and the loss of its absolute majority allowed Carmena to gain power through an alliance with the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), resulting in the first left-wing government in the city since 1989.
The PSOE suffered heavily from tactical voting to Ahora Madrid after it became apparent throughout the campaign that the left-of-centre vote was coalescing around Carmena's coalition. The newcomer liberal Citizens (Spanish: Ciudadanos) party also entered the City Council for the first time, collecting votes disenchanted with the PP and replacing Union, Progress and Democracy (UPyD) as the main centrist local force. United Left (IU) fell below the 5% threshold and failed to gain any representation for the first time in history.
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