Spanish municipal elections, 2007

Spanish local and regional elections, 2007

27 May 2007

66,131 seats in 8,111 local councils 812 seats in 13 regional parliaments

Turnout	64.0% 3.7 pp
	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Mariano Rajoy	José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero	Gaspar Llamazares
Party	PP	PSOE	IU
Leader since	2 September 2003	22 July 2000	29 October 2000
Last election	23,615 (Local Leg.) 371 (Regional Leg.) 34.3%	23,224 (Local Leg.) 317 (Regional Leg.) 34.8%	2,198 (Local Leg.) 30 (Regional Leg.) 6.1%
Seats won	23,348 / 66,131 389 / 812	24,029 / 66,131 327 / 812	2,034 / 66,131 28 / 812
Seat change	267 (Local Leg.) 18 (Regional Leg.)	805 (Local Leg.) 10 (Regional Leg.)	164 (Local Leg.) 2 (Regional Leg.)
Popular vote	7,916,075	7,760,865	1,217,030
Percentage	35.6%	34.9%	5.5%
Swing	1.3 pp	0.1 pp	0.6 pp

	Fourth party	Fifth party	Sixth party

Leader	Artur Mas i Gavarró	Josep-Lluís Carod-Rovira	Anxo Quintana
Party	CiU	ERC	BNG
Leader since	7 January 2002	2004	23 November 2003
Last election	3,687 (Local Leg.) No regional election 3.4%	1,282 (Local Leg.) No regional election 1.8%	595 (Local Leg.) No regional election 1.4%
Seats won	3,387 / 66,131 N/A	1,591 / 66,131 N/A	661 / 66,131 N/A
Seat change	300 (Local Leg.) No regional election	309 (Local Leg.) No regional election	66 (Local Leg.) No regional election
Popular vote	723,325	347,601	315,279
Percentage	3.3%	1.6%	1.4%
Swing	0.1 pp	0.2 pp	0.0 pp

The People's Party won the most seats in eight regions (in blue), while five were won by the PSOE (red). The only region to change in terms of the largest party was the Canary Islands.

Electors vote in Vigo

Electors wait to cast their vote

A number of elections were held in Spain on 27 May 2007:

municipal elections;
local elections of various types like the elections to the Cabildo on the Canary Islands;
elections to the Assembly of Ceuta and Melilla; and
elections for the regional parliaments of thirteen of the seventeen autonomous communities of Spain: Aragon, Asturias, the Balearic Islands, the Canary Islands, Cantabria, Castile-La Mancha, Castile and León, Extremadura, Madrid, Murcia, Navarra, La Rioja and the Valencian Community (that is, all autonomous communities except for Andalusia, the Basque Country, Catalonia and Galicia).

The results saw few changes overall; most incumbent governments retained their majority, with only a few exceptions. The PP government in the Balearics fell, and a coalition led by PSOE took power.

While the elections were seen as a first indication of how the Spanish general election, 2008 might turn out, the results proved to be inconclusive. In 2003, the PSOE had a slight edge with 34.8 against the PP's 34.3; in this election, the PP had 35.6 to the PSOE's 34.9. Turnout was slightly lower, with 63.8 instead of 67.7 four years earlier.

Results

Municipal elections

Summary of the 27 May 2007 Spanish local election results


Parties and coalitions			Votes			Councillors
Parties and coalitions			#	%	Swing	Councillors	+/−
	People's Party	PP	7,916,075	35.62	+1.33	23,348	−267
	Spanish Socialist Workers' Party	PSOE	7,760,865	34.92	+0.09	24,029	+805
	United Left	IU	1,217,030	5.48	−0.59	2,034	−164
	Convergence and Union	CiU	723,325	3.25	−0.19	3,867	−300
	Republican Left of Catalonia	ERC	347,601	1.56	−0.27	1,591	+309
	Galician Nationalist Bloc	BNG	315,279	1.42	0.00	661	+66
	Basque Nationalist Party	PNV	310,036	1.39	−0.39	1,043	+151
	Initiative for Catalonia Greens	ICV	258,179	1.17	−0.30	451	+54
	Andalusian Party	PA	234,885	1.06	−0.39	469	−56
	Canarian Coalition	CC	217,407	0.98	−0.26	404	−54
	Compromís pel País Valencià	CPV	105,754	0.48	−0.13	277	−21
	Basque Nationalist Action	EAE-ANV	94,253	0.42	+0.42	432	+432
	Aragonese Party	PAR	94,079	0.42	+0.05	983	+76
	Others		1,959,138	8.81		6,966
	Blank ballots		427,061	1.92	+0.16

Total			22,225,879	100.00		66,131	+621

Valid votes			22,225,879	98.83	+0.13
Invalid votes			262,353	1.17	−0.13
Votes cast / turnout			22,488,232	63.97	−3.70
Abstentions			12,665,291	36.03	+3.70
Registered voters			35,153,523

Source: Ministry of the Interior

Aragon

Party	Vote percentage	Seats
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)	41.03%	30	+3
People's Party (PP)	31.09%	23	+1
Aragonese Party (PAR)	12.12%	9	+1
Aragonese Council (CHA)	8.17%	4	–4
United Left (IU)	4.12%	1	±0
Others	3.5%	0	—
Totals	100.00%	67

Asturias

Party	Vote percentage	Seats
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)	43.08%	21	–1
People's Party (PP)	42.52%	20	+1
United Left (IU)	9.93%	4	±0
Others	6.9%	0	—
Totals	100.00%	45

Balearic Islands

Party	Vote percentage	Seats
People's Party (PP)	46.01%	28	–1
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)	24.95%	16	+1
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE-EXC)	4.57%	6	+6
Majorca Socialist Party-United Left (PSM-EU)	9.00%	4	+2
Majorcan Union (UM)	6.75%	3	±0
Majorca Socialist Party (PSM)	0.8%	1	–3
AIPF	0.43%	1	±0
Others	5.6%	0	—
Totals	100.00%	59

Cantabria

Party	Vote percentage	Seats
People's Party (PP)	41.53%	17	–1
Regionalist Party of Cantabria (PRC)	28.87%	12	+4
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)	24.33%	10	–3
Others	5.3%	0	—
Totals	100.00%	39

Canary Islands

Party	Vote percentage	Seats
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)	34.64%	26	+8
Canarian Coalition–Canarian Nationalist Party (CC–PNC)	23.19%	17	–4
People's Party (PP)	24.39%	15	–2
Canarian Coalition–AHI (CC–AHI)	0.21%	2	±0
Others	17.57%	0	—
Totals	100.00%	60

Castilla y Leon

Party	Vote percentage	Seats
People's Party (PP)	49.43%	48	±0
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)	37.48%	33	+2
Leonese People's Union (UPL)	2.73%	2	–1
Others	10.36%	0	—
Totals	100.00%	83	+1

Castile-La Mancha

Party	Vote percentage	Seats
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)	51.91%	26	–3
People's Party (PP)	42.44%	21	+3
Others	5.6%	0	—
Totals	100.00%	47

Ceuta

Party	Vote percentage	Seats
People's Party (PP)	65.18%	19	±0
Ceutan Democratic Union–United Left (UDCE–IU)	16.41%	4	+1
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)	8.65%	2	±0
Others	3.65%	0	–1
Totals	100.00%	25

Extremadura

Party	Vote percentage	Seats
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)	52.9%	38	+2
People's Party (PP)	38.79%	20	+1
United Left (IU)	4.5%	0	-3
Others	3.8%	0	—
Totals	100.00%	65

La Rioja

Party	Vote percentage	Seats
People's Party (PP)	48.73%	17	±0
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)	40.46%	14	±0
Partido Riojano (PR)	5.97%	2	±0
Others	4.8%	0	—
Totals	100.00%	33

Madrid

Party	Vote percentage	Seats
People's Party (PP)	53.30%	67	+10
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)	33.46%	42	-3
United Left (IU)	8.89%	11	+2
Others	4.4%	0	—
Totals	100.00%	120	+9

Melilla

Party	Vote percentage	Seats
People's Party (PP)	56%	15	±0
Coalition for Melilla–United Left (UDCE–IU)	21.74%	5	-2
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)	18.14%	5	+2
Others	0.00%	0	0
Totals	100.00%	25

Murcia

Party	Vote percentage	Seats
People's Party (PP)	58.49%	29	+1
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)	31.81%	15	-1
United Left (IU)	6.26%	1	±0
Others	3.5%	0	—
Totals	100.00%	45

Navarre

Party	Vote percentage	Seats
Navarrese People's Union-People's Party (UPN-PP)	42.2%	22	-1
Nafarroa Bai (NaBai)	23.7%	12	+4
Navarre Socialist Party-Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSN-PSOE)	22.4%	12	+2
Democrats Convergence of Navarre (CDN)	4.4%	2	-2
United Left (IU)	4.4%	2	-2
Others	3.0%	0	—
Totals	100.00%	50

Valencia

Party	Vote percentage	Seats
People's Party (PP)	52.43%	55	+7
Socialist Party of the Valencian Country-Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSPV-PSOE)	34.22%	37	+1
United Left (IU) - Valencian Nationalist Bloc (BNV)	7.95%	7	+2
Others	5.6%	0	—
Totals	100.00%	99	+10

References

El Mundo.es