1991 Seville City Council election

1991 Seville City Council election
← 1987 26 May 1991 1995 →
All 31 seats in the City Council of Seville
16 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered512,308 Green arrow up7.0%
Turnout280,996 (54.8%)
Red arrow down6.5 pp
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Luis Yáñez Alejandro Rojas-Marcos Soledad Becerril
Party PSOE–A PA PP
Leader since 1 March 1991 29 August 1986 24 March 1987
Last election 13 seats, 38.7% 7 seats, 20.9% 8 seats, 25.5%[a]
Seats won 12 9 8
Seat change Red arrow down1 Green arrow up2 Blue arrow right0
Popular vote 108,028 77,168 71,287
Percentage 38.6% 27.6% 24.4%
Swing Red arrow down0.1 pp Green arrow up6.7 pp Red arrow down1.1 pp
  Fourth party
 
Leader Rosa Bendala
Party IU
Leader since 1991
Last election 3 seats, 9.2%
Seats won 2
Seat change Red arrow down1
Popular vote 19,216
Percentage 6.9%
Swing Red arrow down2.3 pp
Mayor before election

Manuel del Valle
PSOE

Elected mayor

Alejandro Rojas-Marcos
PA

The 1991 Seville City Council election, also the 1991 Seville municipal election, was held on Sunday, 26 May 1991, to elect the 4th City Council of the municipality of Seville. All 31 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.

Electoral system

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The City Council of Seville (Spanish: Ayuntamiento de Sevilla) was the top-tier administrative and governing body of the municipality of Seville, composed of the mayor, the government council and the elected plenary assembly.[1] Elections to the local councils in Spain were fixed for the fourth Sunday of May every four years.[2] Voting for the local assembly was on the basis of universal suffrage, which comprised all nationals over 18 years of age, registered in the municipality of Seville and in full enjoyment of their political rights, as well as resident non-nationals whose country of origin allowed Spanish nationals to vote in their own elections by virtue of a treaty.

Local councillors were elected using the D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional representation, with an electoral threshold of five percent of valid votes—which included blank ballots—being applied in each local council.[1][2] Councillors were allocated to municipal councils based on the following scale:

Population Councillors
<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 was indirectly elected by the plenary assembly. A legal clause required that mayoral candidates earned the vote of an absolute majority of councillors, or else the candidate of the most-voted party in the assembly was to be automatically appointed to the post. In the event of a tie, the appointee would be determined by lot.[1]

The electoral law allowed 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 were required to inform the relevant Electoral Commission within ten days of the election call, whereas groupings of electors needed to secure the signature of a determined amount of the electors registered in the municipality for which they were seeking election, disallowing electors from signing for more than one list of candidates. In the case of Seville, as its population was between 300,001 and 1,000,000, at least 5,000 signatures were required.[2]

Opinion polls

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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 poll. When available, seat projections determined by the polling organisations are displayed below (or in place of) the percentages in a smaller font; 16 seats were required for an absolute majority in the City Council of Seville.

Results

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← Summary of the 26 May 1991 City Council of Seville election results →
Parties and alliances Popular vote Seats
Votes % ±pp Total +/−
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party of Andalusia (PSOE–A) 108,028 38.57 –0.18 12 –1
Andalusian Party (PA) 77,168 27.55 +6.70 9 +2
People's Party (PP)1 68,206 24.35 –1.13 8 ±0
United Left–Assembly for Andalusia (IU–CA) 19,216 6.86 –2.30 2 –1
The Greens of Andalusia (LVA) 2,714 0.97 +0.37 0 ±0
Democratic and Social Centre (CDS) 877 0.31 –2.09 0 ±0
The Greens Ecologist–Humanist List (LVLE–H)2 857 0.31 +0.25 0 ±0
Workers' Socialist Party (PST) 547 0.20 New 0 ±0
Spanish Phalanx of the CNSO (FE–JONS) 280 0.10 New 0 ±0
Andalusian Popular Unity (UPAN) 216 0.08 New 0 ±0
Blank ballots 2,217 0.79 –0.04
Total 280,089 31 ±0
Valid votes 280,089 99.68 +0.87
Invalid votes 907 0.32 –0.87
Votes cast / turnout 280,996 54.85 –6.44
Abstentions 231,312 45.15 +6.44
Registered voters 512,308
Sources[6][7][8]
Footnotes:
Popular vote
PSOE–A
 
 38.57%
PA
 
 27.55%
PP
 
 24.35%
IU–CA
 
 6.86%
Others
 
 1.96%
Blank ballots
 
 0.79%
Seats
PSOE–A
 
 38.71%
PA
 
 29.03%
PP
 
 25.81%
IU–CA
 
 6.45%

Notes

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  1. ^ Aggregated data for AP and PDP in the 1987 election.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v Within PP.

References

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Opinion poll sources
  1. ^ a b c "Las elecciones de 26-5-91". CEPC (in Spanish). August 1991.
  2. ^ "PSOE y PP suben en la intención de voto de los sevillanos". ABC Sevilla (in Spanish). 19 May 1991.
  3. ^ "El alza del PA amenaza al PSOE en Sevilla". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). 20 May 1991.
  4. ^ "El ascenso del PP hace peligrar al PSOE en Madrid, Sevilla y Valencia". El País (in Spanish). 19 May 1991.
  5. ^ "Ficha técnica". El País (in Spanish). 19 May 1991.
  6. ^ "El PSOE retrocede en su feudo sevillano". ABC (in Spanish). 12 May 1991.
  7. ^ "El PSOE podría sufrir un auténtico descalabro en Sevilla". ABC Sevilla (in Spanish). 12 May 1991.
  8. ^ "El PSOE pierde uno de cada cuatro votos, según una encuesta realizada por el Partido Popular". ABC Sevilla (in Spanish). 6 April 1991.
  9. ^ "Fuerte descenso del PSOE en Andalucía, según una encuesta presentada ayer por el PA". ABC Sevilla (in Spanish). 31 January 1989.
Other
  1. ^ a b c Ley 7/1985, de 2 de abril, Reguladora de las Bases del Régimen Local (Law 7) (in Spanish). 2 April 1985. Retrieved 30 June 2020.
  2. ^ a b c Ley Orgánica 5/1985, de 19 de junio, del Régimen Electoral General (Organic Law 5) (in Spanish). 19 June 1985. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
  3. ^ "Electoral Information System. Parliament of Andalusia. June 1990. Seville Municipality". juntadeandalucia.es (in Spanish). Government of Andalusia. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
  4. ^ "Electoral Results Consultation. Congress. October 1989. Seville Municipality". Ministry of the Interior (in Spanish). Retrieved 12 November 2017.
  5. ^ "Electoral Results Consultation. European Parliament. June 1989. Seville Municipality". Ministry of the Interior (in Spanish). Retrieved 12 November 2017.
  6. ^ "Local election results, 26 May 1991" (PDF). Central Electoral Commission (in Spanish). Retrieved 16 February 2018.
  7. ^ "Electoral Results Consultation. Municipal. May 1991. Seville Municipality". Ministry of the Interior (in Spanish). Retrieved 12 November 2017.
  8. ^ "Elecciones municipales en Sevilla (1979 - 2015)". Historia Electoral.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 30 September 2017.
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