1995 Seville municipal election

1995 Seville municipal election
28 May 1995
All 33 seats in the City Council of Seville
17 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered559,451 Increase 9.2%
Turnout354,331 (63.3%)
Increase 8.5 pp
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Soledad Becerril José Rodríguez de la Borbolla Alejandro Rojas-Marcos
Party PP PSOE–A PA
Leader since 24 March 1987 29 December 1994 29 August 1986
Last election 8 seats, 24.4% 12 seats, 38.6% 9 seats, 27.6%
Seats won 10 10 9
Seat change Increase 2 Decrease 2 Steady 0
Popular vote 107,446 100,729 92,417
Percentage 30.4% 28.5% 26.2%
Swing Increase 6.0 pp Decrease 10.1 pp Decrease 1.4 pp
  Fourth party
 
Leader Luis Pizarro
Party IULV–CA
Leader since 1995
Last election 2 seats, 6.9%
Seats won 4
Seat change Increase 2
Popular vote 45,416
Percentage 12.9%
Swing Increase 6.0 pp
Mayor before election

Alejandro Rojas-Marcos
PA

 Mayor after election

Soledad Becerril
PP

A municipal election was held in Seville on 28 May 1995 to elect the 5th City Council of the municipality. All 33 seats in the City Council were up for election. It was held concurrently with regional elections in thirteen autonomous communities and local elections all across Spain.

Overview

Under the 1978 Constitution, the governance of municipalities in Spain—part of the country's local government system—was centered on the figure of city councils (Spanish: ayuntamientos), local corporations with independent legal personality composed of a mayor, a government council and an elected legislative assembly.[1] The mayor was indirectly elected by the local assembly, requiring an absolute majority; otherwise, the candidate from the most-voted party automatically became mayor (ties were resolved by drawing lots).[2] In the case of Seville, the top-tier administrative and governing body was the City Council of Seville.

Date

The term of local assemblies in Spain expired four years after the date of their previous election, with election day being fixed for the fourth Sunday of May every four years. The election decree was required to be issued no later than 54 days before the scheduled election date and published on the following day in the Official State Gazette (BOE).[3] The previous local elections were held on 26 May 1991, setting the date for election day on the fourth Sunday of May four years later, which was 28 May 1995.

Local assemblies could not be dissolved before the expiration of their term, except in cases of mismanagement that seriously harmed the public interest and implied a breach of constitutional obligations, in which case the Council of Ministers could—optionally—decide to call a by-election.[4]

Elections to the assemblies of local entities were officially called on 4 April 1995 with the publication of the corresponding decree in the BOE, setting election day for 28 May.[5]

Electoral system

Voting for local assemblies was based on universal suffrage, comprising all Spanish nationals over 18 years of age, registered and residing in the municipality and with full political rights (provided that they had not been deprived of the right to vote by a final sentence, nor were legally incapacitated), as well as resident non-nationals whose country of origin allowed reciprocal voting by virtue of a treaty or within the framework of Community Law.[6]

Local councillors were elected using the D'Hondt method and closed-list proportional voting, with a five percent-threshold of valid votes (including blank ballots) in each municipality.[7] Each municipality was a multi-member constituency, with a number of seats based on the following scale:[8]

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 law did not provide for by-elections to fill vacant seats; instead, any vacancies arising after the proclamation of candidates and during the legislative term were filled by the next candidates on the party lists or, when required, by designated substitutes.[9]

Parties and candidates

The electoral law allowed for parties and federations registered in the interior ministry, alliances and groupings of electors to present lists of candidates. Parties and federations intending to form an alliance were required to inform the relevant electoral commission within 10 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 sought election, disallowing electors from signing for more than one list. In the case of Seville, as its population was between 300,001 and 1,000,000, at least 5,000 signatures were required.[10]

Below is a list of the main parties and alliances which contested the election:

Candidacy Parties and
alliances		 Leading candidate Ideology Previous result Gov. Ref.
Vote % Seats
PSOE–A José Rodríguez de la Borbolla Social democracy 38.6% 12 No
PA
List
 Alejandro Rojas-Marcos Andalusian nationalism
Social democracy		 27.6% 9 Yes
PP
List
 Soledad Becerril Conservatism
Christian democracy		 24.4% 8 Yes [11]
IULV–CA Luis Pizarro Socialism
Communism		 6.9% 2 No

Opinion polls

The tables below list opinion polling results 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.

Voting intention estimates

The table below lists weighted voting intention estimates. Refusals are generally excluded from the party vote percentages, while question wording and the treatment of "don't know" responses and those not intending to vote may vary between polling organisations. When available, seat projections determined by the polling organisations are displayed below (or in place of) the percentages in a smaller font; 17 seats were required for an absolute majority in the City Council of Seville (16 in the 1991 election).

Voting preferences

The table below lists raw, unweighted voting preferences.

Victory preferences

The table below lists opinion polling on the victory preferences for each party in the event of a municipal election taking place.

Victory likelihood

The table below lists opinion polling on the perceived likelihood of victory for each party in the event of a municipal election taking place.

Preferred Mayor

The table below lists opinion polling on leader preferences to become mayor of Seville.

Results

← Summary of the 28 May 1995 City Council of Seville election results →
Parties and alliances Popular vote Seats
Votes % ±pp Total +/−
People's Party (PP) 107,44630.44+6.09 10+2
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party of Andalusia (PSOE–A) 100,72928.54−10.03 10−2
Andalusian Party (PA) 92,41726.19−1.36 9±0
United Left/The Greens–Assembly for Andalusia (IULV–CA) 45,41612.87+6.01 4+2
Andalusian Progress Party (PAP) 7100.20New 0±0
Voice of the Andalusian People (VDPA) 5490.16New 0±0
Humanist Platform (PH)1 2470.07−0.24 0±0
Spanish Phalanx of the CNSO (FE–JONS) 2360.07−0.03 0±0
Workers' Revolutionary Party (PRT)2 2120.06−0.14 0±0
Andalusian Popular Unity (UPAN) 1460.04−0.04 0±0
Blank ballots 4,8261.37+0.58
Total 352,934 33+2
Valid votes 352,93499.61−0.07
Invalid votes 1,3970.39+0.07
Votes cast / turnout 354,33163.34+8.49
Abstentions 205,12036.66−8.49
Registered voters 559,451
Sources[12][13][14]
Footnotes:
Popular vote
PP
 
 30.44%
PSOE–A
 
 28.54%
PA
 
 26.19%
IULV–CA
 
 12.87%
Others
 
 0.60%
Blank ballots
 
 1.37%
Seats
PP
 
 30.30%
PSOE–A
 
 30.30%
PA
 
 27.27%
IULV–CA
 
 12.12%

Aftermath

Government formation

Investiture
Ballot → 17 June 1995
Required majority → 17 out of 33
  • • PP (10)
  • • PA (9)
19 / 33
 check
10 / 33
 X mark
Luis Pizarro (IULV–CA)
4 / 33
 X mark
Abstentions/Blank ballots
0 / 33
Absentees
0 / 33
Sources[15]

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 Does not include non-resident citizens.

References

Opinion poll sources

  1. ↑ "El PSOE se hunde en las principales ciudades". El País (in Spanish). 21 May 1995.
  2. 1 2 "El PP cree que la encuesta publicada por un diario madrileño tiene como objetivo alarmar a los electores e impulsar el voto de izquierda". ABC (in Spanish). 22 May 1995.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 "Preelectoral Municipal Sevilla (Estudio nº 2173. Abril-Mayo 1995)". CIS (in Spanish). 14 May 1995.
  4. ↑ "Estudio CIS nº 2173. Ficha técnica". CIS (in Spanish). 14 May 1995.
  5. ↑ "Una encuesta señala al Partido Popular como la lista más votada en Sevilla". ABC (in Spanish). 19 May 1995.
  6. ↑ "El PP sería el partido más votado en todas las capitales andaluzas, salvo Córdoba, según una encuesta propia". ABC (in Spanish). 9 April 1995.
  7. ↑ "Los futuros gobiernos municipales, pendientes de los pactos". ABC (in Spanish). 4 April 1995.
  8. ↑ "Encuesta de Gruppo para ABC/Resultados municipales". ABC (in Spanish). 6 May 1995.
  9. ↑ "El PSOE-A seguirá denunciando la pinza PP-IU al ofrecer buenos resultados en las encuestas". ABC (in Spanish). 25 January 1995.
  10. ↑ "El PSOE reconoce que el PP ganará en cinco capitales andaluzas". ABC (in Spanish). 31 January 1995.
  11. ↑ "La encuesta del PSOE está realizada entre "los 800 parientes que Borbolla colocó en la Junta", según el PP". ABC (in Spanish). 10 May 1995.
  12. ↑ "Situación social y política de Andalucía (VII)". CIS (in Spanish). 2 March 1995.
  13. ↑ "Estudio CIS nº 2136. Ficha técnica". CIS (in Spanish). 2 March 1995.

Other

  1. ↑ Constitution (1978), art. 140; LBRL (1985), art. 19.
  2. ↑ LBRL (1985), art. 19; LOREG (1985), art. 196.
  3. ↑ LOREG (1985), arts. 42 & 194.
  4. ↑ LBRL (1985), art. 61.
  5. ↑ Royal Decree 489/1995 (1995), art. 1.
  6. ↑ Constitution (1978), art. 13; LBRL (1985), art. 19; LOREG (1985), arts. 2–3 & 176.
  7. ↑ LOREG (1985), arts. 163 & 180.
  8. ↑ LOREG (1985), art. 179.
  9. ↑ LOREG (1985), arts. 46, 48 & 182.
  10. ↑ LOREG (1985), arts. 44 & 187.
  11. ↑ Ruiz de Azúa, Victorino (11 November 1994). "Seis mujeres en las candidaturas del Partido Popular a las alcaldías de las principales ciudades". El País (in Spanish). Madrid. Retrieved 29 November 2025.
  12. ↑ Lozano, Carles. "Elecciones municipales en Sevilla (desde 1979)". Historia Electoral.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 4 November 2025.
  13. ↑ "Elecciones celebradas. Resultados electorales" (in Spanish). Ministry of the Interior. Archived from the original on 5 August 2024. Retrieved 5 November 2025.
  14. ↑ "Acuerdo de la Junta Electoral Central de 19 de julio de 1995, de publicación del resumen de los resultados de las elecciones locales convocadas por Real Decreto 489/1995, de 3 de abril, y celebradas el 28 de mayo de 1995, según los datos que figuran en las actas de proclamación remitidas por cada una de las Juntas Electorales de Zona" (PDF). Official State Gazette (in Spanish) (173 (Supplement)): 1–1166. 21 July 1995. ISSN 0212-033X. Retrieved 26 November 2025.
  15. ↑ "Soledad Becerril logra al final un acuerdo con Rojas Marcos en Sevilla". El País (in Spanish). Seville. 18 June 1995. Retrieved 30 November 2025.

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