1995 Valencia municipal election

1995 Valencia municipal election
28 May 1995
All 33 seats in the City Council of Valencia
17 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered627,784 Increase 6.1%
Turnout458,649 (73.1%)
Increase 9.7 pp
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Rita Barberá Aurelio Martínez Manuel Moret
Party PP PSOE EU–EV
Leader since 1991 25 January 1995 1991
Last election 9 seats, 25.5% 13 seats, 37.3% 3 seats, 10.4%[a]
Seats won 17 8 5
Seat change Increase 8 Decrease 5 Increase 2
Popular vote 223,963 110,071 67,532
Percentage 49.0% 24.1% 14.8%
Swing Increase 23.5 pp Decrease 13.2 pp Increase 4.4 pp
  Fourth party
 
Leader Juan Vicente Jurado
Party UV–FICVA–CCV
Leader since 1995
Last election 8 seats, 21.6%
Seats won 3
Seat change Decrease 5
Popular vote 41,019
Percentage 9.0%
Swing Decrease 12.6 pp
Mayor before election

Rita Barberá
PP

 Mayor after election

Rita Barberá
PP

A municipal election was held in Valencia 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 Valencia, the top-tier administrative and governing body was the City Council of Valencia.

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 Valencia, 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 Aurelio Martínez Social democracy 37.3% 13 No [11]
PP
List
 Rita Barberá Conservatism
Christian democracy		 25.5% 9 Yes [12]
UV–
FICVA–
CCV
List
  • Valencian Union (UV)
  • Independents' Federation of the Valencian Community (FICVA)
  • Centrists of the Valencian Community (CCV)
Juan Vicente Jurado Blaverism
Conservatism		 21.6% 8 No
EU–EV Manuel Moret Socialism
Communism
10.4%
[a]		 3 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 Valencia.

Results

← Summary of the 28 May 1995 City Council of Valencia election results →
Parties and alliances Popular vote Seats
Votes % ±pp Total +/−
People's Party (PP) 223,96349.00+23.50 17+8
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) 110,07124.08−13.22 8−5
United Left–The Greens (EU–EV)1 67,53214.78+4.38 5+2
Valencian Union–Independents–Centrists (UV–FICVA–CCV) 41,0198.97−12.59 3−5
Valencian People's Union–Nationalist Bloc (UPV–BN) 4,2900.94−0.66 0±0
Democratic and Social Centre (CDS) 1,6450.36−1.72 0±0
Valencianist Renewal (RV) 1,1170.24New 0±0
Autonomist Republican Party (PRA) 6180.14New 0±0
Valencian Nationalist Left (ENV) 4810.11New 0±0
Platform of Independents of Spain (PIE) 3910.09New 0±0
Humanist Platform (PH–LE) 3460.08New 0±0
Spanish Autonomous League (LAE) 2210.05New 0±0
Blank ballots 5,3711.18+0.19
Total 457,065 33±0
Valid votes 457,06599.65+0.08
Invalid votes 1,5840.35−0.08
Votes cast / turnout 458,64973.06+9.65
Abstentions 169,13526.94−9.65
Registered voters 627,784
Sources[13][14][15][16]
Footnotes:
  • 1 United Left–The Greens results are compared to the combined totals of United Left of the Valencian Country and The Greens in the 1991 election.
Popular vote
PP
 
 49.00%
PSOE
 
 24.08%
EU–EV
 
 14.78%
UV–FICVA–CCV
 
 8.97%
Others
 
 1.99%
Blank ballots
 
 1.18%
Seats
PP
 
 51.52%
PSOE
 
 24.24%
EU–EV
 
 15.15%
UV–FICVA–CCV
 
 9.09%

Aftermath

Government formation

Investiture
Ballot → 7 July 1995
Required majority → 17 out of 33
  • • PP (17)
  • • UV (3)
20 / 33
 check
Aurelio Martínez (PSOE)
8 / 33
 X mark
Manuel Moret (EUPV)
5 / 33
 X mark
Abstentions/Blank ballots
0 / 33
Absentees
0 / 33
Sources[17][18]

Notes

  1. 1 2 Results for EU (8.0%, 3 seats) and LV (2.4%, 0 seats) in the 1991 election.

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. ↑ "Preelectoral Municipales Valencia (Estudio nº 2167. Abril-Mayo 1995)". CIS (in Spanish). 10 May 1995.
  4. ↑ "Estudio CIS nº 2167. Ficha técnica" (PDF). CIS (in Spanish). 10 May 1995.
  5. ↑ "El PP ganaría por mayoría absoluta en las tres capitales de provincia". ABC (in Spanish). 20 March 1995.
  6. ↑ "Encuesta de Gruppo para ABC/Resultados municipales". ABC (in Spanish). 6 May 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. ↑ Villena, Miguel Ángel (26 January 1995). "El independiente Aurelio Martínez será el 'alcaldable' por el PSOE en Valencia". El País (in Spanish). Valencia. Retrieved 30 November 2025.
  12. ↑ 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.
  13. ↑ Lozano, Carles. "Eleccions municipals a València (des de 1979)". Historia Electoral.com (in Catalan). Retrieved 4 November 2025.
  14. ↑ "Consultes electorals. 1. Eleccions municipals" (PDF). City Council of Valencia (in Catalan). Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 December 2017. Retrieved 27 November 2025.
  15. ↑ "Elecciones celebradas. Resultados electorales" (in Spanish). Ministry of the Interior. Archived from the original on 5 August 2024. Retrieved 5 November 2025.
  16. ↑ "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.
  17. ↑ "Las desavenencias de la izquierda disparan en Valencia las expectativas del PP". El País. Valencia. 18 June 1995. Retrieved 30 November 2025.
  18. ↑ Enguix, Salvador (8 July 1995). "Rita Barbera asegura que gobernar con UV en la alcaldía hace honor a la coherencia del PP". La Vanguardia. Valencia. Retrieved 30 November 2025.

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