1999 Seville municipal election

1999 Seville municipal election
13 June 1999
All 33 seats in the City Council of Seville
17 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered586,032 Increase 4.8%
Turnout331,068 (56.5%)
Decrease 6.8 pp
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Soledad Becerril Alfredo Sánchez Monteseirín Alejandro Rojas-Marcos
Party PP PSOE–A PA
Leader since 24 March 1987 27 June 1998 29 August 1986
Last election 10 seats, 30.4% 10 seats, 28.5% 9 seats, 26.4%[a]
Seats won 13 12 6
Seat change Increase 3 Increase 2 Decrease 3
Popular vote 118,072 115,968 58,093
Percentage 35.8% 35.2% 17.6%
Swing Increase 5.4 pp Increase 6.7 pp Decrease 8.8 pp
  Fourth party
 
Leader Luis Pizarro
Party IULV–CA
Leader since 1995
Last election 4 seats, 12.9%
Seats won 2
Seat change Decrease 2
Popular vote 25,606
Percentage 7.8%
Swing Decrease 5.1 pp
Mayor before election

Soledad Becerril
PP

 Mayor after election

Alfredo Sánchez Monteseirín
PSOE

A municipal election was held in Seville on 13 June 1999 to elect the 6th 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, as well as the 1999 European Parliament election.

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, but a 1998 amendment allowed for local elections held in May 1995 to be held concurrently with European Parliament elections, provided that they were scheduled for within a four month-timespan. 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 28 May 1995, setting the date for election day concurrently with that year's European Parliament election on 13 June 1999.

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 20 April 1999 with the publication of the corresponding decree in the BOE, setting election day for 13 June.[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-national European citizens, and those whose country of origin allowed reciprocal voting by virtue of a treaty.[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
PP
List
 Soledad Becerril Conservatism
Christian democracy		 30.4% 10 Yes
PSOE–A Alfredo Sánchez Monteseirín Social democracy 28.5% 10 No [11]
[12]
PA
List
 Alejandro Rojas-Marcos Andalusian nationalism
Social democracy
26.4%
[a]		 9 Yes
IULV–CA Luis Pizarro Socialism
Communism		 12.9% 4 No [13]
[14]
[15]

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.

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 13 June 1999 City Council of Seville election results →
Parties and alliances Popular vote Seats
Votes % ±pp Total +/−
People's Party (PP) 118,07235.85+5.41 13+3
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party of Andalusia (PSOE–A) 115,96835.21+6.67 12+2
Andalusian Party (PA)1 58,09317.64−8.75 6−3
United Left/The Greens–Assembly for Andalusia (IULV–CA) 25,6067.77−5.10 2−2
The Greens–Andalusian Left (LV–IA) 2,5940.79New 0±0
Democratic Party of the New Left–Andalusia (PDNI–A) 6080.18New 0±0
Voice of the Andalusian People (VDPA) 2790.08−0.08 0±0
The Phalanx (FE) 2640.08New 0±0
Centrist Union–Democratic and Social Centre (UC–CDS) 2350.07New 0±0
Humanist Party (PH) 2110.06−0.01 0±0
Andalusia Assembly (A) 1380.04New 0±0
Independent Spanish Phalanx (FEI) 1300.04New 0±0
Blank ballots 7,1702.18+0.81
Total 329,368 33±0
Valid votes 329,36899.49−0.12
Invalid votes 1,7000.51+0.12
Votes cast / turnout 331,06856.49−6.85
Abstentions 254,96443.51+6.85
Registered voters 586,032
Sources[16][17][18]
Footnotes:
Popular vote
PP
 
 35.85%
PSOE–A
 
 35.21%
PA
 
 17.64%
IULV–CA
 
 7.77%
Others
 
 1.35%
Blank ballots
 
 2.18%
Seats
PP
 
 39.39%
PSOE–A
 
 36.36%
PA
 
 18.18%
IULV–CA
 
 6.06%

Aftermath

Government formation

Investiture
Ballot → 3 July 1999
Required majority → 17 out of 33
18 / 33
 check
  • • PP (13)
13 / 33
 X mark
Luis Pizarro (IULV–CA)
2 / 33
 X mark
Abstentions/Blank ballots
0 / 33
Absentees
0 / 33
Sources[19]

Notes

  1. 1 2 Results for PA (26.2%, 9 seats) and PAP (0.2%, 0 seats) in the 1995 election.
  2. 1 2 Does not include non-resident citizens.

References

Opinion poll sources

  1. ↑ "El PP avanza en Sevilla y podría repetir junto a los andalucistas en el Ayuntamiento". ABC (in Spanish). 5 June 1999.
  2. ↑ "El PP, el PSOE, el PA e IU mantienen el número de concejales en Sevilla". ABC (in Spanish). 5 June 1999.
  3. ↑ "El PP amplía su ventaja en Andalucía". El País (in Spanish). 6 June 1999.
  4. ↑ "Sevilla: PSOE, PP y PA, al 'sprint'". El Mundo (in Spanish). 2 June 1999.
  5. ↑ "ELECCIONES 13-J /BALANCE DE LAS ENCUESTAS". El Mundo (in Spanish). 6 June 1999.
  6. ↑ "El PP conserva su poder municipal, autonómico y europeo, e IU se hunde". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). 5 June 1999.
  7. ↑ "Estudio CIS nº 2344. Ficha técnica". CIS (in Spanish). 4 June 1999.
  8. ↑ "Una encuesta da al PP como claro vencedor en las ocho capitales". El País (in Spanish). 4 May 1999.
  9. 1 2 3 4 "Preelectoral elecciones municipales, 1999. Sevilla (Estudio nº 2344. Mayo 1999)". CIS (in Spanish). 4 June 1999.
  10. ↑ "Becerril, preferida para la alcaldía de Sevilla, según una encuesta". El País (in Spanish). 19 June 1998.

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 606/1999 (1999), 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. ↑ Lucio, Lourdes (28 June 1998). "Monteseirín vence a De la Borbolla, y Oliva, a Martín Toval". El País (in Spanish). Seville. Retrieved 7 April 2026.
  12. ↑ Díez, Anabel (28 June 1998). "Los candidatos oficialistas ganan las primarias". El País (in Spanish). Madrid. Retrieved 29 November 2025.
  13. ↑ "Luis Pizarro resulta elegido por los afiliados de IU para la acaldía de Sevilla". El País (in Spanish). Seville. 24 October 1998. Retrieved 2 December 2025.
  14. ↑ "Pizarro, candidato de IU a la alcaldía de Sevilla". El País (in Spanish). EFE. 8 November 1998. Retrieved 2 December 2025.
  15. ↑ López Escudero, Ana (20 December 1998). "IU ratifica a 18 de sus candidatos a las 21 mayores ciudades andaluzas". El País (in Spanish). Málaga. Retrieved 2 December 2025.
  16. ↑ Lozano, Carles. "Elecciones municipales en Sevilla (desde 1979)". Historia Electoral.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 4 November 2025.
  17. ↑ "Elecciones celebradas. Resultados electorales" (in Spanish). Ministry of the Interior. Archived from the original on 5 August 2024. Retrieved 5 November 2025.
  18. ↑ "Acuerdo de 15 de julio de 1999, de la Junta Electoral Central, por el que se procede a la publicación del resumen de los resultados de las elecciones locales convocadas por Real Decreto 606/1999, de 19 de abril, y celebradas el 13 de junio, 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) (178 (Supplement)): 1–1182. 27 July 1999. ISSN 0212-033X. Retrieved 26 November 2025.
  19. ↑ Constenla, Tereixa (4 July 1999). "Soledad Becerril reivindica el honor ante el viraje del PA que otorga la alcaldía de Sevilla al PSOE". El País (in Spanish). Seville. Retrieved 30 November 2025.

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