Spanish local elections, 1991

Spanish local elections, 1991
Spain
26 May 1991
66,308 seats in 8,082 local councils
1,032 seats in 38 provincial deputations
153 seats in 3 Juntas Generales in the Basque Country
139 seats in 7 cabildos in the Canary Islands
Registered 30,223,384 Increase6.3%
Turnout 18,973,514 (62.8%)
Decrease6.6 pp
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Felipe González José María Aznar Jordi Pujol
Party PSOE PP CiU
Leader since 13 October 1974 4 September 1989 19 September 1978
Last election 23,241 seats, 37.1% 17,890 seats, 22.1% 4,350 seats, 5.2%
Seats won 25,260 19,298 4,360
Seat change Increase2,019 Increase1,408 Increase10
Popular vote 7,224,242 4,775,051 915,291
Percentage 38.3% 25.3% 4.9%
Swing Increase1.2 pp Increase3.2 pp Decrease0.3 pp
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Adolfo Suárez Julio Anguita José María Mur
Party CDS IU PAR
Leader since 29 July 1982 12 February 1989 3 August 1987
Last election 5,952 seats, 9.8% 2,315 seats, 7.2% 896 seats, 0.7%
Seats won 2,939 2,614 1,115
Seat change Decrease3,013 Increase299 Increase219
Popular vote 731,331 1,579,097 128,025
Percentage 3.9% 8.4% 0.7%
Swing Decrease5.9 pp Increase1.2 pp ±0.0 pp

The 1991 Spanish local elections were held on Sunday, 26 May 1991, throughout all 8,082 Spain municipalities, simultaneously with regional elections in 13 of the 17 autonomous communities—all except for Andalusia, the Basque Country, Catalonia, and Galicia. All 66,308 councillors were up for election, as well as 153 seats of the 3 Basque Juntas Generales, 139 seats of the 7 Canarian cabildos and the indirectly-elected 1,032 seats of the 38 provincial deputations.

Electoral system

Local councils

The number of seats in each city council was determined by the population count. According to the municipal electoral law, the population-seat relationship on each municipality was to be established on the following scale:

Population Seats
<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

Additionally, for populations greater than 100,000, 1 seat was to be added per each 100,000 inhabitants or fraction, according to the most updated census data, and adding 1 more seat if the resulting seat count gives an even number.

All city council members were elected in single multi-member districts, consisting of the municipality's territory, using the D'Hondt method and a closed-list proportional representation system. Voting was on the basis of universal suffrage in a secret ballot. Only lists polling above 5% of valid votes in all of the municipality (which include blank ballots—for none of the above) were entitled to enter the seat distribution.

The Spanish municipal electoral law established a clause stating that, if no candidate was to gather an absolute majority of votes to be elected as mayor of a municipality, the candidate of the most-voted party would be automatically elected to the post.[1]

Provincial deputations

The provincial deputations were elected indirectly by a council which in turn was elected from the judicial districts. The apportionment of deputies per province depends on population and was given as follows:

Population Seats
<500,000 25
500,001–1,000,000 27
1,000,001–3,500,000 31
>3,500,000 51

References

  1. ↑ "Organic Law 5/1985, of 19 June, of the General Electoral Regime. Title III, Special Provisions for Municipal Elections.".
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