2011 Spanish local elections

2011 Spanish local elections

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All 68,230 councillors in 8,116 municipal councils All 1,040 seats in 38 provincial deputations
Opinion polls
Registered	34,713,813 1.3%
Turnout	22,969,005 (66.2%) 2.2 pp
First party Second party Third party   Leader Mariano Rajoy José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero Cayo Lara Party PP PSOE IU–ICV Leader since 2 September 2003 22 July 2000 14 December 2008 Last election 23,014 c., 35.1% 24,029 c., 34.9% 2,591 c., 7.0% Seats won 26,510 21,783 2,650 Seat change 3,496 2,246 59 Popular vote 8,476,647 6,287,389 1,681,462 Percentage 37.5% 27.8% 7.4% Swing 2.4 pp 7.1 pp 0.4 pp   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Artur Mas Rosa Díez Iñigo Urkullu Party CiU UPyD EAJ/PNV Leader since 27 November 2004 26 September 2007 2 December 2007 Last election 3,387 c., 3.3% Did not contest 1,043 seats, 1.4% Seats won 3,896 152 882 Seat change 509 152 161 Popular vote 781,287 465,125 327,183 Percentage 3.5% 2.1% 1.4% Swing 0.2 pp New party 0.0 pp
Provincial results map for municipal elections

The 2011 Spanish local elections were held on Sunday, 22 May 2011, to elect all 68,230 councillors in the 8,116 municipalities of Spain and all 1,040 seats in 38 provincial deputations.^[1][2] The elections were held simultaneously with regional elections in thirteen autonomous communities, as well as local elections in the three foral deputations of the Basque Country and the eleven island councils in the Balearic and Canary Islands.

The days before the elections were marked by the 2011 Spanish protests which had been held in different cities across Spain since 15 May. The elections resulted in a landslide victory for the opposition People's Party (PP) and other centre-right parties, which won control of all of Spain's largest cities. In Barcelona, held by PSOE-sister party, the Socialists' Party of Catalonia (PSC), since the first local elections in 1979, was won for the first time by the nationalist Convergence and Union (CiU), which also won in Girona. The PSOE only won only in 5 out of Spain's 50 provincial capitals. In the popular vote, it scored its worst result in nationwide-held local elections, with a mere 27.8%, 10 points behind the PP, which obtained 37.5%.

Following the election, the PSOE named Deputy Prime Minister Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba as prime ministerial candidate for the next general election, initially scheduled for March 2012, and finally held in November 2011.^[3]