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2015 Seville City Council election
All 31 seats in the City Council of Seville; 16 seats needed for a majority
	Opinion polls
Registered	545,309 0.3%
Turnout	324,218 (59.5%); 3.2 pp
Mayor before election; Juan Ignacio Zoido; PP	Elected mayor ; Juan Espadas; PSOE

The 2015 Seville City Council election, also the 2015 Seville municipal election, was held on Sunday, 24 May 2015, to elect the 10th City Council of the municipality of Seville. All 31 seats in the City Council were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with regional elections in thirteen autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain.

Electoral system

The City Council of Seville (Spanish: Ayuntamiento de Sevilla) was the top-tier administrative and governing body of the municipality of Seville, composed of the mayor, the government council and the elected plenary assembly.^[1] Elections to the local councils in Spain were fixed for the fourth Sunday of May every four years.^[2] Voting for the local assembly was on the basis of universal suffrage, which comprised all nationals over 18 years of age, registered and residing in the municipality of Seville and in full enjoyment of their political rights, as well as resident non-national European citizens and those whose country of origin allowed Spanish nationals to vote in their own elections by virtue of a treaty.

Local councillors were elected using the D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional representation, with an electoral threshold of five percent of valid votes—which included blank ballots—being applied in each local council.^[1]^[2] Councillors were allocated to municipal councils based on the following scale:

Population	Councillors
<100	3
101–250	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 mayor was indirectly elected by the plenary assembly. A legal clause required that mayoral candidates earned the vote of an absolute majority of councillors, or else the candidate of the most-voted party in the assembly was to be automatically appointed to the post. In the event of a tie, the appointee would be determined by lot.^[1]

The electoral law allowed for parties and federations registered in the interior ministry, coalitions and groupings of electors to present lists of candidates. Parties and federations intending to form a coalition ahead of an election were required to inform the relevant Electoral Commission within ten 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 were seeking election, disallowing electors from signing for more than one list of candidates. In the case of Seville, as its population was between 300,001 and 1,000,000, at least 5,000 signatures were required.^[2]

Opinion polls

The table below lists voting intention estimates 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. When available, seat projections determined by the polling organisations are displayed below (or in place of) the percentages in a smaller font; 16 seats were required for an absolute majority in the City Council of Seville (17 until 1 January 2015).

Color key:

Poll conducted after legal ban on opinion polls Exit poll

Polling firm/Commissioner	Fieldwork date	Sample size	Turnout			IULV						Lead
Polling firm/Commissioner	Fieldwork date	Sample size	Turnout									Lead

2015 municipal election	24 May 2015	—	59.5	33.1 12	32.2 11	6.0 2	1.4 0	0.8 0	9.0 3	9.3 3	4.1 0	0.9

TNS Demoscopia/RTVE–FORTA^{[p 1]}^{[p 2]}	24 May 2015	?	?	? 10/12	? 12/14	6.7 1/2	–	–	? 3/4	9.6 3/4	–	?
GAD3/Antena 3^{[p 3]}	11–22 May 2015	?	?	? 11/12	? 13/14	? 0/1	–	–	? 3/4	? 2	–	?
Sigma Dos/El Mundo^{[p 4]}^{[p 5]}	13–14 May 2015	500	?	34.8 12/13	32.6 11/12	7.4 2	–	–	6.1 2	10.4 3	4.2 0	2.2
Deimos/El Correo de Andalucía^{[p 6]}^{[p 7]}	11–14 May 2015	806	?	30.0 11	31.7 11	6.9 2	1.7 0	1.4 0	8.1 3	12.8 4	3.6 0	1.7
MyWord/Cadena SER^{[p 8]}^{[p 9]}	27 Apr–14 May 2015	800	?	31.6 10/12	32.2 10/12	4.3 0/1	0.7 0	1.3 0	15.0 4/6	11.4 4	^[a]	0.6
JM&A/Público^{[p 10]}	12 May 2015	?	?	? 13	? 10	–	–	–	? 6	? 4	–	?
JM&A/Público^{[p 11]}^{[p 12]}	3 May 2015	?	?	28.1 10	30.3 10	5.9 2	2.0 0	0.5 0	17.2 6	14.2 5	^[a]	2.2
IMC/ABC^{[p 13]}	29–30 Apr 2015	410	?	33.4 12/13	30.2 10/11	5.2 0/1	–	–	11.0 3/4	13.2 4/5	^[a]	3.2
Commentia/Grupo Joly^{[p 14]}^{[p 15]}	27–29 Apr 2015	401	?	35.5 12	31.3 10	4.9 0/1	–	–	13.1 4/5	11.5 4	^[a]	4.2
CIS^{[p 16]}^{[p 17]}	23 Mar–19 Apr 2015	997	?	32.4 11/12	28.5 10	5.0 1	–	1.0 0	^[b]	12.6 4	13.4 4/5	3.9
Sigma Dos/El Mundo^{[p 18]}^{[p 19]}	26–27 Mar 2015	500	?	31.3 10/11	33.2 11/12	4.6 0/1	–	–	14.6 4/5	11.9 4	^[a]	1.9
2015 regional election^[3]	22 Mar 2015	—	68.3	27.1 (9)	30.8 (11)	5.4 (1)	1.0 (0)	2.1 (0)	18.0 (6)	11.5 (4)	–	3.7
Llorente & Cuenca^[4]	31 Oct 2014	?	?	? 14/15	? 9/10	? 3	–	? 0/1	? 6/8	–	–	?
2014 EP election^[5]	25 May 2014	—	47.6	27.8 (11)	30.0 (12)	9.6 (3)	1.4 (0)	8.0 (3)	9.8 (4)	2.3 (0)	–	2.2
Nexo^{[p 20]}^{[p 21]}	24 Mar–4 Apr 2014	402	54.2	42.9 16/18	29.2 11/12	9.3 3/4	–	5.3 2	–	–	–	13.7
2012 regional election^[6]	25 Mar 2012	—	65.1	42.8 (16)	37.4 (14)	9.4 (3)	2.5 (0)	4.6 (0)	–	–	–	5.1
2011 general election^[7]	20 Nov 2011	—	71.1	44.3 (16)	36.4 (13)	6.6 (2)	1.8 (0)	6.8 (2)	–	–	–	7.9

2011 municipal election	22 May 2011	—	62.7	49.3 20	29.5 11	7.1 2	4.8 0	3.3 0	–	–	–	19.8

Results

← Summary of the 24 May 2015 City Council of Seville election results →
Parties and alliances		Popular vote			Seats

Parties and alliances		Votes	%	±pp	Total	+/−
	People's Party (PP)	106,321	33.05	–16.26	12	–8
	Spanish Socialist Workers' Party of Andalusia (PSOE–A)	103,461	32.16	+2.71	11	±0
	Citizens–Party of the Citizenry (C's)	29,888	9.29	New	3	+3
	Participate Seville (Participa Sevilla)	28,969	9.01	New	3	+3
	United Left/The Greens–Assembly for Andalusia (IULV–CA)	19,203	5.97	–1.18	2	±0

	Let's Win Seville (Ganemos Sevilla)	13,274	4.13	New	0	±0
	Andalusian Party (PA)	4,544	1.41	–3.37	0	±0
	Equo (Equo)	3,332	1.04	New	0	±0
	Animalist Party Against Mistreatment of Animals (PACMA)	3,290	1.02	+0.60	0	±0
	Union, Progress and Democracy (UPyD)	2,711	0.84	–2.41	0	±0
	Vox (Vox)	1,495	0.46	New	0	±0
	Blank Seats (EB)	463	0.14	New	0	±0
	Spanish Phalanx of the CNSO (FE–JONS)	311	0.10	+0.02	0	±0
	Party of the Immigrant in Spain (PADIE)	182	0.06	New	0	±0
	Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain (PCPE)	168	0.05	New	0	±0
	Republican Candidacy (CR)	155	0.05	New	0	±0
	Internationalist Solidarity and Self-Management (SAIn)	139	0.04	–0.05	0	±0
	Andalusian Nationalist People (PNdeA)	89	0.03	New	0	±0
	Andalusian Popular Unity (UPAN)	61	0.02	–0.04	0	±0
Blank ballots		3,633	1.13	–1.65

Total		321,689			31	–2

Valid votes		321,689	99.22	+1.08
Invalid votes		2,529	0.78	–1.08
Votes cast / turnout		324,218	59.46	–3.27
Abstentions		221,091	40.54	+3.27
Registered voters		545,309

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