1995 Valencia City Council election

The 1995 Valencia City Council election, also the 1995 Valencia municipal election, was held on Sunday, 28 May 1995, to elect the 5th City Council of the municipality of Valencia. All 33 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.

1995 Valencia City Council election

← 1991 28 May 1995 1999 →
All 33 seats in the City Council of Valencia 17 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered	627,784 6.1%
Turnout	458,649 (73.1%) 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 8 5 2 Popular vote 223,963 110,071 67,532 Percentage 49.0% 24.1% 14.8% Swing 23.5 pp 13.2 pp 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 5 Popular vote 41,019 Percentage 9.0% Swing 12.6 pp
Mayor before election Rita Barberá PP Elected mayor Rita Barberá PP

Electoral system

The City Council of Valencia (Valencian: Ajuntament de València, Spanish: Ayuntamiento de Valencia) was the top-tier administrative and governing body of the municipality of Valencia, 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 in the municipality of Valencia and in full enjoyment of their political rights, as well as resident non-nationals 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
<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. For the case of Valencia, 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; 17 seats were required for an absolute majority in the City Council of Valencia.

Polling firm/Commissioner	Fieldwork date	Sample size	Turnout					Lead
1995 municipal election	28 May 1995	—	73.1	24.1 8	49.0 17	9.0 3	14.8 5	24.9
Demoscopia/El País[p 1][p 2]	10–15 May 1995	1,000	?	21.2 8	45.0 16	? 4	15.3 5	23.8
CIS[p 3][p 4]	24 Apr–10 May 1995	300	72.3	21.8	51.6	11.2	11.6	29.8
Sigma Dos/El Mundo[p 2]	3–7 May 1995	500	?	21.2 7	42.4 15/16	? 5/6	15.2 5	21.2
Gruppo/ABC[p 5][p 6]	9–14 Feb 1995	400	?	23.3 8	45.5 16/17	10.3 3	16.1 5/6	22.2
1994 EP election[3]	12 Jun 1994	—	63.6	22.9 (8)	47.7 (17)	7.8 (2)	16.0 (6)	24.8
1993 general election[4]	6 Jun 1993	—	81.2	31.1 (11)	42.7 (15)	8.2 (3)	12.6 (4)	11.6
1991 municipal election	26 May 1991	—	73.4	37.3 13	25.5 9	21.6 8	8.0 3	11.8

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)	223,963	49.00	+23.50	17	+8
	Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)	110,071	24.08	–13.22	8	–5
	United Left–The Greens (EU–EV)1	67,532	14.78	+4.38	5	+2
	Valencian Union–Independents–Centrists (UV–FICVA–CCV)	41,019	8.97	–12.59	3	–5
	Valencian People's Union–Nationalist Bloc (UPV–BN)	4,290	0.94	–0.66	0	±0
	Democratic and Social Centre (CDS)	1,645	0.36	–1.72	0	±0
	Valencianist Renewal (RV)	1,117	0.24	New	0	±0
	Autonomist Republican Party (PRA)	618	0.14	New	0	±0
	Valencian Nationalist Left (ENV)	481	0.11	New	0	±0
	Platform of Independents of Spain (PIE)	391	0.09	New	0	±0
	Humanist Platform (PH–LE)	346	0.08	New	0	±0
	Spanish Autonomous League (LAE)	221	0.05	New	0	±0
Blank ballots		5,371	1.18	+0.19
Total		457,065			33	±0
Valid votes		457,065	99.65	+0.08
Invalid votes		1,584	0.35	–0.08
Votes cast / turnout		458,649	73.06	+9.65
Abstentions		169,135	26.94	–9.65
Registered voters		627,784
Sources[5][6][7][8]
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%

Notes

1. Aggregated data for EUPV and LV 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. "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. Ley 7/1985, de 2 de abril, Reguladora de las Bases del Régimen Local (Law 7) (in Spanish). 2 April 1985. Retrieved 30 June 2020.
2. Ley Orgánica 5/1985, de 19 de junio, del Régimen Electoral General (Organic Law 5) (in Spanish). 19 June 1985. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
3. "Electoral Results Consultation. European Parliament. June 1994. Valencia Municipality". Ministry of the Interior (in Spanish). Retrieved 12 November 2017.
4. "Electoral Results Consultation. Congress. June 1993. Valencia Municipality". Ministry of the Interior (in Spanish). Retrieved 12 November 2017.
5. "Local election results, 28 May 1995" (PDF). Central Electoral Commission (in Spanish). Retrieved 16 February 2018.
6. "Municipal Elections. Valencia" (PDF). www.valencia.es (in Spanish). City Council of Valencia. Retrieved 5 December 2017.
7. "Electoral Results Consultation. Municipal. May 1995. Valencia Municipality". Ministry of the Interior (in Spanish). Retrieved 12 November 2017.
8. "Eleccions municipals a València (1979 - 2015)". Historia Electoral.com (in Catalan). Retrieved 30 September 2017.