2015 Madrilenian regional election

2015 Madrilenian regional election
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24 May 2015
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All 129 seats in the Assembly of Madrid
65 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered4,880,495 Increase 5.6%
Turnout3,205,931 (65.7%)
Decrease 0.2 pp
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Cristina Cifuentes Ángel Gabilondo José Manuel López
Party PP PSOE Podemos
Leader since 6 March 2015 21 February 2015 1 April 2015
Last election 72 seats, 51.7% 36 seats, 26.3% Did not contest
Seats won 48 37 27
Seat change Decrease 24 Increase 1 Increase 27
Popular vote 1,050,256 807,385 591,697
Percentage 33.1% 25.4% 18.6%
Swing Decrease 18.6 pp Decrease 0.9 pp New party
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Ignacio Aguado Luis García Montero Ramón Marcos
Party C's IUCM–LV UPyD
Leader since 2 March 2015 27 February 2015 18 October 2014
Last election 0 seats, 0.2% 13 seats, 9.6% 8 seats, 6.3%
Seats won 17 0 0
Seat change Increase 17 Decrease 13 Decrease 8
Popular vote 385,836 132,207 64,643
Percentage 12.2% 4.2% 2.0%
Swing Increase 12.0 pp Decrease 5.4 pp Decrease 4.3 pp
President before election

Ignacio González
PP

Elected President

Cristina Cifuentes
PP

A regional election was held in the Community of Madrid on Sunday, 24 May 2015, to elect the 10th Assembly of the autonomous community. All 129 seats in the Assembly were up for election. It was held concurrently with regional elections in twelve other autonomous communities and local elections all across Spain.

The ruling People's Party (PP) emerged once again as the largest political force in the region, but it saw a substantial drop in its vote support and the loss of the absolute majority it had held almost uninterruptedly since 1995—with a brief interlude in 2003—. However, as both the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) and newcomer Podemos fell one seat short of an absolute majority, it meant that the PP could remain in government through an agreement with liberal Citizens (C's). As a result, Cristina Cifuentes became the new President of the Community of Madrid, forming a minority government with C's providing confidence and supply. Cifuentes would be the third regional President in three years, after Esperanza Aguirre's resignation in 2012 and incumbent president Ignacio González not running for the office as a result of several scandals.

The strong performance of both Podemos and C's was at the expense of left-wing United Left (IU)—which lost its parliamentary representation for the first time in history as a result of not reaching the required 5% threshold—and Union, Progress and Democracy (UPyD), whose parliamentary presence was ephemeral having only entered the regional parliament in 2011.

Background

After the 2011 regional election, the People's Party (PP) was re-elected to a fourth consecutive term in office with an absolute majority of seats, with the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) under Tomás Gómez obtaining the worst result of its history in the region up until that point. On 17 September 2012, President Esperanza Aguirre, who had renewed the office for a third term, resigned allegedly a result of health issues but also for "personal reasons", being succeeded in the presidency by her deputy, Ignacio González.[1]

Opinion polls from 2012 predicted a drop in vote support for the PP, to the point that it could lose the absolute majority it had enjoyed almost uninterruptedly since 1995. The same polls had shown that the PSOE remained unable to capitalize on the PP government's electoral wear. On the 2014 European Parliament election, both parties obtained historic lows in the region: with 29.9%, the PP result was its lowest since 1989, while the PSOE's result at 18.9% was the party's lowest score ever. A newly created party, Podemos, was able to poll at 11.3%, placing itself as the third political force of the community and within striking distance of the PSOE.[2] Podemos's growth in opinion polls since mid-to-late 2014 at the expense of the PSOE's vote inspired fears within the party that it could be displaced to third place both regionally and nationally.[3]

Overview

Under the 1983 Statute of Autonomy, the Assembly of Madrid was the unicameral legislature of the homonymous autonomous community, having legislative power in devolved matters, as well as the ability to vote confidence in or withdraw it from a regional president.[4]

Electoral system

Voting for the Assembly was on the basis of universal suffrage, which comprised all nationals over 18 years of age, registered in the Community of Madrid and in full enjoyment of their political rights, provided that they were not sentenced—by a final court ruling—to deprivation of the right to vote, nor being legally incapacitated.[5][6][7] Additionally, Spaniards abroad were required to apply for voting before being permitted to vote, a system known as "begged" or expat vote (Spanish: Voto rogado).[8][9]

The Assembly of Madrid was entitled to one seat per each 50,000 inhabitants or fraction greater than 25,000. All members were elected in a single multi-member constituency—corresponding to the autonomous community's territory—using the D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional voting system, with an electoral threshold of five percent of valid votes (which included blank ballots) being applied regionally.[5][10] As a result of the aforementioned allocation, the Assembly was entitled to 129 seats, based on the official population figures resulting from the latest revision of the municipal register (as of 1 January 2014).[11]

The law did not provide for by-elections to fill vacated seats; instead, any vacancies that occurred after the proclamation of candidates and into the legislative term were to be covered by the successive candidates in the list and, when required, by the designated substitutes.[12][13]

Election date

The term of the Assembly of Madrid expired four years after the date of its previous ordinary election, with election day being fixed for the fourth Sunday of May every four years. The election decree was required to be issued no later than the fifty-fifth day prior to the scheduled election date and published on the following day in the Official Gazette of the Community of Madrid (BOCM).[5][14][15] The previous election was held on 22 May 2011, setting the date for election day on the fourth Sunday of May four years later, which was 24 May 2015.

The regional president had the prerogative to dissolve the Assembly of Madrid at any given time and call a snap election, provided that no motion of no confidence was in process, no nationwide election was due and some time requirements were met: namely, that dissolution did not occur either during the first legislative session or within the parliament's last year ahead of its scheduled expiry, nor before one year had elapsed since a previous dissolution.[16][17] In the event of an investiture process failing to elect a regional president within a two-month period from the first ballot, the Assembly was to be automatically dissolved and a fresh election called, which was to be held on the first Sunday following the fifty-fourth day after the call.[18] Any snap election held as a result of these circumstances would not alter the period to the next ordinary election, with elected deputies merely serving out what remained of their original four-year term.[16][18][19]

The election to the Assembly of Madrid was officially called on 31 March 2015 with the publication of the corresponding decree in the BOCM, setting election day for 24 May and scheduling for the chamber to reconvene on 9 June.[11]

Outgoing parliament

The table below shows the composition of the parliamentary groups in the chamber at the time of the election call.[20]

Parliamentary composition in March 2015
Groups Parties Legislators
Seats Total
People's Parliamentary Group PP 71 71
Socialist Parliamentary Group PSOE 36 36
United Left–The Greens Parliamentary Group IUCM 13 13
UPyD Parliamentary Group UPyD 8 8
Non-Inscrits INDEP 1[a] 1

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 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 at least 0.5 percent of the electorate in the Community of Madrid, disallowing electors from signing for more than one list of candidates.[12][22] Additionally, a balanced composition of men and women was required in the electoral lists, so that candidates of either sex made up at least 40 percent of the total composition.[23]

Below is a list of the main parties and electoral alliances which contested the election:

Candidacy Parties and
alliances 		Leading candidate Ideology Previous result Gov. Ref.
Vote % Seats
PP
List
 Cristina Cifuentes Conservatism
Christian democracy 		51.7% 72 Yes [24]
PSOE
List
 Ángel Gabilondo Social democracy 26.3% 36 No [25]
IUCM–LV
List
 Luis García Montero Socialism
Communism 		9.6% 13 No [26]
UPyD
List
 Ramón Marcos Social liberalism
Radical centrism 		6.3% 8 No [27]
C's
List
 Ignacio Aguado Liberalism 0.2% 0 No [28]
Podemos
List
 José Manuel López Left-wing populism
Direct democracy
Democratic socialism 		Did not contest No [29]

On 11 February 2015, PSOE secretary-general Pedro Sánchez removed Tomás Gómez, PSOE candidate for the 2015 regional election,[30] from the party's regional leadership.[31][32] The decision came, allegedly, after suspicions of Gómez being involved in a tram project corruption scandal during his time as Mayor of Parla,[33][34] though electoral motives may have helped hasten the move, as Gómez was deemed a bad candidate as Rafael Simancas later recognized.[35] Ángel Gabilondo, former Education minister in José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero's cabinet from 2009 to 2011, was selected as PSOE's leading candidate in the region replacing Gómez on 21 February 2015.[25]

In United Left (IU), Tania Sánchez, elected as party's candidate in a primary election held on 1 December 2014,[36] had left the party on 4 February 2015 alongside a number of supporters over an internal conflict with the party's regional leadership, involved in the Caja Madrid "black" credit cards scandal.[37] Luis García Montero, a Spanish poet and literary critic, was selected to replace Sánchez' as IU candidate to the Community of Madrid.[26]

The PP had not yet proclaimed a candidate as of February 2015, despite incumbent President Ignacio González being widely presumed to stand for a second term in office.[38] On 2 March 2015, Spanish newspaper El Mundo pointed out that González had asked National Police officers to withhold information over an ongoing investigation on him about a possible tax fraud in the purchase of a luxury penthouse.[39] González announced that he was the victim of policial "blackmail" and reiterated his wish to be his party's candidate for the 2015 election.[40] However, rumours arose in the media that the party's leadership had withdrawn their support from González and expected him to eventually give up on his intention to run.[41] Finally, on 6 March 2015, incumbent Government delegate in Madrid Cristina Cifuentes was chosen as PP candidate for the autonomous community, while former regional president Esperanza Aguirre was nominated as candidate to the City Council of Madrid.[24]

Campaign

Election debates

2015 Madrilenian regional election debates
Date Organisers Moderator(s)     P  Present[b]  
PP PSOE IUCM–LV UPyD C's Podemos Audience Ref.
11 May Telemadrid Ana Samboal P
Cifuentes 		P
Gabilondo 		P
G. Montero 		P
Marcos 		P
Aguado 		P
López 		4.9%
(124,000) 		[42]
[43]

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.

Graphical summary

Local regression trend line of poll results from 22 May 2011 to 24 May 2015, with each line corresponding to a political party.

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; 65 seats were required for an absolute majority in the Assembly of Madrid.

Color key:

  Poll conducted after legal ban on opinion polls   Exit poll

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 regional 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 regional election taking place.

Preferred President

The table below lists opinion polling on leader preferences to become president of the Community of Madrid.

Results

Overall

← Summary of the 24 May 2015 Assembly of Madrid election results →
Parties and alliances Popular vote Seats
Votes % ±pp Total +/−
People's Party (PP) 1,050,256 33.08 −18.65 48 −24
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) 807,385 25.43 −0.84 37 +1
We Can (Podemos) 591,697 18.64 New 27 +27
Citizens–Party of the Citizenry (C's) 385,836 12.15 +11.99 17 +17
United Left of the Community of Madrid–The Greens (IUCM–LV) 132,207 4.16 −5.47 0 −13
Union, Progress and Democracy (UPyD) 64,643 2.04 −4.28 0 −8
Vox (Vox) 37,491 1.18 New 0 ±0
Animalist Party Against Mistreatment of Animals (PACMA) 32,228 1.02 +0.49 0 ±0
Spain 2000 (E–2000) 6,037 0.19 New 0 ±0
Spanish Phalanx of the CNSO (FE–JONS) 5,550 0.17 New 0 ±0
Union for Leganés (ULEG) 5,442 0.17 +0.08 0 ±0
Zero Cuts (Recortes Cero) 4,138 0.13 New 0 ±0
Humanist Party (PH) 3,460 0.11 −0.02 0 ±0
Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain (PCPE) 3,196 0.10 −0.09 0 ±0
The National Coalition (LCN) 2,747 0.09 New 0 ±0
Spanish Alternative (AES) 2,552 0.08 −0.04 0 ±0
Individual Freedom Party (P–LIB) 1,860 0.06 New 0 ±0
Castilian Party–Commoners' Land: Pact (PCAS–TC–Pacto) 1,755 0.06 ±0.00 0 ±0
Internationalist Solidarity and Self-Management (SAIn) 1,378 0.04 ±0.00 0 ±0
Blank ballots 34,856 1.10 −1.29
Total 3,174,714 129 ±0
Valid votes 3,174,714 99.03 +0.71
Invalid votes 31,217 0.97 −0.71
Votes cast / turnout 3,205,931 65.69 −0.17
Abstentions 1,674,564 34.31 +0.17
Registered voters 4,880,495
Sources[20][44]
Popular vote
PP
 
 33.08%
PSOE
 
 25.43%
Podemos
 
 18.64%
C's
 
 12.15%
IUCM–LV
 
 4.16%
UPyD
 
 2.04%
Vox
 
 1.18%
PACMA
 
 1.02%
Others
 
 1.20%
Blank ballots
 
 1.10%
Seats
PP
 
 37.21%
PSOE
 
 28.68%
Podemos
 
 20.93%
C's
 
 13.18%

Elected legislators

The following table lists the elected legislators sorted by order of election:[44]

Aftermath

Government formation

Further information: Government of Cristina Cifuentes
Investiture
Nomination of Cristina Cifuentes (PP)
Ballot → 24 June 2015
Required majority → 65 out of 129 checkY
Yes
  • • PP (48)
  • • C's (17)
65 / 129
No
64 / 129
Abstentions
0 / 129
Absentees
0 / 129
Sources[20][45]

2017 motion of no confidence

Motion of no confidence
Nomination of Lorena Ruiz-Huerta (Podemos)
Ballot → 8 June 2017
Required majority → 65 out of 129 ☒N
Yes
27 / 129
No
  • • PP (48)
  • • C's (17)
64 / 129
Abstentions
37 / 129
Absentees
1 / 129
Sources[20][46]

2018 investiture

Further information: Government of Ángel Garrido

The PSOE announced that it would table a motion of no confidence on Cifuentes' government, after it was revealed that Cifuentes could have obtained a master's degree through fraudulent means and that documents were falsified in order to cover up the scandal.[47][48][49] After Cifuentes's resignation as a result of the ensuing scandals, the motion of censure was cancelled and Ángel Garrido was elected as new president.[50]

Investiture
Nomination of Ángel Garrido (PP)
Ballot → 18 May 2018
Required majority → 65 out of 129 checkY
Yes
  • • PP (48)
  • • C's (17)
65 / 129
No
64 / 129
Abstentions
0 / 129
Absentees
0 / 129
Sources[20][51]

Notes

  1. ^ Teresa Gómez-Limón, former PP legislator.[21]
  2. ^ Denotes a main invitee attending the event.
  3. ^ Cristina Cifuentes as PP candidate hypothesis.
  4. ^ Ignacio González as PP candidate hypothesis.
  5. ^ Responses denoting a party's generic candidate are aggregated to that party's main candidate/leader at the time of the poll.

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