2023 Zaragoza City Council election

The 2023 Zaragoza City Council election, also the 2023 Zaragoza municipal election, will be held on Sunday, 28 May 2023, to elect the 12th City Council of the municipality of Zaragoza. All 31 seats in the City Council were up for election. The election will be held simultaneously with regional elections in at least seven autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain.

2023 Zaragoza City Council election
28 May 2023
All 31 seats in the City Council of Zaragoza
16 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
 
Leader Lola Ranera Jorge Azcón Sara Fernández
Party PSOE PP Cs
Leader since 19 February 2020 4 December 2018 9 March 2019
Last election 10 seats, 28.0% 8 seats, 22.0% 6 seats, 18.3%
Current seats 10 8 6
Seats needed 6 8 10
 
Leader Pedro Santisteve Fernando Rivarés Julio Calvo
Party ZGZ Podemos–AV Vox
Leader since 1 March 2015 15 July 2020 22 April 2019
Last election 3 seats, 10.1% 2 seats, 6.2% 2 seats, 6.2%
Current seats 3 2 2
Seats needed 13 14 14
Incumbent Mayor

Jorge Azcón
PP


Electoral system

The City Council of Zaragoza (Spanish: Ayuntamiento de Zaragoza) is the top-tier administrative and governing body of the municipality of Zaragoza, composed of the mayor, the government council and the elected plenary assembly.[1] Elections to the local councils in Spain are fixed for the fourth Sunday of May every four years.[2]

Voting for the local assembly is on the basis of universal suffrage, which comprises all nationals over eighteen, registered and residing in the municipality of Zaragoza and in full enjoyment of their political rights, as well as resident non-national European citizens and those whose country of origin allows Spanish nationals to vote in their own elections by virtue of a treaty. Local councillors are elected using the D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional representation, with an electoral threshold of five percent of valid votes—which includes blank ballots—being applied in each local council.[1][2] Councillors are 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 is indirectly elected by the plenary assembly. A legal clause requires that mayoral candidates earn the vote of an absolute majority of councillors, or else the candidate of the most-voted party in the assembly shall be automatically appointed to the post. In the event of a tie, the appointee will be determined by lot.[1]

Parties and candidates

The electoral law allows 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 are required to inform the relevant Electoral Commission within ten days of the election call, whereas groupings of electors need to secure the signature of a determined amount of the electors registered in the municipality for which they seek election, disallowing electors from signing for more than one list of candidates. For the case of Zaragoza, as its population is between 300,001 and 1,000,000, at least 5,000 signatures are required.[2]

Below is a list of the main parties and electoral alliances which will likely contest the election:

Candidacy Parties and
alliances		 Leading candidate Ideology Previous result Gov. Ref.
Votes (%) Seats
PSOE
List
 Lola Ranera Social democracy 28.00% 10 N [3]
PP
List
 Jorge Azcón Conservatism
Christian democracy		 22.04% 8 Y
Cs
List
 Sara Fernández Liberalism 18.27% 6 Y
ZGZ
List
 Pedro Santisteve Localism
Left-wing populism
Participatory democracy		 10.08% 3 N
Podemos–AV
List
 Fernando Rivarés Left-wing populism
Direct democracy
Democratic socialism		 6.20% 2 N [4]
Vox
List
 Julio Calvo Right-wing populism
Ultranationalism
National conservatism		 6.17% 2 N

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 are required for an absolute majority in the City Council of Zaragoza.

Notes
  1. Within Unidas Podemos.

References
Opinion poll sources
  1. "Azcón se quedaría a un edil de la mayoría absoluta y el PSOE perdería tres concejales". Heraldo de Aragón (in Spanish). 23 April 2022.
  2. "ZARAGOZA, HUESCA, TERUEL. Encuesta A+M 23/04/2022". Electograph (in Spanish). 23 April 2022.
  3. "EP Zaragoza (10A): absoluta de PP+Vox". Electomanía (in Spanish). 10 August 2021.
  4. "El PP se dispararía hasta los 14 ediles en Zaragoza por el hundimiento de Cs y solo dependería de Vox". Heraldo de Aragón (in Spanish). 23 April 2021.
  5. "ZARAGOZA, HUESCA, TERUEL. Encuesta A+M 23/04/2021". Electograph (in Spanish). 23 April 2021.
Other
  1. "Ley 7/1985, de 2 de abril, Reguladora de las Bases del Régimen Local". Law No. 7 of 2 April 1985. Boletín Oficial del Estado (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 July 2021.
  2. "Ley Orgánica 5/1985, de 19 de junio, del Régimen Electoral General". Organic Law No. 5 of 19 June 1985. Boletín Oficial del Estado (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 July 2021.
  3. "Lola Ranera, nueva portavoz del PSOE en el Ayuntamiento de Zaragoza y Alfonso Gómez, portavoz adjunto" (in Spanish). Zaragoza: Europa Press. 19 February 2020. Retrieved 26 April 2022.
  4. "Fernando Rivarés, nombrado portavoz de Podemos Aragón y Nacho Escartín continúa como portavoz parlamentario". El Periódico de Aragón (in Spanish). Europa Press. 15 July 2020. Retrieved 26 April 2022.
  5. "Electoral Results Consultation. Congress. November 2019. Zaragoza Municipality". Ministry of the Interior (in Spanish). Retrieved 5 July 2021.
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