2007 Valencia City Council election

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2007 Valencia City Council election
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All 33 seats in the City Council of Valencia
17 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered609,221 3.5%
Turnout416,802 (68.4%)
0.1 pp
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Rita Barberá Carmen Alborch Amadeu Sanchis
Party PP PSPV–PSOE EUPV–V–IR
Leader since 1991 7 October 2006 2004
Last election 19 seats, 51.2% 12 seats, 30.8% 2 seats, 8.1%
Seats won 21 12 0
Seat change 2 0 2
Popular vote 235,158 140,187 19,808
Percentage 56.7% 33.8% 4.8%
Swing 5.5 pp 3.0 pp 3.3 pp
Mayor before election

Rita Barberá
PP

Elected Mayor

Rita Barberá
PP

The 2007 Valencia City Council election, also the 2007 Valencia municipal election, was held on Sunday, 27 May 2007, to elect the 8th 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.

Electoral system[edit]

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-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
<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[edit]

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.

Color key:

  Exit poll

Results[edit]

← Summary of the 27 May 2007 City Council of Valencia election results →
Parties and alliances Popular vote Seats
Votes % ±pp Total +/−
People's Party (PP) 235,158 56.67 +5.52 21 +2
Socialist Party of the Valencian Country (PSPV–PSOE) 140,187 33.78 +2.96 12 ±0
United Left–The Greens–Republican Left: Municipal Agreement (EUPV–V–IR)1 19,808 4.77 –3.32 0 –2
Valencian Coalition (CVa) 5,615 1.35 New 0 ±0
Valencian Union–The Eco-pacifist Greens (UV–LVEP) 3,279 0.79 –2.83 0 ±0
Republican Left of the Valencian Country–Municipal Agreement (ERPV–AM) 1,070 0.26 +0.10 0 ±0
Spain 2000 (E–2000) 775 0.19 ±0.00 0 ±0
For a Fairer World (PUM+J) 650 0.16 New 0 ±0
Movement for Change and Liberties (MpCL) 546 0.13 New 0 ±0
Social Democratic Party (PSD) 539 0.13 New 0 ±0
Ordinary Citizens (CiCa) 504 0.12 New 0 ±0
Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain (PCPE) 370 0.09 New 0 ±0
United for Valencia (UxV) 369 0.09 New 0 ±0
National Democracy (DN) 255 0.06 New 0 ±0
Humanist Party (PH) 213 0.05 –0.02 0 ±0
The Greens of Europe (LVdE) 0 0.00 New 0 ±0
Blank ballots 5,644 1.36 –0.27
Total 414,982 33 ±0
Valid votes 414,982 99.56 –0.16
Invalid votes 1,820 0.44 +0.16
Votes cast / turnout 416,802 68.42 –0.08
Abstentions 192,419 31.58 +0.08
Registered voters 609,221
Sources[5][6][7][8]
Footnotes:
Popular vote
PP
 
 56.67%
PSPV–PSOE
 
 33.78%
EUPV–V–IR
 
 4.77%
CVa
 
 1.35%
Others
 
 2.07%
Blank ballots
 
 1.36%
Seats
PP
 
 63.64%
PSPV–PSOE
 
 36.36%

References[edit]

Opinion poll sources
  1. ^ "Un sondeo propio otorga a Barberá una holgada mayoría absoluta". ABC (in Spanish). 21 May 2007.
  2. ^ "Barberá empataría con PSPV-EU y Sentandreu tendría la llave del gobierno local de Valencia". Levante-EMV (in Spanish). 21 May 2007.
  3. ^ "El PP se crece en Madrid y Valencia y el PSOE amarra Barcelona y Sevilla". El País (in Spanish). 21 May 2007.
  4. ^ "Barberá mantiene la mayoría sin signos de fatiga en sus votantes". El País (in Spanish). 21 May 2007.
  5. ^ "Barberá gobernaría por un solo concejal". Levante-EMV (in Spanish). 15 April 2007.
  6. ^ a b "Barberá no afloja y roza ya los veinte concejales". ABC (in Spanish). 12 March 2007.
  7. ^ a b "Foto fija en Valencia". ABC (in Spanish). 3 May 2007.
  8. ^ "Rita Barberá sigue "intratable" según los sondeos internos de los populares". ABC (in Spanish). 12 February 2007.
  9. ^ "El PP revalidaría su mayoría absoluta en Valencia y "robaría" un concejal al PSPV". ABC (in Spanish). 13 December 2006.
  10. ^ "Rubio revela una encuesta que sitúa al PSPV como el preferido por los jóvenes". El País (in Spanish). 24 June 2006.
  11. ^ "Una encuesta del PSPV refleja que el PP repetiría mayoría absoluta en Valencia". ABC (in Spanish). 16 January 2006.
  12. ^ "Un sondeo del PP revela que Barberá volvería a tener mayoría absoluta". El País (in Spanish). 17 December 2005.
  13. ^ "Barberá fideliza electores y revalidaría hoy en Valencia su amplia mayoría absoluta Una encuesta interna del PP apunta que el PSOE perdería uno o dos ediles en favor de EU". ABC (in Spanish). 17 December 2005.
  14. ^ "Una encuesta del PP da la mayoría a Barberá con el 53% de votos y quita uno o dos ediles al PSPV". Levante-EMV (in Spanish). 17 December 2005.
Other
  1. ^ a b c 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. ^ a b c 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 2004. Valencia Municipality". Ministry of the Interior (in Spanish). Retrieved 13 July 2020.
  4. ^ "Electoral Results Consultation. Congress. March 2004. Valencia Municipality". Ministry of the Interior (in Spanish). Retrieved 13 July 2020.
  5. ^ "Local election results, 27 May 2007" (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 2007. 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.
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