# 2007 Madrid City Council election

The 2007 Madrid City Council election, also the 2007 Madrid municipal election, was held on Sunday, 27 May 2007, to elect the 8th City Council of the municipality of Madrid. All 57 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.
Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón's People's Party (PP) went on to win the largest victory achieved by a candidate in a municipal election in Madrid to date, with over 55% of the votes and nearly 60% of the seats. The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) plummeted barely above 1995 levels, while United Left (IU) recovered from its negative result in 2003 and gained support for the first time since 1995.

## Electoral system

The City Council of Madrid (Spanish: Ayuntamiento de Madrid) was the top-tier administrative and governing body of the municipality of Madrid, composed of the mayor, the government council and the elected plenary assembly. Elections to the local councils in Spain were fixed for the fourth Sunday of May every four years. 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 Madrid 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. 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.
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 Madrid, as its population was over 1,000,001, at least 8,000 signatures were required.

## 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; 29 seats were required for an absolute majority in the City Council of Madrid.

### Color key

Exit poll
| Polling firm/Commissioner | Fieldwork date | Sample size | Turnout | | | | Lead |
| 2007 municipal election | 27 May 2007 | — | 65.9 | 55.6 34 | 30.9 18 | 8.7 5 | 24.7 |
| Ipsos/RTVE–FORTA | 27 May 2007 | ? | ? | 52.9 31/33 | 33.1 19/21 | 8.8 5/6 | 19.8 |
| Sigma Dos/El Mundo | 18 May 2007 | 400 | ? | 53.5 32/33 | 32.8 19/20 | 9.5 5 | 20.7 |
| Metroscopia/ABC | 14–16 May 2007 | ? | 65–70 | 54.5 33 | 34.5 21 | 6.0 3 | 20.0 |
| Opina/El País | 14 May 2007 | ? | ? | 53.0 32 | 37.0 21/22 | 6.5 3/4 | 16.0 |
| TNS Demoscopia/Antena 3 | 9 May 2007 | ? | ? | ? 32/33 | ? 21/22 | ? 3/4 | ? |
| Opina/Cadena SER | 6 May 2007 | 600 | ? | 56.3 33 | 35.4 20/21 | 6.4 3/4 | 20.9 |
| CIS | 2–4 May 2007 | 1,000 | ? | 52.7 32 | 34.5 21 | 7.1 4 | 18.2 |
| Opina/El País | 21–22 Mar 2007 | 700 | ? | 53.0 31/32 | 38.0 22/23 | 5.5 3 | 15.0 |
| PSOE | 1 Mar 2007 | ? | 70 | ? 28/29 | ? 24 | ? 4/5 | ? |
| Metroscopia/CEIM | 12 Feb–1 Mar 2007 | 975 | ? | 53.9 32 | 35.0 21 | 7.4 4 | 18.9 |
| Sigma Dos/PP | 14–25 Feb 2007 | 1,200 | ? | 52.5 30/31 | 36.1 20/21 | 6.8 4 | 16.4 |
| Sigma Dos/El Mundo | 16–21 Nov 2006 | 400 | ? | 57.0 32/33 | 32.9 19/20 | 5.5 3 | 24.1 |
| Iberconsulta/La Razón | 17 Sep 2006 | ? | ? | 53.3 31 | 34.2 20 | ? 4 | 19.1 |
| Opina/El País | 26 Apr 2006 | 542 | ? | 51.0 29 | 38.0 22 | 8.0 4 | 13.0 |
| Synovate/PSOE | 15 May 2005 | 1,012 | ? | ? 28 | ? 22 | ? 5 | ? |
| 2004 EP election | 13 Jun 2004 | — | 53.6 | 52.5 (30) | 40.0 (23) | 5.1 (2) | 12.5 |
| 2004 general election | 14 Mar 2004 | — | 80.8 | 47.6 (28) | 41.8 (24) | 6.3 (3) | 5.8 |
| October 2003 regional election | 26 Oct 2003 | — | 66.2 | 51.2 (30) | 36.6 (21) | 8.4 (4) | 14.6 |
| 2003 municipal election | 25 May 2003 | — | 68.9 | 51.3 30 | 36.7 21 | 7.2 4 | 14.6 |

## Results

← Summary of the 27 May 2007 City Council of Madrid election results → :
| Parties and alliances | Parties and alliances | Popular vote | Popular vote | Popular vote | Seats | Seats |
| Parties and alliances | Parties and alliances | Votes | % | ±pp | Total | +/− |
| | People's Party (PP) | 877,589 | 55.65 | +4.35 | 34 | +4 |
| | Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) | 487,887 | 30.94 | –5.74 | 18 | –3 |
| | United Left of the Community of Madrid (IUCM) | 136,881 | 8.68 | +1.46 | 5 | +1 |
| | The Greens (LV, LVM, LVCM, LV–GV)$^1$ | 14,011 | 0.89 | –1.24 | 0 | ±0 |
| | Spanish Alternative (AES) | 6,140 | 0.39 | New | 0 | ±0 |
| | Anti-Bullfighting Party Against Mistreatment of Animals (PACMA) | 3,167 | 0.20 | New | 0 | ±0 |
| | For a Fairer World (PUM+J) | 2,501 | 0.16 | New | 0 | ±0 |
| | Spanish Phalanx of the CNSO (FE–JONS) | 1,920 | 0.12 | New | 0 | ±0 |
| | Democratic and Social Centre (CDS) | 1,681 | 0.11 | –0.02 | 0 | ±0 |
| | National Democracy (DN) | 1,571 | 0.10 | New | 0 | ±0 |
| | Family and Life Party (PFyV) | 1,390 | 0.09 | –0.09 | 0 | ±0 |
| | The Phalanx (FE) | 1,353 | 0.09 | –0.04 | 0 | ±0 |
| | Republican Left (IR) | 1,272 | 0.08 | –0.13 | 0 | ±0 |
| | Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain (PCPE) | 1,253 | 0.08 | New | 0 | ±0 |
| | Madrid First (PM) | 1,163 | 0.07 | +0.02 | 0 | ±0 |
| | Humanist Party (PH) | 950 | 0.06 | ±0.00 | 0 | ±0 |
| | Liberal Democratic Centre (CDL) | 834 | 0.05 | New | 0 | ±0 |
| | Commoners' Land (TC) | 821 | 0.05 | ±0.00 | 0 | ±0 |
| | Democratic Innovation (ID) | 664 | 0.04 | New | 0 | ±0 |
| | Authentic Phalanx (FA) | 530 | 0.03 | –0.01 | 0 | ±0 |
| | Catholic Tercio of Political Action (TCAP) | 461 | 0.03 | New | 0 | ±0 |
| | Liberal Centrist Union (UCL) | 318 | 0.02 | New | 0 | ±0 |
| | Immigrants with Rights, Equality and Obligations (INDIO) | 308 | 0.02 | –0.01 | 0 | ±0 |
| | Union for Leganés (ULEG) | 188 | 0.01 | New | 0 | ±0 |
| | European Ibero-American Alliance Party (PAIE) | 151 | 0.01 | New | 0 | ±0 |
| Blank ballots | Blank ballots | 32,066 | 2.03 | +0.43 | | |
| Total | Total | 1,577,070 | | | 57 | +2 |
| Valid votes | Valid votes | 1,577,070 | 99.47 | –0.09 | | |
| Invalid votes | Invalid votes | 8,371 | 0.53 | +0.09 | | |
| Votes cast / turnout | Votes cast / turnout | 1,585,441 | 65.91 | –3.02 | | |
| Abstentions | Abstentions | 820,014 | 34.09 | +3.02 | | |
| Registered voters | Registered voters | 2,405,455 | | | | |
| Sources |||||||
| Footnotes: $^1$ The Greens results are compared to the combined totals of The Greens and The Greens of the Community of Madrid in the 2003 election. |||||||
Popular vote
PP
55.65%
PSOE
30.94%
IUCM
8.68%
Others
2.70%
Blank ballots
2.03% :
Seats
PP
59.65%
PSOE
31.58%
IUCM
8.77% :