Election Name: | 2019 Melilla Assembly election |
Country: | Melilla |
Type: | parliamentary |
Ongoing: | no |
Previous Election: | 2015 Melilla Assembly election |
Previous Year: | 2015 |
Next Election: | 2023 Melilla Assembly election |
Next Year: | 2023 |
Seats For Election: | All 25 seats in the Assembly of Melilla |
Majority Seats: | 13 |
Registered: | 59,355 |
Turnout: | 34,393 (57.9%) 1.8 pp |
Election Date: | 26 May 2019 |
Leader1: | Juan José Imbroda |
Party1: | People's Party (Spain) |
Leader Since1: | 20 July 2000 |
Last Election1: | 13 seats, 48.1% |
Seats1: | 10 |
Seat Change1: | 3 |
Popular Vote1: | 12,943 |
Percentage1: | 37.8% |
Swing1: | 10.3 pp |
Leader2: | Mustafa Aberchán |
Party2: | Coalition for Melilla |
Leader Since2: | 2 October 1995 |
Last Election2: | 7 seats, 26.4% |
Seats2: | 8 |
Seat Change2: | 1 |
Popular Vote2: | 10,472 |
Percentage2: | 30.6% |
Swing2: | 4.2 pp |
Leader3: | Gloria Rojas |
Party3: | Spanish Socialist Workers' Party |
Leader Since3: | 24 November 2014 |
Last Election3: | 3 seats, 12.6% |
Seats3: | 4 |
Seat Change3: | 1 |
Popular Vote3: | 4,928 |
Percentage3: | 14.4% |
Swing3: | 1.8 pp |
Leader4: | Jesús Delgado Aboy |
Party4: | Vox (political party) |
Leader Since4: | 15 July 2018 |
Last Election4: | Did not contest |
Seats4: | 2 |
Seat Change4: | 2 |
Popular Vote4: | 2,655 |
Percentage4: | 7.8% |
Swing4: | New party |
Leader5: | Eduardo de Castro |
Party5: | Citizens (Spanish political party) |
Leader Since5: | 23 February 2015 |
Last Election5: | 2 seats, 6.8% |
Seats5: | 1 |
Seat Change5: | 1 |
Popular Vote5: | 1,897 |
Percentage5: | 5.6% |
Swing5: | 1.2 pp |
Mayor-President | |
Before Election: | Juan José Imbroda |
Before Party: | People's Party (Spain) |
After Election: | Eduardo de Castro |
After Party: | Citizens (Spanish political party) |
The 2019 Melilla Assembly election was held on Sunday, 26 May 2019, to elect the 7th Assembly of the Autonomous City of Melilla. All 25 seats in the Assembly were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with regional elections in thirteen autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain, as well as the 2019 European Parliament election.
The Assembly of Melilla is the top-tier administrative and governing body of the autonomous city of Melilla. Voting for the Assembly is on the basis of universal suffrage, which comprises all nationals over eighteen, registered and residing in the municipality of Melilla 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.[1] [2] [3]
The 25 members of the Assembly of Melilla are elected using the D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional representation, with a threshold of 5 percent of valid votes—which includes blank ballots—being applied. Parties not reaching the threshold are not taken into consideration for seat distribution.[1] [2] [3]
The Mayor-President is indirectly elected by the plenary assembly. A legal clause requires that mayoral candidates earn the vote of an absolute majority of members, or else the candidate of the most-voted party in the assembly shall be automatically appointed to the post. In case of a tie, a toss-up would determine the appointee.[3]
The electoral law provides that parties, federations, coalitions and groupings of electors are allowed to present lists of candidates. However, groupings of electors are required to secure the signature of a determined amount of the electors registered in Melilla. Concurrently, parties and federations intending to enter in coalition to take part jointly at an election are required to inform the relevant Electoral Commission within ten days of the election being called.[1] [2]
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; 13 seats were required for an absolute majority in the Assembly of Melilla.
Polling firm/Commissioner | Fieldwork date | Sample size | Turnout | PPL | Lead | |||||||||
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2019 Assembly election | 26 May 2019 | 63.4 | 37.8 | 30.6 | 14.4 | 5.6 | 0.2 | 7.8 | 1.2 | 7.2 | ||||
April 2019 general election | 28 Apr 2019 | 63.0 | 23.9 | 20.4 | 20.7 | 12.9 | – | 16.9 | 3.8 | 3.5 | ||||
ElectoPanel/Electomanía[4] | 31 Mar–7 Apr 2019 | ? | ? | 21.7 | 34.0 | 16.3 | 9.4 | – | 16.0 | 1.0 | 12.3 | |||
SyM Consulting[5] | 4–5 Apr 2019 | 756 | 54.9 | 23.7 | 30.9 | 13.8 | 9.3 | – | – | 16.6 | – | 7.2 | ||
ElectoPanel/Electomanía[6] | 24–31 Mar 2019 | ? | ? | 20.6 | 35.0 | 16.0 | 9.2 | – | 16.7 | 1.0 | 14.4 | |||
ElectoPanel/Electomanía[7] | 17–24 Mar 2019 | ? | ? | 20.9 | 34.8 | 16.5 | 8.5 | – | 16.6 | 1.0 | 13.9 | |||
ElectoPanel/Electomanía[8] | 10–17 Mar 2019 | ? | ? | 20.3 | 34.8 | 15.8 | 7.2 | – | 19.7 | 1.0 | 14.5 | |||
ElectoPanel/Electomanía[9] | 3–10 Mar 2019 | ? | ? | 20.0 | 34.8 | 15.6 | 7.5 | – | 19.5 | 1.0 | 14.8 | |||
ElectoPanel/Electomanía[10] | 22 Feb–3 Mar 2019 | ? | ? | 19.9 | 35.0 | 15.2 | 7.7 | – | 19.7 | 0.9 | 15.1 | |||
SyM Consulting[11] [12] | 1–2 Feb 2019 | 464 | 55.8 | 23.4 | 33.2 | 14.4 | 6.1 | – | – | 18.2 | – | 9.8 | ||
SyM Consulting[13] | 11 Jan 2019 | ? | ? | 20.9 | 36.1 | 9.3 | 10.6 | – | – | 18.6 | – | 15.2 | ||
SyM Consulting[14] | 7–9 Sep 2018 | 506 | 59.2 | 36.5 | 31.9 | 13.2 | 13.5 | 0.9 | – | – | – | 4.6 | ||
SyM Consulting[15] | 24–26 Apr 2018 | 521 | 57.2 | 32.2 | 31.6 | 12.9 | 17.5 | 2.0 | – | – | – | 0.6 | ||
SyM Consulting[16] [17] | 8–9 Jan 2018 | 491 | 58.0 | 32.8 | 30.6 | 12.3 | 18.4 | 2.1 | – | – | – | 2.2 | ||
SyM Consulting[18] | 13–14 Jun 2017 | 531 | 60.4 | 39.9 | 30.7 | 10.2 | 12.2 | 3.1 | – | – | – | 9.2 | ||
SyM Consulting[19] [20] [21] | 14–15 Mar 2017 | 535 | 67.5 | 38.1 | 28.0 | 9.7 | 10.6 | 3.7 | 0.6 | – | – | 10.1 | ||
SyM Consulting[22] [23] [24] | 10–11 Jan 2017 | 546 | 64.8 | 37.6 | 27.6 | 8.5 | 10.7 | 8.0 | 2.7 | – | – | 10.0 | ||
2016 general election | 26 Jun 2016 | 47.6 | 49.9 | – | 25.1 | 12.4 | – | 0.5 | – | 9.8 | 24.8 | |||
2015 general election | 20 Dec 2015 | 49.4 | 43.9 | – | 24.6 | 15.5 | – | 11.4 | 0.9 | – | – | 19.3 | ||
2015 Assembly election | 24 May 2015 | 56.1 | 42.7 | 26.4 | 12.6 | 6.8 | 5.4 | 2.6 | 1.1 | – | – | 16.3 | ||
Parties and alliances | Popular vote | Seats | |||||
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Votes | % | ±pp | Total | +/− | |||
People's Party (PP)1 | 12,943 | 37.84 | –10.31 | 10 | –3 | ||
Coalition for Melilla (CpM) | 10,472 | 30.62 | +4.21 | 8 | +1 | ||
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) | 4,928 | 14.41 | +1.82 | 4 | +1 | ||
Vox (Vox) | 2,655 | 7.76 | New | 2 | +2 | ||
Citizens–Party of the Citizenry (Cs) | 1,897 | 5.55 | –1.20 | 1 | –1 | ||
Forward Melilla (Adelante Melilla) | 667 | 1.95 | New | 0 | ±0 | ||
United We Can–United Left (Podemos–IU)2 | 408 | 1.19 | –2.20 | 0 | ±0 | ||
Union, Progress and Democracy (UPyD) | 77 | 0.23 | –0.87 | 0 | ±0 | ||
Blank ballots | 158 | 0.46 | –0.52 | ||||
Total | 34,205 | 25 | ±0 | ||||
Valid votes | 34,205 | 99.45 | +0.68 | ||||
Invalid votes | 188 | 0.55 | –0.68 | ||||
Votes cast / turnout | 34,393 | 57.94 | +1.79 | ||||
Abstentions | 24,962 | 42.06 | –1.79 | ||||
Registered voters | 59,355 | ||||||
Sources[25] [26] [27] | |||||||
Investiture | ||||
Ballot → | 15 June 2019 | |||
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Required majority → | 13 out of 25 | |||
Blank ballots | ||||
Absentees | ||||
Sources[28] |