2027 Madrid City Council election

2027 Madrid City Council election
All 57 seats in the City Council of Madrid; 29 seats needed for a majority
	Opinion polls
Incumbent Mayor; José Luis Martínez-Almeida; PP	; ;

The 2027 Madrid City Council election, also the 2027 Madrid municipal election, will be held on Sunday, 23 May 2027, to elect the 13th City Council of the municipality of Madrid. All 57 seats in the City Council will be up for election. The election will be held simultaneously with regional elections in at least eight autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain.

Electoral system[edit]

The City Council of Madrid (Spanish: Ayuntamiento de Madrid) is the top-tier administrative and governing body of the municipality of Madrid, 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 18 years of age, registered and residing 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 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 is to be automatically appointed to the post. In the event of a tie, the appointee will be determined by lot.^[1]

Council composition[edit]

The table below shows the composition of the political groups in the City Council at the present time.

Current Council composition
Groups		Parties		Councillors
Groups		Parties		Seats	Total
	People's Party's Municipal Group		PP	29	29
	More Madrid Municipal Group		Más Madrid	12	12
	Socialist Municipal Group in Madrid		PSOE	11	11
	Vox Municipal Group		Vox	5	5

Parties and candidates[edit]

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 Madrid, as its population is over 1,000,001, at least 8,000 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.
Candidacy		Parties and alliances	Leading candidate		Ideology	Votes (%)	Seats	Gov.	Ref.
	PP	List People's Party (PP)		José Luis Martínez-Almeida	Conservatism Christian democracy	44.49%	29	Y
	MM–VQ	List More Madrid (Más Madrid) Greens Equo (Verdes Equo)		Rita Maestre	Progressivism Participatory democracy Green politics	19.14%	12	N
	PSOE	List Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)		Reyes Maroto	Social democracy	16.76%	11	N
	Vox	List Vox (Vox)		Javier Ortega Smith	Right-wing populism Ultranationalism National conservatism	9.09%	5	N

Opinion polls[edit]

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.

Voting intention estimates[edit]

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

Polling firm/Commissioner	Fieldwork date	Sample size	Turnout								Lead
Polling firm/Commissioner	Fieldwork date	Sample size	Turnout								Lead
Data10/OKDiario^{[p 1]}	15 May 2024	?	?	47.4 30	17.0 10	19.2 12	9.3 5	2.8 0	–	–	28.2
GAD3/PP^{[p 2]}	7–10 May 2024	808	?	49.6 30	17.6 11	19.9 12	7.6 4	2.0 0	–	–	29.7
IMOP/MM^{[p 3]}^{[p 4]}	8–16 Apr 2024	1,410	?	46.4 29	20.7 13	18.6 11	7.6 4	2.7 0	0.9 0	–	25.7
2023 general election^[3]	23 Jul 2023	—	73.4	41.8 (25)	^[a]	27.3 (16)	12.4 (7)	^[a]	–	16.5 (9)	14.5

2023 municipal election	28 May 2023	—	69.2	44.5 29	19.1 12	16.8 11	9.1 5	4.9 0	2.9 0	–	25.4