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The 2015 Madrid City Council election was held on Sunday, 24 May 2015, to elect the 10th Madrid City Council, the unicameral local legislature of the municipality of Madrid. At stake were all 57 seats in the City Council, determining the Mayor of Madrid. Standing for the People's Party (PP) was Esperanza Aguirre, former President of Madrid (2003–2012), President of the Spanish Senate (1999–2002) and Minister of Education and Culture (1996–1999), as well as the leader of the PP Madrilenian regional branch since 2004. Aguirre became her party's candidate in March 2015 after a 6-month interlude without a ayoral candidate, starting in September 2014 when incumbent Mayor Ana Botella renounced to stand for election to a new term in office. The election would result in the first city's female Mayor being elected after successfully contesting an election as candidate. Ana Botella, the city's first-ever female mayor, had not been the PP candidate for the 2011 election, and had only been elected to the office after Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón's resignation on December 2011. The election was an unexpected close race between Aguirre's PP and former judge Manuela Carmena's Podemos-supported Ahora Madrid platform, obtaining 21 and 20 council seats each. This was a blow to Esperanza Aguirre's expectations of becoming the city's Mayor, as an alliance between Ahora Madrid and the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), which itself suffered from tactical voting to Ahora Madrid and plummeted to 9 council seats, allowed for Carmena to become the first non-PP mayor in 24 years. In an attempt to counter the likely alliance between Ahora Madrid and the PSOE, Aguirre proposed a broad "anti-Podemos" coalition between the PP, PSOE and C's headed by either of these parties' candidates, arguing that such an agreement represented 62% of voters backing one of these so-called "centrist" parties.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Madrid's Aguirre pleads for anti-Podemos pact )〕 PSOE candidate Antonio Miguel Carmona, however, quickly spoke against such a proposal, saying that he would not accept the PP votes in order to become mayor. ==Electoral system== The number of seats in the Madrid City Council was determined by the population count. According to the municipal electoral law, the population-seat relationship on each municipality was to be established on the following scale: Additionally, for populations greater than 100,000, 1 seat was to be added per each 100,000 inhabitants or fraction, according to the most updated census data, and adding 1 more seat if the resulting seat count gives an even number. As the updated population census for the 2015 election was around 3,200,000, the Madrid City Council size was set to 57 seats. All City Council members were elected in a single multi-member district, consisting of the Madrid municipality, using the D'Hondt method and a closed-list proportional representation system. Voting was on the basis of universal suffrage in a secret ballot. Only lists polling above 5% of valid votes in all of the municipality (which include blank ballots—for none of the above) were entitled to enter the seat distribution. The Spanish municipal electoral law established a clause stating that, if no candidate was to gather an absolute majority of votes to be elected as mayor of a municipality, the candidate of the most-voted party would be automatically elected to the post. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Madrid City Council election, 2015」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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