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The 2015 Valencia City Council election was held on Sunday, 24 May 2015, to elect the 10th Valencia City Council, the unicameral local legislature of the municipality of Valencia. At stake were all 33 seats in the City Council, determining the Mayor of Valencia. The ruling People's Party (PP) went on to suffer a dramatic decline, losing over half of its seats and vote share and scoring its worst result since 1991. The unveiling of a string of corruption scandals during the 2011–2015 term, coupled with a heavily criticised abuse of its absolute majorities and a perceived poor management of the economic situation, had affected the PP to the point it could not count with Valencia as a party stronghold any longer. Unlike predicted by opinion polls, the election turned into a surprising close race between the PP and Valencianist party Compromís, which came short of 10,000 votes from winning the city. The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), unable to capitalize on the PP losses, continued on its long term decline and fell from 2nd to 4th place, as a result of both Compromís and newly created Podemos (standing in the city under the ''Valencia in Common'' banner) swaying away large portions of its electorate. Centrist Citizens (C's), standing in a municipal election in the city for the first time, turned into the third political force thanks to its caption of disenchanted PP voters, but obtaining a slightly more discreet result than that anticipated by opinion polls. Meanwhile, United Left (IU), standing within the Citizen Agreement coalition with The Greens of the Valencian Country (EVPV) and Republican Left of the Valencian Country (ERPV), was expelled from the City Council, suffering from both Compromís and Podemos' rise. As a result of the election, with the PP unable to command a majority of seats in the City Council even with the support of C's, incumbent Mayoress Rita Barberá was ousted from office after 24 years in power, being succeeded by Compromís candidate Joan Ribó. The 2015 election marked the end of the PP political dominance over the Valencian Community that had lasted for 20 years since 1995, losing the governments of both the community and the capital city as well as all other two provincial capitals and major cities in the region. ==Electoral system== The number of seats in the Valencia 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 800,000, the Valencia City Council size was set to 33 seats. All City Council members were elected in a single multi-member district, consisting of the Valencia 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「Valencia 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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