2027 Valencia City Council election

2027 Valencia City Council election

23 May 2027
All 33 seats in the City Council of Valencia 17 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Leader María José Catalá TBD Sandra Gómez Party PP Compromís PSPV–PSOE Leader since 12 January 2019 TBD 14 October 2018 Last election 13 seats, 36.6% 9 seats, 24.0% 7 seats, 19.0% Current seats 13 9 7 Seats needed 4 8 10   Leader Juan Manuel Badenas Party Vox Leader since 10 February 2023 Last election 4 seats, 12.7% Current seats 4 Seats needed 13
Incumbent Mayor María José Catalá PP

The 2027 Valencia City Council election, also the 2027 Valencia municipal election, will be held on Sunday, 23 May 2027, to elect the 13th City Council of the municipality of Valencia. All 33 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

The City Council of Valencia (Valencian: Ajuntament de València, Spanish: Ayuntamiento de Valencia) is the top-tier administrative and governing body of the municipality of Valencia, composed of the mayor, the government council and the elected plenary assembly. Elections to the local councils in Spain are fixed for the fourth Sunday of May every four years. 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 Valencia 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. 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.

Parties and candidates

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 Valencia, as its population is between 300,001 and 1,000,000, at least 5,000 signatures are required.

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.
						Votes (%)	Seats
	PP	List People's Party (PP)		María José Catalá	Conservatism Christian democracy	36.62%	13	Y
	Compromís	List Més–Compromís (Més) Valencian People's Initiative (IdPV) Greens Equo of the Valencian Country (VerdsEquo)		TBD	Valencian nationalism Eco-socialism Green politics	23.98%	9	N
	PSPV–PSOE	List Socialist Party of the Valencian Country (PSPV–PSOE)		Sandra Gómez	Social democracy	18.98%	7	N
	Vox	List Vox (Vox)		Juan Manuel Badenas	Right-wing populism Ultranationalism National conservatism	12.73%	4	Y

Opinion polls

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

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; 17 seats are required for an absolute majority in the City Council of Valencia.

Color key:

  Poll conducted after legal ban on opinion polls

Polling firm/Commissioner	Fieldwork date	Sample size	Turnout								SALF	Lead
2024 EP election	9 Jun 2024	—	60.3	36.9 (13)		29.2 (11)	10.7 (4)	4.3 (0)	1.0 (0)	8.8 (3)	5.3 (2)	7.7
SyM Consulting/EPDA	10–13 May 2024	932	71.9	38.6 14	24.6 8/9	18.7 6	13.3 4/5	2.0 0	0.5 0	–	–	14.0
2023 general election	23 Jul 2023	—	76.1	36.5 (12)		29.5 (10)	14.1 (5)		–	17.7 (6)	–	7.0
2023 municipal election	28 May 2023	—	72.0	36.6 13	24.0 9	19.0 7	12.7 4	2.3 0	2.3 0	–	–	12.6

References

Opinion poll sources

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