Julio FERNÁNDEZ PORTELA, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Spain
María Jesús VIDAL DOMÍNGUEZ, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
Eva María MARTÍN RODA, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Spain
María Del Carmen MUGURUZA CAÑAS, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Spain
The end of bipartisanship in Spain is an evident reality after the expansion of new political formations. But this situation that is observed throughout Spain, in the Autonomous Communities and in the big cities, can it be extrapolated to the rest of the municipalities and, especially, to the smaller ones?
This article analyzes the reorganization and the current situation of the political map of the Community of Madrid, which has gone from being monochromatic to polychromatic in just eight years, with notorious territorial differences. For this, the electoral results of the municipal elections of 2011, 2015 and 2019 held in the Community of Madrid are studied, taking into account variables such as the percentage of votes, the distribution of seats and the size of the population. However, in May 2021 there were new elections and the results indicate another change in trend.
The study presented analyzes the change in the electoral trend in the municipal elections held in the Community of Madrid, and the abandonment of a political system dominated by the two major parties in the country: the Popular Party (PP) and the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE). ). This bipartisanship derives both from the historical peculiarities of the country and the political transition from dictatorship to democracy, as well as from the proportional electoral counting system used in Spain, known as the D'Hondt method, which favors bipartisanship.
Despite this counting system, designed to strengthen bipartisanship, in the 2015 elections the vote was more fragmented than in the 2011 bipartisanship, a trend that continued in the 2019 elections, and new political groups and associations appeared in the election. political spectrum, a signal that can be interpreted as a sociological change in the Spanish population. But in 2021 the map changed again, giving an important victory to a single party, which, despite everything, requires pacts for governance.
Mots clés : Territory|Governance|Madrid Region|Municipal Elections|Political Fragmentation
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