The 2019 Local Elections in Valencia’s Metropolitan Area
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.28939/iam.debats.134-1.10Keywords:
elections, voting behaviour, Local Government, Metropolitan Area, Local Politics.Abstract
Voting behaviour in Valencia’s Metropolitan Area can be split into four periods: (1) During the early years of democracy
(1979-1991) following the Franco dictatorship, the area was a stronghold of the Left; (2) Yet in 1991, the City of Valencia
switched and was governed by the Right; (3) In 2011, the Right extended its control to the whole of the Metropolitan
Area; (4) In the May 2015 elections, the Left won not only in the ‘red’ metropolitan belt but also in the City of Valencia. This study looks at what happened in the last set of local elections in 2019. To this end, we begin with a brief review of the election results, voting trends, and the institutional performance of each party since the first post-dictatorship local elections in 1979. We then go on to analyse the electoral behaviour of each of the parties, breaking this down by geographical variables: town/village size, comarcas (‘counties’), and the so-called ‘red belt’ before drawing our conclusions.
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