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Tomares Municipal Elections 2023: Popular Party Wins Absolute Majority with 13 Councilors

Tomares has a population of more than 25,000 inhabitants and in the elections this Sunday the residents of the town they chose 21 coeyebrows, with which the absolute majority stood at 11 ediles.

The Popular Party has 13 councilors after obtaining 59% of the votes (7,550) and has an absolute majority to govern, compared to the PSOE that with 25.4% of the votes (3,525) remains with six councilors.

With Andalusia and Vox they remain with a councilor and add 7.1% and 5.8% of the votes respectively.

It’s all about the town with more income in the province of Seville y faced the elections in which the current mayor, Jose Maria Soriano Martin (PP)had to revalidate for his party the mayoralty that he inherited from his predecessor, José Luis Sanz, who in 2019 achieved the absolute majorityadding more votes and councilors than in the previous elections.

A total of five candidates competed to win the mayoralty of this town that is located just four kilometers from the Sevillian capital, which has an area of ​​five square kilometers and is at an altitude of 78 meters.

The list of the Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE-A) heads her Miguel Angel Melero Vargas. For him Popular Party (PP) the current councilor attends, Jose Maria Soriano Martin, who rose with the baton of command in an extraordinary plenary session held on October 16, 2021, a few days after Sanz submitted his resignation.

The candidacy of Vox is led by Luis Valseca Tejerina. Maria Angeles Garcia Ramirez is the leader of a coalition of left-wing parties made up of Podemos-Izquierda Unida-Verdes Equo-Más País Andalucía (With Andalucía). Lastly, the list of Ciudadanos-Citizenship Party (Cs) opens it María Gómez Malmagro.

Result of the municipal elections in Tomares in 2019

The result of the PP four years ago was 13 of the 21 councilors with 7,121 votes, 55.13% of them. In the 2015 elections, she obtained more councilors, 11, and 46.19% of the votes. José María Soriano was proclaimed as the new mayor in October 2021, after resigning Jose Luis Sanz to the position to dedicate himself to his career for the Mayor of Seville.

In 2019, the socialists were in the second political force with five councilors, thanks to the 2,990 votes harvested, that is, 23.15% of the votes. The Socialists improve their numbers compared to 2015, although they were far from the popular ones.

As third political force he stayed Forward with two councilors, by getting 1,291 votes, 10% of the votes. The fourth force with a presence in the Tomareño consistory was citizens. The liberal formation obtained a councilor thanks to the 859 votes received (6.65%). The Andalusian Party was left out of the Consistory, which in 2015 was the fourth political force con a councilor by obtaining 855 votes, 7.44%.

In the 44 years of democracy, Tomares has had six mayors in the 10 legislatures that have followed one another since the first democratic elections of 1979. 24 years it has been in the hands of the PSOE and 20 years in the hands of the PP. the socialist Antonia Hierro Recio She was the first female mayor in the Seville municipality.

Results of the municipal elections in the towns of Seville 2023

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