With 100% of the votes counted, in Utrera an electoral turn has taken place when the PP prevailed over the PSOE with a fairly tight result. The popular ones have removed 12 councilors with 42.9% of the votes (10,327 votes) against the 11 socialist councilors, which have been voted for by 9,083 citizens (37.7% of the electorate). Complete the match results Utrera+, which has 2 representatives thanks to the 1,789 votes (7.43%).
Just over 41,000 voters were called to the polls in Utrera on May 28 to elect their mayor and shape their new City Council for the 2023-2027 legislature. In the Consistory there is space for 25 councilors, so the absolute majority is at 13, a figure that has not been reached by any formation.
Four men and two women aspire to the position of mayor of Utrera, representing six different political formations. The PSOE candidate is the current mayor, Jose Maria Villalobos, who is running for his third term. His rival of the PP is the independent Francisco Paula Jimenezmayor between 2003 and 2015 when he was a member of the Andalusian Party and the second most voted candidate in 2019, then as leader of Juntos Por Utrera (JXU).
The head of the list of the Utrera+ coalition is Isabel Maria Gonzalez, who in the last legislature was the municipal spokesperson for Ciudadanos. The confluence of the left With Andalusia presents Ana María Casado; the Independent Utrerana Citizenship Formation (FCUI), to Rafael Angel Prieto; y Vox, a Manuel Garcia Acosta.
Results of the municipal elections in Utrera in 2019
In the 2019 elections, almost six out of ten Uterans of legal age went to the 70 ballot boxes that were set up to vote in the municipal elections. Specifically, 23,291 votes were counted, that is, 58.09% of the 40,098 citizens that make up the town’s census.
The results left a close fight between the PSOE, which got 10,373 votes (44.85% of the total), and the new formation Juntos Por Utrera (JXU), which garnered 7,566 (32.72%). Thanks to these figures, the Socialists obtained fourteen councilors and the formation led by Francisco Jiménez, of Andalusian tinge, another ten.
The absolute majority meant the automatic re-election of the socialist José María Villalobos as mayor, this time without the need to seek the support of Izquierda Unida, as had happened in 2015. The first mayor took office on June 16, 2019.
Results of the municipal elections in the towns of Seville 2023
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