The bipartisanship concentrates 60% of the votes of the municipal ones, ten points more than four years ago

MADRID, 29 May. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The PP and the PSOE have concentrated 59.6% of the vote in the municipal elections this Sunday, May 28, which means that the bipartisanship grows ten percentage points in relation to the local elections four years ago, when the votes of the two majority parties registered their historical minimum (51.4%), and the last general ones (49%).

The more than seven million votes received this Sunday by the 'popular' and the more than 6.2 million of the Socialists thus recover figures close to those registered in 1979 (58.8%) or 1987 (58.11), after the fall that they had registered in the last two elections where they barely exceeded 50%, after the irruption of United We Can, Citizens and Vox.

Despite this increase, the PP and the PSOE do not reach the figures that they did win between 1999 and 2011, when the votes accumulated by both formations in the municipal elections were around 70% of all those deposited in the polls. Bipartisanship reached its all-time high in 2007, when it was close to 72%.

The two majority parties have shared the victories in the municipal elections since 1983, although the PP brand started at the end of the eighties and before that there was the Democratic Coalition and the AP-PDP-PL lists. The PSOE dominated until 1995, when the PP won by five points (35% versus 30%). From 1999 to 2007, the polls returned draws between the two parties, with distances of only tenths between one and the other, until in 2011 the PP swept the PSOE and surpassed it by 10 points, which in turn obtained the worst result in a democracy: 37 percent versus 27 percent of the vote, respectively.

Four years after this data, the PP won again but the difference between the two parties was reduced to two points (27.5% of the votes for the PP and 25.4% for the PSOE). In 2019 it was the party of Pedro Sánchez who led the votes with 29.2%, compared to the 22.2% obtained by the PP.

This Sunday, those of Alberto Núñez Feijóo have regained leadership by increasing their votes from four years ago by almost nine percentage points and concentrating 31.5% of the votes cast at the polls in the municipal elections, while the Socialists have fallen one point compared to 2019, up to 28.1%.

This level of 60% of bipartisanship in municipal councils also exceeds the figures that were in the general elections of 2015 and 2016, in full effervescence of the new parties, although they are far from what happened since the beginning of the eighties in the legislative elections, where the sum of the two major parties did not fall below 70% and even exceeded 80% of the vote in 2008.