# 2015 Cangas municipal election

[Spain](https://electionsarchive.com/es.md) / [Galicia](https://electionsarchive.com/es/galicia.md) / [Cangas](https://electionsarchive.com/es/galicia/cangas.md), May 24, 2015

Turnout: 13,578 of 21,794 registered voters (62.3%). −2.3 points since 2011.

## [Municipal council of Cangas](https://electionsarchive.com/es/galicia/cangas/2015-05-24-local/ayuntamiento.md)

Jose Enrique Sotelo Villar won 8 of the 21 seats, with 32.5% of the vote.

| Candidate or party | Party | Votes | Share | Seats | Change |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Jose Enrique Sotelo Villar | PP | 4,213 | 32.5% | 8 | −2 |
| Xose Manuel Pazos Varela | SON | 2,268 | 17.5% | 4 |  |
| Maria Mercedes Giraldez Santos | B.N.G. | 2,062 | 15.9% | 4 |  |
| Angela Vizoso Marcos | ASpUN | 1,925 | 14.9% | 3 |  |
| Alfredo Iglesias Santos | PSDEG-PSOE | 1,001 | 7.7% | 1 |  |
| Jose Luis Gestido Porto | CANGASDECIDE | 973 | 7.5% | 1 |  |
| Bernardino Faro Lagoa | INDECA | 397 | 3.1% |  |  |
| Carlos Pardo Carballido | UPAC | 107 | 0.8% |  | −1 |

These results come from Ministerio del Interior.

## Contests

- [2015 Cangas municipal election](https://electionsarchive.com/es/galicia/cangas/2015-05-24-local/ayuntamiento.md)

## Party system indices

[How these indices are computed](https://electionsarchive.com/indices.md)

| Chamber | Effective parties by votes | Effective parties by seats | Gallagher index | Loosemore–Hanby index | Volatility | Nationalization |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Municipal council of Cangas | 5.08 | 4.12 | 5.9 | 10.2 | 66.6 | 0.85 |

- From 12,946 votes and 21 seats.
- Compared with [2011 Cangas municipal election](https://electionsarchive.com/es/galicia/cangas/2011-05-22-local.md).
- Measured over 18 census sections.
- A large party has no recorded predecessor or successor, so its whole share counts as change.

Also available as HTML at https://electionsarchive.com/es/galicia/cangas/2015-05-24-local and JSON at https://electionsarchive.com/es/galicia/cangas/2015-05-24-local.json.