# 2023 Folgoso do Courel municipal election

[Spain](https://electionsarchive.com/es.md) / [Galicia](https://electionsarchive.com/es/galicia.md) / [Folgoso do Courel](https://electionsarchive.com/es/galicia/folgoso-do-courel.md), May 28, 2023

Dolores Castro Ochoa won with 54.4% of the vote, 21.8 points ahead of Óscar Carrete Lage.

> List votes, registered voters, blank ballots, and null ballots for the municipality from the Ministry of the Interior's data files. Valid votes here are the votes to candidacies; blank ballots, which the ministry counts as valid, are stored apart. Seats are the councillors the ministry declares for each list, and the elected councillors are the candidates it flags as elected.

> List votes, registered voters, blank ballots, and null ballots by polling station (mesa) from the Ministry of the Interior's data files. A mesa sits on its census section where the section code is in the 2025 INE section map, otherwise on its municipality. The mesa figures add up to the municipality's official totals exactly.

Seats: PP 4, I.G.V.- C.I.F. 2, and PSDEG-PSOE 1.

| Candidate or party | Party | Votes | Share | Result |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Dolores Castro Ochoa | PP | 465 | 54.4% | Won |
| Óscar Carrete Lage | I.G.V.- C.I.F. | 279 | 32.7% | Won |
| Carmen Álvarez Álvarez | PSDEG-PSOE | 110 | 12.9% | Won |

Valid votes: 854

Turnout: 91.6% (861 of 940 registered)

## Candidate lists

7 seats filled from ranked party lists

### Partido Popular

465 votes, 4 seats

2. Jose Antonio Lopez Rodriguez (Elected)
3. Maria del Carmen Vergara Ramos (Elected)
4. Filomena Vila Fernandez (Elected)

Cut line

5. Pedro Lemos Lopez (Next in line)
6. Jose Luis Lopez Rodriguez
7. Jose Antonio Vilariño Rivera

### C@UREL VIVO - INTERIOR GALEGO VIVO

279 votes, 2 seats

2. Teo Chousa Arza (Elected)

Cut line

3. María Ángeles Pose Vilares (Next in line)
4. Sonia Vila Visuña
5. Juan Carlos López López
6. María Pilar Veiga Rodríguez
7. Javier Campo Vergara

### PARTIDO DOS SOCIALISTAS DE GALICIA-PSOE

110 votes, 1 seat

2. María Dalba López Galán (Next in line)
3. Natalia Taboada Touzón
4. Eliseo Arias Lago
5. Víctor Manuel Rodríguez Gómez
6. José Luis Sánchez Pol
7. Santiago López Carrete

## Results by polling station

| Name | Leader | Share | Margin | Valid votes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Polling station 2701701001A | Dolores Castro Ochoa | 56.8% | +24.1 | 403 |
| Polling station 2701701001B | Dolores Castro Ochoa | 52.3% | +19.7 | 451 |

## This race in other years

- May 28, 2023: Dolores Castro Ochoa, Óscar Carrete Lage, Carmen Álvarez Álvarez
- [May 26, 2019](https://electionsarchive.com/es/galicia/folgoso-do-courel/2019-05-26-local/ayuntamiento.md): Dolores Castro Ochoa, Carmen Álvarez Álvarez, Óscar Carrete Lage
- [May 24, 2015](https://electionsarchive.com/es/galicia/folgoso-do-courel/2015-05-24-local/ayuntamiento.md): Dolores Castro Ochoa, Carmen Álvarez Álvarez, Óscar Carrete Lage
- [May 22, 2011](https://electionsarchive.com/es/galicia/folgoso-do-courel/2011-05-22-local/ayuntamiento.md): Dolores Castro Ochoa, José López Frontal

## Also on the ballot in Spain on May 28, 2023

- [Local races across Spain](https://electionsarchive.com/es/2023-05-28-local.md) (8,090)

## Sources

- [Resultados electorales: elecciones municipales (ficheros de datos)](https://infoelectoral.interior.gob.es/es/proceso-electoral/), Ministerio del Interior. License: Reuse under Ley 37/2007 with the source cited

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