# 2015 Ortigueira municipal election

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

Turnout: 4,256 of 5,731 registered voters (74.3%). −2.4 points since 2011.

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

Juan Vicente Penabad Muras won 7 of the 13 seats, with 50.8% of the vote.

| Candidate or party | Party | Votes | Share | Seats | Change |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Juan Vicente Penabad Muras | PSDEG-PSOE | 2,117 | 50.8% | 7 |  |
| Rafael Jose Giron Martinez | PP | 1,696 | 40.7% | 5 | −2 |
| Carlos Emilio Rodriguez Legarreta | B.N.G. | 330 | 7.9% | 1 |  |
| José Manuel Afonso Costa | FE-JONS | 25 | 0.6% |  |  |

These results come from Ministerio del Interior.

## Contests

- [2015 Ortigueira municipal election](https://electionsarchive.com/es/galicia/ortigueira/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 Ortigueira | 2.33 | 2.25 | 2.7 | 3.1 | 59.3 | 0.94 |

- From 4,168 votes and 13 seats.
- Compared with [2011 Ortigueira municipal election](https://electionsarchive.com/es/galicia/ortigueira/2011-05-22-local.md).
- Measured over 6 census sections.
- A large party has no recorded predecessor or successor, so its whole share counts as change.
- Measured over fewer than ten places, so read it loosely.

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