# 2015 Vilagarcía de Arousa municipal election

[Spain](https://electionsarchive.com/es.md) / [Galicia](https://electionsarchive.com/es/galicia.md) / [Vilagarcía de Arousa](https://electionsarchive.com/es/galicia/vilagarcia-de-arousa.md), May 24, 2015

Turnout: 18,617 of 30,586 registered voters (60.9%). −3.3 points since 2011.

## [Municipal council of Vilagarcía de Arousa](https://electionsarchive.com/es/galicia/vilagarcia-de-arousa/2015-05-24-local/ayuntamiento.md)

Alberto Varela Paz won 8 of the 21 seats, with 34.9% of the vote.

| Candidate or party | Party | Votes | Share | Seats | Change |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alberto Varela Paz | PSDEG-PSOE | 6,221 | 34.9% | 8 |  |
| Tomas Javier Fole Diaz | PP | 5,338 | 30.0% | 7 | −3 |
| Jesús López Rodriguez | EU-SON | 2,820 | 15.8% | 3 |  |
| María Villaronga Chazo | B.N.G. | 1,676 | 9.4% | 2 |  |
| Gaspar Antonio Gonzalez Somoza | PDDdG | 1,499 | 8.4% | 1 |  |
| José Luis Álvarez Tubio | UPyD | 266 | 1.5% |  |  |

These results come from Ministerio del Interior.

## Contests

- [2015 Vilagarcía de Arousa municipal election](https://electionsarchive.com/es/galicia/vilagarcia-de-arousa/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 Vilagarcía de Arousa | 3.96 | 3.47 | 4.4 | 6.7 | 70.0 | 0.91 |

- From 17,820 votes and 21 seats.
- Compared with [2011 Vilagarcía de Arousa municipal election](https://electionsarchive.com/es/galicia/vilagarcia-de-arousa/2011-05-22-local.md).
- Measured over 26 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/vilagarcia-de-arousa/2015-05-24-local and JSON at https://electionsarchive.com/es/galicia/vilagarcia-de-arousa/2015-05-24-local.json.