# 2015 Vilalba municipal election

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

Turnout: 8,732 of 12,674 registered voters (68.9%). −4.4 points since 2011.

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

Gerardo Criado Guizan won 9 of the 17 seats, with 48.3% of the vote.

| Candidate or party | Party | Votes | Share | Seats | Change |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Gerardo Criado Guizan | PP | 4,013 | 48.3% | 9 | −1 |
| Mª Elba Veleiro Fernández | PSdeG-PSOE | 3,095 | 37.2% | 6 |  |
| Modesto Renda Santiso | PDDdG | 646 | 7.8% | 1 |  |
| Felix Miguel Jorquera Caselas | B.N.G. | 561 | 6.7% | 1 |  |

These results come from Ministerio del Interior.

## Contests

- [2015 Vilalba municipal election](https://electionsarchive.com/es/galicia/vilalba/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 Vilalba | 2.62 | 2.43 | 3.9 | 4.7 | 51.7 | 0.87 |

- From 8,315 votes and 17 seats.
- Compared with [2011 Vilalba municipal election](https://electionsarchive.com/es/galicia/vilalba/2011-05-22-local.md).
- Measured over 12 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/vilalba/2015-05-24-local and JSON at https://electionsarchive.com/es/galicia/vilalba/2015-05-24-local.json.
