# 2023 Alhama de Murcia municipal election

[Spain](https://electionsarchive.com/es.md) / [Región de Murcia](https://electionsarchive.com/es/murcia.md) / [Alhama de Murcia](https://electionsarchive.com/es/murcia/alhama-de-murcia.md), May 28, 2023

Turnout: 10,159 of 15,472 registered voters (65.7%). +1.2 points since 2019.

## [Municipal council of Alhama de Murcia](https://electionsarchive.com/es/murcia/alhama-de-murcia/2023-05-28-local/ayuntamiento.md)

María Cánovas López won 8 of the 21 seats, with 38.2% of the vote.

| Candidate or party | Party | Votes | Share | Seats | Change |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| María Cánovas López | PP | 3,800 | 38.2% | 8 | +3 |
| María Dolores (Mariola) Guevara Cava | PSOE | 3,475 | 34.9% | 8 | −3 |
| Antonio García Martínez | IU-V | 1,026 | 10.3% | 2 |  |
| José García Romero | Vox | 894 | 9.0% | 2 | 0 |
| Antonio Jose (Toni) Sibina Sánchez | ALHAM@UNA | 667 | 6.7% | 1 |  |
| Salvador Benedicto Pérez | PODEMOS-AV | 86 | 0.9% |  |  |

These results come from Ministerio del Interior.

## Contests

- [2023 Alhama de Murcia municipal election](https://electionsarchive.com/es/murcia/alhama-de-murcia/2023-05-28-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 Alhama de Murcia | 3.43 | 3.22 | 2.8 | 3.7 | 33.2 | 0.90 |

- From 9,948 votes and 21 seats.
- Compared with [2019 Alhama de Murcia municipal election](https://electionsarchive.com/es/murcia/alhama-de-murcia/2019-05-26-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/murcia/alhama-de-murcia/2023-05-28-local and JSON at https://electionsarchive.com/es/murcia/alhama-de-murcia/2023-05-28-local.json.