# 2023 Beniel municipal election

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

María Carmen Morales Ferrando won with 52.8% of the vote, 14.2 points ahead of Francisco José González Manzanera.

> 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: PSOE 9, PP 7, and Vox 1.

| Candidate or party | Party | Votes | Share | Result |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| María Carmen Morales Ferrando | PSOE | 2,646 | 52.8% | Won |
| Francisco José González Manzanera | PP | 1,935 | 38.6% | Won |
| Raúl Plaza Fernández | Vox | 433 | 8.6% | Won |

Valid votes: 5,014

Turnout: 74.4% (5,126 of 6,888 registered)

## Candidate lists

17 seats filled from ranked party lists

### PARTIDO SOCIALISTA OBRERO ESPAÑOL

2,646 votes, 9 seats

2. José Antonio Franco Campillo (Elected)
3. Susana Figueroa Hernández (Elected)
4. José Antonio Carmelo García Navarro (Elected)
5. Leonor Sánchez Navarro (Elected)
6. Francisco Orenes Cano (Elected)
7. Yolanda Pacheco Rodríguez (Elected)
8. Juan Francisco García Valero (Elected)
9. María Alba Rodríguez García (Elected)

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10. Andrea Martínez Martínez (Next in line)
11. Jesús Herrero Sánchez
12. Marta Sánchez Mañogil
13. Fuensanta Ballester Sánchez
14. Alberto Sanmartin Navarro
15. Amparo Carrillo Andreu
16. Juan Mariano Morales Navarro
17. Josefa Egea Rodríguez

### Partido Popular

1,935 votes, 7 seats

2. Ana María Monera Baldó (Elected)
3. Alba Ruíz Arce (Elected)
4. Miguel Ángel Caselles Grau (Elected)
5. María Esmeralda Marín Ponce (Elected)
6. María Trinidad García López (Elected)
7. Luis Serrano García (Elected)

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8. Arantxa Gómez Mateo (Next in line)
9. Francisco Rodríguez Rodríguez
10. José Antonio Agüera Navarro
11. María del Carmen Murcia Alcaraz
12. Antonio Francisco Martínez Robles
13. Sergio Giménez Muñoz
14. Laura Monero Baldó
15. Eva María Pérez García
16. Francisco Javier Mula Morales
17. Elisabet Gil Lozano

### Vox

433 votes, 1 seat

2. Antonio Torrecillas Pellicer (Next in line)
3. Ángela García Cárcel
4. José Navarro Rubio
5. Monica Martínez Sánchez
6. Esmeralda Quereda Gálvez
7. José Manuel Tovar Esquiva
8. María Dolores Marín del Rey
9. Juan José Zambudio Soto
10. Moises Pallarés Marín
11. Milagros Serna Campillo
12. Carmen María Navarro Lorente
13. Francisco Javier Carpintero Jiménez
14. María Dolores García Meseguer
15. José Soler Bernal
16. Gabriel Evaristo Guillen Alvarez
17. María Poveda Mallen

## Results by census section

María Carmen Morales Ferrando leads in 10 census sections; Francisco José González Manzanera leads in 1 census section.

| Name | Leader | Share | Margin | Valid votes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [](https://electionsarchive.com/es/murcia/beniel/2023-05-28-local/ayuntamiento/unnamed.md) | María Carmen Morales Ferrando | 53.0% | +11.5 | 434 |
| [](https://electionsarchive.com/es/murcia/beniel/2023-05-28-local/ayuntamiento/unnamed-2.md) | Francisco José González Manzanera | 46.7% | +3.4 | 465 |
| [](https://electionsarchive.com/es/murcia/beniel/2023-05-28-local/ayuntamiento/unnamed-3.md) | María Carmen Morales Ferrando | 49.8% | +9.3 | 508 |
| [](https://electionsarchive.com/es/murcia/beniel/2023-05-28-local/ayuntamiento/unnamed-4.md) | María Carmen Morales Ferrando | 60.6% | +29.0 | 411 |
| [](https://electionsarchive.com/es/murcia/beniel/2023-05-28-local/ayuntamiento/unnamed-5.md) | María Carmen Morales Ferrando | 66.1% | +37.0 | 381 |
| [](https://electionsarchive.com/es/murcia/beniel/2023-05-28-local/ayuntamiento/unnamed-6.md) | María Carmen Morales Ferrando | 48.1% | +9.3 | 474 |
| [](https://electionsarchive.com/es/murcia/beniel/2023-05-28-local/ayuntamiento/unnamed-7.md) | María Carmen Morales Ferrando | 60.0% | +24.9 | 482 |
| [](https://electionsarchive.com/es/murcia/beniel/2023-05-28-local/ayuntamiento/unnamed-8.md) | María Carmen Morales Ferrando | 48.7% | +5.8 | 571 |
| [](https://electionsarchive.com/es/murcia/beniel/2023-05-28-local/ayuntamiento/unnamed-9.md) | María Carmen Morales Ferrando | 47.7% | +8.7 | 415 |
| [](https://electionsarchive.com/es/murcia/beniel/2023-05-28-local/ayuntamiento/unnamed-10.md) | María Carmen Morales Ferrando | 59.5% | +27.1 | 454 |
| [](https://electionsarchive.com/es/murcia/beniel/2023-05-28-local/ayuntamiento/unnamed-11.md) | María Carmen Morales Ferrando | 47.3% | +3.3 | 419 |

## This race in other years

- May 28, 2023: María Carmen Morales Ferrando, Francisco José González Manzanera, Raúl Plaza Fernández
- [May 26, 2019](https://electionsarchive.com/es/murcia/beniel/2019-05-26-local/ayuntamiento.md): Maria Carmen Morales Ferrando, Francisco Jose Gonzalez Manzanera, Silvia Muñoz Hernandez, Antonio Meseguer Costa
- [May 24, 2015](https://electionsarchive.com/es/murcia/beniel/2015-05-24-local/ayuntamiento.md): Maria Carmen Morales Ferrando, Jose Manuel Robles Aracil, Silvia Muñoz Hernandez
- [May 22, 2011](https://electionsarchive.com/es/murcia/beniel/2011-05-22-local/ayuntamiento.md): Roberto Garcia Navarro, Jose Manuel Robles Aracil

## 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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