# 2023 Moratalla municipal election

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

Turnout: 4,350 of 6,268 registered voters (69.4%). +7.1 points since 2019.

## [Municipal council of Moratalla](https://electionsarchive.com/es/murcia/moratalla/2023-05-28-local/ayuntamiento.md)

Juan Pascual Soria Martinez won 7 of the 13 seats, with 55.1% of the vote.

| Candidate or party | Party | Votes | Share | Seats | Change |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Juan Pascual Soria Martinez | PP | 2,315 | 55.1% | 7 | +2 |
| Victoria Valero Garcia | PSOE | 1,280 | 30.5% | 4 | −2 |
| Nicolas Sanchez Martinez | IU-VERDES+PODEMOS | 608 | 14.5% | 2 |  |

These results come from Ministerio del Interior.

## Contests

- [2023 Moratalla municipal election](https://electionsarchive.com/es/murcia/moratalla/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 Moratalla | 2.40 | 2.45 | 1.1 | 1.2 | 31.0 | 0.90 |

- From 4,203 votes and 13 seats.
- Compared with [2019 Moratalla municipal election](https://electionsarchive.com/es/murcia/moratalla/2019-05-26-local.md).
- Measured over 8 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/murcia/moratalla/2023-05-28-local and JSON at https://electionsarchive.com/es/murcia/moratalla/2023-05-28-local.json.