# 2023 Portugalete municipal election

[Spain](https://electionsarchive.com/es.md) / [País Vasco](https://electionsarchive.com/es/pais-vasco.md) / [Portugalete](https://electionsarchive.com/es/pais-vasco/portugalete.md), May 28, 2023

Turnout: 21,213 of 36,406 registered voters (58.3%). −6.0 points since 2019.

## [Municipal council of Portugalete](https://electionsarchive.com/es/pais-vasco/portugalete/2023-05-28-local/ayuntamiento.md)

Mikel Torres Lorenzo won 11 of the 21 seats, with 46.9% of the vote.

| Candidate or party | Party | Votes | Share | Seats | Change |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Mikel Torres Lorenzo | PSE-EE (PSOE) | 9,676 | 46.9% | 11 | +1 |
| Txema Ezkerra Fernandez | EAJ-PNV | 4,501 | 21.8% | 5 | 0 |
| Eneritz Mancisidor Villamediana | EH Bildu | 3,369 | 16.3% | 3 | +1 |
| Natalia Rey Barja | PODEMOS, EZKER ANITZA / IU, ALIANZA VERDE | 1,386 | 6.7% | 1 |  |
| Santiago Lopez Cespedes | PP | 1,291 | 6.3% | 1 | 0 |
| Marco Antonio Moreno Asla | Vox | 401 | 1.9% |  | 0 |

These results come from Ministerio del Interior.

## Also on the ballot

### [País Vasco](https://electionsarchive.com/es/pv/2023-05-28-juntas-generales.md)

| Name | Leader | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [Bizkaia: Bilbao](https://electionsarchive.com/es/pv/2023-05-28-juntas-generales/bizkaia/bilbao.md) | EAJ-PNV | 37.5% |
| [Bizkaia: Busturia - Uribe](https://electionsarchive.com/es/pv/2023-05-28-juntas-generales/bizkaia/busturia-uribe.md) | EAJ-PNV | 42.6% |
| [Bizkaia: Durango - Arratia](https://electionsarchive.com/es/pv/2023-05-28-juntas-generales/bizkaia/durango-arratia.md) | EAJ-PNV | 39.8% |
| [Bizkaia: Encartaciones](https://electionsarchive.com/es/pv/2023-05-28-juntas-generales/bizkaia/encartaciones.md) | EAJ-PNV | 36.8% |

## Contests

- [2023 Portugalete municipal election](https://electionsarchive.com/es/pais-vasco/portugalete/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 Portugalete | 3.30 | 2.81 | 4.9 | 7.5 | 15.7 | 0.87 |

- From 20,624 votes and 21 seats.
- Compared with [2019 Portugalete municipal election](https://electionsarchive.com/es/pais-vasco/portugalete/2019-05-26-local.md).
- Measured over 40 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/pais-vasco/portugalete/2023-05-28-local and JSON at https://electionsarchive.com/es/pais-vasco/portugalete/2023-05-28-local.json.