# 2023 Sestao municipal election

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

Turnout: 12,060 of 21,093 registered voters (57.2%). −6.5 points since 2019.

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

Ainhoa Basabe Melendez won 7 of the 21 seats, with 31.0% of the vote.

| Candidate or party | Party | Votes | Share | Seats | Change |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ainhoa Basabe Melendez | EAJ-PNV | 3,606 | 31.0% | 7 | −4 |
| Carlos Maria Garcia de Andoin Martin | PSE-EE (PSOE) | 3,083 | 26.5% | 6 | +1 |
| Javi Gonzalez Medrano | EH Bildu | 2,880 | 24.8% | 6 | +3 |
| Inmaculada Arias Ergueta | PODEMOS, EZKER ANITZA / IU, BERDEAK EQUO, ALIANZA | 1,210 | 10.4% | 2 |  |
| Juan Manuel Muñoz Cordoba | PP | 546 | 4.7% |  | 0 |
| Aritz Estevez Lopez | Vox | 291 | 2.5% |  | 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 Sestao municipal election](https://electionsarchive.com/es/pais-vasco/sestao/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 Sestao | 4.13 | 3.53 | 5.1 | 8.1 | 29.0 | 0.90 |

- From 11,616 votes and 21 seats.
- Compared with [2019 Sestao municipal election](https://electionsarchive.com/es/pais-vasco/sestao/2019-05-26-local.md).
- Measured over 25 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/sestao/2023-05-28-local and JSON at https://electionsarchive.com/es/pais-vasco/sestao/2023-05-28-local.json.