# 2023 Sopela municipal election

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

Turnout: 6,780 of 11,422 registered voters (59.4%). −8.5 points since 2019.

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

EH Bildu won 8 of the 17 seats, with 37.3% of the vote.

| Candidate or party | Party | Votes | Share | Seats | Change |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Guruzne Carrasson Torrontegui | EH Bildu | 2,439 | 37.3% | 8 | +2 |
| Josu Landaluze Zarandona | EAJ-PNV | 2,061 | 31.5% | 6 | −1 |
| Marisa Gadea Nebreda | AVS/SAA | 562 | 8.6% | 1 |  |
| Maria Teresa Fernandez Garcia | PSE-EE (PSOE) | 482 | 7.4% | 1 | 0 |
| Eder Garcia Lopez | PODEMOS, EZKER ANITZA / IU, BERDEAK EQUO, ALIANZA | 404 | 6.2% | 1 |  |
| Berta Rodríguez Fernández | PP | 233 | 3.6% |  | 0 |
| Perderika Joseba Azkorra Aguado | DB-TU | 182 | 2.8% |  | −1 |
| Jon Andoni Gerediaga Bilbao | BB | 180 | 2.8% |  |  |

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 Sopela municipal election](https://electionsarchive.com/es/pais-vasco/sopela/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 Sopela | 3.88 | 2.81 | 8.6 | 13.6 | 22.6 | 0.93 |

- From 6,543 votes and 17 seats.
- Compared with [2019 Sopela municipal election](https://electionsarchive.com/es/pais-vasco/sopela/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/pais-vasco/sopela/2023-05-28-local and JSON at https://electionsarchive.com/es/pais-vasco/sopela/2023-05-28-local.json.