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RESULTS OF THE MUNICIPAL LOCAL ELECTIONS IN TORREVIEJA, 27TH OF MAY 2007
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Redaction on 29 May, 2007 11:35:25
 
The “Partido Popular” happens to win the absolute mayority for the fifth
time in the local municipal elections celebrated last Sunday 27th of May.
53,04% of the voting went for the “Partido Popular” in Torrevieja and they
obtain 14 city councilmen; 28,95% of the voting went for the “PSOE” and
they obtain 7 city councilmen, losing 1 councilman; 7,41% of the voting went
for “The Green Party”, “Los Verdes”; 7,65% of the voting went for
“Esquerra Unida, these last two political parties obtain one more city
councilman, so each one of them have now 2 city councilmen at the Town Hall.
The “PSD” and the “Partido Humanista” do not obtain any city
representative.
The total number of votes once made the 100% of the votes counting is as
follows:
Partido Popular (PP): 11.863 votes
PSOE: 6.475 votes.
Izquierda Unida: 1.712 votes.
Los Verdes: 1.658 votes.
PSD: 268 votes.
Partido Humanista: 72 votes.
All in all there have been 22.593 votes which makes a participation of 50,16%.
The abstention has reached a 49,84%, which means an increase of five points
more in relation to the latest elections, 318 blank votes and 227 spoiled
ballot paper votes.
Once the results were already made public, the elections day concluded at the
Constitution square where the “Partido Popular “ (PP) celebrated its
victory, and Pedro Hernández, supported by lots of people, went to the
Immaculate Conception Church  to pay a floral tribute to the Patron Saint of
Torrevieja, the Immaculate Conception.
The celebration went on until early in the morning of the day after at the big
tent at the harbour.