Results breakdown of the 2011 Spanish local elections (Canary Islands)
This is the results breakdown of the local elections held in the Canary Islands on 22 May 2011. The following tables show detailed results in the autonomous community's most populous municipalities, sorted alphabetically.[1][2][3]
City control
The following table lists party control in the most populous municipalities, including provincial capitals (shown in bold).[1] Gains for a party are displayed with the cell's background shaded in that party's colour.
| Municipality | Population | Previous control | New control | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arona | 79,377 | Canarian Coalition–Canarian Nationalist Party (CC–PNC) | Canarian Coalition–Canarian Nationalist Party (CC–PNC) | ||
| Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 383,308 | Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) | People's Party (PP) | ||
| San Cristóbal de La Laguna | 152,222 | Canarian Coalition–Canarian Nationalist Party (CC–PNC) | Canarian Coalition–Canarian Nationalist Party (CC–PNC) | ||
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | 222,643 | Canarian Coalition–Canarian Nationalist Party (CC–PNC) | Canarian Coalition–Canarian Nationalist Party (CC–PNC) | ||
| Telde | 100,900 | New Canaries (NCa) | People's Party (PP) | ||
Municipalities
Arona
- Population: 79,377
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| Parties and alliances | Popular vote | Seats | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | ±pp | Total | +/− | ||
| Canarian Coalition–Nationalist Party–Canarian Centre (CC–PNC–CCN) | 8,143 | 43.04 | −1.38 | 13 | ±0 | |
| Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) | 3,543 | 18.73 | −2.82 | 5 | −1 | |
| People's Party (PP) | 2,978 | 15.74 | +0.60 | 4 | ±0 | |
| Centre of Arona (CAN) | 1,393 | 7.36 | −2.20 | 2 | ±0 | |
| Citizens for Arona (CxArona) | 1,122 | 5.93 | New | 1 | +1 | |
| Yes We Can for Tenerife Alternative (ASSPPT) | 530 | 2.80 | New | 0 | ±0 | |
| United Left–The Greens–Socialists for Tenerife (IU–LV–SxTF)1 | 353 | 1.87 | −2.09 | 0 | ±0 | |
| The Greens (Verdes) | 271 | 1.43 | New | 0 | ±0 | |
| Canarian Nationalist Alternative (ANC) | 246 | 1.30 | New | 0 | ±0 | |
| Blank ballots | 339 | 1.79 | +0.80 | |||
| Total | 18,918 | 25 | ±0 | |||
| Valid votes | 18,918 | 98.69 | −0.60 | |||
| Invalid votes | 251 | 1.31 | +0.60 | |||
| Votes cast / turnout | 19,169 | 48.50 | −0.11 | |||
| Abstentions | 20,351 | 51.50 | +0.11 | |||
| Registered voters | 39,520 | |||||
| Sources[1][4][5] | ||||||
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Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
- Population: 383,308
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| Parties and alliances | Popular vote | Seats | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | ±pp | Total | +/− | ||
| People's Party (PP) | 68,641 | 43.21 | +6.95 | 16 | +4 | |
| Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) | 36,615 | 23.05 | −18.85 | 9 | −6 | |
| Commitment to Gran Canaria (CGCa) | 11,096 | 6.98 | +0.89 | 2 | ±0 | |
| New Canaries–New Gran Canaria (NCa) | 9,729 | 6.12 | +1.58 | 2 | +2 | |
| Canarian Coalition–Nationalist Party–Canarian Centre (CC–PNC–CCN)1 | 7,708 | 4.85 | +0.46 | 0 | ±0 | |
| The Greens (Verdes) | 5,397 | 3.40 | +0.54 | 0 | ±0 | |
| Canarian United Left (IUC) | 2,963 | 1.87 | +1.25 | 0 | ±0 | |
| Union, Progress and Democracy (UPyD) | 2,626 | 1.65 | New | 0 | ±0 | |
| Common Sense in the Canaries (SCC) | 2,221 | 1.40 | New | 0 | ±0 | |
| Yes We Can Citizens' Alternative (ACSSP)2 | 1,522 | 0.96 | +0.81 | 0 | ±0 | |
| United Neighbors (VU) | 957 | 0.60 | +0.29 | 0 | ±0 | |
| Canarian Nationalist Alternative (ANC) | 822 | 0.52 | New | 0 | ±0 | |
| Communist Party of the Canarian People (PCPC) | 606 | 0.38 | +0.16 | 0 | ±0 | |
| Citizens for Canarian Change (CIUCA) | 517 | 0.33 | New | 0 | ±0 | |
| For a Fairer World (PUM+J) | 408 | 0.26 | New | 0 | ±0 | |
| Humanist Party (PH) | 351 | 0.22 | +0.11 | 0 | ±0 | |
| Unity of the People (UP) | 301 | 0.19 | +0.01 | 0 | ±0 | |
| Liberal Democratic Centre (CDL) | 291 | 0.18 | New | 0 | ±0 | |
| Centrist Democratic Liberals (LDC) | 246 | 0.15 | New | 0 | ±0 | |
| National Democracy (DN) | 187 | 0.12 | New | 0 | ±0 | |
| Blank ballots | 5,651 | 3.56 | +2.03 | |||
| Total | 158,855 | 29 | ±0 | |||
| Valid votes | 158,855 | 96.62 | −2.75 | |||
| Invalid votes | 5,558 | 3.38 | +2.75 | |||
| Votes cast / turnout | 164,413 | 56.11 | −0.73 | |||
| Abstentions | 128,593 | 43.89 | +0.73 | |||
| Registered voters | 293,006 | |||||
| Sources[1][4][6] | ||||||
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San Cristóbal de La Laguna
- Population: 152,222
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| Parties and alliances | Popular vote | Seats | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | ±pp | Total | +/− | ||
| Canarian Coalition–Nationalist Party–Canarian Centre (CC–PNC–CCN)1 | 26,976 | 39.77 | −11.12 | 13 | −2 | |
| People's Party (PP) | 13,960 | 20.58 | +9.72 | 6 | +3 | |
| Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) | 10,233 | 15.09 | −12.33 | 4 | −5 | |
| United Left–The Greens–Socialists for Tenerife (IU–LV–SxTF) | 6,144 | 9.06 | +6.06 | 3 | +3 | |
| Yes We Can for Tenerife Alternative (ASSPPT) | 3,900 | 5.75 | +1.90 | 1 | +1 | |
| The Greens (Verdes) | 1,436 | 2.12 | New | 0 | ±0 | |
| Canarian Nationalist Alternative (ANC) | 978 | 1.44 | +0.63 | 0 | ±0 | |
| Group for La Laguna (AxLL) | 921 | 1.36 | New | 0 | ±0 | |
| Union, Progress and Democracy (UPyD) | 703 | 1.04 | New | 0 | ±0 | |
| Independent Democratic Citizen Alternative (ACDI) | 334 | 0.49 | −0.15 | 0 | ±0 | |
| Humanist Party (PH) | 197 | 0.29 | +0.09 | 0 | ±0 | |
| Movement for the Unity of the Canarian People (MUPC) | 173 | 0.26 | New | 0 | ±0 | |
| Independent Centre of the Canaries (CICAN) | 137 | 0.20 | New | 0 | ±0 | |
| Liberal Democratic Centre (CDL) | 127 | 0.19 | New | 0 | ±0 | |
| Canarian Social Democratic Centre (CSDC) | 60 | 0.09 | New | 0 | ±0 | |
| Blank ballots | 1,545 | 2.28 | +0.74 | |||
| Total | 67,824 | 27 | ±0 | |||
| Valid votes | 67,824 | 97.28 | −2.08 | |||
| Invalid votes | 1,898 | 2.72 | +2.08 | |||
| Votes cast / turnout | 69,722 | 58.99 | +1.30 | |||
| Abstentions | 48,464 | 41.01 | −1.30 | |||
| Registered voters | 118,186 | |||||
| Sources[1][4][5] | ||||||
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Santa Cruz de Tenerife
- Population: 222,643
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| Parties and alliances | Popular vote | Seats | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | ±pp | Total | +/− | ||
| People's Party (PP) | 25,407 | 28.36 | +9.48 | 9 | +3 | |
| Canarian Coalition–Nationalist Party–Canarian Centre (CC–PNC–CCN)1 | 24,523 | 27.37 | −13.16 | 9 | −3 | |
| Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) | 13,965 | 15.59 | −8.49 | 5 | −2 | |
| Yes We Can for Tenerife Alternative (ASSPPT) | 6,717 | 7.50 | +5.04 | 2 | +2 | |
| United Left–The Greens–Socialists for Tenerife (IU–LV–SxTF) | 5,208 | 5.81 | +3.45 | 1 | +1 | |
| Citizens of Santa Cruz (CSC) | 4,826 | 5.39 | −1.66 | 1 | −1 | |
| The Greens (Verdes) | 2,302 | 2.57 | New | 0 | ±0 | |
| Canarian Nationalist Alternative (ANC) | 1,457 | 1.63 | +0.99 | 0 | ±0 | |
| Union, Progress and Democracy (UPyD) | 1,379 | 1.54 | New | 0 | ±0 | |
| Independent Centre of the Canaries (CICAN) | 442 | 0.49 | New | 0 | ±0 | |
| Communist Party of the Canarian People (PCPC) | 387 | 0.43 | +0.25 | 0 | ±0 | |
| For a Fairer World (PUM+J) | 387 | 0.43 | New | 0 | ±0 | |
| Canarian Social Democratic Centre (CSDC) | 157 | 0.18 | New | 0 | ±0 | |
| National Democracy (DN) | 124 | 0.14 | New | 0 | ±0 | |
| Blank ballots | 2,315 | 2.58 | +0.73 | |||
| Total | 89,596 | 27 | ±0 | |||
| Valid votes | 89,596 | 97.49 | −2.01 | |||
| Invalid votes | 2,308 | 2.51 | +2.01 | |||
| Votes cast / turnout | 91,904 | 56.58 | +6.36 | |||
| Abstentions | 70,517 | 43.42 | −6.36 | |||
| Registered voters | 162,421 | |||||
| Sources[1][4][5] | ||||||
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Telde
- Population: 100,900
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| Parties and alliances | Popular vote | Seats | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | ±pp | Total | +/− | ||
| New Canaries–Nationalist Canarian Centre (NC–CCN)1 | 12,986 | 27.65 | −9.15 | 9 | −1 | |
| People's Party (PP) | 12,392 | 26.39 | +4.83 | 8 | +1 | |
| Citizens for Canarian Change (CIUCA) | 5,830 | 12.41 | +2.03 | 4 | +1 | |
| Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) | 4,189 | 8.92 | −7.89 | 2 | −3 | |
| More for Telde (+xT) | 3,738 | 7.96 | New | 2 | +2 | |
| Canarian Coalition–Nationalist Party (CC–PNC) | 2,922 | 6.22 | +1.52 | 2 | +2 | |
| The Greens (Verdes) | 1,193 | 2.54 | +0.22 | 0 | ±0 | |
| Commitment to Gran Canaria (CGCa) | 751 | 1.60 | +0.98 | 0 | ±0 | |
| Canarian United Left (IUC) | 729 | 1.55 | −0.57 | 0 | ±0 | |
| Union, Progress and Democracy (UPyD) | 487 | 1.04 | New | 0 | ±0 | |
| Canarian Nationalist Alternative (ANC) | 245 | 0.52 | New | 0 | ±0 | |
| Communist Party of the Canarian People (PCPC) | 137 | 0.29 | New | 0 | ±0 | |
| Blank ballots | 1,367 | 2.91 | +1.32 | |||
| Total | 46,966 | 27 | +2 | |||
| Valid votes | 46,966 | 97.20 | −2.21 | |||
| Invalid votes | 1,354 | 2.80 | +2.21 | |||
| Votes cast / turnout | 48,320 | 61.32 | −1.72 | |||
| Abstentions | 30,482 | 38.68 | +1.72 | |||
| Registered voters | 78,802 | |||||
| Sources[1][4][6] | ||||||
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Island Cabildos
See also
References
- ^ a b c d e f g Lozano, Carles. "Elecciones Municipales en Canarias (desde 1979)". Historia Electoral.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 25 December 2025.
- ^ "Elecciones Municipales. 22 de mayo de 2011. Canarias". eldiario.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 25 December 2025.
- ^ "Elecciones Municipales 2011. Canarias". El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 25 December 2025.
- ^ a b c d e "Elecciones celebradas. Resultados electorales" (in Spanish). Ministry of the Interior. Retrieved 23 December 2025.
- ^ a b c "Acuerdo de 30 de junio de 2011, de la Junta Electoral Central, por el que se procede a la publicación del resumen de los resultados de las elecciones locales convocadas por Real Decreto 424/2011, de 28 de marzo, y celebradas el 22 de mayo de 2011, según los datos que figuran en las actas de proclamación remitidas por cada una de las Juntas Electorales de Zona. Provincias: Salamanca, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Segovia, Sevilla, Soria, Tarragona, Teruel, Toledo, Valencia, Valladolid, Vizcaya, Zamora, Zaragoza, Ceuta y Melilla" (PDF). Official State Gazette (in Spanish) (181): 86078–86708. 29 July 2011. ISSN 0212-033X. Retrieved 23 December 2025.
- ^ a b "Acuerdo de 30 de junio de 2011, de la Junta Electoral Central, por el que se procede a la publicación del resumen de los resultados de las elecciones locales convocadas por Real Decreto 424/2011, de 28 de marzo, y celebradas el 22 de mayo de 2011, según los datos que figuran en las actas de proclamación remitidas por cada una de las Juntas Electorales de Zona. Provincias: León, Lleida, Lugo, Madrid, Málaga, Murcia, Navarra, Ourense, Palencia, Las Palmas, Pontevedra y La Rioja" (PDF). Official State Gazette (in Spanish) (179): 84644–85317. 27 July 2011. ISSN 0212-033X. Retrieved 23 December 2025.




