Golmayo is a
municipality in the
Province of Soria, in the
autonomous community of
Castile and León
Castile and León ( es, Castilla y León ; ast-leo, Castiella y Llión ; gl, Castela e León ) is an autonomous community in northwestern Spain.
It was created in 1983, eight years after the end of the Francoist regime, by the merging of the ...
,
Spain. The municipality lies at an altitude of and covers an area of .
Demography
The estimated population of the municipality was 1,527 in 2006, 1,688 in 2007 and 1,815 in 2008, of which 961 were male and 854 female. The population density is 9.56.
Golmayo is now the province's 9th largest municipality by population. In 1996 it was the 19th. Due to its proximity to the provincial capital of
Soria, of which it is becoming a
suburb
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, Golmayo had the fastest growth rate of the province in the period from 1998 to 2008, when it gained 932 inhabitants, a growth of 209%. This is in contrast to the province of Soria as a whole, which has had a negative population trend during the last decades: 165 out of the 193 municipalities of the province have actually lost population since the mid-nineties and the overall result for the
province of Soria has been a 1.9% increase in population in the twelve years to 2008.
Local administration
The
mayor of Golmayo is Mr. Félix Cubillo Romera of the
Partido Popular. This party has four
councillors in the town's
ayuntamiento while the "Agrupación Municipal Independiente de Golmayo", has three and the
Partido Socialista Obrero Español has two.
Elections
In the 2008 Spanish
General Election
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the ruling
Partido Socialista Obrero Español got 47.7% of the vote in Golmayo, the
Partido Popular got 42.1%, and
Izquierda Unida got 3.1%.
References
External links
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Municipalities in the Province of Soria
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