The City Council of Seville (

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: ''Ayuntamiento de Sevilla'') is the top-tier administrative and governing body (''

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'') of the municipality of Seville, Spain. In terms of political structure, it consists of the invested Mayor of Seville, currently

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, the Local Executive Board (''Junta de Gobierno Local''), the deputy mayors, and an elected 31-member deliberative Plenary (''Pleno'') with scrutiny powers. Each district in the municipality has its corresponding executive board (''junta municipal de distrito'').

Elections

A list of local elections (electing the councillors of the Plenary) since the restoration of the democratic system is presented as follows: * Seville City Council election, 1979 (31 councillors) * Seville City Council election, 1983 (31 councillors) * Seville City Council election, 1987 (31 councillors) * Seville City Council election, 1991 (31 councillors) * Seville City Council election, 1995 (33 councillors) * Seville City Council election, 1999 (33 councillors) *

Seville City Council election, 2003 The 2003 Seville City Council election, also the 2003 Seville municipal election, was held on Sunday, 25 May 2003, to elect the 7th City Council of the municipality of Seville. All 33 seats in the City Council were up for election. The election wa ...

(33 councillors) * Seville City Council election, 2007 (33 councillors) *

Seville City Council election, 2011 The 2011 Seville City Council election, also the 2011 Seville municipal election, was held on Sunday, 22 May 2011, to elect the 9th City Council of Seville, City Council of the Municipalities of Spain, municipality of Seville. All 33 seats in the ...

(33 councillors) *

Seville City Council election, 2015 The 2015 Seville City Council election, also the 2015 Seville municipal election, was held on Sunday, 24 May 2015, to elect the 10th City Council of the municipality of Seville. All 31 seats in the City Council were up for election. The election w ...

(31 councillors) * Seville City Council election, 2019 (31 councillors)

Mayors

The Mayor is elected by the members of the plenary among its members the day the new municipal corporation is formed after the local election, and has a mandate for the 4-year duration of the elected body. If the Mayor leaves office ahead of time a new voting may take place among the plenary members in order to invest a new mayor (meanwhile, another local councillor, conventionally the first deputy mayor, may act as acting Mayor). Until January 2022 the Mayor was

. He resigned to concentrate on his candidacy for

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. He was replaced by Antonio Muñoz.

City hall

The

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is located at the Plaza Nueva, 1, in the city centre. The building, whose construction started in 1521, features a distinctive

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References

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Elections

Mayors

City hall

See also

References