Valencia Mayors - Some interesting facts

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Incredible facts about Valencian Mayors and Valencia Mayoresses (Taken from Valencia Life Network)

7 Mayors have been in office since 1979

A total of seven mayors - six in Alicante Province and one in Castellon Province -  have remained in office for the thirty years since the first democratic elections took place.

On April 3, 1979, the statistics showed that the Valencian Community had a population of just over two and a half million people, who elected 535 Mayors. The last census for the elections in May of 2007, showed a population of over 3.5 million people and 542 mayors were elected due to the creation of seven new towns such as Benicull de Xuquer.

The seven Mayors are: Manuel Reig (Partido Popular) - Mayor of Adsubia; José Luis Segui (PP) - Mayor of Almudaina; Juan José Menárguez (PP) - Mayor of Formentera del Segura;  José Rocamora (PP) - Mayor of Granja de Rocamora; Felipe Miralles (Socialist Party) - Mayor of Benimantell; Jaime Pascual (Socialist Party) - Mayor of L'Alqueria d'Asnar and Gonzalo Centelles (Socialist Party) - Mayor of Costur in Castellon Province.

Another of the revolutions over the past thirty years has been the emergences of Mayoresses.

In 1979, there were only three: Rosa Mazón (Socialist Party) - Mayoress of Torrevieja; Carmen Gimeno (UCD Party) - Mayoress of Benifairó de les Valls, and María Cabanes (Independent) - Mayoress of Otos.

Whereas today there are 98. A case in point is Valencia where Clementina Ródenas of the Socialist Party took over from Ricardo Perez Casado just before the elections in 1991, and it was those elections where Rita Barbera of the Partido Popular emerged triumphant, and she had remained as Mayoress ever since.

Political Parties

It terms of the parties, in 1979, 247 municipalities were ruled by the UCD Party, 144  by the Socialists, 26 by Esquerra Unida, and two by the Partido Popular. In the elections of 2007, 315 Town Halls chose the PP, 178 the Socialist Party, 15 the Bloc Party and 8 the EU Party.

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