Potential force and effect of the immigrant vote. May-2007 Spanish municipal elections

Authors

  • Rafael Durán Muñoz

Keywords:

Immigration, political integration, communitarian vote, integration vote, local elections, Spain

Abstract

Being the immigrants eligible to vote, could they transform the Spanish party system and representative institutions into multiculturalist ones or have they to exercise their rights according to the traditional Spanish cleavages in order to transform their ballots into town hall seats? This paper deals with both empirical questions by analyzing the communitarian vote and the integration vote. By the former it is understood the vote directed towards the election of communitarian representatives, while the latter is the vote that, in backing mainstream or traditional candidates, could swing their outcomes. There is an empirical void in the research of these questions. This study-case aims to fill it with an analisis of the last Spanish local elections, held on 27 May 2007.

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