General election survey puts PP in the lead in Madrid; PSOE fourth

A survey of citizens' voting intentions carried out by A+M on behalf of 20minutos/Grupo Heraldo suggests that the PP will win the most seats in Madrid in December 20th's general elections, with Ciudadanos second, Podemos third and the PSOE down in fourth place.

According to the survey's results, the PP, led by Mariano Rajoy, would win 10-11 seats in Madrid, followed by Albert Rivera's Ciudadanos with 9; Podemos, led by Pablo Iglesias, would win 8; the PSOE, headed up by Pedro Sánchez, 6-7; Alberto Garzón's IU, 2.

Madrid, with 36 of the country's 350 electoral seats, is Spain's largest constituency and electoral lists in the city almost always include the main parties' leaders.

If this were to be the actual result, Eduardo Madina, who contested the leadership of the PSOE with Pedro Sánchez in July 2014  Pedro Sánchez, could lose his seat as he is number 7 on the socialist party's list. Two of Sánchez' recent signings would however retain their seats: Commander Zaida Cantero (number 6) and the ex-UPyD MP Irene Lozano (number 4).

The fieldwork for the survey was carried out on December 4th with 700 telephone surveys carried out across the whole of the Madrid region. The survey has a margin of error of  +/- 3.77% and forms part of a nationwide survey of voting intentions which comprised 5,000 telephone surveys and which will be published on December 14th.