Red belt (Community of Madrid)

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Location of the "red belt" within the Community and the city of Madrid.

The expression red belt (Spanish: Cinturón rojo) is used to designate in the Community of Madrid, since the return to democracy in the last decades of the 20th century, the set of cities located in the southern part of the metropolitan area of the city of Madrid, characterized by their high population of workers or the working class and because of their long history with mayors of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party or other left parties and coalitions such as the Communist Party of Spain or the United Left. The municipalities represent a total of 21% of the population residing in the Community of Madrid, with six out of the ten most populated municipalities of the region belonging to the red belt.[1][2][3][4] The name is also used to talk about the southern districts of the city of Madrid.[5]

As of the 2010s, there was also talk in the region of a "purple belt" in reference to the emergence, with a notable implantation in the red belt, of the new Podemos party, whose color is purple instead of the traditional red of the left-wing parties.[6][7][8]

Municipalities of the Madrilenian "red belt"

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Municipality Population (2024)[9] Current mayor Term start Party (2023-2027) Parties in local government since 1979 Notes
Alcorcón vínculo=Archivo:Alcorc%C3%B3n_(Madrid)_mapa.svg 174 740 (7th) Candelaria Testa 2023 PSOE

(Coalition)

1979-1999; 2003-2011; 2019-current
File:Escudo de Arganda del Rey.svg
Arganda del Rey File:Arganda del Rey (Madrid) mapa.svg 59 209 (21st) Alberto Escribano 2023 PP

(Coalition)

File:Pce 2014.svgFile:Logo IU 1989-2008.svg 1979-1999
1999-2003; 2015-2023
File:Escudo de Coslada.svg
Coslada File:Coslada (Madrid) mapa.svg 80 688 (16th) Ángel Viveros 2015 PSOE

(Coalition)

1982-1983

File:Pce 2014.svgFile:Logo IU 1989-2008.svg 1983-1999
1999-2003; 2007-2011; 2015-current

File:Escudo de Fuenlabrada.svg
Fuenlabrada File:Fuenlabrada (Madrid) mapa.svg 190 496 (6th) Javier Ayala 2018 PSOE

(Majority)

1979-current Never has had a conservative mayor.
File:Escudo de Getafe.svg
Getafe File:Getafe (Madrid) mapa.svg 191 560 (5th) Sara Hernández 2015 PSOE

(Coalition)

1979-2011; 2015-current
File:Escudo de Leganes.svg
Leganés File:Leganés (Madrid) mapa.svg 193 934 (4th) Miguel Ángel Recuenco 2023 PP

(Coalition)

1979-2007; 2007-2011; 2015-2023
File:Emblem of Mejorada del Campo.svg
Mejorada del Campo File:Mejorada del Campo (Madrid) mapa.svg 24 632 (33rd) Jorge Capa 2015 PSOE

(Majority)

File:Pce 2014.svg 1978-1982
1982-1995
File:Logo IU 1989-2008.svg 1995-1999
1999-2011; 2015-current
File:Coat of Arms of Móstoles.svg
Móstoles File:Móstoles (Madrid) mapa.svg 213 268 (2nd) Manuel Bautista 2023 PP

(Coalition)

1979-2003; 2015-2023
File:Escudo de Parla.svg
Parla File:Parla (Madrid) mapa.svg 134 876 (9th) Ramón Jurado 2019 PSOE

(Coalition)

1979-2015; 2019-current
File:COA of Pinto Madrid.svg
Pinto File:Pinto (Madrid) mapa.svg 55 989 (23rd) Salomón Aguado 2023 PP

(Coalition)

File:Pce 2014.svg 1979-1987
File:Logo IU 1989-2008.svg 1987-1995
1995-2007; 2008-2011
File:LogoGanemosPinto.png 2015-2019
2019-2023
File:Escudo de Rivas-Vaciamadrid.svg
Rivas-Vaciamadrid File:Rivas-VaciaMadrid (Madrid) mapa.svg 101 637 (11th) Aída Castillejo 2022 IU

(Coalition)

1987-1991
File:Izquierda Unida (logo).svg 1991-current
Never has had a conservative mayor.
File:Escudo de San Fernando de Henares.svg
San Fernando de Henares File:San Fernando de Henares (Madrid) mapa.svg 38 969 (25th) Francisco Javier Corpa 2019 PSOE

(Majority)

File:Pce 2014.svgFile:Logo IU 1989-2008.svg 1979-1991
1991-1995
File:Izquierda Unida (logo).svg 1995-2015
File:Podemos logo círculos.svg2015-2019
2019-current
Never has had a conservative mayor.
File:Escudo de San Martín de la Vega.svg
San Martín de la Vega File:San Martín de la Vega (Madrid) mapa.svg 20 664 (36th) Rafael Martínez 2015 PSOE

(Majority)

1979-2007; 2015-current
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Velilla de San Antonio File:Velilla de San Antonio (Madrid) mapa.svg 14 008 (47th) Antonia Alcázar 2015 PSOE

(Coalition)

1987-2009; 2015-current

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