Marea de Vigo was created as a left-wing "popular unity" candidacy to the municipal elections of May 2015.

[1] Rubén Pérez Correa, a member of the United Left (EU) was elected as the candidate.

The candidacy is supported by EU, Anova-Nationalist Brotherhood, independents and some members of Podemos.

It's one of the many "popular unity" candidacies formed by left-wing political parties in Galicia and Spain to the Spanish local elections, 2015; like Marea Atlántica, Ahora Madrid, Barcelona en Comú, Zaragoza en Común or Málaga Ahora.

Marea de Vigo was the 3rd most voted list in the Vigo local elections of 2015 (16,227 votes, 11.5%), gaining 3 seats in the city council.