Castile-La Mancha parliamentary election, 1995

Castile-La Mancha parliamentary election, 1995

28 May 1995

All 47 seats in the Courts of Castile-La Mancha 24 seats needed for a majority Registered 1,352,958 3.7% Turnout 1,066,571 (78.8%) 6.3 pp   First party Second party Third party   Leader José Bono José Manuel Molina José Molina Martínez Party PSOE PP IU Leader since 25 March 1983 23 December 1989 1991 Last election 27 seats, 52.2% 19 seats, 35.9% 1 seat, 6.2% Seats won 24 22 1 Seat change 3 3 ±0 Popular vote 483,888 469,127 80,482 Percentage 45.7% 44.3% 7.6% Swing 6.5 pp 8.4 pp 1.4 pp

President before election José Bono PSOE Elected President José Bono PSOE

The 1995 Castile-La Mancha parliamentary election was held on Sunday, 28 May 1995, to elect the 4th Courts of Castile-La Mancha, the regional legislature of the Spanish autonomous community of Castile-La Mancha. At stake were all 47 seats in the Courts, determining the President of the Junta of Communities of Castile-La Mancha.

Despite bearing enormous losses, the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) was able to maintain government, albeit with a mere 1-seat majority. The People's Party (PP), which in this election made the greatest gains, finished a close second but remained unable to win the PSOE in one of its — considered — strongest strongholds. Meanwhile, United Left (IU) maintained its presence in the Courts and was able to increase both its vote support and share, but remained unable to gain new seats.

Electoral system

The number of seats in the Castile-La Mancha Courts was set to a fixed-number of 47. All Courts members were elected in 5 multi-member districts, corresponding to Castile-La Mancha's five provinces, using the D'Hondt method and a closed-list proportional representation system. Each district was assigned a fixed set of seats, distributed as follows: Albacete (10), Ciudad Real (11), Cuenca (8), Guadalajara (7) and Toledo (11).

Voting was on the basis of universal suffrage in a secret ballot. Only lists polling above 3% of valid votes in each district (which include blank ballots—for none of the above) were entitled to enter the seat distribution.^[1]

Results

Overall

← Summary of the 28 May 1995 Castile-La Mancha Courts election results →

Party		Vote			Seats
		Votes	%	±pp	Won	+/−
	Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)	483,888	45.70	6.47	24	3
	People's Party (PP)	469,127	44.30	8.45	22	3
	United Left (IU)	80,482	7.60	1.43	1	±0
	Centrist Union (UC)	3,568	0.34	3.15	0	±0
	Regionalist Party of Castile-La Mancha (PRCM)	3,121	0.29	0.19	0	±0
	Action for Talavera Region (ACTAL)	2,015	0.19	0.07	0	±0
	The Greens-Green Group (LV-GV)	1,474	0.14	New	0	±0
	Communal Land-Castilian Nationalist Party (TC-PNC)	1,406	0.13	0.03	0	±0
	Cuencan People's Union (UPCo)	720	0.07	New	0	±0
	Regionalist Party of Guadalajara (PRGU)	543	0.05	0.03	0	±0
	Guadalajara Independent Union (UIG)	513	0.05	New	0	±0
	Spanish Falange of the JONS (FE-JONS)	498	0.05	New	0	±0
	Independent Regional Unity (URI)	391	0.04	New	0	±0
	Blank ballots	11,128	1.05	0.06
Total		1,058,874	100.00		47	±0
Valid votes		1,058,874	99.28	0.04
Invalid votes		7,697	0.72	0.04
Votes cast / turnout		1,066,571	78.83	6.33
Abstentions		286,387	21.17	6.33
Registered voters		1,352,958
Source: Argos Information Portal

References

Elections in Castile-La Mancha Parliamentary elections 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015