Castile-La Mancha parliamentary election, 2007

Castile-La Mancha parliamentary election, 2007
Castilla-La Mancha
27 May 2007

All 47 seats in the Courts of Castile-La Mancha
24 seats needed for a majority
Registered 1,507,173 Increase4.1%
Turnout 1,110,885 (73.7%)
Decrease2.6 pp
  First party Second party
 
Leader José María Barreda María Dolores de Cospedal
Party PSOE PP
Leader since 29 April 2004 14 June 2006
Last election 29 seats, 57.8% 18 seats, 36.7%
Seats won 26 21
Seat change Decrease3 Increase3
Popular vote 572,849 467,319
Percentage 52.0% 42.4%
Swing Decrease5.8 pp Increase5.7 pp

President before election

José María Barreda
PSOE

Elected President

José María Barreda
PSOE

The 2007 Castile-La Mancha parliamentary election was held on Sunday, 27 May 2007, to elect the 7th 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.

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 ballotsfor none of the above) were entitled to enter the seat distribution.[1]

Results

Overall

Summary of the 27 May 2007 Castile-La Mancha Courts election results
Party Vote Seats
Votes % ±pp Won +/−
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) 572,849 51.96 Decrease5.87 26 Decrease3
People's Party (PP) 467,319 42.38 Increase5.72 21 Increase3
United Left (IU) 37,753 3.42 Decrease0.37 0 ±0
The Greens of Europe (LVE) 3,542 0.32 New 0 ±0
Communal Land (TC) 2,525 0.23 Increase0.03 0 ±0
Castilian Unity (UdCa) 1,213 0.11 Decrease0.01 0 ±0
The Falange (FE) 1,071 0.10 Increase0.06 0 ±0
Regionalist Party of Guadalajara (PRGU) 619 0.06 Increase0.01 0 ±0
Independent Regional Unity (URI) 610 0.06 Increase0.01 0 ±0
Humanist Party (PH) 572 0.05 Increase0.01 0 ±0
Republican Left (IR) 410 0.04 New 0 ±0
Blank ballots 14,080 1.28 Decrease0.05
Total 1,102,563 100.00 47 ±0
Valid votes 1,102,563 99.25 Decrease0.07
Invalid votes 8,322 0.75 Increase0.07
Votes cast / turnout 1,110,885 73.71 Decrease2.55
Abstentions 396,288 26.29 Increase2.55
Registered voters 1,507,173
Source: Argos Information Portal
Vote share
PSOE
 
51.96%
PP
 
42.38%
IU
 
3.42%
Others
 
0.96%
Blank ballots
 
1.28%
Parliamentary seats
PSOE
 
55.32%
PP
 
44.68%

References