Extremaduran parliamentary election, 1995

Extremaduran parliamentary election, 1995
Extremadura
28 May 1995

All 65 seats in the Assembly of Extremadura
33 seats needed for a majority
Registered 845,728 Increase3.0%
Turnout 662,444 (78.3%)
Increase7.3 pp
  First party Second party
 
Leader Juan Carlos Rodríguez Ibarra Juan Ignacio Barrero
Party PSOE PP
Leader since 20 December 1982 25 September 1993
Last election 39 seats, 54.1% 19 seats, 26.8%
Seats won 31 27
Seat change Decrease8 Increase8
Popular vote 289,149 259,703
Percentage 43.9% 39.5%
Swing Decrease10.2 pp Increase12.7 pp

  Third party Fourth party
 
Leader Ricardo Sosa Pedro Cañada
Party IU CEx
Leader since 1993 10 December 1980
Last election 4 seats, 8.1%[lower-alpha 1] 0 seats, 4.0%[lower-alpha 2]
Seats won 6 1
Seat change Increase2 Increase1
Popular vote 69,387 14,452
Percentage 10.5% 3.8%
Swing Increase2.4 pp Decrease0.2 pp

President before election

Juan Carlos
Rodríguez Ibarra

PSOE

Elected President

Juan Carlos
Rodríguez Ibarra

PSOE

The 1995 Extremaduran parliamentary election was held on Sunday, 28 May 1995, to elect the 4th Assembly of Extremadura, the unicameral regional legislature of the Spanish autonomous community of Extremadura. At stake were all 65 seats in the Assembly, determining the President of Extremadura.

The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) won the election, but suffered a spectacular fall in both vote share and seats, losing the absolute majority it had maintained since 1983. On the other hand, the People's Party (PP) made great gains, winning the same 8 seats lost by the PSOE and nearing 40% of the vote. United Left (IU) obtained its best historical result to date in a regional election, with 6 out of 65 seats. The Extremaduran Coalition, an alliance of United Extremadura (EU) and the Extremaduran Regionalist Party (PREx), both of which failed to enter the Assembly in the 1991 election, entered the Assembly with 1 seat.

The Democratic and Social Centre (CDS), which had already been reduced to 3 seats in 1991, did not even stand in the 1995 election, thus losing all of its seats.

Juan Carlos Rodríguez Ibarra was able to be re-elected for a fourth term in office thanks to the abstention of IU. Both PP and IU together commanded an absolute majority of seats and could potentially block the PSOE in the Assembly, as had happened in Andalusia.

Electoral system

The number of seats in the Extremaduran Assembly was set to a fixed-number of 65. All Assembly members were elected in 2 multi-member districts, corresponding to Extremadura's two provinces, using the D'Hondt method and a closed-list proportional representation system. Each district was entitled to an initial minimum of 20 seats, with the remaining 25 seats allocated among the two provinces in proportion to their populations. For the 1995 election, seats were distributed as follows: Badajoz (35) and Cáceres (30).

Voting was on the basis of universal suffrage in a secret ballot. Only lists polling above 5% of valid votes in each district (which include blank ballotsfor none of the above) were entitled to enter the seat distribution. Alternatively, however, if a party did not reach the 5% threshold in a district, it could enter the seat distribution on the following conditions:

Results

Overall

Summary of the 28 May 1995 Extremaduran Assembly election results
Party Vote Seats
Votes % ±pp Won +/−
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) 289,149 43.94 Decrease10.21 31 Decrease8
People's Party (PP) 259,703 39.46 Increase12.70 27 Increase8
United Left-The Greens-Commitment for Extremadura (IU-LV-CE)[lower-alpha 1] 69,387 10.54 Increase2.40 6 Increase2
Extremaduran Coalition (CEx)[lower-alpha 2] 25,168 3.82 Decrease0.17 1 Increase1
Independent Socialists of Extremadura (SIEx) 7,722 1.17 New 0 ±0
Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain (PCPE) 1,136 0.17 Decrease0.24 0 ±0
Democratic and Social Centre (CDS) N/A N/A Decrease5.75 0 Decrease3
Blank ballots 5,804 0.88 Increase0.08
Total 658,069 100.00 65 ±0
Valid votes 658,069 99.34 Increase0.02
Invalid votes 4,375 0.66 Decrease0.02
Votes cast / turnout 662,444 78.33 Increase7.31
Abstentions 183,284 21.67 Decrease7.31
Registered voters 845,728
Source: Argos Information Portal
Vote share
PSOE
 
43.94%
PP
 
39.46%
IU-LV-CE
 
10.54%
CEx
 
3.82%
SIEx
 
1.17%
PCPE
 
0.17%
Blank ballots
 
0.88%
Parliamentary seats
PSOE
 
47.69%
PP
 
41.54%
IU-LV-CE
 
9.23%
CEx
 
1.54%

Results by province

Election results by province.

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 United Left results are compared to the United Left and The Greens totals in the 1991 election.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Extremaduran Coalition results are compared to the United Extremadura and Extremaduran Regionalist Party totals in the 1991 election.

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