Extremaduran parliamentary election, 2003

Extremaduran parliamentary election, 2003
Extremadura
25 May 2003

All 65 seats in the Assembly of Extremadura
33 seats needed for a majority
Registered 881,228 Decrease0.5%
Turnout 666,468 (75.6%)
Increase2.2 pp
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Juan Carlos Rodríguez Ibarra Carlos Floriano Manuel Cañada
Party PSOE PP IU
Leader since 20 December 1982 13 October 2000 1 October 1995
Last election 34 seats, 49.6%[lower-alpha 1] 28 seats, 40.0% 3 seats, 7.0%[lower-alpha 2]
Seats won 36 26 3
Seat change Increase2 Decrease2 ±0
Popular vote 341,522 255,808 41,448
Percentage 51.7% 38.7% 6.3%
Swing Increase2.1 pp Decrease1.3 pp Decrease0.7 pp

President before election

Juan Carlos Rodríguez Ibarra
PSOE

Elected President

Juan Carlos Rodríguez Ibarra
PSOE

The 2003 Extremaduran parliamentary election was held on Sunday, 25 May 2003, to elect the 6th 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), which in this election ran in coalition with the Extremaduran Coalition, enlarged its absolute majority from 34 to 36 seats, at the cost of the opposition People's Party (PP), which fell to 26 and lost ground for the first time since the 1987 election. United Left (IU), which formed a coalition with the Independent Socialists of Extremadura (SIEx), maintained its 3 seats but was unable to make gains.

Juan Carlos Rodríguez Ibarra was elected for his sixth and last term in office as President of Extremadura, as he would announce in September 2006 he would not stand for re-election in 2007.[1]

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 2003 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 25 May 2003 Extremaduran Assembly election results
Party Vote Seats
Votes % ±pp Won +/−
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party-Progresists (PSOE)[lower-alpha 1] 341,522 51.66 Increase2.03 36 Increase2
People's Party (PP) 255,808 38.70 Decrease1.31 26 Decrease2
United Left-Independent Socialists of Extremadura (IU-SIEx)[lower-alpha 2] 41,448 6.27 Decrease0.74 3 ±0
United Extremadura (EU) 12,171 1.84 Increase0.17 0 ±0
Humanist Party (PH) 1,082 0.16 New 0 ±0
Blank ballots 9,033 1.37 Increase0.22
Total 661,064 100.00 65 ±0
Valid votes 661,064 99.19 Decrease0.19
Invalid votes 5,404 0.81 Increase0.19
Votes cast / turnout 666,468 75.63 Increase2.19
Abstentions 214,760 24.37 Decrease2.19
Registered voters 881,228
Source(s):
Vote share
PSOE
 
51.66%
PP
 
38.70%
IU-SIEx
 
6.27%
EU
 
1.84%
PH
 
0.16%
Blank ballots
 
1.37%
Parliamentary seats
PSOE
 
55.38%
PP
 
40.00%
IU-SIEx
 
4.62%

Results by province

Election results by province.

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Spanish Socialist Workers' Party results are compared to the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party and Extremaduran Coalition totals in the 1999 election.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 United Left results are compared to the United Left and Independent Socialists of Extremadura totals in the 1999 election.

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