Aragonese regional election, 1991
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All 67 seats in the Cortes of Aragon 34 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Registered |
956,909  3.1% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Turnout |
617,866 (64.6%) 5.1 pp | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1991 Aragonese regional election was held on Sunday, 26 May 1991, to elect the 3rd Cortes of the Autonomous Community of Aragon. All 67 seats in the Cortes were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with regional elections in 12 other autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain.
The main loser in the election was the Democratic and Social Centre (CDS), which lost all of its 6 seats. The Aragonese Party (PAR) also lost two seats. The main gainers were the main two national parties, the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) and the newly created People's Party (PP). United Left also gained 1 seat.
The new legislature elected Emilio Eiroa of the PAR as the new President of Aragon by 34 votes to 33, after Hipólito Gómez de las Roces' refusal to reach a new agreement with the PP.[1] All PAR and PP deputies supported Eiroa's election while the PSOE and IU deputies voted against. The tight arithmetic in the new legislature was further complicated in November 1992 when a PP deputy, Emilio Gomáriz, resigned from the PP, leaving him holding the balance of power between the PP-PAR bloc and the PSOE-IU bloc. In September 1993 the PSOE introduced a no-confidence motion against President Eiroa. In the subsequent vote Gomáriz appeared visibly nervous and claimed that he had received death threats against his children. He voted with the PSOE and IU deputies for Socialist José Marco as new President.[2]
Electoral system
The electoral system for the Cortes of Aragon was regulated under the Autonomous Community of Aragon Electoral Law 2/1987 and, subsidiarily, under the general provisions of the General Electoral System Organic Law 5/1985 (LOREG). The Cortes was composed of 67 seats, allocated to constituencies corresponding to the provinces of Aragon. Each constituency was entitled to an initial minimum of 13 seats, with the remaining 28 allocated in proportion to the provincial populations on the condition that the inhabitants/seat ratio in the most populated province did not exceed 2.75 times that of the less populated one—otherwise, the size of most populated district would be limited to such a ratio—. Deputies were elected using the D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional representation, with a threshold of 3% of valid votes—which included blank ballots—being applied in each constituency. Parties not reaching the threshold were not taken into consideration for seat distribution.[3][4]
Under the LOREG and the Aragonese electoral law, elections were fixed for the fourth Sunday of May every four years.[3][4] This was introduced in several 1991 electoral law amendments that modified the previous wording, which required for an election to be held within 29 to 35 days from the expiration of the previous four-year parliamentary term. Additionally, the 1982 Statute of Autonomy of Aragon provided that the chamber was to be automatically dissolved and a snap election called if an investiture process failed to elect a regional President within a two-month period from the first ballot, with elected deputies merely serving out what remained of the previous four-year parliamentary term.[5]
Results
Overall
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| Parties and coalitions | Popular vote | Seats | ||||
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| Votes | % | ±pp | Won | +/− | ||
| Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) | 247,485 | 40.34 | +4.65 | 30 | +3 | |
| Aragonese Party (PAR) | 151,420 | 24.68 | –3.47 | 17 | –2 | |
| People's Party (PP)1 | 126,892 | 20.68 | +3.95 | 17 | +4 | |
| Aragon Alternative Convergence–United Left (CAA–IU) | 41,367 | 6.74 | +1.84 | 3 | +1 | |
| Democratic and Social Centre (CDS) | 18,929 | 3.09 | –7.14 | 0 | –6 | |
| Aragonese Union (CHA) | 14,116 | 2.30 | +1.34 | 0 | ±0 | |
| Parties with less than 1.0% of the vote | 5,355 | 0.87 | — | 0 | ±0 | |
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| Workers' Socialist Party (PST) | 2,441 | 0.40 | New | 0 | ±0 | |
| Independent Aragonese Party (PAI) | 1,882 | 0.31 | New | 0 | ±0 | |
| Social Aragonese Movement (MAS) | 1,032 | 0.17 | New | 0 | ±0 | |
| Blank ballots | 7,992 | 1.30 | –0.14 | ||||||
| Total | 613,556 | 100.00 | 67 | ±0 | |||||
| Valid votes | 613,556 | 99.30 | +0.51 | ||||||
| Invalid votes | 4,310 | 0.70 | –0.51 | ||||||
| Votes cast / turnout | 617,866 | 64.57 | –5.11 | ||||||
| Abstentions | 339,043 | 35.43 | +5.11 | ||||||
| Registered voters | 956,909 | ||||||||
| Source(s): Argos Information Portal, historiaelectoral.com | |||||||||
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Distribution by constituency
| Constituency | PSOE | PAR | PP | CAA–IU | ||||
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| % | S | % | S | % | S | % | S | |
| Huesca | 39.4 | 8 | 25.3 | 5 | 20.3 | 4 | 6.6 | 1 |
| Teruel | 37.9 | 7 | 19.7 | 3 | 31.3 | 6 | 3.0 | − |
| Zaragoza | 41.1 | 15 | 25.5 | 9 | 18.7 | 7 | 7.5 | 2 |
| Total | 40.3 | 30 | 24.7 | 17 | 20.7 | 17 | 6.7 | 3 |
References
- ↑ "Hipólito Gómez de las Roces renounces re-election as President of Aragon" (in Spanish). El País. 1991-06-26.
- ↑ "A PP defector's vote gives the government of Aragon to the PSOE" (in Spanish). El País. 1993-09-16.
- 1 2 Electoral Law of the Autonomous Community of Aragon of 1987, Law No. 2 of February 16, 1987 Official State Gazette (in Spanish). Retrieved on 8 April 2017.
- 1 2 General Electoral System Organic Law of 1985, Organic Law No. 5 of June 19, 1985 Official State Gazette (in Spanish). Retrieved on 28 December 2016.
- ↑ Statute of Autonomy of Aragon of 1982, Organic Law No. 8 of August 10, 1982 Official State Gazette (in Spanish). Retrieved on 8 April 2017.