Aragonese regional election, 1995
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All 67 seats in the Cortes of Aragon 34 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Registered | 993,975 3.9% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Turnout |
706,954 (71.1%) 6.5 pp | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Constituency results map for the Cortes of Aragon | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1995 Aragonese regional election was held on Sunday, 28 May 1995, to elect the 4th 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 election saw a marked increase for the People's Party (PP), which went on to win the election doubling its 1991 vote and gaining ten seats. Much of the increase came at the expense of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), at the moment beset by corruption scandals. The Aragonese Party (PAR) lost ground for the second consecutive election and was displaced to 3rd place. United Left (IU) improved its position while the left-wing regionalist Aragonese Union (CHA) won seats in the Courts for the first time.
The new legislature elected Santiago Lanzuela as the first PP President of Aragon by 41 votes to 26. The PP and PAR deputies backed Lanzuela while PSOE, CHA and IU voted against. Lanzuela headed a PP administration with the initial support of the PAR.
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.[1][2]
Under the LOREG and the Aragonese electoral law, elections were fixed for the fourth Sunday of May every four years.[1][2] 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.[3]
Background
The previous legislature had been tightly divided between the left and right blocs, with an independent, former PP deputy holding the balance of power. This had resulted in a coalition between the PP and PAR being replaced by a PSOE administration in 1993. However, legal difficulties had forced the resignation of the PSOE Aragonese President José Marco in January 1995, being replaced by party colleague Ramón Tejedor. The PSOE Federal Executive designated Marcelino Iglesias as candidate for President in the 1995 election, marginalizing Marco from the election of the regional candidates.[4]
Results
Overall
Parties and coalitions | Popular vote | Seats | ||||
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Votes | % | ±pp | Won | +/− | ||
People's Party (PP) | 263,524 | 37.50 | +16.82 | 27 | +10 | |
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) | 180,728 | 25.72 | –14.62 | 19 | –11 | |
Aragonese Party (PAR) | 143,573 | 20.43 | –4.25 | 14 | –3 | |
United Left of Aragon (IU) | 64,685 | 9.20 | +2.46 | 5 | +2 | |
Aragonese Union (CHA) | 34,077 | 4.85 | +2.55 | 2 | +2 |
Parties with less than 1.0% of the vote | 5,059 | 0.72 | — | 0 | ±0 | |
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Platform of Independents of Spain (PIE) | 2,349 | 0.33 | New | 0 | ±0 | |
Aragonese Unity (UA) | 1,342 | 0.19 | New | 0 | ±0 | |
SOS Nature (SOS) | 923 | 0.13 | New | 0 | ±0 | |
Spanish Falange of the JONS (FE–JONS) | 445 | 0.06 | New | 0 | ±0 |
Blank ballots | 11,098 | 1.58 | +0.28 | |||
Total | 702,744 | 100.00 | 67 | ±0 | ||
Valid votes | 702,744 | 99.40 | +0.10 | |||
Invalid votes | 4,210 | 0.60 | –0.10 | |||
Votes cast / turnout | 706,954 | 71.12 | +6.55 | |||
Abstentions | 287,021 | 28.88 | –6.55 | |||
Registered voters | 993,975 | |||||
Source(s): Argos Information Portal, historiaelectoral.com |
Distribution by constituency
Constituency | PP | PSOE | PAR | IU | CHA | |||||
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% | S | % | S | % | S | % | S | % | S | |
Huesca | 33.2 | 7 | 31.7 | 6 | 21.4 | 4 | 6.8 | 1 | 4.1 | − |
Teruel | 40.8 | 7 | 31.6 | 5 | 18.3 | 3 | 5.6 | 1 | 2.1 | − |
Zaragoza | 38.0 | 13 | 23.1 | 8 | 20.6 | 7 | 10.5 | 3 | 5.5 | 2 |
Total | 37.5 | 27 | 25.7 | 19 | 20.4 | 14 | 9.2 | 5 | 4.8 | 2 |
References
- 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.
- ↑ "The PSOE marginalizes Marco from the designation of the Aragonese candidates" (in Spanish). El País. 1995-02-16.