Aragonese regional election, 1999
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All 67 seats in the Cortes of Aragon 34 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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999,828  0.6% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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657,464 (65.8%) 5.3 pp | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1999 Aragonese regional election was held on Sunday, 13 June 1999, to elect the 5th 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, as well as the 1999 European Parliament election.
The election saw increases in both vote share and seats for the People's Party (PP), which had formed the Government of Aragon since 1995, and the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE). The Aragonese Party (PAR) continued its long-term decline from its peak at the 1987 election while on the left, Chunta Aragonesista (CHA) gained most of United Left (IU) former support, which lost 4 of its 5 seats.
Despite winning the election and gaining one seat from 1995, the PP went into opposition as incumbent President of Aragon Santiago Lanzuela was unable to gather the support from his former coalition partner the PAR. Instead, the PAR supported Socialist Marcelino Iglesias as new regional President, entering into a coalition administration with the PSOE.[1]
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.[2][3]
Under the LOREG and the Aragonese electoral law, elections were fixed for the fourth Sunday of May every four years.[2][3] A 1996 amendment to the 1982 Statute of Autonomy of Aragon granted the President of the Deputation of Aragon the prerogative to dissolve the Assembly and call a snap election, provided that no motion of censure process was ongoing and some time requirements were met—namely, that dissolution did not occur during the first period of sessions, nor before one year had passed since the previous dissolution or after three years into the parliamentary term—. Additionally, the chamber's dissolution was to be automatically triggered if an investiture process failed to elect a regional President within a two-month period from the first ballot. Any snap election held as a result of these circumstances would not alter the period to the next ordinary election, with elected deputies merely serving out what remained of the previous four-year parliamentary term.[4][5]
Results
Overall
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| Parties and coalitions | Popular vote | Seats | ||||
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| Votes | % | ±pp | Won | +/− | ||
| People's Party (PP) | 249,458 | 38.21 | +0.71 | 28 | +1 | |
| Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) | 201,117 | 30.81 | +5.09 | 23 | +4 | |
| Aragonese Party (PAR) | 86,519 | 13.25 | –7.18 | 10 | –4 | |
| Aragonese Union (CHA) | 72,101 | 11.04 | +6.19 | 5 | +3 | |
| United Left of Aragon (IU) | 25,040 | 3.86 | –5.36 | 1 | –4 | |
| Parties with less than 1.0% of the vote | 4,976 | 0.76 | — | 0 | ±0 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SOS Nature (SOS) | 3,621 | 0.55 | +0.42 | 0 | ±0 | |
| Humanist Party (PH) | 982 | 0.15 | New | 0 | ±0 | |
| Upper Aragonese Territory Regenerationist Group (ARTA) | 373 | 0.06 | New | 0 | ±0 | |
| Blank ballots | 13,599 | 2.08 | +0.50 | |||
| Total | 652,810 | 100.00 | 67 | ±0 | ||
| Valid votes | 652,810 | 99.29 | –0.11 | |||
| Invalid votes | 4,654 | 0.71 | +0.11 | |||
| Votes cast / turnout | 657,464 | 65.76 | –5.36 | |||
| Abstentions | 342,364 | 34.24 | +5.36 | |||
| Registered voters | 999,828 | |||||
| Source(s): Argos Information Portal, historiaelectoral.com | ||||||
Distribution by constituency
| Constituency | PP | PSOE | PAR | CHA | IU | |||||
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| % | S | % | S | % | S | % | S | % | S | |
| Huesca | 33.8 | 7 | 34.2 | 7 | 16.1 | 3 | 9.0 | 1 | 3.4 | − |
| Teruel | 40.2 | 7 | 31.6 | 5 | 17.7 | 3 | 4.3 | − | 4.1 | − |
| Zaragoza | 39.0 | 14 | 29.8 | 11 | 11.7 | 4 | 12.8 | 4 | 3.9 | 1 |
| Total | 38.2 | 28 | 30.8 | 23 | 13.3 | 10 | 11.0 | 5 | 3.9 | 1 |
References
- ↑ "Votes from PAR and IU give Socialist Iglesias the presidency of Aragon" (in Spanish). El País. 1999-07-30.
- 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.
- ↑ Statute of Autonomy of Aragon Reform of 1996, Organic Law No. 5 of December 30, 1996 Official State Gazette (in Spanish). Retrieved on 8 April 2017.