Balearic regional election, 2007

27 May 2007

All 59 seats in the Parliament of the Balearic Islands
30 seats needed for a majority

Registered

699,947

2.5%

Turnout

420,941 (60.1%)

2.7 pp

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Jaume Matas	Francesc Antich	Gabriel Barceló
Party	PP	PSIB–PSOE	Bloc
Leader since	17 June 1996	9 November 1998	27 May 2006
Leader's seat	Majorca	Majorca	Majorca
Last election	30 seats, 45.1%	20 seats, 28.8%	6 seats, 12.8%
Seats won	29	22	5
Seat change	1	2	1
Popular vote	194,372	136,027	40,864
Percentage	46.5%	32.5%	9.8%
Swing	1.4 pp	4.7 pp	3.0 pp

Constituency results map for the Parliament of the Balearic Islands

President before election

Jaume Matas
PP

Elected President

Francesc Antich
PSIB–PSOE

The 2007 Balearic regional election was held on Sunday, 27 May 2007, to elect the 7th Parliament of the Autonomous Community of the Balearic Islands. All 59 seats in the Parliament were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with regional elections in 12 other autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain.

On 1 March 2007, the reform of the Statute of Autonomy of the Balearic Islands came into effect.^[1] Among other changes, it gave more autonomy to every Island Council, with the creation of the Island Council of Formentera—formerly the Island Council of Ibiza and Formentera covered both islands—, composed by the municipal councillors elected in the Formentera municipal election. This meant that to elect the island councillors a separate election was held for the first time. Since then, the regional election in every district was used to determine the councillors. The number of seats was the same as before—33 for Majorca, 13 for Minorca and 13 for Ibiza. The voters had therefore an extra blue ballot to vote for each Island Council, different from the salmon ballot existing for the regional election.

Electoral system

The number of seats in the Balearic Parliament was set to a fixed-number of 59. All Parliament members were elected in 3 multi-member districts, each corresponding to one of the three largest islands in the archipelago: Majorca was entitled 33 seats; Minorca with 13 and Ibiza with 12, using the D'Hondt method and a closed-list proportional representation system. Additionally, Formentera elected one member using plurality voting.

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 ballots—for none of the above) were entitled to enter the seat distribution.^[2]

Results

Overall

← Summary of the 27 May 2007 Parliament of the Balearic Islands election results →
Parties and coalitions		Popular vote			Seats

Parties and coalitions		Votes	%	±pp	Won	+/−

People's Party (PP)¹		194,372	46.45	+1.37	29	–1
	People's Party (PP)	192,577	46.02	+1.32	28	–1
	Independent Popular Council of Formentera (AIPF)	1,795	0.43	+0.05	1	±0

Socialist Party of the Balearic Islands (PSIB–PSOE)²		136,027	32.51	+4.72	22	+2
	Socialist Party of the Balearic Islands (PSIB–PSOE)	115,477	27.60	+3.06	16	+1
	PSOE+Ibiza for Change (PSOE+ExC)³	19,094	4.56	+0.61	6	+1
	PSOE+People for Formentera (PSOE+GxF)⁴	1,456	0.35	+0.05	0	±0

Bloc–Agreement–The Greens (Bloc–PSM–EN–EV)⁵		40,864	9.77	–3.04	5	–1
	Bloc for Majorca (PSM–EN, EU–EV, ERC)⁶	37,572	8.98	–3.14	4	–1
	Socialist Party of Minorca–The Greens (PSMen–EN, EV–Me)⁷	3,292	0.79	+0.10	1	±0

Majorcan Union (UM)⁸		28,864	6.89	–0.82	3	±0
	Majorcan Union (UM)	28,178	6.73	–0.72	3	±0
	Union of Centrists of Minorca (UCM)	686	0.16	–0.10	0	±0

Parties with less than 1.0% of the vote		9,704	2.32	—	±0
	Independent Social Group (ASI)	1,921	0.46	–1.11	±0
	Left of Minorca–United Left (EM–EU)	1,728	0.41	±0.00	±0
	Citizens for Blank Votes (CB)	1,216	0.29	+0.19	±0
	European Green Group (GVE)	876	0.21	+0.12	±0
	Balearic Party (PB)	802	0.19	New	±0
	Balearic People's Union (UPB)	689	0.16	+0.13	±0
	Pityusic Democracy (DP)	675	0.16	New	±0
	Key of Majorca (Clau)	546	0.13	–0.58	±0
	Workers for Democracy Coalition (TD)	543	0.13	+0.03	±0
	Islander Party of the Balearic Islands (PIIB)	366	0.09	New	±0
	Civic Union (UC)	342	0.08	–0.10	±0

Blank ballots

8,613

2.06

+0.40

Total

418,444

100.00

±0

Valid votes

418,444

99.41

+0.06

Invalid votes

2,497

0.59

–0.06

Votes cast / turnout

420,941

60.14

–2.70

Abstentions

279,006

39.86

+2.70

Registered voters

699,947

Source(s): Parliament of the Balearic Islands, historiaelectoral.com

Notes:

¹ Aggregated data for People's Party and Independent Popular Council of Formentera. While nominally different alliances, they did not compete against each other in the same geographical regions.
² Aggregated data for Socialist Party of the Balearic Islands, Ibiza for Change and People for Formentera. While nominally different alliances, they did not compete against each other in the same geographical regions.
³ PSOE+Ibiza for Change results are compared to the combined totals of Progressive Pact and The Greens of Ibiza in the 2003 election.
⁴ PSOE+People for Formentera results are compared to Coalition of Progressive Organizations totals in the 2003 election.
⁵ Aggregated data for Bloc for Majorca and Socialist Party of Minorca–The Greens. While nominally different alliances, they did not compete against each other in the same geographical regions.
⁶ Bloc for Majorca results are compared to the combined totals of PSM–Nationalist Agreement, United Left of Majorca–The Greens of Majorca and Republican Left of Catalonia in the 2003 election.
⁷ Socialist Party of Minorca–The Greens results are compared to the combined totals of Socialist Party of Minorca–Nationalist Agreement and The Greens of Minorca in the 2003 election.
⁸ Aggregated data for Majorcan Union and Union of Centrists of Minorca. While nominally different alliances, they did not compete against each other in the same geographical regions.

Popular vote

PP			46.45%
PSIB–PSOE			32.51%
Bloc			9.77%
UM			6.89%
Others			2.32%
Blank ballots			2.06%

Seats

PP			47.46%
PSIB–PSOE			37.29%
Bloc			8.47%
UM			5.08%

Distribution by constituency

Constituency	PP		PSIB		Bloc		UM		AIPF

	%	S	%	S	%	S	%	S	%	S
Formentera									54.5	1
Ibiza	47.1	6	45.8	6
Majorca	46.7	16	30.1	10	11.2	4	8.4	3
Minorca	43.0	6	38.4	6	9.0	1	1.9	−
Total	46.0	28	32.2	22	9.8	5	6.9	3	0.4	1

Aftermath

Investiture vote

First round: 4 July 2007
Absolute majority (30/59) required
Candidate: Francesc Antich
Choice		Vote
Choice		Parties	Votes
	Y Yes	PSIB–PSOE (20), UM (3), PSM–EN (2), EU–EV (2), EU Eivissa (1), ERC (1), PSMen–EN (1)	30 / 59
	No	PP (28), AIPF (1)	29 / 59
	Abstentions		0 / 59
Source: historiaelectoral.com

References

↑ "Ley Orgánica 1/2007, de 28 de febrero, de reforma del Estatuto de Autonomía de las Illes Balears." (PDF). boe.es (in Spanish). 2007-03-01.
↑ "Law 8/1986, of 26 November, electoral of the Autonomous Community of the Balearic Islands" (PDF).

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