Balearic regional election, 1995

28 May 1995

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

Registered

594,666

5.0%

Turnout

377,943 (63.6%)

3.3 pp

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Gabriel Cañellas	Joan Francesc Triay	Pere Sampol
Party	PP	PSIB–PSOE	PSM–ENE
Leader since	1980	1986	1991
Leader's seat	Majorca	Majorca	Majorca
Last election	31 seats, 47.5%	21 seats, 30.1%	5 seats, 8.4%
Seats won	31	16	6
Seat change	±0	5	1
Popular vote	169,351	90,008	45,854
Percentage	45.1%	24.0%	12.2%
Swing	2.4 pp	6.1 pp	3.8 pp

Constituency results map for the Parliament of the Balearic Islands

President before election

Gabriel Cañellas
PP

Elected President

Gabriel Cañellas
PP

The 1995 Balearic regional election was held on Sunday, 28 May 1995, to elect the 4th 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.

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. The modification of 21 March 1995 increased the district threshold, so that 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.^[1]

Results

Overall

← Summary of the 28 May 1995 Parliament of the Balearic Islands election results →
Parties and coalitions		Popular vote			Seats

Parties and coalitions		Votes	%	±pp	Won	+/−

People's Party (PP)¹		169,351	45.09	–2.43	31	±0
	People's Party (PP)²	168,156	44.77	–2.35	30	–1
	Independent Popular Council of Formentera (AIPF)³	1,195	0.32	–0.08	1	+1

	Socialist Party of the Balearic Islands (PSIB–PSOE)	90,008	23.97	–6.12	16	–5

Nationalists of the Balearic Islands (PSM–ENE)⁴		45,854	12.21	+3.79	6	+1
	Socialist Party of Majorca–Nationalists of Majorca (PSM–NM)	41,242	10.98	+4.34	5	+2
	Socialist Party of Minorca–Nationalists of the Islands (PSMen)⁵	4,013	1.07	–0.30	1	–1
	Nationalist and Ecologist Agreement (ENE)	599	0.16	–0.25	0	±0

United Left (IU)	24,820	6.61	+4.33	3	+3
Majorcan Union (UM)⁶	19,966	5.32	+2.83	2	+1
The Greens of the Balearic Islands (EVIB)	11,663	3.11	+0.99	1	+1

Parties with less than 1.0% of the vote		8,810	2.35	—	–1
	Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC)	2,082	0.55	New	±0
	Balearic Convergence (CB)	1,600	0.43	–1.20	±0
	Independent Social Group (ASI)	1,425	0.38	New	±0
	Independents of Ibiza and Formentera Federation (FIEF)	1,359	0.36	–0.37	–1
	Independents of Minorca (INME)	987	0.26	New	±0
	Spanish Falange of the JONS (FE–JONS)	439	0.12	–0.06	±0
	Platform of Independents of Spain (PIE)	378	0.10	New	±0
	Neighbourhood Movement–New Socialist Party (MV–NPS)⁷	321	0.09	–0.09	±0
	Balearic Radical Party (PRB)	219	0.06	–0.10	±0

Blank ballots

5,100

1.36

+0.49

Total

375,572

100.00

±0

Valid votes

375,572

99.37

–0.01

Invalid votes

2,371

0.63

+0.01

Votes cast / turnout

377,943

63.56

+3.29

Abstentions

216,723

36.44

–3.29

Registered voters

594,666

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 People's Party results are compared to the combined totals of People's Party–Majorcan Union and People's Party in the 1991 election, not including results in Formentera.
³ Independent Popular Council of Formentera results are compared to the combined totals of People's Party in Formentera and Independents of Formentera Group in the 1991 election.
⁴ Aggregated data for Socialist Party of Majorca–Nationalists of Majorca, Socialist Party of Minorca–Nationalists of the Islands and Nationalist and Ecologist Agreement. While nominally different alliances, they did not compete against each other in the same geographical regions.
⁵ Socialist Party of Minorca–Nationalists of the Islands results are compared to Left of Minorca Agreement totals in the 1991 election.
⁶ Majorcan Union results are compared to Independent Union of Majorca–Independents of Majorca totals in the 1991 election.
⁷ Neighbourhood Movement–New Socialist Party results are compared to Alliance for the Republic totals in the 1991 election.

Popular vote

PP			45.09%
PSIB–PSOE			23.97%
PSM–ENE			12.21%
IU			6.61%
UM			5.32%
EVIB			3.11%
Others			2.35%
Blank ballots			1.36%

Seats

PP			52.54%
PSIB–PSOE			27.12%
PSM–ENE			10.17%
IU			5.08%
UM			3.39%
EVIB			1.69%

Distribution by constituency

Constituency	PP		PSIB		PSM–ENE		IU		UM		EVIB		AIPF

	%	S	%	S	%	S	%	S	%	S	%	S	%	S
Formentera			44.1	−			4.5	−					49.4	1
Ibiza	50.6	7	28.1	4	1.9	−	6.0	−			6.9	1
Majorca	44.6	16	22.8	8	13.4	5	6.5	2	6.5	2	3.1	−
Minorca	44.2	7	29.4	4	11.9	1	8.6	1
Total	44.8	30	24.0	16	12.2	6	6.6	3	5.3	2	3.1	1	0.3	1

Aftermath

Investiture vote

First round: 29 June 1995
Absolute majority (30/59) required
Candidate: Gabriel Cañellas
Choice		Vote
Choice		Parties	Votes
	Y Yes	PP (30), AIPF (1)	31 / 59
	No	PSIB–PSOE (16), PSM (5), IU (3), UM (2), PSMen (1), EV (1)	28 / 59
	Abstentions		0 / 59
Source: historiaelectoral.com

References

↑ "Law 8/1986, of 26 November, electoral of the Autonomous Community of the Balearic Islands" (PDF).

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