Canarian regional election, 1999

Canarian regional election, 1999

13 June 1999
All 60 seats in the Parliament of the Canaries 31 seats needed for a majority
Registered	1,331,110 6.6%
Turnout	835,181 (62.7%) 1.5 pp
First party Second party Third party   Leader Román Rodríguez Jerónimo Saavedra José Miguel Bravo de Laguna Party CC PSOE PP Leader since 1999 1999 1991 Last election 21 seats, 32.8% 16 seats, 23.1% 18 seats, 31.1% Seats won 24 19 15 Seat change 3 3 3 Popular vote 306,658 199,503 225,316 Percentage 36.9% 24.0% 27.1% Swing 4.1 pp 0.9 pp 4.0 pp
Island-level units won by CC (yellow), PP (blue), PSOE (red) and AHI (green)
President before election Manuel Hermoso CC Elected President Román Rodríguez CC

The 1999 Canarian regional election was held on Sunday, 13 June 1999, to elect the 5th Parliament of the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands. All 60 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, as well as the 1999 European Parliament election.

Electoral system

The 60 members of the Canarian Parliament were elected in 7 multi-member districts using the D'Hondt method and a closed-list proportional representation system. Unlike other regions, districts did not coincide with provincial limits, being determined by law for each of the main islands to become a district of its own. The electoral system came regulated under the Autonomous Statute of Autonomy. Each district was assigned a fixed set of seats, distributed as follows: El Hierro (3), Fuerteventura (7), Gran Canaria (15), La Gomera (4), La Palma (8), Lanzarote (8) and Tenerife (15).

Voting was on the basis of universal suffrage in a secret ballot. Only lists polling above 30% of the total vote in each district or above 6% in all of the community (which include blank ballots—for none of the above) were entitled to enter the seat distribution.^[1]

Results

Overall

← Summary of the 13 June 1999 Parliament of the Canaries election results →

Parties and coalitions		Popular vote			Seats
		Votes	%	±pp	Won	+/−
	Canarian Coalition (CC)	306,658	36.93	+4.13	24	+3
	People's Party (PP)	225,316	27.13	–3.94	15	–3
	Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)	199,503	24.03	+0.95	19	+3
	Canarian Nationalist Federation (FNC)1	39,947	4.81	+1.81	0	–4
	Canarian United Left (IUC)	22,768	2.74	–2.36	0	±0
	The Greens of Canarias (LV)	12,146	1.46	New	0	±0

References

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