Canarian regional election, 1995

28 May 1995

All 60 seats in the Parliament of the Canaries
31 seats needed for a majority

Registered

1,248,575

9.8%

Turnout

801,607 (64.2%)

2.6 pp

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Manuel Hermoso	José Miguel Bravo de Laguna	Augusto Brito
Party	CC	PP	PSOE
Leader since	1991	1991	11 February 1995
Last election	23 seats, 36.8%	6 seats, 12.8%	23 seats, 33.0%
Seats won	21	18	16
Seat change	2	12	7
Popular vote	261,672	247,609	183,969
Percentage	32.8%	31.1%	23.1%
Swing	4.0 pp	18.3 pp	9.9 pp

Island-level units won by CC (yellow), PP (blue), PSOE (red), PCN (purple) and AHI (green)

President before election

Manuel Hermoso
CC

Elected President

Manuel Hermoso
CC

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

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 20% of the total vote in each district or above 3% 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 28 May 1995 Parliament of the Canaries election results →
Parties and coalitions		Popular vote			Seats

Parties and coalitions		Votes	%	±pp	Won	+/−

Canarian Coalition (CC)¹		261,672	32.83	–3.93	21	–2
	Canarian Coalition (CC)²	261,424	32.80	–3.90	21	–2
	Canarian Nationalist Initiative (ICAN)³	248	0.03	–0.03	0	±0

People's Party (PP)	247,609	31.07	+18.24	18	+12
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)	183,969	23.08	–9.95	16	–7
Canarian United Left (IUC)	40,614	5.10	New	0	±0
Nationalist Canarian Platform (PCN)	23,914	3.00	New	4	+4

Coalition for Gran Canaria (CGC)	10,964	1.38	New	0	±0

Parties with less than 1.0% of the vote		19,239	2.41	—	1	–7
	Democratic and Social Centre-Centrist Union (CDS–UC)	5,340	0.67	–13.74	0	–7
	National Congress of the Canaries (CNC)	2,964	0.37	New	0	±0
	Popular Front of the Canary Islands–Awañac (FREPIC–Awañac)	2,436	0.31	New	0	±0
	Independent Herrenian Group (AHI)	2,105	0.26	+0.05	1	±0
	Tinerfenian Assembly (ATF)	1,600	0.20	New	0	±0
	Humanist Party (PH)	1,561	0.20	New	0	±0
	Green Left of the Canary Islands (Izegzawen)	1,357	0.17	New	0	±0
	Communist Party of the Canarian People (PCPC)	1,251	0.16	New	0	±0
	Party of The People (LG)	625	0.08	–0.13	0	±0

Blank ballots

9,078

1.14

+0.37

Total

797,059

100.00

±0

Valid votes

797,059

99.43

+0.16

Invalid votes

4,548

0.57

–0.16

Votes cast / turnout

801,607

64.20

+2.57

Abstentions

446,968

35.80

–2.57

Registered voters

1,248,575

Source(s): Argos Information Portal, ISTAC, historiaelectoral.com

Notes:

¹ Aggregated data for Canarian Coalition and Canarian Nationalist Initiative. Canarian Coalition and its member parties, except for Canarian Nationalist Initiative, declined to run in El Hierro in order to respect Independent Herrenian Group list there.
² Canarian Coalition results are compared to the combined totals of Canarian Independent Groups, Canarian Initiative, Canarian Nationalist Party and Majorera Assembly in the 1991 election, not including Canarian Initiative results in El Hierro.
³ Canarian Nationalist Initiative results are compared to Canarian Initiative totals in El Hierro in the 1991 election.

Popular vote

CC			32.80%
PP			31.07%
PSOE			23.08%
IUC			5.10%
PCN			3.00%
CGC			1.38%
AHI			0.26%
Others			2.15%
Blank ballots			1.14%

Seats

CC			35.00%
PP			30.00%
PSOE			26.67%
PCN			6.67%
AHI			1.67%

References

↑ "Organic Law 10/1982, of 10 August, of the Statute of Autonomy of Canarias".

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