Canarian regional election, 2003

Canarian regional election, 2003

25 May 2003
All 60 seats in the Parliament of the Canaries 31 seats needed for a majority
Registered	1,439,784 8.2%
Turnout	930,449 (64.6%) 1.9 pp
First party Second party Third party   Leader Adán Martín José Manuel Soria Juan Carlos Alemán Party CC PP PSOE Leader since 2003 16 July 1999 2000 Last election 26 seats, 37.3% 15 seats, 27.1% 19 seats, 24.0% Seats won 23 17 17 Seat change 3 2 2 Popular vote 304,413 283,186 235,234 Percentage 32.9% 30.6% 25.4% Swing 4.4 pp 3.5 pp 1.4 pp
Island-level units won by CC (yellow), PP (blue), PSOE (red) and FNC (purple)
President before election Román Rodríguez CC Elected President Adán Martín CC

The 2003 Canarian regional election was held on Sunday, 25 May 2003, to elect the 6th 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 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 25 May 2003 Parliament of the Canaries election results →

Parties and coalitions		Popular vote			Seats
		Votes	%	±pp	Won	+/−
	Canarian Coalition (CC)1	304,413	32.90	–4.36	23	–3
	People's Party (PP)	283,186	30.61	+3.48	17	+2
	Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)	235,234	25.42	+1.39	17	–2
	Canarian Nationalist Federation (FNC)	44,703	4.83	+0.02	3	+3
	The Greens of Canarias (LV)	18,340	1.98	+0.52	0	±0
	Canarian United Left (IUC)	12,128	1.31	–1.43	0	±0

References

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