Canarian regional election, 2007

Canarian regional election, 2007
Canary Islands
27 May 2007
All 60 seats in the Parliament of the Canaries
31 seats needed for a majority
Registered 1,537,139 6.8%
Turnout 940,852 (61.2%)
3.4 pp

  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Juan Fernando López Aguilar Paulino Rivero José Manuel Soria
Party PSOE CC–PNC PP
Leader since 28 October 2006 3 February 2007 16 July 1999
Last election 17 seats, 25.4% 23 seats, 32.9% 17 seats, 30.6%
Seats won 26 19 15
Seat change 9 4 2
Popular vote 322,833 226,122 224,883
Percentage 34.5% 24.2% 24.0%
Swing 9.1 pp 8.7 pp 6.6 pp

Island-level units won by PSOE (red) and CC (yellow)
President before election

Adán Martín
CC

 Elected President

Paulino Rivero
CC

The 2007 Canarian regional election was held on Sunday, 27 May 2007, to elect the 7th 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 27 May 2007 Parliament of the Canaries election results →
Parties and coalitions Popular vote Seats
Votes % ±pp Won +/−
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) 322,833 34.51 +9.09 26 +9
Canarian Coalition–Canarian Nationalist Party (CC–PNC) 226,122 24.17 –8.73 19 –4
People's Party (PP) 224,883 24.04 –6.57 15 –2
New Canaries (NC) 50,749 5.43 New 0 ±0
Nationalist Canarian Centre (CCN)1 46,676 4.99 +0.16 0 –3
The Greens (LV) 17,793 1.90 –0.08 0 ±0
Blank ballots 13,237 1.42 +0.14
Total 935,460 100.00 60 ±0
Valid votes 935,460 99.43 –0.01
Invalid votes 5,392 0.57 +0.01
Votes cast / turnout 940,852 61.21 –3.41
Abstentions 596,287 38.79 +3.41
Registered voters 1,537,139
Source(s): Argos Information Portal, ISTAC, historiaelectoral.com
Popular vote
PSOE
  
 34.51%
CC–PNC
  
 24.17%
PP
  
 24.04%
NC
  
 5.43%
CCN
  
 4.99%
LV
  
 1.90%
Others
  
 3.55%
Blank ballots
  
 1.42%
Seats
PSOE
  
 43.33%
CC–PNC
  
 31.67%
PP
  
 25.00%

References

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