Cantabrian regional election, 2015

24 May 2015

All 35 seats in the Parliament of Cantabria
18 seats needed for a majority

Opinion polls

Registered

499,596

0.9%

Turnout

330,868 (66.2%)

1.2 pp

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Ignacio Diego	Miguel Ángel Revilla	Eva Díaz Tezanos
Party	PP	PRC	PSOE
Leader since	13 November 2004	1983	31 March 2012
Leader's seat	Cantabria	Cantabria	Cantabria
Last election	20 seats, 46.1%	12 seats, 29.1%	7 seats, 16.4%
Seats won	13	12	5
Seat change	7	0	2
Popular vote	105,944	97,185	45,653
Percentage	32.6%	29.9%	14.0%
Swing	13.5 pp	0.8 pp	2.4 pp

	Fourth party	Fifth party

Leader	José Ramón Blanco	Rubén Gómez
Party	Podemos	C's
Leader since	14 February 2015	9 April 2015
Leader's seat	Cantabria	Cantabria
Last election	Did not contest	Did not contest
Seats won	3	2
Seat change	3	2
Popular vote	28,895	22,552
Percentage	8.9%	6.9%
Swing	New party	New party

President before election

Ignacio Diego
PP

Elected President

Miguel Ángel Revilla
PRC

The 2015 Cantabrian regional election was held on Sunday, 24 May 2015, to elect the 9th Parliament of the Autonomous Community of Cantabria. All 35 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 Parliament of Cantabria is set to a fixed-number of 35. All Parliament members are elected in a single multi-member district, consisting of the Community's territory (the province of Cantabria), using the D'Hondt method and a closed-list proportional representation system.

Voting is on the basis of universal suffrage in a secret ballot. Only lists polling above 5% of valid votes in all of the community (which include blank ballots—for none of the above) are entitled to enter the seat distribution.^[1]

Opinion polls

Vote

Poll results are listed in the table below in reverse chronological order, showing the most recent first. The highest percentage figure in each polling survey is displayed in bold, and the background shaded in the leading party's colour. In the instance that there is a tie, then no figure is shaded. The lead column on the right shows the percentage-point difference between the two parties with the highest figures. Poll results use the date the survey's fieldwork was done, as opposed to the date of publication. However, if such date is unknown, the date of publication will be given instead.

Date	Polling Firm/Source	PP	PRC	PSOE	IU	UPyD	C's	P	Oth.	Lead
Date	Polling Firm/Source								Oth.	Lead
24 May 2015	Regional Election	32.6	30.0	14.0	2.5	0.7	6.9	8.8	4.5	2.6
Exit polls
17 May	NC-Report	36.2	24.2	15.3	2.8	0.7	8.9	10.2	1.7	12.0
5–9 May	Ikerfel	34.7	21.8	15.7	4.0	1.4	11.9	8.8	1.7	12.9
23 Mar–19 Apr	CIS	33.2	22.4	16.3	3.0	1.6	10.3	9.5	3.7	10.8
17–26 Mar	NC-Report	35.9	20.1	15.1	2.7	1.1	10.1	12.7	6.7	15.8
23 Feb–3 Mar	Ikerfel	34.8	17.6	15.3	4.1		12.5	13.1	2.6	17.2
2015
1–5 Nov	SyM	36.8	12.6	21.8	6.0	5.9		13.4	3.5	15.0
25 May 2014	EP Election	34.7	N/A	24.3	9.0	8.2	3.0	9.2	11.6	10.3
6–9 Feb	SyM	36.9	27.7	16.8	7.7	6.3			4.6	9.2
2014
15 Oct–12 Nov	NC-Report	39.6	31.0	16.9					12.5	8.6
24–27 Sep	SyM	36.7	24.3	17.2	7.7				4.6	12.4
15 Apr–10 May	NC-Report	39.8	31.4	16.2	6.1				6.5	8.4
2013
2012
20 Nov 2011	General Election	52.2	12.5	25.2	3.6	3.6			1.7	27.0
22 May 2011	Regional Election	46.1	29.1	16.4	3.3	1.7			5.0	16.9

Seat projections

Opinion polls showing seat projections are displayed in the table below. The highest seat figures in each polling survey have their background shaded in the leading party's colour. In the instance that there is a tie, then no figure is shaded. 20 seats were required for an absolute majority in the Parliament of Cantabria.

18 seats needed for majority (31/12/2011–)
Date	Polling Firm/Source	PP	PRC	PSOE	IU	UPyD	C's	P	Others
Date	Polling Firm/Source								Others
24 May 2015	Regional Election	13	12	5	0	0	2	3	0
24 May	GAD3	15−16	9−10	5−6	0	0	3−4	0−2	0
Exit polls
17 May	NC-Report	13	9	5	0	0	3	3	0
17 May	GAD3	14−15	8−9	6	0	0	4	2−3	0
5–9 May	Ikerfel	13−14	8−9	6	0	0	4−5	3	0
1 May	PP	15−17	7−9	5−7	0	0	3	2	0
23 Mar–19 Apr	CIS	13−14	8−9	6	0	0	4	3	0
17–26 Mar	NC-Report	13−14	7−8	5−6	0	0	3−4	3−4	0
23 Feb–3 Mar	Ikerfel	13−14	6−7	5−6	0	0	4−5	5	0
2 Feb	PP	14−16	8−10	5−6	0	0	0	5−6	0
2015
10 Nov	PP	16	9	5	0	0	0	5	0
1–5 Nov	SyM	14	4−5	8	2−3	2	0	5	0
31 Oct	Llorente & Cuenca	14−16	10−12	5	2	1−2	0	4−5	0
25 May 2014	EP Election	(16)	N/A	(11)	(4)	(4)	(0)	(4)	(0)
6–9 Feb	SyM	14	10−11	6	2−3	2	0	0	0
2014
15 Oct–12 Nov	NC-Report	15−16	11−12	6−7	2	0	0		0
24–27 Sep	SyM	14−16	9−10	5−6	2−3	2−3	0		0
15 Apr–10 May	NC-Report	15−16	11−12	6−7	2	0	0		0
2013
2012
20 Nov 2011	General Election	(23)	(5)	(11)	(0)	(0)			(0)
22 May 2011	Regional Election	20	12	7	0	0			0

Results

← Summary of the 24 May 2015 Parliament of Cantabria election results
Parties and coalitions		Popular vote			Seats

Parties and coalitions		Votes	%	±pp	Won	+/−
	People's Party (PP)	105,944	32.58	–13.51	13	–7
	Regionalist Party of Cantabria (PRC)	97,185	29.89	+0.77	12	±0
	Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)	45,653	14.04	–2.32	5	–2
	We Can (Podemos)	28,895	8.89	New	3	+3
	Citizens–Party of the Citizenry (C's)	22,552	6.94	New	2	+2

	United Left (IU)	8,246	2.54	–0.78	0	±0

Parties with less than 1.0% of the vote		11,633	3.58	—	±0
	Union, Progress and Democracy (UPyD)	2,380	0.73	–0.99	±0
	Animalist Party Against Mistreatment of Animals (PACMA)	1,965	0.60	New	±0
	For Cantabria Yes (Sí)	1,852	0.57	New	±0
	Equo (eQuo)	1,592	0.49	New	±0
	Let's Win Cantabria (Ganemos)	1,417	0.44	New	±0
	Vox (Vox)	1,119	0.34	New	±0
	Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain (PCPE)	562	0.17	–0.16	±0
	Engine and Sports Alternative (AMD)	495	0.15	–0.12	±0
	Internationalist Solidarity and Self-Management (SAIn)	251	0.08	–0.07	±0

	Blank ballots	5,025	1.55	–0.61

Total		325,133	100.00		35	–4

Valid votes		325,133	98.27	–0.03
Invalid votes		5,735	1.73	+0.03
Votes cast / turnout		330,868	66.23	–3.56
Abstentions		168,728	33.77	+3.56
Registered voters		499,596

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

Popular vote

PP			32.58%
PRC			29.89%
PSOE			14.04%
Podemos			8.89%
C's			6.94%
IU			2.54%
Others			3.58%
Blank ballots			1.55%

Seats

PP			37.14%
PRC			34.29%
PSOE			14.29%
Podemos			8.57%
C's			5.71%

References

↑ "Law 5/1987, of 27 March, of elections to the Parliament of Cantabria".

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