Cantabrian regional election, 1995

Cantabrian regional election, 1995

28 May 1995
All 39 seats in the Regional Assembly of Cantabria 20 seats needed for a majority
Registered	435,752 5.7%
Turnout	322,654 (74.0%) 1.7 pp
First party Second party Third party   Leader José Joaquín Martínez Sieso Julio Neira Vicente de la Hera Party PP PSOE UPCA Leader since 1995 23 February 1995 13 December 1994 Leader's seat Cantabria Cantabria Cantabria Last election 6 seats, 14.4% 16 seats, 34.8% 15 seats, 33.5% Seats won 13 10 7 Seat change 7 6 8 Popular vote 104,008 80,464 53,191 Percentage 32.5% 25.1% 16.6% Swing 18.1 pp 9.7 pp 16.9 pp   Fourth party Fifth party   Leader Miguel Ángel Revilla Ángel Agudo Party PRC IU Leader since 1983 1983 Leader's seat Cantabria Cantabria Last election 2 seats, 6.4% 0 seats, 4.4% Seats won 6 3 Seat change 4 3 Popular vote 46,587 23,563 Percentage 14.6% 7.4% Swing 8.2 pp 3.0 pp
President before election Juan Hormaechea UPCA Elected President José Joaquín Martínez Sieso PP

The 1995 Cantabrian regional election was held on Sunday, 28 May 1995, to elect the 4th Regional Assembly of the Autonomous Community of Cantabria. All 39 seats in the Regional Assembly were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with regional elections in 12 other autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain.

The People's Party won the election, recovering much of the vote it had lost in 1991 to Hormaechea's Union for the Progress of Cantabria (UPCA), which fell to third place and lost over half of its seats and votes. The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), which in 1991 had won the regional election, collapsed and obtained its worst result until that time. The Regionalist Party of Cantabria (PRC) recovered and scored fourth with nearly 15% of the vote, while United Left (IU) entered the Assembly for the first time.

As a result of the election, José Joaquín Martínez Sieso from the People's Party was able to be elected as regional President thanks to a PP-PRC coalition agreement.

Electoral system

The number of seats in the Regional Assembly of Cantabria was set to a fixed-number of 39. All Assembly members were 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 was 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) were entitled to enter the seat distribution.^[1]

Results

← Summary of the 28 May 1995 Regional Assembly of Cantabria election results →

Parties and coalitions		Popular vote			Seats
		Votes	%	±pp	Won	+/−
	People's Party (PP)	104,008	32.50	+18.06	13	+7
	Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)	80,464	25.14	–9.67	10	–6
	Union for the Progress of Cantabria (UPCA)	53,191	16.62	–16.91	7	–8
	Regionalist Party of Cantabria (PRC)	46,587	14.56	+8.21	6	+4
	United Left (IU)	23,563	7.36	+2.96	3	+3

Post-election

Investiture voting

13 July 1995 Investiture voting for José Joaquín Martínez Sieso (PP) Absolute majority: 20/39
Vote	Parties	Votes
Y Yes	PP (13), UPCA (7), PRC (6)	26 / 39
No	PSOE (10)	10 / 39
Abstentions	IU (3)	3 / 39
Source: El País

References

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