Castilian-Leonese regional election, 1999

Castilian-Leonese regional election, 1999

13 June 1999
All 83 seats in the Cortes of Castile and León 42 seats needed for a majority
Registered	2,185,507 3.1%
Turnout	1,476,858 (67.6%) 5.9 pp
First party Second party Third party   Leader Juan José Lucas Jaime González José Antonio Herreros Party PP PSOE IUCyL Leader since 12 December 1990 14 June 1998 1991 Last election 50 seats, 52.2% 27 seats, 29.7% 5 seats, 9.6% Seats won 48 30 1 Seat change 2 3 4 Popular vote 737,982 483,675 79,390 Percentage 50.4% 33.1% 5.4% Swing 1.8 pp 3.4 pp 4.2 pp   Fourth party Fifth party   Leader Joaquín Otero Juan Carlos Rad Moradillo Party UPL TC–PNC Leader since 1997 1999 Last election 2 seats, 2.6% 0 seats, 0.6% Seats won 3 1 Seat change 1 1 Popular vote 54,158 20,274 Percentage 3.7% 1.4% Swing 1.1 pp 0.8 pp
President before election Juan José Lucas PP Elected President Juan José Lucas PP

The 1999 Castilian-Leonese regional election was held on Sunday, 13 June 1999, to elect the 5th Cortes of the Autonomous Community of Castile and León. All 83 seats in the Cortes were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with regional elections in 12 other autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain, as well as the 1999 European Parliament election.

Electoral system

The number of seats in the regional Courts was determined by the population count. For the 1999 election, the Courts size was set to 83 seats. All Courts members were elected in 9 multi-member districts, corresponding to Castile and León's nine provinces, using the D'Hondt method and a closed-list proportional representation system. Each district was entitled to an initial minimum of 3 seats, with 1 additional seat per each 45,000 inhabitants or fraction greater than 22,500. For the 1999 election, seats were distributed as follows: Avila (7), Burgos (11), Leon (14), Palencia (7), Salamanca (11), Segovia (6), Soria (5), Valladolid (14) and Zamora (8).

Voting was on the basis of universal suffrage in a secret ballot. Only lists polling above 3% of valid votes in each district (which include blank ballots—for none of the above) were entitled to enter the seat distribution.^[1]

Results

Overall

← Summary of the 13 June 1999 Cortes of Castile and León election results →

Parties and coalitions		Popular vote			Seats
		Votes	%	±pp	Won	+/−
	People's Party (PP)	737,982	50.45	–1.75	48	–2
	Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)	483,675	33.06	+3.35	30	+3
	United Left of Castile and León (IUCyL)	79,390	5.43	–4.15	1	–4
	Leonese People's Union (UPL)	54,158	3.70	+1.15	3	+1
	Commoners' Land–Castilian Nationalist Party (TC–PNC)	20,274	1.39	+0.77	1	+1

References

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