Castilian-Leonese regional election, 2003

Castilian-Leonese regional election, 2003

25 May 2003
All 82 seats in the Cortes of Castile and León 42 seats needed for a majority
Registered	2,177,222 0.4%
Turnout	1,581,983 (72.7%) 5.1 pp
First party Second party Third party   Leader Juan Vicente Herrera Ángel Villalba Joaquín Otero Party PP PSOE UPL Leader since 16 March 2001 22 October 2000 1997 Last election 48 seats, 50.4% 30 seats, 33.1% 3 seats, 3.7% Seats won 48 32 2 Seat change 0 2 1 Popular vote 760,510 576,769 60,331 Percentage 48.5% 36.8% 3.8% Swing 1.9 pp 3.7 pp 0.1 pp
President before election Juan Vicente Herrera PP Elected President Juan Vicente Herrera PP

The 2003 Castilian-Leonese regional election was held on Sunday, 25 May 2003, to elect the 6th Cortes of the Autonomous Community of Castile and León. All 82 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.

Electoral system

The number of seats in the regional Courts was determined by the population count. For the 2003 election, the Courts size was set to 82 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 2003 election, seats were distributed as follows: Avila (7), Burgos (11), Leon (14), Palencia (7), Salamanca (11), Segovia (6), Soria (5), Valladolid (14) and Zamora (7).

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 25 May 2003 Cortes of Castile and León election results →

Parties and coalitions		Popular vote			Seats
		Votes	%	±pp	Won	+/−
	People's Party (PP)	760,510	48.49	–1.96	48	±0
	Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)	576,769	36.77	+3.71	32	+2
	Leonese People's Union (UPL)	60,331	3.85	+0.15	2	–1
	United Left of Castile and León (IUCyL)	54,085	3.45	–1.98	0	–1
	Commoners' Land–Castilian Nationalist Party (TC–PNC)	18,595	1.19	–0.20	0	–1

References

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