Castilian-Manchegan regional election, 1991
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All 47 seats in the Cortes of Castilla-La Mancha 24 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Registered |
1,304,996  3.6% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Turnout |
946,138 (72.5%) 2.9 pp | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Constituency results map for the Cortes of Castilla-La Mancha | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1991 Castilian-Manchegan regional election was held on Sunday, 26 May 1991, to elect the 3rd Cortes of the Autonomous Community of Castilla-La Mancha. All 47 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.
For the third consecutive time, the election was won by the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, which under José Bono obtained a new absolute majority, with 27 out of 47 seats and over 52% of the share. The People's Party (PP), a party formed in 1989 from the merger of the People's Alliance (AP), the People's Democratic Party and the Liberal Party (PL), obtained 19 seats and 35.9% of the vote. United Left (IU) entered the Courts for the first time with 1 seat.
The three parties' gains came at the cost of the Democratic and Social Centre (CDS), which lost 2/3 of its votes and its 4 seats, being expelled from the Courts as a result.
Electoral system
The number of seats in the Castilla-La Mancha Courts was set to a fixed-number of 47. All Courts members were elected in 5 multi-member districts, corresponding to Castilla-La Mancha's five provinces, using the D'Hondt method and a closed-list proportional representation system. Each district was assigned a fixed set of seats, distributed as follows: Albacete (10), Ciudad Real (11), Cuenca (8), Guadalajara (7) and Toledo (11).
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
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| Parties and coalitions | Popular vote | Seats | ||||
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| Votes | % | ±pp | Won | +/− | ||
| Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) | 489,876 | 52.17 | +5.84 | 27 | +2 | |
| People's Party (PP)1 | 336,642 | 35.85 | –0.07 | 19 | +1 | |
| United Left (IU) | 57,967 | 6.17 | +0.81 | 1 | +1 | |
| Democratic and Social Centre (CDS) | 32,793 | 3.49 | –7.00 | 0 | –4 | |
| Parties with less than 1.0% of the vote | 12,396 | 1.32 | — | 0 | ±0 | |
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| The Greens Ecologist–Humanist List (LVLE–H)2 | 4,836 | 0.52 | +0.33 | 0 | ±0 | |
| Action for Talavera (ACTAL) | 2,441 | 0.26 | New | 0 | ±0 | |
| Social Democratic Party of Castilla-La Mancha (PSDCLM) | 1,102 | 0.12 | –0.02 | 0 | ±0 | |
| Regionalist Unitary Party (PUR) | 1,052 | 0.11 | –0.02 | 0 | ±0 | |
| Regionalist Party of Castilla-La Mancha (PRCM) | 984 | 0.10 | New | 0 | ±0 | |
| Commoners' Land (TC) | 918 | 0.10 | New | 0 | ±0 | |
| Regionalist Party of Guadalajara (PRGU) | 769 | 0.08 | New | 0 | ±0 | |
| Alliance for the Republic (AxR) | 294 | 0.03 | New | 0 | ±0 | |
| Blank ballots | 9,300 | 0.99 | +0.01 | ||||||
| Total | 938,974 | 100.00 | 47 | ±0 | |||||
| Valid votes | 938,974 | 99.24 | +0.40 | ||||||
| Invalid votes | 7,164 | 0.76 | –0.40 | ||||||
| Votes cast / turnout | 946,138 | 72.50 | –2.93 | ||||||
| Abstentions | 358,858 | 27.50 | +2.93 | ||||||
| Registered voters | 1,304,996 | ||||||||
| Source(s): Argos Information Portal, Cortes of Castilla-La Mancha, historiaelectoral.com | |||||||||
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Distribution by constituency
| Constituency | PSOE | PP | IU | |||
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| % | S | % | S | % | S | |
| Albacete | 54.0 | 6 | 31.5 | 3 | 8.7 | 1 |
| Ciudad Real | 56.4 | 7 | 31.7 | 4 | 5.6 | − |
| Cuenca | 50.3 | 5 | 39.8 | 3 | 3.3 | − |
| Guadalajara | 40.9 | 3 | 44.5 | 4 | 8.0 | − |
| Toledo | 51.3 | 6 | 38.1 | 5 | 5.8 | − |
| Total | 52.2 | 27 | 35.9 | 19 | 6.2 | 1 |