Castilian-Manchegan regional election, 1995
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The 1995 Castilian-Manchegan regional election was held on Sunday, 28 May 1995, to elect the 4th 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.
Despite bearing enormous losses, the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) was able to maintain government, albeit with a mere 1-seat majority. The People's Party (PP), which in this election made the greatest gains, finished a close second but remained unable to win the PSOE in one of its — considered — strongest strongholds. Meanwhile, United Left (IU) maintained its presence in the Courts and was able to increase both its vote support and share, but remained unable to gain new seats.
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]
Opinion polls
Individual poll results are listed in the table below in reverse chronological order, showing the most recent first, and using the date the survey's fieldwork was done, as opposed to the date of publication. If such date is unknown, the date of publication is given instead. The highest percentage figure in each polling survey is displayed with its background shaded in the leading party's colour. In the instance of a tie, the figures with the highest percentages are shaded. Seat projections are displayed in bold and in a different font. The lead column on the right shows the percentage-point difference between the two parties with the highest figures. 24 seats were required for an absolute majority in the Cortes of Castilla-La Mancha.
| Polling firm/Commissioner | Fieldwork date | Sample size | Turnout | .svg.png){kind=small} |
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Lead |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 regional election | 28 May 1995 | N/A | 78.8 | 45.7 24 |
44.3 22 |
7.6 1 |
1.4 |
| Demoscopia/El País[2][3] | 10–15 May 1995 | ? | ? | 41.9 20/23 |
47.0 23/25 |
8.6 2/4 |
5.1 |
| CIS[p 1][p 2] | 24 Apr–10 May 1995 | 1,696 | 75.1 | 44.2 | 45.3 | 8.7 | 1.1 |
| Gruppo/ABC[p 3] | 24–27 Sep 1994 | 1,000 | ? | 36.8 16/19 |
47.8 24/27 |
11.2 4 |
11.0 |
| 1994 EP election | 12 Jun 1994 | N/A | 65.5 | 37.9 18 |
47.9 25 |
10.5 4 |
10.0 |
| Gruppo/ABC[p 4] | 10–11 May 1994 | 1,000 | ? | 39.2 18/21 |
46.6 23/25 |
10.6 3/4 |
7.4 |
| Sigma Dos/ABC[p 5] | 28–31 Jan 1994 | 1,000 | ? | 42.4 21/22 |
44.8 22/23 |
9.2 2/4 |
2.4 |
| 1993 general election | 6 Jun 1993 | N/A | 82.1 | 45.3 24 |
43.0 22 |
7.6 1 |
2.3 |
| 1991 regional election | 26 May 1991 | N/A | 72.5 | 52.2 27 |
35.9 19 |
6.2 1 |
16.3 |
Results
Overall
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| Parties and coalitions | Popular vote | Seats | ||||
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| Votes | % | ±pp | Won | +/− | ||
| Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) | 483,888 | 45.70 | –6.47 | 24 | –3 | |
| People's Party (PP) | 469,127 | 44.30 | +8.45 | 22 | +3 | |
| United Left–Left of Castilla-La Mancha (IU–ICAM) | 80,482 | 7.60 | +1.43 | 1 | ±0 | |
| Parties with less than 1.0% of the vote | 14,249 | 1.35 | — | 0 | ±0 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Centrist Union (UC) | 4,288 | 0.40 | –3.09 | 0 | ±0 | |
| Regionalist Party of Castilla-La Mancha (PRCM) | 3,121 | 0.29 | +0.19 | 0 | ±0 | |
| Action for Talavera Region (ACTAL) | 2,015 | 0.19 | –0.07 | 0 | ±0 | |
| The Greens–Green Group (LV–GV) | 1,474 | 0.14 | New | 0 | ±0 | |
| Commoners' Land–Castilian Nationalist Party (TC–PNC) | 1,406 | 0.13 | +0.03 | 0 | ±0 | |
| Regionalist Party of Guadalajara (PRGU) | 543 | 0.05 | –0.03 | 0 | ±0 | |
| Guadalajara Independent Union (UIG) | 513 | 0.05 | New | 0 | ±0 | |
| Spanish Falange of the JONS (FE–JONS) | 498 | 0.05 | New | 0 | ±0 | |
| Independent Regional Unity (URI) | 391 | 0.04 | New | 0 | ±0 | |
| Blank ballots | 11,128 | 1.05 | +0.06 | |||
| Total | 1,058,874 | 100.00 | 47 | ±0 | ||
| Valid votes | 1,058,874 | 99.28 | +0.04 | |||
| Invalid votes | 7,697 | 0.72 | –0.04 | |||
| Votes cast / turnout | 1,066,571 | 78.83 | +6.33 | |||
| Abstentions | 286,387 | 21.17 | –6.33 | |||
| Registered voters | 1,352,958 | |||||
| Source(s): Argos Information Portal, Cortes of Castilla-La Mancha, historiaelectoral.com | ||||||
Distribution by constituency
| Constituency | PSOE | PP | IU–ICAM | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| % | S | % | S | % | S | |
| Albacete | 44.5 | 5 | 43.2 | 4 | 10.3 | 1 |
| Ciudad Real | 47.2 | 6 | 43.0 | 5 | 7.7 | − |
| Cuenca | 45.7 | 4 | 47.5 | 4 | 4.7 | − |
| Guadalajara | 37.9 | 3 | 48.9 | 4 | 9.6 | − |
| Toledo | 47.6 | 6 | 43.5 | 5 | 6.3 | − |
| Total | 45.7 | 24 | 44.3 | 22 | 7.6 | 1 |
Opinion poll sources
- ↑ "Preelectoral Comunidad Autónoma de Castilla-La Mancha (Estudio 2165. Abril-Mayo 1995)". CIS (in Spanish). 10 May 1995.
- ↑ "Estudio CIS nº 2165. Ficha técnica" (PDF). CIS (in Spanish). 10 May 1995.
- ↑ "El PP ganaría hoy en Castilla-La Mancha por mayoría absoluta". ABC (in Spanish). 30 October 1994.
- ↑ "El PP rozaría la mayoría absoluta en Castilla-La Mancha, según una encuesta de Gruppo para ABC". ABC (in Spanish). 22 May 1994.
- ↑ "El PSOE perdería hoy la mayoría en Castilla-La Mancha, según una encuesta de Sigma 2 para ABC". ABC (in Spanish). 27 February 1994.
References
- ↑ "Law 5/1986, of 23 December, electoral of Castilla-La Mancha.".
- ↑ "El PP será la fuerza más votada en 12 comunidades". El País (in Spanish). 20 May 1995.
- ↑ "El PP gana en doce autonomías y el PSOE sólo en Extremadura, según un sondeo". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). 21 May 1995.