Castilian-Manchegan regional election, 1999

Castilian-Manchegan regional election, 1999

13 June 1999
All 47 seats in the Cortes of Castilla-La Mancha 24 seats needed for a majority
Registered	1,413,503 4.5%
Turnout	1,058,010 (74.9%) 3.9 pp
First party Second party   Leader José Bono Agustín Conde Party PSOE PP Leader since 25 March 1983 18 September 1996 Leader's seat Toledo Toledo Last election 24 seats, 45.7% 22 seats, 44.3% Seats won 26 21 Seat change 2 1 Popular vote 561,332 424,531 Percentage 53.4% 40.4% Swing 7.7 pp 3.9 pp
Constituency results map for the Cortes of Castilla-La Mancha
President before election José Bono PSOE Elected President José Bono PSOE

The 1999 Castilian-Manchegan regional election was held on Sunday, 13 June 1999, to elect the 5th 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, as well as the 1999 European Parliament election.

The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) recovered after its 1995 result and increased its absolute majority in the regional Courts. The People's Party (PP), on the other hand, saw its share decrease 4 points to 40% and lost 1 seat from the previous election, not being able to maintain a part of its 1995 vote that it had received as a punishment to Felipe González's Socialist government.

United Left (IU) lost half of its votes as a result of the PSOE rise and lost its only seat in the Courts, being expelled from the regional parliament 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

← Summary of the 13 June 1999 Cortes of Castilla-La Mancha election results →

Parties and coalitions		Popular vote			Seats
		Votes	%	±pp	Won	+/−
	Spanish Socialist Workers' Party–Progressives (PSOE–p)	561,332	53.42	+7.72	26	+2
	People's Party (PP)	424,531	40.40	–3.90	21	–1
	United Left–Left of Castilla-La Mancha (IU–ICAM)	35,881	3.41	–4.19	0	–1

Distribution by constituency

References

Elections in Castilla-La Mancha
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