Castilian-Manchegan regional election, 1999
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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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Constituency results map for the Cortes of Castilla-La Mancha | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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
Parties and coalitions | Popular vote | Seats | ||||
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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 |
Parties with less than 1.0% of the vote | 14,191 | 1.35 | — | 0 | ±0 | |
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Centrist Union–Democratic and Social Centre (UC–CDS) | 2,809 | 0.27 | –0.07 | 0 | ±0 | |
Regionalist Party of Castilla-La Mancha (PRCM) | 1,919 | 0.18 | –0.11 | 0 | ±0 | |
Commoners' Land–Castilian Nationalist Party (TC–PNC) | 1,737 | 0.17 | +0.04 | 0 | ±0 | |
Spanish Falange of the JONS (FE–JONS) | 1,442 | 0.14 | +0.09 | 0 | ±0 | |
Spanish Democratic Party (PADE) | 1,071 | 0.10 | New | 0 | ±0 | |
The Greens–Green Group (LV–GV) | 1,034 | 0.10 | –0.04 | 0 | ±0 | |
Manchegan Regionalist Party (PRM) | 993 | 0.09 | New | 0 | ±0 | |
Humanist Party (PH) | 967 | 0.09 | New | 0 | ±0 | |
Independent Regional Unity (URI) | 635 | 0.06 | +0.03 | 0 | ±0 | |
Party of Self-employed of Spain and Spanish Independent Groups (PAE–I) | 598 | 0.06 | New | 0 | ±0 | |
Regionalist Party of Guadalajara (PRGU) | 512 | 0.05 | ±0.00 | 0 | ±0 | |
Union of Talavera and Region (UTyC) | 474 | 0.05 | –0.14 | 0 | ±0 |
Blank ballots | 14,929 | 1.42 | +0.37 | |||
Total | 1,050,864 | 100.00 | 47 | ±0 | ||
Valid votes | 1,050,864 | 99.32 | +0.04 | |||
Invalid votes | 7,146 | 0.68 | –0.04 | |||
Votes cast / turnout | 1,058,010 | 74.85 | –3.98 | |||
Abstentions | 286,387 | 25.15 | +3.98 | |||
Registered voters | 1,413,503 | |||||
Source(s): Argos Information Portal, Cortes of Castilla-La Mancha, historiaelectoral.com |
Distribution by constituency
Constituency | PSOE–p | PP | ||
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% | S | % | S | |
Albacete | 55.8 | 6 | 37.1 | 4 |
Ciudad Real | 54.5 | 6 | 40.0 | 5 |
Cuenca | 50.1 | 4 | 44.5 | 4 |
Guadalajara | 47.4 | 4 | 44.6 | 3 |
Toledo | 54.1 | 6 | 39.9 | 5 |
Total | 53.4 | 26 | 40.4 | 21 |