Catalan regional election, 2010

Catalan regional election, 2010
Catalonia
28 November 2010

All 135 seats in the Parliament of Catalonia
68 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered 5,363,688 0.8%
Turnout 3,152,630 (58.8%)
2.8 pp

  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Artur Mas José Montilla Alicia Sánchez-Camacho
Party CiU PSC–PSOE PP
Leader since 7 January 2002 15 July 2006 6 July 2008
Leader's seat Barcelona Barcelona Barcelona
Last election 48 seats, 31.5% 37 seats, 26.8% 14 seats, 10.7%
Seats won 62 28 18
Seat change 14 9 4
Popular vote 1,202,830 575,233 387,066
Percentage 38.4% 18.4% 12.4%
Swing 6.9 pp 8.4 pp 1.7 pp

  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Joan Herrera Joan Puigcercós Joan Laporta
Party ICV–EUiA ERC SI
Leader since 23 November 2008 7 June 2008 4 September 2010
Leader's seat Barcelona Barcelona Barcelona
Last election 12 seats, 9.5% 21 seats, 14.0% Did not contest
Seats won 10 10 4
Seat change 2 11 4
Popular vote 230,824 219,173 102,921
Percentage 7.4% 7.0% 3.3%
Swing 2.1 pp 7.0 pp New party

Constituency results map for the Parliament of Catalonia

President before election

José Montilla
PSC–PSOE

Elected President

Artur Mas
CiU

The 2010 Catalan regional election was held on Sunday, 28 November 2010, to elect the 9th Parliament of the Autonomous Community of Catalonia. All 135 seats in the Parliament were up for election.

The election resulted in the ousting of the Catalan tripartite coalition, composed of the Socialists' Party of Catalonia (PSC), Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC) and Initiative for Catalonia Greens (ICV) from the Catalan government and the return to power of Convergence and Union (CiU) after 7 years in opposition.

Artur Mas was sworn in as President of the Generalitat of Catalonia and was able to govern with confidence and supply support from the People's Party of Catalonia (PPC) until Mas' independentist drift in late 2012.

Overview

Electoral system

The Parliament of Catalonia was the devolved, unicameral legislature of the autonomous community of Catalonia, having legislative power in matters of regional competence as underlined by the Spanish Constitution and the Catalan Statute of Autonomy, as well as the ability to grant or revoke confidence from a President of the Generalitat.[1][2] Voting for the Parliament was on the basis of universal suffrage, with all nationals over eighteen, registered in Catalonia and in full enjoyment of all political rights entitled to vote.

The 135 members of the Parliament of Catalonia were elected using the D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional representation, with a threshold of 3 per 100 of valid votes—which included blank ballots—being applied in each constituency. Parties not reaching the threshold were not taken into consideration for seat distribution. Additionally, the use of the D'Hondt method might result in an effective threshold over three percent, dependant on the district magnitude.[3] Seats were allocated to constituencies, corresponding to the provinces of Barcelona, Girona, Lleida and Tarragona. Each constituency was allocated a fixed number of seats: 85 for Barcelona, 17 for Girona, 15 for Lleida and 18 for Tarragona.[1][2][4]

The electoral law provided that parties, federations, coalitions and groupings of electors were allowed to present lists of candidates. However, groupings of electors were required to secure at least the signature of 1 per 100 of the electors entered in electoral register of the constituency for which they were seeking election. Electors were barred from signing for more than one list of candidates. Concurrently, parties and federations intending to enter in coalition to take part jointly at an election were required to inform the relevant Electoral Commission within ten days from the election call.[5][6]

Election date

Article 56 of the Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia of 2006 established that the term of the Parliament expired four years from the date of its previous election, unless it was dissolved earlier. Article 56 also required for the President of the Generalitat to call an election fifteen days prior to the date of expiry of Parliament, with election day taking place within from forty to sixty days after the call. The previous election was held on 1 November 2006, which meant that the legislature's term would expire on 1 November 2010. The election was required to be called no later than 17 October 2010, with it taking place on the sixtieth day from the call, setting the latest possible election date for the Parliament at Thursday, 16 December 2010.

Article 75 of the Statute granted the President the prerogative to dissolve the Parliament at any given time and call a snap election, provided that no motion of no confidence was in process and that dissolution did not occur before one year had elapsed since a previous one under this procedure. Additionally, under Article 67 the Parliament was to be dissolved and a new election called if an investiture process failed to elect a regional President within a two-month period from the first ballot.[1][2]

Opinion polls

Vote

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 in bold, and the background shaded in the leading party's colour. In the instance that there is a tie, then no figure is shaded. The lead column on the right shows the percentage-point difference between the two parties with the highest figures. When a specific poll does not show a data figure for a party, the party's cell corresponding to that poll is shown empty.

Seat projections

Opinion polls showing seat projections are displayed in the table below. The highest seat figures in each polling survey have their background shaded in the leading party's colour. In the instance that there is a tie, then no figure is shaded. 68 seats were required for an absolute majority in the Parliament of Catalonia.

Voting preferences

Vote intention

Polls shown below show the recording of raw responses for each party as a percentage of total responses before disregarding those who opted to abstain and prior to the adjusting for the likely votes of those who were undecided to obtain an estimate of vote share. The highest percentage figure in each polling survey is displayed in bold, and the background shaded in the leading party's colour. In the instance that there is a tie, then no figure is shaded.

Results

Overall

Summary of the 28 November 2010 Parliament of Catalonia election results
Parties and coalitions Popular vote Seats
Votes % ±pp Won +/−
Convergence and Union (CiU) 1,202,830 38.43 +6.91 62 +14
Socialists' Party of Catalonia (PSC–PSOE) 575,233 18.38 –8.44 28 –9
People's Party (PP) 387,066 12.37 +1.72 18 +4
Initiative for Catalonia Greens–United and Alternative Left (ICV–EUiA) 230,824 7.37 –2.15 10 –2
Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC) 219,173 7.00 –7.03 10 –11
Citizens–Party of the Citizenry (C's) 106,154 3.39 +0.36 3 ±0
Catalan Solidarity for Independence (SI) 102,921 3.29 New 4 +4
Platform for Catalonia (PxC) 75,134 2.40 New 0 ±0
Independence Rally (RI.cat) 39,834 1.27 New 0 ±0
Blank ballots 91,631 2.93 +0.90
Total 3,130,276 100.00 135 ±0
Valid votes 3,130,276 99.29 –0.25
Invalid votes 22,354 0.71 +0.25
Votes cast / turnout 3,152,630 58.78 +2.74
Abstentions 2,211,058 41.22 –2.74
Registered voters 5,363,688
Source(s): Generalitat of Catalonia, historiaelectoral.com
Popular vote
CiU
 
38.43%
PSC–PSOE
 
18.38%
PP
 
12.37%
ICV–EUiA
 
7.37%
ERC
 
7.00%
C's
 
3.39%
SI
 
3.29%
PxC
 
2.40%
RI.cat
 
1.27%
Others
 
3.18%
Blank ballots
 
2.93%
Seats
CiU
 
45.93%
PSC–PSOE
 
20.74%
PP
 
13.33%
ICV–EUiA
 
7.41%
ERC
 
7.41%
SI
 
2.96%
C's
 
2.22%

Distribution by constituency

Constituency CiU PSC PP ICV–EUiA ERC C's SI
% S % S % S % S % S % S % S
Barcelona 36.8 35 19.2 18 12.9 12 8.3 8 6.4 6 3.8 3 3.1 3
Girona 45.1 9 14.3 3 8.6 1 4.8 1 9.2 2 1.7 4.7 1
Lleida 46.9 8 14.8 3 10.2 2 4.0 9.1 1 1.5 3.1
Tarragona 39.3 9 18.2 4 13.4 3 5.1 1 8.5 1 2.7 3.4
Total 38.4 62 18.4 28 12.4 18 7.4 10 7.0 10 3.4 3 3.3 4

Post-election

Investiture voting

1st round: 21 December 2010
Investiture voting for Artur Mas (CiU)

Absolute majority: 68/135
Vote Parties Votes
Yes CiU (62)
62 / 135
No PSC (28), PP (18), ICV (10), ERC (10), SI (4), C's (3)
73 / 135
Abstentions
0 / 135
2nd round: 23 December 2010
Investiture voting for Artur Mas (CiU)

Simple majority
Vote Parties Votes
Yes Yes CiU (62)
62 / 135
No PP (18), ICV (10), ERC (10), SI (4), C's (3)
45 / 135
Abstentions PSC (28)
28 / 135
Source: historiaelectoral.com

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 Poll results are shown projected over candidacy votes (that is, votes going for political parties, excluding blank ballots). The vote percentage in the official election is calculated including blank ballots into the estimation. In order to obtain data comparable to both the official results as well as those of other polls, a rule of three has been applied to the poll projections, with the results of the calculation being shown instead.

References

  1. 1 2 3 Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia of 2006, Organic Law No. 6 of July 19, 2006 Official State Gazette (in Spanish). Retrieved on 14 March 2017.
  2. 1 2 3 "Organic Act 6/2006 of the 19th July, on the Reform of the Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia" (PDF). parlament.cat. Parliament of Catalonia. Retrieved 8 August 2017.
  3. "Effective threshold in electoral systems". Trinity College, Dublin. 30 July 2012. Retrieved 22 July 2017.
  4. Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia of 1979, Organic Law No. 4 of December 18, 1979 Official State Gazette (in Spanish). Retrieved on 14 March 2017.
  5. General Electoral System Organic Law of 1985, Organic Law No. 5 of June 19, 1985 Official State Gazette (in Spanish). Retrieved on 28 December 2016.
  6. "Representation of the people Institutional Act". juntaelectoralcentral.es. Central Electoral Commission. Retrieved 16 June 2017.
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