Extremaduran regional election, 1995
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All 65 seats in the Assembly of Extremadura 33 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Registered | 845,728 3.0% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Turnout |
662,444 (78.3%) 7.3 pp | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Constituency results map for the Assembly of Extremadura | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1995 Extremaduran regional election was held on Sunday, 28 May 1995, to elect the 4th Assembly of the Autonomous Community of Extremadura. All 65 seats in the Assembly were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with regional elections in 12 other autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain.
The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) won the election, but suffered a spectacular fall in both vote share and seats, losing the absolute majority it had maintained since 1983. On the other hand, the People's Party (PP) made great gains, winning the same 8 seats lost by the PSOE and nearing 40% of the vote. United Left (IU) obtained its best historical result to date in a regional election, with 6 out of 65 seats. The Extremaduran Coalition, an alliance of United Extremadura (EU) and the Extremaduran Regionalist Party (PREx), both of which failed to enter the Assembly in the 1991 election, entered the Assembly with 1 seat.
The Democratic and Social Centre (CDS), which had already been reduced to 3 seats in 1991, did not even stand in the 1995 election, thus losing all of its seats.
Juan Carlos Rodríguez Ibarra was able to be re-elected for a fourth term in office thanks to the abstention of IU. Both PP and IU together commanded an absolute majority of seats and could potentially block the PSOE in the Assembly, as had happened in Andalusia.
Electoral system
The 65 members of the Assembly of Extremadura were elected using the D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional representation, with a threshold of 5 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. Alternatively, parties failing to reach the threshold in one of the constituencies would also be entitled to enter the seat distribution as long as they ran candidates in both districts and reached 5 per 100 regionally. Seats were allocated to constituencies, corresponding to the provinces of Badajoz and Cáceres. Each constituency was entitled to an initial minimum of 20 seats, with the remaining 25 allocated among the constituencies in proportion to their populations.[1][2] Voting was on the basis of universal suffrage, with all nationals over eighteen, registered in Extremadura and in full enjoyment of all political rights entitled to vote.
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 2 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.[1][3][4]
Elections were fixed for the fourth Sunday of May every four years. Additionally, the chamber was to be automatically dissolved and a snap election called if an investiture process failed to elect a regional President within a two-month period from the first ballot, with elected deputies merely serving out what remained of their four-year terms.[2][3][5]
Results
Overall
Parties and coalitions | Popular vote | Seats | |||||||
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Votes | % | ±pp | Won | +/− | |||||
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) | 289,149 | 43.94 | –10.21 | 31 | –8 | ||||
People's Party (PP) | 259,703 | 39.46 | +12.70 | 27 | +8 | ||||
United Left–The Greens–Commitment for Extremadura (IU–LV–CE)1 | 69,387 | 10.54 | +2.40 | 6 | +2 | ||||
Extremaduran Coalition (CEx)2 | 25,168 | 3.82 | –0.17 | 1 | +1 | ||||
Independent Socialists of Extremadura (SIEx) | 7,722 | 1.17 | New | 0 | ±0 | ||||
Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain (PCPE) | 1,136 | 0.17 | –0.24 | 0 | ±0 | ||||
Democratic and Social Centre (CDS) | N/A | –5.75 | 0 | –3 | |||||
Blank ballots | 5,804 | 0.88 | +0.08 | ||||||
Total | 658,069 | 100.00 | 65 | ±0 | |||||
Valid votes | 658,069 | 99.34 | +0.02 | ||||||
Invalid votes | 4,375 | 0.66 | –0.02 | ||||||
Votes cast / turnout | 662,444 | 78.33 | +7.31 | ||||||
Abstentions | 183,284 | 21.67 | –7.31 | ||||||
Registered voters | 845,728 | ||||||||
Source(s): Argos Information Portal, historiaelectoral.com | |||||||||
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Distribution by constituency
Constituency | PSOE | PP | IU–LV–CE | CEx | ||||
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% | S | % | S | % | S | % | S | |
Badajoz | 44.4 | 17 | 38.5 | 14 | 12.1 | 4 | 2.5 | − |
Cáceres | 43.2 | 14 | 41.0 | 13 | 8.1 | 2 | 5.9 | 1 |
Total | 43.9 | 31 | 39.5 | 27 | 10.5 | 6 | 3.8 | 1 |
References
- 1 2 Assembly of Extremadura Elections Law of 1987, Law No. 2 of March 16, 1987 Official Journal of Extremadura (in Spanish). Retrieved on 17 March 2017.
- 1 2 Statute of Autonomy of Extremadura of 1983, Organic Law No. 1 of February 25, 1983 Official State Gazette (in Spanish). Retrieved on 17 March 2017.
- 1 2 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.
- ↑ "Representation of the people Institutional Act". juntaelectoralcentral.es. Central Electoral Commission. Retrieved 16 June 2017.
- ↑ Statute of Autonomy of Extremadura Reform of 1991, Organic Law No. 5 of March 13, 1991 Official State Gazette (in Spanish). Retrieved on 8 April 2017.