Extremaduran regional election, 2003
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All 65 seats in the Assembly of Extremadura 33 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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881,228  0.5% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Turnout |
666,468 (75.6%) 2.2 pp | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 2003 Extremaduran regional election was held on Sunday, 25 May 2003, to elect the 6th 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), which in this election ran in coalition with the Extremaduran Coalition, enlarged its absolute majority from 34 to 36 seats, at the cost of the opposition People's Party (PP), which fell to 26 and lost ground for the first time since the 1987 election. United Left (IU), which formed a coalition with the Independent Socialists of Extremadura (SIEx), maintained its 3 seats but was unable to make gains.
Juan Carlos Rodríguez Ibarra was elected for his sixth and last term in office as President of Extremadura, as he would announce in September 2006 he would not stand for re-election in 2007.[1]
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.[2][3] 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.[2][4][5]
Elections were fixed for the fourth Sunday of May every four years. The President of Extremadura had the prerogative to dissolve the Assembly and call a snap election, provided that no motion of no confidence was in process, no nationwide election was due and some time requirements were met—namely, that dissolution did not occur either during the first legislative session or within the legislature's last year ahead of its scheduled expiry, nor before one year had elapsed since a previous dissolution under this procedure—. Additionally, the chamber was to be automatically 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. Any snap election held as a result of these circumstances would not alter the period to the next ordinary election, with elected deputies merely serving out what remained of their four-year terms.[3][4][6][7]
Results
Overall
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| Parties and coalitions | Popular vote | Seats | |||||||
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| Votes | % | ±pp | Won | +/− | |||||
| Spanish Socialist Workers' Party–Progressives (PSOE–p)1 | 341,522 | 51.66 | +2.03 | 36 | +2 | ||||
| People's Party (PP) | 255,808 | 38.70 | –1.31 | 26 | –2 | ||||
| United Left–Independent Socialists of Extremadura (IU–SIEx)2 | 41,448 | 6.27 | –0.74 | 3 | ±0 | ||||
| United Extremadura (EU) | 12,171 | 1.84 | +0.17 | 0 | ±0 | ||||
| Humanist Party (PH) | 1,082 | 0.16 | New | 0 | ±0 | ||||
| Blank ballots | 9,033 | 1.37 | +0.22 | ||||||
| Total | 661,064 | 100.00 | 65 | ±0 | |||||
| Valid votes | 661,064 | 99.19 | –0.19 | ||||||
| Invalid votes | 5,404 | 0.81 | +0.19 | ||||||
| Votes cast / turnout | 666,468 | 75.63 | +2.19 | ||||||
| Abstentions | 214,760 | 24.37 | –2.19 | ||||||
| Registered voters | 881,228 | ||||||||
| Source(s): Junta of Extremadura, Argos Information Portal, historiaelectoral.com | |||||||||
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Distribution by constituency
| Constituency | PSOE–p | PP | IU–SIEx | |||
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| % | S | % | S | % | S | |
| Badajoz | 53.5 | 20 | 37.2 | 13 | 6.9 | 2 |
| Cáceres | 48.8 | 16 | 41.0 | 13 | 5.3 | 1 |
| Total | 51.7 | 36 | 38.7 | 26 | 6.3 | 3 |
References
- ↑ "Rodríguez Ibarra will not stand for re-election" (in Spanish). El País. 2006-09-19.
- 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.
- ↑ Statute of Autonomy of Extremadura Reform of 1999, Organic Law No. 12 of May 6, 1999 Official State Gazette (in Spanish). Retrieved on 8 April 2017.