Riojan regional election, 2007

Riojan regional election, 2007

27 May 2007
All 33 seats in the Parliament of La Rioja 17 seats needed for a majority
Registered	237,745 1.8%
Turnout	174,257 (73.3%) 1.8 pp
First party Second party Third party   Leader Pedro Sanz Francisco Martínez-Aldama Miguel González de Legarra Party PP PSOE PR Leader since 2 October 1993 30 July 2000 16 December 1995 Leader's seat La Rioja La Rioja La Rioja Last election 17 seats, 48.6% 14 seats, 38.2% 2 seats, 6.8% Seats won 17 14 2 Seat change 0 0 0 Popular vote 84,382 69,858 10,369 Percentage 48.8% 40.4% 6.0% Swing 0.2 pp 2.2 pp 0.8 pp
President before election Pedro Sanz PP Elected President Pedro Sanz PP

The 2007 Riojan regional election was held on Sunday, 27 May 2007, to elect the 7th Parliament of the Autonomous Community of La Rioja. All 33 seats in the Parliament were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with regional elections in 12 other autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain.

Electoral system

The number of seats in the Parliament of La Rioja was set to a fixed-number of 33. All Parliament members were elected in a single multi-member district, consisting of the Community's territory (the province of La Rioja), using the D'Hondt method and a closed-list proportional representation system.

Voting was on the basis of universal suffrage in a secret ballot. Only lists polling above 5% of valid votes in all of the community (which include blank ballots—for none of the above) were entitled to enter the seat distribution.^[1]

Results

← Summary of the 27 May 2007 Parliament of La Rioja election results →

Parties and coalitions		Popular vote			Seats
		Votes	%	±pp	Won	+/−
	People's Party (PP)	84,382	48.81	+0.21	17	±0
	Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)	69,858	40.41	+2.23	14	±0
	Riojan Party (PR)	10,369	6.00	+0.81	2	±0
	United Left–Citizen Initiative–The Greens (IZQ)1	5,292	3.06	–1.30	0	±0
	Blank ballots	2,977	1.72	–0.18
Total		172,878	100.00		33	±0
Valid votes		172,878	99.21	+0.04
Invalid votes		1,379	0.79	–0.04
Votes cast / turnout		174,257	73.30	–1.80
Abstentions		63,488	26.70	+1.80
Registered voters		237,745
Source(s): Argos Information Portal, historiaelectoral.com
Notes: 1 United Left–Citizen Initiative–The Greens results are compared to the combined totals of United Left and The Greens of La Rioja in the 2003 election.

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