Valencian regional election, 2003

Valencian regional election, 2003
Valencian Community
25 May 2003
All 89 seats in the Corts Valencianes
45 seats needed for a majority
Registered 3,423,098 1.8%
Turnout 2,447,788 (71.5%)
3.7 pp

  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Francisco Camps Joan Ignasi Pla Joan Ribó
Party PP PSPV–PSOE EU–V–EV
Leader since 10 July 2002 24 September 2000 1997
Leader's seat Valencia Valencia Valencia
Last election 49 seats, 47.9% 35 seats, 33.9% 5 seats, 6.1%
Seats won 48 35 6
Seat change 1 0 1
Popular vote 1,146,780 874,288 154,494
Percentage 47.2% 35.9% 6.4%
Swing 0.7 pp 2.0 pp 0.3 pp

Constituency results map for the Corts Valencianes
President before election

José Luis Olivas
PP

 Elected President

Francisco Camps
PP

The 2003 Valencian regional election was held on Sunday, 25 May 2003, to elect the 6th Corts of the Valencian Community. All 89 seats in the Corts were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with regional elections in 12 other autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain.

Despite growing discontent with the nationwide José María Aznar's government, the People's Party (PP) was able to comfortably retain its absolute majority in the Courts, losing only 1 seat compared to 1999, which went to United Left (IU). The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), despite becoming the party that grew the most from 1999, was unable to translate those new votes into any new seats.

Valencian Union (UV), the former coalition partner of the PP during the first Zaplana Government (1999-2003), continued its decline into irrelevance and fell below 3%, depriving it of any possibility of overcoming the 5% required threshold to enter the Courts.

Francisco Camps became the new President of the Valencian Community succeeding José Luis Olivas, who had replaced Eduardo Zaplana in 2002 after the latter was named Minister of Labour and Social Affairs in Aznar's Cabinet.

Electoral system

The 89 members of the Corts Valencianes 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 regionally. Parties not reaching the threshold were not taken into consideration for seat distribution. Seats were allocated to constituencies, corresponding to the provinces of Alicante, Castellón and Valencia. Each constituency was entitled to an initial minimum of 20 seats, with the remaining 29 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 the Valencian Community 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 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.[1][3][4]

Elections were fixed for the fourth Sunday of May every four years.[2][3]

Results

Overall

← Summary of the 25 May 2003 Corts Valencianes election results →
Parties and coalitions Popular vote Seats
Votes % ±pp Won +/−
People's Party (PP) 1,146,780 47.15 –0.73 48 –1
Socialist Party of the Valencian Country (PSPV–PSOE) 874,288 35.95 +2.04 35 ±0
United Left–The Greens–Valencian Left: Agreement (Entesa) 154,494 6.35 +0.30 6 +1
Valencian Nationalist Bloc–Green Left (BNV–EV) 114,122 4.69 +0.16 0 ±0
Union–Valencian Union (UV) 72,594 2.98 –1.70 0 ±0
Blank ballots 37,812 1.55 ±0.00
Total 2,431,962 100.00 89 ±0
Valid votes 2,431,962 99.35 –0.06
Invalid votes 15,826 0.65 +0.06
Votes cast / turnout 2,447,788 71.51 +3.70
Abstentions 975,310 28.49 –3.70
Registered voters 3,423,098
Source(s): Corts Valencianes, historiaelectoral.com, Argos Information Portal
Popular vote
PP
  
 47.15%
PSPV–PSOE
  
 35.95%
Entesa
  
 6.35%
BNV–EV
  
 4.69%
UV
  
 2.98%
Others
  
 1.29%
Blank ballots
  
 1.55%
Seats
PP
  
 53.93%
PSPV–PSOE
  
 39.33%
Entesa
  
 6.74%

Distribution by constituency

Constituency PP PSPV Entesa
% S % S % S
Alicante 48.3 16 37.2 12 5.9 2
Castellón 48.1 13 36.5 9 4.4 1
Valencia 46.3 19 35.1 14 7.0 3
Total 47.2 48 35.9 35 6.4 6

References

  1. 1 2 Valencian Electoral Law of 1987, Law No. 2 of March 31, 1987 Official Journal of the Valencian Community (in Spanish). Retrieved on 17 March 2017.
  2. 1 2 Statute of Autonomy of the Valencian Community of 1982, Organic Law No. 1 of July 1, 1982 Official State Gazette (in Spanish). Retrieved on 17 March 2017.
  3. 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.
  4. ↑ "Representation of the people Institutional Act". juntaelectoralcentral.es. Central Electoral Commission. Retrieved 16 June 2017.
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