La Palma (Senate constituency)

For the Parliament of the Canary Islands constituency, see La Palma (Parliament of the Canary Islands constituency).

La Palma
Senate of Spain Electoral constituency
Location of La Palma within Spain
Island	La Palma
Autonomous community	Canary Islands
Population	82,671 (2019)
Electorate	85,348 (Nov 2019)
Major settlements	Los Llanos de Aridane
Current constituency
Created	1977
Seats	1
Member(s)	PP (1)

La Palma is one of the 59 constituencies (Spanish: circunscripciones) represented in the Senate of Spain, the upper chamber of the Spanish parliament, the Cortes Generales. The constituency elects one senator. Its boundaries correspond to those of the island of La Palma. The electoral system uses an open list partial block voting, with electors voting for individual candidates instead of parties.

Senators

Senators for La Palma 1977–
Legislature	Election	Distribution
Constituent	1977	style="background:Template:Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)/meta/color; width:100.00%; color:white;"| 1
1st	1979	style="background:Template:Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)/meta/color; width:100.00%; color:white;"| 1
2nd	1982	style="background:Template:Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)/meta/color; width:100.00%; color:white;"| 1
3rd	1986	style="background:Template:People's Coalition (Spain)/meta/color; width:100.00%; color:white;"| 1
4th	1989	style="background:Template:Spanish Socialist Workers' Party/meta/color; width:100.00%; color:white;"| 1
5th	1993	style="background:Template:Spanish Socialist Workers' Party/meta/color; width:100.00%; color:white;"| 1
6th	1996	style="background:Template:Spanish Socialist Workers' Party/meta/color; width:100.00%; color:white;"| 1
7th	2000	style="background:Template:Canarian Coalition/meta/color; width:100.00%; color:white;"| 1
8th	2004	style="background:Template:Canarian Coalition/meta/color; width:100.00%; color:white;"| 1
9th	2008	style="background:Template:Spanish Socialist Workers' Party/meta/color; width:100.00%; color:white;"| 1
10th	2011	style="background:Template:People's Party (Spain)/meta/color; width:100.00%; color:white;"| 1
11th	2015	style="background:Template:People's Party (Spain)/meta/color; width:100.00%; color:white;"| 1
12th	2016	style="background:Template:People's Party (Spain)/meta/color; width:100.00%; color:white;"| 1
13th	2019 (Apr)	style="background:Template:Spanish Socialist Workers' Party/meta/color; width:100.00%; color:white;"| 1
14th	2019 (Nov)	style="background:Template:People's Party (Spain)/meta/color; width:100.00%; color:white;"| 1

Elections

November 2019 general election

Summary of the 10 November 2019 Senate of Spain election results in La Palma

Candidates	Parties and coalitions		Popular vote
			Votes	%
Y Borja Pérez Sicilia	width="1" bgcolor="Template:People's Party (Spain)/meta/color"|	PP	12,735	33.55
• Sergio Matos Castro	bgcolor="Template:Spanish Socialist Workers' Party/meta/color"|	PSOE	11,621	30.62
• Gregorio Clemente Alonso Méndez	bgcolor="Template:Canarian Coalition–New Canaries/meta/color"|	CCa–PNC–NC	6,277	16.54
• José Luis Cabrera Sánchez	bgcolor="Template:Unidas Podemos/meta/color"|	Podemos–IU	2,796	7.37
• Arturo Perez-Seoane Garau	bgcolor="Template:Vox (political party)/meta/color"|	Vox	2,046	5.39
• Juan Arturo San Gil Ayut	bgcolor="Template:Citizens (Spanish political party)/meta/color"|	Cs	1,279	3.37
• Tamara Hernández Pimienta	bgcolor="Template:Animalist Party Against Mistreatment of Animals/meta/color"|	PACMA	497	1.31
• Pedro Adrián Pérez Lopez "El Gasio"	bgcolor="Template:Ahora Canarias/meta/color"|	ANC–UP	125	0.33
• Rayco Pérez Rodríguez	bgcolor="Template:Zero Cuts/meta/color"|	Recortes Cero–GV	99	0.26
Blank ballots			478	1.26
Total			37,953
Valid votes			37,953	97.01
Invalid votes			1,169	2.99
Votes cast / turnout			39,122	45.84
Abstentions			46,226	54.16
Registered voters			85,348
Sources