1999 Extremaduran regional election
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All 65 seats in the Assembly of Extremadura 33 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Registered | 885,753 4.7% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Turnout | 650,527 (73.4%) 4.9 pp | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Constituency results map for the Assembly of Extremadura | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1999 Extremaduran regional election was held on Sunday, 13 June 1999, to elect the 5th 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 twelve other autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain, as well as the 1999 European Parliament election.
The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) won the election, obtaining 34 seats and 48.5% of the vote. This meant that the party recovered the absolute majority it had lost in the previous election. The opposition People's Party added 1 additional seat to their 27-seat count, but remained almost static in vote terms, gaining 0.5 percentage points albeit losing 1,000 votes from 1995. United Left (IU) lost half of its seats, while the Extremaduran Coalition (CREx-PREx) was left out of the Assembly after breaking up with United Extremadura (EU), which also failed to gain any seats.
The election resulted in Juan Carlos Rodríguez Ibarra being elected President for a fifth term in office.
Overview
Electoral system
The Assembly of Extremadura was the devolved, unicameral legislature of the autonomous community of Extremadura, having legislative power in regional matters as defined by the Spanish Constitution and the Extremaduran Statute of Autonomy, as well as the ability to vote confidence in or withdraw it from a President of the Regional Government.[1] Voting for the Assembly was on the basis of universal suffrage, which comprised all nationals over eighteen, registered in Extremadura and in full enjoyment of their political rights.
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 percent 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 percent 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]
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 the signature of at least 2 percent of the electors registered in the constituency for which they sought 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 of the election being called.[2][3][4]
Election date
The term of the Assembly of Extremadura expired four years after the date of its previous election. Elections to the Assembly were fixed for the fourth Sunday of May every four years. Legal amendments introduced in 1998 allowed for these to be held together with European Parliament elections, provided that they were scheduled for within a four month-timespan. The previous election was held on 28 May 1995, setting the election date for the Assembly concurrently with a European Parliament election on Sunday, 13 June 1999.[1][2][3][4]
After legal amendments earlier in 1999, the President of the Regional Government was granted the prerogative to dissolve the Assembly of Extremadura 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. In the event of an investiture process failing to elect a regional President within a two-month period from the first ballot, the Assembly was to be automatically dissolved and a fresh election called. 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.[1][5][6]
Results
Overall
Parties and coalitions | Popular vote | Seats | ||||
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Votes | % | ±pp | Total | +/− | ||
width="1" bgcolor="Template:Spanish Socialist Workers' Party of Extremadura/meta/color"| | Spanish Socialist Workers' Party–Progressives (PSOE–p) | 313,417 | 48.48 | +4.54 | 34 | +3 |
bgcolor="Template:People's Party of Extremadura/meta/color"| | People's Party (PP) | 258,657 | 40.01 | +0.55 | 28 | +1 |
bgcolor="Template:United Left Extremadura/meta/color"| | United Left–Commitment for Extremadura (IU–CE) | 39,132 | 6.05 | –4.49 | 3 | –3 |
bgcolor="Template:United Extremadura/meta/color"| | United Extremadura (EU) | 10,783 | 1.67 | New | 0 | ±0 |
bgcolor="Template:Extremaduran Coalition/meta/color"| | Extremaduran Coalition (CREx–PREx) | 7,437 | 1.15 | –2.67 | 0 | –1 |
bgcolor="Template:Independent Socialists of Extremadura/meta/color"| | Independent Socialists of Extremadura (SIEx) | 6,238 | 0.96 | –0.21 | 0 | ±0 |
bgcolor="Template:Confederation of the Greens/meta/color"| | The Greens of Extremadura (LV) | 3,410 | 0.53 | New | 0 | ±0 |
Blank ballots | 7,408 | 1.15 | +0.27 | |||
Total | 646,482 | 65 | ±0 | |||
Valid votes | 646,482 | 99.38 | +0.04 | |||
Invalid votes | 4,045 | 0.62 | –0.04 | |||
Votes cast / turnout | 650,527 | 73.44 | –4.89 | |||
Abstentions | 235,226 | 26.56 | +4.89 | |||
Registered voters | 885,753 | |||||
Sources[7][8] |
Distribution by constituency
Constituency | PSOE–p | PP | IU–CE | |||
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colspan="2" style="background:Template:Spanish Socialist Workers' Party of Extremadura/meta/color"| | colspan="2" style="background:Template:People's Party of Extremadura/meta/color"| | colspan="2" style="background:Template:United Left Extremadura/meta/color"| | ||||
% | S | % | S | % | S | |
Badajoz | style="background:Template:Spanish Socialist Workers' Party of Extremadura/meta/color; color:white;"| 49.7 | 19 | 39.2 | 15 | 7.1 | 2 |
Cáceres | style="background:Template:Spanish Socialist Workers' Party of Extremadura/meta/color; color:white;"| 46.7 | 15 | 41.2 | 13 | 4.4 | 1 |
Total | style="background:Template:Spanish Socialist Workers' Party of Extremadura/meta/color; color:white;"| 48.5 | 34 | 40.0 | 28 | 6.1 | 3 |
References
- ^ a b c d Statute of Autonomy of Extremadura of 1983. Official State Gazette (Organic Law 1) (in Spanish). 25 February 1983. Retrieved 17 March 2017.
- ^ a b c Assembly of Extremadura Elections Law of 1987. Official Journal of Extremadura (Law 2) (in Spanish). 16 March 1987. Retrieved 17 March 2017.
- ^ a b General Electoral System Organic Law of 1985. Official State Gazette (Organic Law 5) (in Spanish). 19 June 1985. Retrieved 28 December 2016.
- ^ a b "Representation of the people Institutional Act". juntaelectoralcentral.es. Central Electoral Commission. Retrieved 16 June 2017.
- ^ Statute of Autonomy of Extremadura Reform of 1991. Official State Gazette (Organic Law 5) (in Spanish). 13 March 1991. Retrieved 8 April 2017.
- ^ Statute of Autonomy of Extremadura Reform of 1999. Official State Gazette (Organic Law 12) (in Spanish). 6 May 1999. Retrieved 8 April 2017.
- ^ "Assembly of Extremadura election results, 13 June 1999. Badajoz and Cáceres" (PDF). juntaelectoralcentral.es (in Spanish). Electoral Commission of Extremadura. 26 June 1999. Retrieved 26 September 2017.
- ^ "Assembly of Extremadura elections since 1983". historiaelectoral.com (in Spanish). Electoral History. Retrieved 26 September 2017.