1999 Valencian regional election
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All 89 seats in the Corts Valencianes 45 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Registered | 3,361,989 7.4% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Turnout | 2,279,805 (67.8%) 8.2 pp | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Constituency results map for the Corts Valencianes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1999 Valencian regional election was held on Sunday, 13 June 1999, to elect the 5th Corts of the Valencian Community. All 89 seats in the Corts 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 People's Party (PP), which had ruled the community from 1995 in a coalition government, won an absolute majority of seats; majority which it would maintain for the next 20 years. Its coalition partner, Valencian Union (UV), fell just below the 5% threshold, resulting in it losing all seats and being expelled from the Courts. The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) remained static on its 1995 vote share, though it gained 3 additional seats thanks to United Left (IU) electoral collapse from 10 to 5 seats.
Overview
Electoral system
The Corts Valencianes were the devolved, unicameral legislature of the Valencian autonomous community, having legislative power in regional matters as defined by the Spanish Constitution and the Valencian Statute of Autonomy, as well as the ability to vote confidence in or withdraw it from a President of the Government.[1] Voting for the Corts was on the basis of universal suffrage, which comprised all nationals over eighteen, registered in the Valencian Community and in full enjoyment of their political rights.
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 percent 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 on the condition that the seat to population ratio in any given province did not exceed three times that of any other.[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 1 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 Corts Valencianes expired four years after the date of their previous election. Elections to the Corts 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 Corts concurrently with a European Parliament election on Sunday, 13 June 1999.[1][2][3][4]
The Corts Valencianes could not be dissolved before the date of expiry of parliament.[1]
Results
Overall
Parties and coalitions | Popular vote | Seats | |||||||
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Votes | % | ±pp | Total | +/− | |||||
width="1" bgcolor="Template:People's Party of the Valencian Community/meta/color"| | People's Party (PP) | 1,085,011 | 47.88 | +5.05 | 49 | +7 | |||
bgcolor="Template:Socialist Party of the Valencian Country/meta/color"| | Spanish Socialist Workers' Party–Progressives (PSOE–p) | 768,548 | 33.91 | –0.07 | 35 | +3 | |||
bgcolor="Template:United Left of the Valencian Country/meta/color"| | United Left of the Valencian Country (EUPV) | 137,212 | 6.05 | –5.48 | 5 | –5 | |||
bgcolor="Template:Valencian Union/meta/color"| | Valencian Union (UV) | 106,119 | 4.68 | –2.33 | 0 | –5 | |||
bgcolor="Template:Valencian Nationalist Bloc/meta/color"| | Valencian Nationalist Bloc–The Greens (BNV–EV)1 | 102,700 | 4.53 | +1.82 | 0 | ±0 | |||
bgcolor="Template:Valencian Community Alternative/meta/color"| | Valencian Community Alternative (ACV) | 6,146 | 0.27 | New | 0 | ±0 | |||
bgcolor="Template:Liberal Centre (Spain)/meta/color"| | Liberal Centre (CL) | 4,813 | 0.21 | New | 0 | ±0 | |||
bgcolor="Template:The Eco-pacifist Greens/meta/color"| | The Ecologist–Pacifist Greens (LVEP) | 4,176 | 0.18 | New | 0 | ±0 | |||
bgcolor="Template:Democratic and Social Centre (Spain)/meta/color"| | Centrist Union–Democratic and Social Centre (UC–CDS) | 2,978 | 0.13 | –0.10 | 0 | ±0 | |||
bgcolor="Template:Falange Española de las JONS (1976)/meta/color"| | Spanish Phalanx of the CNSO (FE–JONS) | 2,973 | 0.13 | +0.06 | 0 | ±0 | |||
bgcolor="Template:Independent Initiative/meta/color"| | Independent Initiative (II) | 2,524 | 0.11 | New | 0 | ±0 | |||
bgcolor="Template:Humanist Party (Spain)/meta/color"| | Humanist Party (PH) | 2,253 | 0.10 | +0.07 | 0 | ±0 | |||
bgcolor="Template:Valencian Nationalist Left/meta/color"| | Valencian Nationalist Left (ENV) | 2,070 | 0.09 | +0.01 | 0 | ±0 | |||
bgcolor="Template:Republican Left (Spain, 1977)/meta/color"| | Federal Republican Left–Federal Republican Party (IRF–PRF) | 1,660 | 0.07 | New | 0 | ±0 | |||
bgcolor="Template:Valencian Independent Organization/meta/color"| | Valencian Independent Organization (OIV) | 1,316 | 0.06 | New | 0 | ±0 | |||
Spanish Autonomous League (LAE) | 608 | 0.03 | +0.01 | 0 | ±0 | ||||
Blank ballots | 35,168 | 1.55 | +0.50 | ||||||
Total | 2,266,275 | 89 | ±0 | ||||||
Valid votes | 2,266,275 | 99.41 | –0.03 | ||||||
Invalid votes | 13,530 | 0.59 | +0.03 | ||||||
Votes cast / turnout | 2,279,805 | 67.81 | –8.22 | ||||||
Abstentions | 1,082,184 | 32.19 | +8.22 | ||||||
Registered voters | 3,361,989 | ||||||||
Sources[5][6][7] | |||||||||
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Distribution by constituency
Constituency | PP | PSOE–p | EUPV | |||
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colspan="2" style="background:Template:People's Party of the Valencian Community/meta/color"| | colspan="2" style="background:Template:Socialist Party of the Valencian Country/meta/color"| | colspan="2" style="background:Template:United Left of the Valencian Country/meta/color"| | ||||
% | S | % | S | % | S | |
Alicante | style="background:Template:People's Party of the Valencian Community/meta/color; color:white;"| 48.7 | 16 | 36.0 | 12 | 6.1 | 2 |
Castellón | style="background:Template:People's Party of the Valencian Community/meta/color; color:white;"| 49.3 | 12 | 34.6 | 9 | 4.2 | 1 |
Valencia | style="background:Template:People's Party of the Valencian Community/meta/color; color:white;"| 47.1 | 21 | 32.6 | 14 | 6.4 | 2 |
Total | style="background:Template:People's Party of the Valencian Community/meta/color; color:white;"| 47.9 | 49 | 33.9 | 35 | 6.1 | 5 |
References
- ^ a b c d Statute of Autonomy of the Valencian Community of 1982. Official State Gazette (Organic Law 1) (in Spanish). 1 July 1982. Retrieved 17 March 2017.
- ^ a b c Valencian Electoral Law of 1987. Official Journal of the Valencian Community (Law 2) (in Spanish). 31 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.
- ^ "Electoral Data-Regional Election: 1999". cortsvalencianes.es (in Spanish). Corts Valencianes. Retrieved 30 September 2017.
- ^ "Corts Valencianes election results, 13 June 1999" (PDF). juntaelectoralcentral.es (in Spanish). Electoral Commission of the Valencian Community. 5 July 1999. Retrieved 30 September 2017.
- ^ "Corts Valencianes elections since 1983". historiaelectoral.com (in Spanish). Electoral History. Retrieved 30 September 2017.