Basque parliamentary election, 1994

Basque parliamentary election, 1994
Basque Country (autonomous community)
23 October 1994

All 75 seats in the Basque Parliament
38 seats needed for a majority
Registered 1,749,250 Increase3.6%
Turnout 1,044,085 (59.7%)
Decrease1.3 pp
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader José Antonio Ardanza Ramón Jáuregui Karmelo Landa
Party EAJ-PNV PSE-EE (PSOE) HB
Leader since 2 March 1985 16 June 1988 1994
Last election 22 seats, 28.3% 22 seats, 27.5%[lower-alpha 1] 13 seats, 18.2%
Seats won 22 12 11
Seat change ±0 Decrease10 Decrease2
Popular vote 304,346 174,682 166,147
Percentage 29.3% 16.8% 16.0%
Swing Increase1.0 pp Decrease10.7 pp Decrease2.2 pp

  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Jaime Mayor Oreja Carlos Garaikoetxea Javier Madrazo
Party PP EA IU
Leader since 20 January 1989 4 September 1986 14 May 1994
Last election 6 seats, 8.2% 9 seats, 11.3% 0 seats, 1.4%
Seats won 11 8 6
Seat change Increase5 Decrease1 Increase6
Popular vote 146,960 105,136 93,291
Percentage 14.2% 10.1% 9.0%
Swing Increase6.0 pp Decrease1.2 pp Increase7.6 pp

Lehendakari before election

José Antonio Ardanza
EAJ-PNV

Elected Lehendakari

José Antonio Ardanza
EAJ-PNV

The 1994 Basque parliamentary election was held on Sunday, 23 October 1994, to elect the 5th Basque Parliament, the regional legislature of the Spanish autonomous community of the Basque Country. At stake were all 75 seats in the Parliament, determining the Lehendakari (President of the Basque Country).

The Basque Nationalist Party (EAJ-PNV) won 22 seats, the Socialist Party of the Basque Country (PSE-PSOE) came second with 12 seats, People's Unity (HB) and the People's Party (PP) both won 11 seats each. Basque Solidarity (EA) won 8 seats.

This was also the first election to the Basque parliament that the Socialist Party and the Basque Country Left (EE) party contested together as a unified party.

Electoral system

The 75 members of the Basque Parliament were elected in 3 multi-member districts, corresponding to the Basque Country's three provinces, using the D'Hondt method and a closed-list proportional representation system. Each district was assigned a fixed set of seats, distributed as follows: Alava (25), Biscay (25) and Gipuzkoa (25).

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

Results

Overall

Summary of the 23 October 1994 Basque Parliament election results
Party Vote Seats
Votes % ±pp Won +/−
Basque Nationalist Party (EAJ-PNV) 304,346 29.32 Increase1.04 22 ±0
Socialist Party of the Basque Country-Basque Country Left (PSE-EE/PSOE)[lower-alpha 1] 174,682 16.83 Decrease10.68 12 Decrease10
People's Unity (HB) 166,147 16.01 Decrease2.19 11 Decrease2
People's Party (PP) 146,960 14.16 Increase5.99 11 Increase5
Basque Solidarity (EA) 105,136 10.13 Decrease1.17 8 Decrease1
United Left-Greens (EB-B) 93,291 8.99 Increase7.58 6 Increase6
Alavese Unity (UA) 27,797 2.68 Increase1.28 5 Increase2
New Socialist Party (NPS) 1,462 0.14 New 0 ±0
Blank ballots 18,080 1.74 Increase1.00
Total 1,037,901 100.00 75 ±0
Valid votes 1,037,901 99.41 Decrease0.09
Invalid votes 6,184 0.59 Increase0.09
Votes cast / turnout 1,044,085 59.69 Decrease1.30
Abstentions 705,165 40.31 Increase1.30
Registered voters 1,749,250
Source: Argos Information Portal
Vote share
EAJ-PNV
 
29.32%
PSE-EE/PSOE
 
16.83%
HB
 
16.01%
PP
 
14.16%
EA
 
10.13%
EB-B
 
8.99%
UA
 
2.68%
NPS
 
0.14%
Blank ballots
 
1.74%
Parliamentary seats
EAJ-PNV
 
29.33%
PSE-EE/PSOE
 
16.00%
HB
 
14.67%
PP
 
14.67%
EA
 
10.66%
EB-B
 
8.00%
UA
 
6.67%

Notes

  1. 1 2 Compared to the Socialist Party of the Basque Country+Basque Country Left results in the 1990 election.

References

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