Aragonese parliamentary election, 2007

Aragonese parliamentary election, 2007

27 May 2007

All 67 seats in the Courts of Aragon 34 seats needed for a majority Registered 1,017,174 0.2% Turnout 676,491 (66.5%) 3.9 pp   First party Second party Third party   Leader Marcelino Iglesias Gustavo Alcalde José Ángel Biel Party PSOE PP PAR Leader since 15 February 1995 18 May 2001 2 June 2000 Last election 27 seats, 37.9% 22 seats, 30.7% 8 seats, 11.2% Seats won 30 23 9 Seat change 3 1 1 Popular vote 276,427 208,648 81,135 Percentage 41.1% 31.1% 12.1% Swing 3.2 pp 0.4 pp 0.9 pp   Fourth party Fifth party   Leader Chesús Bernal Adolfo Barrena Party CHA IU Leader since 29 June 1986 May 2002 Last election 9 seats, 13.7% 1 seat, 3.1% Seats won 4 1 Seat change 5 ±0 Popular vote 54,752 27,447 Percentage 8.1% 4.1% Swing 5.6 pp 1.0 pp

President before election Marcelino Iglesias PSOE Elected President Marcelino Iglesias PSOE

The 2007 Aragonese parliamentary election was held on Sunday, 27 May 2007, to elect the 7th democratically-elected Courts of Aragon, the regional legislature of the Spanish autonomous community of Aragon. At stake were all 67 seats in the Courts, determining the President of the Government of Aragon.

The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), which had ruled Aragon since the 1999 election, saw an increase of three seats and obtained its best result since the 1983 election in terms of votes received. The People's Party (PP) also managed to slightly increase its vote share and gained one seat. On the other hand, the Aragonese Union (CHA) lost ground for the first time, losing 5 of its 9 seats and falling behind the Aragonese Party (PAR), which regained third place and increased its vote share for the first time since the 1987 election. United Left (IU) held its single seat and increased its vote share for the first time since 1995.

The PSOE and PAR renewed their coalition administration for a third consecutive time, resulting in Marcelino Iglesias being re-elected as regional President for a third term in office.

Electoral system

The number of seats in the Aragonese Courts was set to a fixed-number of 67. All Courts members were elected in 3 multi-member districts, corresponding to Aragon's three provinces, using the D'Hondt method and a closed-list proportional representation system. Each district was entitled to an initial minimum of 13 seats, with the remaining 28 seats allocated among the three provinces in proportion to their populations, on the required condition that the number of inhabitants per seat in each district did not exceed 2.75 times those of any other. For the 2007 election, seats were distributed as follows: Huesca (18), Teruel (14) and Zaragoza (35).

Voting was on the basis of universal suffrage in a secret ballot. Only lists polling above 3% of valid votes in each district (which include blank ballots—for none of the above) were entitled to enter the seat distribution.^[1]

Results

Overall

← Summary of the 27 May 2007 Aragonese Courts election results →

Party		Vote			Seats
		Votes	%	±pp	Won	+/−
	Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)	276,427	41.15	3.21	30	3
	People's Party (PP)	208,648	31.06	0.33	23	1
	Aragonese Party (PAR)	81,135	12.08	0.90	9	1
	Aragonese Union (CHA)	54,752	8.15	5.56	4	5
	United Left of Aragon (IU)	27,447	4.09	1.03	1	±0
	The Greens-Aragon Independents' Federation (LV-FIA)	4,445	0.66	New	0	±0
	Aragon United Citizens' Party (pCUA)	2,463	0.37	New	0	±0
	Family and Life Party (PFyV)	1,105	0.16	0.02	0	±0
	Humanist Party (PH)	577	0.09	0.04	0	±0
	Blank ballots	14,890	2.22	0.13
Total		671,836	100.00		67	±0
Valid votes		671,836	99.31	0.05
Invalid votes		4,655	0.69	0.05
Votes cast / turnout		676,491	66.51	3.85
Abstentions		340,683	33.49	3.85
Registered voters		1,017,174
Source: Argos Information Portal

Vote share
PSOE			41.15%
PP			31.06%
PAR			12.08%
CHA			8.15%
IU			4.09%
Others			1.28%
Blank ballots			2.22%

Parliamentary seats
PSOE			44.78%
PP			34.33%
PAR			13.43%
CHA			5.97%
IU			1.49%

Results by province

References

1. "Law 1/1987, of 31 March, electoral of the Autonomous Community of Aragon".