Extremaduran parliamentary election, 1991

Extremaduran parliamentary election, 1991

26 May 1991

All 65 seats in the Assembly of Extremadura 33 seats needed for a majority Registered 821,191 1.6% Turnout 583,172 (71.0%) 3.4 pp   First party Second party Third party   Leader Juan Carlos Rodríguez Ibarra Luis Ramallo Manuel Pareja Party PSOE PP IU Leader since 20 December 1982 1990 1983 Last election 34 seats, 49.2% 17 seats, 25.4%[lower-alpha 1] 2 seats, 5.4% Seats won 39 19 4 Seat change 5 2 2 Popular vote 313,649 155,028 41,278 Percentage 54.1% 26.8% 7.1% Swing 4.9 pp 1.4 pp 1.7 pp   Fourth party Fifth party   Leader Tomás Martín Tamayo Pedro Cañada Party CDS EU Leader since 1983 10 December 1980 Last election 8 seats, 12.4% 4 seats, 5.8% Seats won 3 0 Seat change 5 4 Popular vote 33,313 14,452 Percentage 5.8% 2.5% Swing 6.6 pp 3.3 pp

President before election Juan Carlos Rodríguez Ibarra PSOE Elected President Juan Carlos Rodríguez Ibarra PSOE

The 1991 Extremaduran parliamentary election was held on Sunday, 26 May 1991, to elect the 3rd Assembly of Extremadura, the unicameral regional legislature of the Spanish autonomous community of Extremadura. At stake were all 65 seats in the Assembly, determining the President of Extremadura.

The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) won the largest absolute majority a party would achieve in a regional election in the history of Extremadura, with 39 out of 65 seats (60% of the seats) and slightly above 54% of the vote share. The newly founded People's Party, successor of the late People's Alliance, recovered from AP 1987 results and gained two seats. The Democratic and Social Centre lost seats and votes, falling behind United Left (IU), which gained support and finished in third place for the first time in a regional election. Meanwhile, the regionalist United Extremadura (EU) lost more than half its support and was left out from the Assembly, losing all its seats.

As a result of the election, Juan Carlos Rodríguez Ibarra was elected for a third consecutive term in office.

Electoral system

The number of seats in the Extremaduran Assembly was set to a fixed-number of 65. All Assembly members were elected in 2 multi-member districts, corresponding to Extremadura's two provinces, using the D'Hondt method and a closed-list proportional representation system. Each district was entitled to an initial minimum of 20 seats, with the remaining 25 seats allocated among the two provinces in proportion to their populations. For the 1991 election, seats were distributed as follows: Badajoz (35) and Cáceres (30).

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 ballots—for none of the above) were entitled to enter the seat distribution. Alternatively, however, if a party did not reach the 5% threshold in a district, it could enter the seat distribution on the following conditions:

• 1. That the party did stood in both districts.
• 2. That, regionally, the party did reach the 5% threshold (even if it did not reach it in one of the two districts).^[1]

Results

Overall

← Summary of the 26 May 1991 Extremaduran Assembly election results →

Party		Vote			Seats
		Votes	%	±pp	Won	+/−
	Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)	313,649	54.15	4.97	39	5
	People's Party (PP)[lower-alpha 1]	155,028	26.76	1.32	19	2
	United Left (IU)	41,278	7.13	1.72	4	2
	Democratic and Social Centre (CDS)	33,313	5.75	6.60	3	5
	United Extremadura (EU)	14,452	2.50	3.31	0	4
	Extremaduran Regionalist Party (PREx)	8,643	1.49	New	0	±0
	The Greens (LV)	5,870	1.01	New	0	±0
	Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain (PCPE)	2,385	0.41	New	0	±0
	Blank ballots	4,608	0.80	±0.00
Total		579,226	100.00		65	±0
Valid votes		579,226	99.32	0.31
Invalid votes		3,946	0.68	0.31
Votes cast / turnout		583,172	71.02	3.38
Abstentions		238,019	28.98	3.38
Registered voters		821,191
Source: Argos Information Portal

Vote share
PSOE			54.15%
PP			26.76%
IU			7.13%
CDS			5.75%
EU			2.50%
PREx			1.49%
LV			1.01%
PCPE			0.41%
Blank ballots			0.80%

Parliamentary seats
PSOE			60.00%
PP			29.23%
IU			6.15%
CDS			4.62%

Results by province

Election results by province.

Notes

1. Compared to the People's Alliance+People's Democratic Party+Liberal Party results in the 1987 election.

References

1. "Law 2/1987, of 16 March, of elections to the Assembly of Extremadura.".