Extremaduran parliamentary election, 1999

Extremaduran parliamentary election, 1999

13 June 1999

All 65 seats in the Assembly of Extremadura 33 seats needed for a majority Registered 885,753 4.7% Turnout 650,527 (73.4%) 4.9 pp   First party Second party Third party   Leader Juan Carlos Rodríguez Ibarra Juan Ignacio Barrero Manuel Cañada Party PSOE PP IU Leader since 20 December 1982 September 1993 1 October 1995 Last election 31 seats, 43.9% 27 seats, 39.5% 6 seats, 10.5% Seats won 34 28 3 Seat change 3 1 3 Popular vote 313,417 258,657 39,132 Percentage 48.5% 40.0% 6.1% Swing 4.6 pp 0.5 pp 4.4 pp

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

The 1999 Extremaduran parliamentary election was held on Sunday, 13 June 1999, to elect the 5th 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 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.

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 1999 election, seats were distributed as follows: Badajoz (36) and Cáceres (29).

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 13 June 1999 Extremaduran Assembly election results →

Party		Vote			Seats
		Votes	%	±pp	Won	+/−
	Spanish Socialist Workers' Party-Progresists (PSOE-Progresistas)	313,417	48.48	4.54	34	3
	People's Party (PP)	258,657	40.01	0.55	28	1
	United Left-Commitment for Extremadura (IU-CE)	39,132	6.05	4.49	3	3
	United Extremadura (EU)	10,783	1.67	New	0	±0
	Extremaduran Coalition (CREx-PREx)	7,437	1.15	2.67	0	1
	Independent Socialists of Extremadura (SIEx)	6,238	0.96	0.21	0	±0
	The Greens of Extremadura (LV)	3,410	0.53	New	0	±0
	Blank ballots	7,408	1.15	0.27
Total		646,482	100.00		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
Source: Argos Information Portal

Vote share
PSOE-Progresistas			48.48%
PP			40.01%
IU-CE			6.05%
EU			1.67%
CREx-PREx			1.15%
Others			1.49%
Blank ballots			1.15%

Parliamentary seats
PSOE-Progresistas			52.31%
PP			43.08%
IU-CE			4.62%

Results by province

Election results by province.

References

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