Extremaduran parliamentary election, 1999

Extremaduran parliamentary election, 1999
Extremadura
13 June 1999

All 65 seats in the Assembly of Extremadura
33 seats needed for a majority
Registered 885,753 Increase4.7%
Turnout 650,527 (73.4%)
Decrease4.9 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 Increase3 Increase1 Decrease3
Popular vote 313,417 258,657 39,132
Percentage 48.5% 40.0% 6.1%
Swing Increase4.6 pp Increase0.5 pp Decrease4.4 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 ballotsfor 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:

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 Increase4.54 34 Increase3
People's Party (PP) 258,657 40.01 Increase0.55 28 Increase1
United Left-Commitment for Extremadura (IU-CE) 39,132 6.05 Decrease4.49 3 Decrease3
United Extremadura (EU) 10,783 1.67 New 0 ±0
Extremaduran Coalition (CREx-PREx) 7,437 1.15 Decrease2.67 0 Decrease1
Independent Socialists of Extremadura (SIEx) 6,238 0.96 Decrease0.21 0 ±0
The Greens of Extremadura (LV) 3,410 0.53 New 0 ±0
Blank ballots 7,408 1.15 Increase0.27
Total 646,482 100.00 65 ±0
Valid votes 646,482 99.38 Increase0.04
Invalid votes 4,045 0.62 Decrease0.04
Votes cast / turnout 650,527 73.44 Decrease4.89
Abstentions 235,226 26.56 Increase4.89
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

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