Extremaduran parliamentary election, 2007

Extremaduran parliamentary election, 2007

27 May 2007

All 65 seats in the Assembly of Extremadura 33 seats needed for a majority Registered 893,547 1.4% Turnout 669,752 (75.0%) 0.6 pp   First party Second party Third party   Leader Guillermo Fernández Vara Carlos Floriano Víctor Casco Party PSOE PP IU Leader since 20 September 2006 13 October 2000 30 November 2003 Last election 36 seats, 51.7% 26 seats, 40.5%[lower-alpha 1] 3 seats, 6.3% Seats won 38 27 0 Seat change 2 1 3 Popular vote 352,342 257,392 41,448 Percentage 53.0% 38.7% 4.5% Swing 1.3 pp 1.8 pp 1.8 pp

President before election Juan Carlos Rodríguez Ibarra PSOE Elected President Guillermo Fernández Vara PSOE

The 2007 Extremaduran parliamentary election was held on Sunday, 27 May 2007, to elect the 7th 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.

Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) leader Guillermo Fernández Vara, who replaced Juan Carlos Rodríguez Ibarra as his party's candidate after 25 years of rule in the region, went on to win a comfortable absolute majority with 38 out of 65 seats, almost equalling the party's best result in the region in 1991. The opposition People's Party (PP), which for this election ran in coalition with regionalist United Extremadura (EU) party, was unable to make any significant gains, winning 1 seat to 2003 but losing ground when compared with the combined PP-EU vote share of that year's election.

United Left (IU), for the first time in its history, was unable to meet the 5% party threshold either regionally or in any of the provinces and was left out of the Assembly, this being the only time that just two parties had parliamentary representation in the Extremaduran Assembly.

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 2007 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 27 May 2007 Extremaduran Assembly election results →

Party		Vote			Seats
		Votes	%	±pp	Won	+/−
	Spanish Socialist Workers' Party-Regionalists (PSOE-Regionalistas)	352,342	53.00	1.34	38	2
	People's Party-United Extremadura (PP-EU)[lower-alpha 1]	257,392	38.71	1.83	27	1
	United Left-Independent Socialists of Extremadura (IU-SIEx)	30,028	4.52	1.75	0	3
	Independents for Extremadura (IPEx)	8,389	1.26	New	0	±0
	The Greens of Extremadura (LV)	4,082	0.61	New	0	±0
	Extremaduran People's Union (UPEx)	1,520	0.23	New	0	±0
	Living Initiative (IH)	958	0.14	New	0	±0
	Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain (PCPE)	903	0.14	New	0	±0
	Citizens for Blank Votes (CenB)	499	0.08	New	0	±0
	Democratic and Social Centre (CDS)	445	0.07	New	0	±0
	Humanist Party (PH)	370	0.06	0.10	0	±0
	Blank ballots	7,926	1.19	0.18
Total		664,854	100.00		65	±0
Valid votes		664,854	99.27	0.08
Invalid votes		4,898	0.73	0.08
Votes cast / turnout		669,752	74.95	0.68
Abstentions		223,795	25.05	0.68
Registered voters		893,547
Source: Argos Information Portal

Vote share
PSOE-Regionalistas			53.00%
PP-EU			38.71%
IU-SIEx			4.52%
IPEx			1.26%
Others			1.32%
Blank ballots			1.19%

Parliamentary seats
PSOE-Regionalistas			58.46%
PP-EU			41.54%

Results by province

Election results by province.

Notes

1. Compared to the People's Party+United Extremadura results in the 2003 election.

References

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