Galician parliamentary election, 2005

Galician parliamentary election, 2005

19 June 2005

All 75 seats in the Parliament of Galicia 38 seats needed for a majority Registered 2,616,811 1.9% Turnout 1,680,202 (64.2%) 4.0 pp   First party Second party Third party   Leader Manuel Fraga Emilio Pérez Touriño Anxo Quintana Party PP PSdeG-PSOE BNG Leader since 1989 10 October 1998 23 November 2003 Last election 41 seats, 51.6% 17 seats, 21.8% 17 seats, 22.6% Seats won 37 25 13 Seat change 4 8 4 Popular vote 756,562 555,603 311,954 Percentage 45.2% 33.2% 18.7% Swing 6.4 pp 11.4 pp 3.9 pp

President before election Manuel Fraga PP Elected President Emilio Pérez Touriño PSdeG-PSOE

The 2005 Galician parliamentary election was held on Sunday, 19 June 2005, to elect the 7th Parliament of Galicia, the regional legislature of the Spanish autonomous community of Galicia. At stake were all 75 seats in the Parliament, determining the President of the Xunta of Galicia.

Electoral system

The 75 members of the Parliament of Galicia were elected in 4 multi-member districts, corresponding to Galicia's four provinces, using the D'Hondt method and a closed-list proportional representation. Each district was entitled to an initial minimum of 10 seats, with the remaining 35 seats being allocated among the four provinces in proportion to their populations. For the 2005 election, seats were distributed as follows: Corunna (24), Lugo (15), Ourense (14) and Pontevedra (22).

Voting was on the basis of universal suffrage in a secret ballot. Only lists polling above 5% of the total vote in each district (which includes blank ballots—for none of the above) were entitled to enter the seat distribution.^[1]

Results

Overall

← Summary of the 19 June 2005 Galician Parliament election results →

Party		Vote			Seats
		Votes	%	±pp	Won	+/−
	People's Party (PP)	756,562	45.23	6.39	37	4
	Socialist Party of Galicia (PSdeG-PSOE)	555,603	33.22	11.39	25	8
	Galician Nationalist Bloc (BNG)	311,954	18.65	3.93	13	4
	United Left (EU-IU)	12,419	0.74	0.06	0	±0
	Galician People's Front (FPG)	2,982	0.18	0.03	0	±0
	Freelance and Professionals' Party (AUTONOMO)	2,840	0.17	0.12	0	±0
	Democratic and Social Centre (CDS)	2,412	0.14	New	0	±0
	Us-People's Unity (Nós-UP)	1,749	0.10	New	0	±0

Parties with less than 0.1% of the vote		5,123	0.31	–	0	±0
	Humanist Party (PH)	1,429	0.09	0.18	0	±0
	Spanish Falange of the JONS (FE-JONS)	1,081	0.06	New	0	±0
	Ourensan Democracy (DO)	623	0.04	New	0	±0
	National Democracy (DN)	550	0.03	New	0	±0
	People's Spanish Social Party (PSEP)	420	0.03	New	0	±0
	Republican Left-Galician Republican Left (IR-ERG)	405	0.02	New	0	±0
	Galician Identity (IG)	376	0.02	New	0	±0
	Social Democratic Party of Law (SDD)	239	0.01	0.03	0	±0

	Blank ballots	20,912	1.25	0.44
Total		1,672,556	100.00		75	±0
Valid votes		1,672,556	99.54	0.24
Invalid votes		7,646	0.46	0.24
Votes cast / turnout		1,680,202	64.21	4.05
Abstentions		936,609	35.79	4.05
Registered voters		2,616,811
Source: Argos Information Portal

Vote share
PP			45.23%
PSdeG-PSOE			33.22%
BNG			18.65%
Others			1.65%
Blank ballots			1.25%

Parliamentary seats
PP			49.33%
PSdeG-PSOE			33.33%
BNG			17.33%

References

1. "Law 8/1985, of 13 August, of elections to the Parliament of Galicia.".