Galician parliamentary election, 2009

Galician parliamentary election, 2009

1 March 2009

All 75 seats in the Parliament of Galicia 38 seats needed for a majority Registered 2,648,276 1.2% Turnout 1,706,198 (64.4%) 0.2 pp   First party Second party Third party   Leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo Emilio Pérez Touriño Anxo Quintana Party PP PSdeG-PSOE BNG Leader since 15 January 2006 10 October 1998 23 November 2003 Last election 37 seats, 45.2% 25 seats, 33.2% 13 seats, 18.7% Seats won 38 25 12 Seat change 1 ±0 1 Popular vote 789,427 524,488 270,712 Percentage 46.7% 31.0% 16.0% Swing 1.5 pp 2.2 pp 2.7 pp

President before election Emilio Pérez Touriño PSdeG-PSOE Elected President Alberto Núñez Feijóo PP

The 2009 Galician parliamentary election was held on Sunday, 1 March 2009, to elect the 8th 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.

The election saw the People's Party (PP) retake control of the parliament from the coalition of the Socialist Party of Galicia (PSdeG-PSOE) and the Galician Nationalist Bloc (BNG), with a majority of 1 seat. As a result, Alberto Núñez Feijoo became the new President 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]

Opinion polls

Vote

Poll results are listed in the table below in reverse chronological order, showing the most recent first. The highest percentage figure in each polling survey is displayed in bold, and the background shaded in the leading party's colour. In the instance that there is a tie, then no figure is shaded. The lead column on the right shows the percentage-point difference between the two parties with the highest figures. Poll results use the date the survey's fieldwork was done, as opposed to the date of publication. However, if such date is unknown, the date of publication will be given instead.

Date	Polling Firm/Source	PP	PSdeG	BNG	Oth.	Lead
1 Mar 2009	Regional Election	46.7	31.0	16.0	6.3	15.7
Exit polls
22 Feb	Xornal	43.8	30.3	19.8	6.1	13.5
22 Feb	Ipsos-Eco	43.6	33.0	17.5	5.9	10.6
22 Feb	USC	43.1	32.4	20.9	3.6	10.7
22 Feb	Sondaxe	42.3	29.2	18.8	9.7	13.1
21 Feb	Sondaxe	42.5	28.8	18.7	10.0	13.7
20 Feb	Sondaxe	43.0	30.2	19.2	7.6	12.8
16–20 Feb	NC-Report[lower-alpha 1]	43.8	31.8	19.5	4.9	12.0
19 Feb	TNS-Demoscopia	43.5	32.8	19.5	4.2	10.7
19 Feb	Sondaxe	43.1	30.3	18.7	7.9	12.8
16–19 Feb	DYM	45.7	28.5	21.6	4.2	17.2
13–19 Feb	Sigma-2	44.5	33.1	18.1	4.3	11.4
12–19 Feb	Obradoiro	45.3	30.2	19.4	5.1	15.1
18 Feb	Sondaxe	42.6	31.8	18.9	6.7	10.8
17 Feb	Sondaxe	41.9	31.9	19.2	7.0	10.0
16 Feb	Sondaxe	42.1	31.6	19.1	7.2	10.5
12–16 Feb	Metroscopia	44.1	33.8	18.0	4.1	10.3
10–16 Feb	Noxa	43.8	31.7	19.9	4.6	12.1
15 Feb	Sondaxe	42.4	32.1	18.4	7.1	10.3
9–13 Feb	NC-Report[lower-alpha 1]	43.5	32.2	19.6	4.7	11.3
9 Feb	Opina	44.2	34.0	17.9	3.9	10.2
8 Feb	Obradoiro	43.2	32.5	19.0	5.3	10.7
8 Feb	Xornal	43.2	31.7	21.6	3.5	11.5
2 Feb	Obradoiro	43.6	32.6	19.5	4.3	11.0
15 Jan–2 Feb	CIS	43.1	33.2	18.3	5.4	9.9
22 Jan	TNS-Demoscopia	41.2	34.9	19.4	4.5	6.3
12–19 Jan	Sondaxe	42.8	31.7	18.5	7.0	10.1
18 Jan	Xornal	40.8	34.3	21.7	3.2	6.5
12–16 Jan	NC-Report[lower-alpha 1]	43.8	31.6	19.9	4.7	12.2
2009
2–10 Sep	Sondaxe	43.0	30.8	18.3	7.9	12.2
2008
2007
23 Nov–7 Dec	USC	37.0	39.0	20.8	3.2	2.0
2006
19 Jun 2005	Regional Election	45.2	33.2	18.7	2.9	12.0

Seat projections

Opinion polls showing seat projections are displayed in the table below. The highest seat figures in each polling survey have their background shaded in the leading party's colour. In the instance that there is a tie, then no figure is shaded. 38 seats were required for an absolute majority in the Parliament of Galicia.

38 seats needed for majority

Date	Polling Firm/Source	PP	PSdeG	BNG	Others
1 Mar 2009	Regional Election	38	25	12	0
Exit polls
22 Feb	La Región	37−38	24−25	13	0
22 Feb	Obradoiro	35−36	25−26	14	0
22 Feb	Xornal	35	24	16	0
22 Feb	Ipsos-Eco	35−36	26−27	13−14	0
22 Feb	USC	35−37	24−25	14−15	0
22 Feb	Sondaxe	36	26	13	0
21 Feb	Sondaxe	36	26	13	0
20 Feb	Sondaxe	36	25	14	0
16–20 Feb	NC-Report	35−37	25−26	13−14	0
19 Feb	TNS-Demoscopia	35−37	24−26	13−15	0
19 Feb	Sondaxe	35	26	14	0
16–19 Feb	DYM	37−38	22−23	15−16	0
13–19 Feb	Sigma-2	36−38	25−26	12−13	0
12–19 Feb	Obradoiro	36−37	23−24	14−16	0
18 Feb	Sondaxe	35	26	14	0
17 Feb	Sondaxe	35	26	14	0
16 Feb	Sondaxe	34	27	14	0
12–16 Feb	Metroscopia	36	25−27	12−14	0
10–16 Feb	Noxa	35−37	24−26	13−15	0
15 Feb	Sondaxe	35	27	13	0
15 Feb	La Región	36−38	27	12−13	0
15 Feb	Xornal	35	24	16	0
9–13 Feb	NC-Report	35−37	25−26	13−14	0
9 Feb	Opina	34−36	25−27	14	0
8 Feb	Obradoiro	35	26	14	0
8 Feb	Xornal	34−35	24−25	16	0
2 Feb	Obradoiro	35−36	25−26	14	0
15 Jan–2 Feb	CIS	35−36	27	12−13	0
1 Feb	La Región	37−38	25−26	11−13	0
22 Jan	TNS-Demoscopia	35−36	26−27	13	0
12–19 Jan	Sondaxe	35	26	14	0
18 Jan	Xornal	33−34	25−26	16	0
12–16 Jan	NC-Report	35−37	24−25	14−15	0
2009
2–10 Sep	Sondaxe	35	26	14	0
2008
2007
23 Nov–7 Dec	USC	29	31	15	0
2006
19 Jun 2005	Regional Election	37	25	13	0

Results

Overall

← Summary of the 1 March 2009 Galician Parliament election results →

Party		Vote			Seats
		Votes	%	±pp	Won	+/−
	People's Party (PP)	789,427	46.68	1.45	38	1
	Socialist Party of Galicia (PSdeG-PSOE)	524,488	31.02	2.20	25	±0
	Galician Nationalist Bloc (BNG)	270,712	16.01	2.64	12	1
	Union, Progress and Democracy (UPyD)	23,796	1.41	New	0	±0
	Galician Land (TeGa)	18,726	1.11	New	0	±0
	United Left (EU-IU)	16,441	0.97	0.23	0	±0
	The Greens-Green Group (OV-GV)	5,911	0.35	New	0	±0
	For a Fairer World (PUM+J)	3,507	0.21	New	0	±0
	Galician People's Front (FPG)	2,903	0.17	0.01	0	±0

Parties with less than 0.1% of the vote		6,993	0.41	–	0	±0
	Us-People's Unity (Nós-UP)	1,510	0.09	0.01	0	±0
	Humanist Party (PH)	1,227	0.07	0.02	0	±0
	Ourensan Democracy (DO)	1,066	0.06	0.02	0	±0
	More Galicia (+G)	923	0.05	New	0	±0
	Spanish Falange of the JONS (FE-JONS)	675	0.04	0.02	0	±0
	Internationalist Solidarity and Self-Management (SAIn)	420	0.02	New	0	±0
	United Galicia (GU)	369	0.02	New	0	±0
	Liberal Centrist Union (UCL)	311	0.02	New	0	±0
	Social Democratic Party of Law (SDD)	262	0.02	0.01	0	±0
	Electronic Voting Assembly (AVE)	230	0.01	New	0	±0

	Blank ballots	28,071	1.66	0.41
Total		1,690,975	100.00		75	±0
Valid votes		1,690,975	99.11	0.43
Invalid votes		15,223	0.89	0.43
Votes cast / turnout		1,706,198	64.43	0.22
Abstentions		942,078	35.57	0.22
Registered voters		2,648,276
Source: Argos Information Portal

Vote share
PP			46.68%
PSdeG-PSOE			31.02%
BNG			16.01%
UPyD			1.41%
TeGa			1.11%
Others			2.11%
Blank ballots			1.66%

Parliamentary seats
PP			50.67%
PSdeG-PSOE			33.33%
BNG			16.00%

Notes

1. Poll results are shown projected over candidacy votes (that is, votes going for political parties, excluding blank ballots). The vote percentage in the official election is calculated including blank ballots into the estimation. In order to obtain data comparable to both the official results as well as those of other polls, a rule of three has been applied to the poll projections, with the results of the calculation being shown instead.

References

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