Gipuzkoa (Spanish Congress Electoral District)

Location of Gipuzkoa electoral district in Spain

Gipuzkoa is one of the 52 electoral districts (Spanish: circunscripciones) used for the Spanish Congress of Deputies - the lower chamber of the Spanish Parliament, the Cortes Generales. It elects six members of the three hundred and fifty in the Congress. It is situated in the Basque Country and the largest city is Donostia-San Sebastián.

Boundaries and electoral system

Under Article 68 of the Spanish constitution ^[1] the boundaries must be the same as the province of Gipuzkoa and under Article 140 this can only be altered with the approval of congress. Voting is on the basis of universal suffrage in a secret ballot. The electoral system used is closed list proportional representation with seats allocated using the D'Hondt method. Only lists which poll 3% or more of all valid votes cast, including votes "en blanco" i.e. for "none of the above" can be considered for seats. Under article 12 of the constitution, the minimum voting age is 18.

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Eligibility

Article 67.3 of the Spanish Constitution prohibits dual membership of the Cortes and regional assemblies, meaning that candidates must resign from Regional Assemblies if elected. Article 70 also makes active judges, magistrates, public defenders, serving military personnel, active police officers and members of constitutional and electoral tribunals ineligible.^[1]

Number of members

In the general elections from 1977 until 1989 Gipuzkoareturned seven members. That figure was reduced to six members from the 1993 General Election onwards. Gipuzkoa was one of the few districts whose electorate fell between 2000 and 2004.

Under Spanish electoral law, all provinces are entitled to a minimum of 2 seats with a remaining 248 seats apportioned according to population.^[2] These laws are laid out in detail in the 1985 electoral law. (Ley Orgánica del Régimen Electoral General) Gipuzkoa had a ratio of 96,970 voters per deputy in 2004 ^[3] a figure very close to the Spanish average of 98,777 voters per deputy.^[4]

Summary of seats won 1977–2015

	1977	1979	1982	1986	1989	1993	1996	2000	2004	2008	2011	2015
Basque Nationalist Party (EAJ-PNV)	3	2	3	2	1	1	1	2	2	2	1	2
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	1	2	3	1	1
Euskadiko Ezkerra (EE)	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	1	2	3	1	1
Democratic Centre Union (UCD)		1
Batasuna (HB)		1	1	2	2	1	1
Eusko Alkartasuna (EA)					1	1	1	1	1		^†
Amaiur											3^†	^‡
Basque Country Unite (EH Bildu)												1^‡
People's Party (PP)						1	1	2	1	1	1
We Can (Podemos-Ahal Dugu)												2

^†Eusko Alkartasuna contested the 2011 election as part of the Amaiur coalition.
^‡The components of the Amaiur coalition contested the 2015 election within the larger EH Bildu coalition.
Note: Seats shown for the PP include seats won by their predecessors, the Popular Alliance and Popular Coalition before 1989. Euskadiko Ezkerra merged with the PSOE after 1989.

Vote share summary 1977–2015

	1977	1979	1982	1986	1989	1993	1996	2000	2004	2008	2011	2015
Basque Nationalist Party (EAJ-PNV)	30.9	26.5	32.6	28.7	16.2	17.3	19.7	27.7	31.0	23.8	22.4	23.51
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)	28.1	18.2	26.0	23.1	19.8	23.2	22.7	23.7	26.3	39.0	21.0	13.31
Euskadiko Ezkerra (EE)	9.4	12.9	9.9	10.7	10.4	23.2	22.7	23.7	26.3	39.0	21.0	13.31
People's Party (PP)	8.2^a	4.2	8.1	8.1	7.0	11.5	14.3	24.6	15.3	14.6	13.7	8.69
Democratic Centre Union (UCD)		15.4	8.1
Batasuna (HB)	5.5^b	17.6	19.3	23.0	22.1	20.5	18.4
Basque Christian Democracy (DCV)	5.0
Independent Basque Democrats (DIV)	4.7
United Left (IU)	3.6	3.1	1.3	0.8	2.0	4.8	7.3	4.7	7.7	4.8	3.4	2.75
Democratic and Social Centre (CDS)			1.7	3.6	2.2	0.6	0.1	0.1	0.1
Eusko Alkartasuna (EA)					17.9	17.9	14.7	14.1	11.5	7.8	34.8^c	20.89^d
Aralar									6.0	5.3	34.8^c
Sortu									6.0	5.3
We Can (Podemos-Ahal Dugu)												25.27
Citizens–Party of the Citizenry (C's)												3.72

^aThe results correspond to those for the United Gipuzkoa (Guipúzcoa Unida) coalition.
^bThe results correspond to those of the Basque Socialist Party (Euskadiko Alderdi Sozialista-Partido Socialista Vasco) which later became a major part of the Batasuna electoral coalition.
^cEusko Alkartasuna and Aralar contested the 2011 election as part of the Amaiur coalition, which also included Alternatiba and ezker abertzalea independents.
^dEusko Alkartasuna, Aralar and Sortu contested the 2015 election as part of the EH Bildu coalition, which also included Alternatiba and ezker abertzalea independents.

Results

2015 General election

Summary of the 20 December 2015 Congress of Deputies election results in Gipuzkoa.


Parties and alliances	Votes	%	Seats	Members elected
We Can (Podemos-Ahal Dugu)	97,859	25.27	2	Nayua Miriam Goveli Alba, Fernando Iglesias García
Basque Nationalist Party (Euzko Alderdi Jeltzalea-Partido Nacionalista Vasco)	91,043	23.51	2	Joseba Andoni Agirretxea Urresti, Iñigo Barandiaran Benito
Basque Country Unite (EH Bildu)	80,880	20.89	1	Marian Beitialarrangoitia Lizarralde
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (Partido Socialista Obrero Español)	51,530	13.31	1	Odón Elorza González
People's Party (Partido Popular)	33,668	8.69	0
Citizens – Party of the Citizenry (C's)	14,419	3.72	0
Popular Unity-United Left (UP-IU)	10,630	2.75	0
Others	4,693	1.2	0

2011 General election

Summary of the 20 November 2011 Congress of Deputies election results in Gipuzkoa.


Parties and alliances	Votes	%	Seats	Members elected
Amaiur	130,055	34.8	3	Maite Ariztegui Larrañaga, Xabier Errekondo Saltsamendi, Rafael Larreina Valderrama
Basque Nationalist Party (Euzko Alderdi Jeltzalea-Partido Nacionalista Vasco)	83,703	22.4	1	Joseba Andoni Agirretxea Urresti
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (Partido Socialista Obrero Español)	78,462	21.0	1	Odón Elorza González
People's Party (Partido Popular)	51,362	13.7	1	José Azpiroz Villar
United Left	12,595	3.4	0
Union, Progress and Democracy	5,734	1.5	0
Equo	4,390	1.2	0
Others	3,427	0.9	0

2008 General Election

The 2008 election was overshadowed by the killing of a former PSOE councillor by ETA^[5] in the town of Mondragón in the district which led to a suspension of campaigning. This appeared to have an impact on the results as PSOE had their largest increase of all 52 districts here, while their next biggest came in the neighbouring districts of Álava and Biscay. Consequently they won three seats for the first time and gained the seat held by Eusko Alkartasuna, who lost their individual representation in Congress (although in 2008 they were represented in Navarre as part of the coalition Navarre Yes).

Summary of the 11 March 2008 Congress of Deputies election results in Gipuzkoa.


Parties and alliances	Votes	%	Seats
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (Partido Socialista Obrero Español)	127,840	39.00	3
Basque Nationalist Party (Euzko Alderdi Jeltzalea-Partido Nacionalista Vasco)	77,903	23.76	2
People's Party (Partido Popular)	47,858	14.60	1
Eusko Alkartasuna	25,455	7.77	0
Aralar	17,332	5.29	0
United Left	15,812	4.82	0
Union, Progress and Democracy	2,620	0.80	0
Others	5,482	1.70	0

2004 General Election

Summary of the 14 March 2004 Congress of Deputies election results in Gipuzkoa.


Parties and alliances	Votes	%	Seats
Basque Nationalist Party (Euzko Alderdi Jeltzalea-Partido Nacionalista Vasco)	115,402	30.96	2
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (Partido Socialista Obrero Español)	98,100	26.31	2
People's Party (Partido Popular)	56,904	15.26	1
Eusko Alkartasuna	42,971	11.53	1
United Left	28,668	7.69	0
Aralar	22,352	6.00	0
Others	2,886	0.80	0

2000 General Election

Summary of the 12 March 2000 Congress of Deputies election results in Gipuzkoa.


Parties and alliances	Votes	%	Seats
Basque Nationalist Party (Euzko Alderdi Jeltzalea-Partido Nacionalista Vasco)	89,783	27.73	2
People's Party (Partido Popular)	79,696	24.61	2
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (Partido Socialista Obrero Español)	76,731	23.70	1
Eusko Alkartasuna	45,525	14.06	1
United Left	15,107	4.67	0
Others	5,349	1.70	0

Source:^[6]

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Electoral districts of the Spanish Congress of Deputies

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