Riojan parliamentary election, 2015

Riojan parliamentary election, 2015

24 May 2015

All 33 seats in the Parliament of La Rioja 17 seats needed for a majority Opinion polls Registered 247,663 2.3% Turnout 166,649 (67.3%) 2.5 pp   First party Second party Third party   Leader Pedro Sanz Concha Andreu Raúl Ausejo Party PP PSOE Podemos Leader since 2 October 1993 19 October 2014 23 January 2015 Last election 20 seats, 52.0% 11 seats, 30.3% Did not contest Seats won 15 10 4 Seat change 5 1 4 Popular vote 63,094 43,689 18,319 Percentage 38.6% 26.7% 11.2% Swing 13.4 pp 3.6 pp New party   Fourth party Fifth party   Leader Diego Ubis Miguel González de Legarra Party C's PR Leader since 8 March 2015 16 December 1995 Last election Did not contest 2 seats, 5.4% Seats won 4 0 Seat change 4 2 Popular vote 17,042 7,277 Percentage 10.4% 4.5% Swing New party 0.9 pp

President before election Pedro Sanz PP Elected President José Ignacio Ceniceros PP

The 2015 Riojan parliamentary election was held on Sunday, 24 May 2015, to elect the 9th Parliament of La Rioja, the unicameral regional legislature of the Spanish autonomous community of La Rioja. At stake were all 33 seats in the Parliament, determining the President of La Rioja. The election was held concurrently with the regional elections for 12 other autonomous communities, as well as the 2015 municipal elections.

Reflecting a national trend, the governing People's Party (PP) and the opposition Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) both lost support, to the benefit of the new left-wing party Podemos (Spanish for "We can") and the centrist party Citizens (C's). The PP retained the largest number of seats, but lost its overall majority for the first time since 1995.

Electoral system

The number of seats in the Parliament of La Rioja is set to a fixed-number of 33. All Parliament members are elected in a single multi-member district, consisting of the Community's territory (the province of La Rioja), using the D'Hondt method and a closed-list proportional representation system.

Voting is on the basis of universal suffrage in a secret ballot. Only lists polling above 5% of valid votes in all of the community (which include blank ballots—for none of the above) are 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	PSOE	PR	IU	UPyD	C's	P	Oth.	Lead
24 May 2015	Regional Election	38.6	26.7	4.5	4.2	1.2	10.4	11.2	3.2	11.9
Exit polls
17 May	NC-Report	42.8	26.5	4.9	3.9	1.4	9.5	9.1	1.9	16.3
6–12 May	GAD3	41.3	23.5	3.9	4.6	1.9	10.3	9.8	4.7	17.8
23 Mar–19 Apr	CIS	38.7	22.3	4.6	4.2	1.7	13.1	11.6	3.8	16.4
6–10 Apr	NC-Report	44.1	27.3	4.7	3.2	2.1	7.2	8.6	2.8	16.8
19–27 Jan	GAD3	44.2	19.1	4.2	4.1	3.6	3.9	14.8	6.1	25.1
2015
25 May 2014	EP Election	38.4	23.7	N/A	8.1	9.0	2.3	7.5	11.0	14.7
17–28 Mar	GAD3	47.9	26.3		6.3	6.7			12.8	21.6
2014
11–18 Dec	Celeste-Tel[lower-alpha 1]	45.0	29.2	8.0	7.2	5.4			5.2	15.8
15 Oct–12 Nov	NC-Report	45.7	28.0	5.1	7.3	6.7			7.2	17.7
30 Apr–22 May	GAD3	46.6	25.8	4.1	8.1	6.8			8.6	20.8
15 Apr–10 May	NC-Report	45.3	28.9						25.8	16.4
2013
2012
20 Nov 2011	General Election	54.7	31.1	N/A	4.6	6.0			3.6	23.6
22 May 2011	Regional Election	52.0	30.3	5.4	3.7	3.6			5.0	21.7

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. 17 seats were required for an absolute majority in the Parliament of La Rioja.

17 seats needed for majority

Date	Polling Firm/Source	PP	PSOE	PR	IU	UPyD	C's	P	Others
24 May 2014	Regional Election	15	10	0	0	0	4	4	0
24 May	GAD3	16−17	9−10	0	0−1	0	3−4	3−4	0
Exit polls
17 May	NC-Report	16−17	10−11	0	0	0	3−4	3−4	0
6–12 May	GAD3	16−17	9	0	0−1	0	3−4	3−4	0
23 Mar–19 Apr	CIS	15−16	8−9	0	0	0	5	4	0
6–10 Apr	NC-Report	17−18	10−11	0	0	0	2−3	3−4	0
19–27 Jan	GAD3	17−18	7−8	0−2	0−2	0	0	5−6	0
2015
25 May 2014	EP Election	(15)	(9)	N/A	(3)	(3)	(0)	(3)	(0)
1 May	Infortécnica	18	9	1−2	1−2	3−4	0	0	0
17–28 Mar	GAD3	19	10	0	2	2	0	0	0
2014
11–18 Dec	Celeste-Tel	16−17	10−11	2−3	2	2	0		0
15 Oct–12 Nov	NC-Report	17−18	10	1−2	2	1−2	0		0
30 Apr–22 May	GAD3	18	10	0	2	3	0		0
15 Apr–10 May	NC-Report	17−18	10−11	2−3	2	1−2	0		0
2013
2012
20 Nov 2011	General Election	(20)	(11)	N/A	(0)	(2)			(0)
22 May 2011	Regional Election	20	11	2	0	0			0

Results

← Summary of the 24 May 2015 La Rioja Parliament election results

Party		Vote			Seats
		Votes	%	±pp	Won	+/−
	People's Party (PP)	63,094	38.62	13.36	15	5
	Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)	43,689	26.74	3.59	10	1
	We Can (Podemos)	18,319	11.21	New	4	4
	Citizens-Party of the Citizenry (C's)	17,042	10.43	New	4	4
	Riojan Party (PR+)	7,277	4.45	0.98	0	2
	Change La Rioja-United Left-Equo (CR-IU-EQUO)	6,797	4.16	0.46	0	±0
	Union, Progress and Democracy (UPyD)	2,005	1.23	2.33	0	±0
	Animalist Party Against Mistreatment of Animals (PACMA)	1,205	0.74	0.40	0	±0
	Blank Seats (Eb)	525	0.32	New	0	±0
	Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain (PCPE)	481	0.29	±0.00	0	±0
	Blank ballots	2,933	1.80	0.92
Total		163,367	100.00		33	±0
Valid votes		163,367	98.03	0.05
Invalid votes		3,282	1.97	0.05
Votes cast / turnout		166,649	67.29	2.47
Abstentions		81,014	32.71	2.47
Registered voters		247,663
Source: Argos Information Portal

Vote share
PP			38.62%
PSOE			26.74%
Podemos			11.21%
C's			10.43%
PR+			4.45%
CR-IU-EQUO			4.16%
UPyD			1.23%
Others			1.35%
Blank			1.80%

Parliamentary seats
PP			45.45%
PSOE			30.30%
Podemos			12.12%
C's			12.12%

Notes

1. This survey shows its poll results 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 surveys, a rule of three has been applied to the survey projections, with the results of the calculation being shown instead.

References

1. "Law 3/1991, of 21 March, of elections to the Regional Deputation of La Rioja.".