Valencian parliamentary election, 1999

Valencian parliamentary election, 1999

13 June 1999

All 89 seats in the Valencian Courts 45 seats needed for a majority Registered 3,361,989 7.4% Turnout 2,279,805 (67.8%) 8.2 pp   First party Second party   Leader Eduardo Zaplana Antoni Asunción Party PP PSPV-PSOE Leader since 26 September 1993 8 April 1999 Last election 42 seats, 42.8% 32 seats, 34.0% Seats won 49 35 Seat change 7 3 Popular vote 1,085,011 768,548 Percentage 47.9% 33.9% Swing 5.1 pp 0.1 pp   Third party Fourth party   Leader Joan Ribó Héctor Villalba Party IU UV Leader since 1997 15 October 1995 Last election 10 seats, 11.5% 5 seats, 7.0% Seats won 5 0 Seat change 5 5 Popular vote 137,212 106,119 Percentage 6.1% 4.7% Swing 5.4 pp 2.3 pp

President before election Eduardo Zaplana PP Elected President Eduardo Zaplana PP

The 1999 Valencian parliamentary election was held on Sunday, 13 June 1999, to elect the 5th democratically-elected Valencian Courts, the regional legislature of the Spanish autonomous community of Valencia. At stake were all 89 seats in the Courts, determining the President of the Valencian Government.

The People's Party (PP), which had ruled the community from 1995 in a coalition government, won an absolute majority of seats; majority which it would maintain for the next 20 years. Its coalition partner, Valencian Union (UV), fell just below the 5% threshold, resulting in it losing all seats and being expelled from the Courts. The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) remained static on its 1995 vote share, though it gained 3 additional seats thanks to United Left (IU) electoral collapse from 10 to 5 seats.

Electoral system

The number of seats in the Valencian Courts was set to a fixed-number of 89. All Courts members were elected in 3 multi-member districts, corresponding to the Valencian Community's three 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 29 seats allocated among the three provinces in proportion to their populations, on the required condition that the number of inhabitants per seat in each district did not exceed 3 times those of any other. For the 1999 election, seats were distributed as follows: Alicante (30), Castellon (22) and Valencia (37).

Voting was 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) were entitled to enter the seat distribution. This meant that in the case a list polled above 5% in one or more of the districts but below 5% in the community totals, it would remain outside of the seat apportionment.^[1]

Results

Overall

← Summary of the 13 June 1999 Valencian Courts election results →

Party		Vote			Seats
		Votes	%	±pp	Won	+/−
	People's Party (PP)	1,085,011	47.88	5.05	49	7
	Socialist Party of the Valencian Country-Progresists (PSPV-PSOE)	768,548	33.91	0.07	35	3
	United Left of the Valencian Country (EUPV)	137,212	6.05	5.48	5	5
	Valencian Union (UV)	106,119	4.68	2.33	0	5
	Valencian Nationalist Bloc-The Greens (BNV-EV)	102,700	4.53	1.82	0	±0
	Valencian Community Alternative (ACV)	6,146	0.27	New	0	±0
	Liberal Centre (CL)	4,813	0.21	New	0	±0
	The Ecologist Pacifist Greens (LVE)	4,176	0.18	New	0	±0
	Centrist Union-Democratic and Social Centre (UC-CDS)	2,978	0.13	0.10	0	±0
	Spanish Falange of the JONS (FE-JONS)	2,973	0.13	0.06	0	±0
	Independent Initiative (II)	2,524	0.11	New	0	±0
	Humanist Party (PH)	2,253	0.10	0.07	0	±0
	Valencian Nationalist Left (ENV)	2,070	0.09	0.01	0	±0
	Federal Republican Left-Federal Republican Party (IRF-PRF)	1,660	0.07	New	0	±0
	Valencian Independent Organization (OIV)	1,316	0.06	New	0	±0
	Spanish Autonomous League (LAE)	608	0.03	0.01	0	±0
	Blank ballots	35,168	1.55	0.50
Total		2,266,275	100.00		89	±0
Valid votes		2,266,275	99.41	0.03
Invalid votes		13,530	0.59	0.03
Votes cast / turnout		2,279,805	67.81	8.22
Abstentions		1,082,184	32.19	8.22
Registered voters		3,361,989
Source(s): Valencian Courts Argos Information Portal

Vote share
PP			47.88%
PSPV-PSOE			33.91%
EUPV			6.05%
UV			4.68%
BNV-EV			4.53%
Others			1.39%
Blank ballots			1.55%

Parliamentary seats
PP			55.06%
PSPV-PSOE			39.33%
EUPV			5.62%

Results by province

Election results by province.

References

1. "Law 1/1987, of 31 March, Valencian electoral".