Castile-La Mancha parliamentary election, 1995

Castile-La Mancha parliamentary election, 1995
Castilla-La Mancha
28 May 1995

All 47 seats in the Courts of Castile-La Mancha
24 seats needed for a majority
Registered 1,352,958 Increase3.7%
Turnout 1,066,571 (78.8%)
Increase6.3 pp
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader José Bono José Manuel Molina José Molina Martínez
Party PSOE PP IU
Leader since 25 March 1983 23 December 1989 1991
Last election 27 seats, 52.2% 19 seats, 35.9% 1 seat, 6.2%
Seats won 24 22 1
Seat change Decrease3 Increase3 ±0
Popular vote 483,888 469,127 80,482
Percentage 45.7% 44.3% 7.6%
Swing Decrease6.5 pp Increase8.4 pp Increase1.4 pp

President before election

José Bono
PSOE

Elected President

José Bono
PSOE

The 1995 Castile-La Mancha parliamentary election was held on Sunday, 28 May 1995, to elect the 4th Courts of Castile-La Mancha, the regional legislature of the Spanish autonomous community of Castile-La Mancha. At stake were all 47 seats in the Courts, determining the President of the Junta of Communities of Castile-La Mancha.

Despite bearing enormous losses, the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) was able to maintain government, albeit with a mere 1-seat majority. The People's Party (PP), which in this election made the greatest gains, finished a close second but remained unable to win the PSOE in one of its considered strongest strongholds. Meanwhile, United Left (IU) maintained its presence in the Courts and was able to increase both its vote support and share, but remained unable to gain new seats.

Electoral system

The number of seats in the Castile-La Mancha Courts was set to a fixed-number of 47. All Courts members were elected in 5 multi-member districts, corresponding to Castile-La Mancha's five provinces, using the D'Hondt method and a closed-list proportional representation system. Each district was assigned a fixed set of seats, distributed as follows: Albacete (10), Ciudad Real (11), Cuenca (8), Guadalajara (7) and Toledo (11).

Voting was on the basis of universal suffrage in a secret ballot. Only lists polling above 3% of valid votes in each district (which include blank ballotsfor none of the above) were entitled to enter the seat distribution.[1]

Results

Overall

Summary of the 28 May 1995 Castile-La Mancha Courts election results
Party Vote Seats
Votes % ±pp Won +/−
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) 483,888 45.70 Decrease6.47 24 Decrease3
People's Party (PP) 469,127 44.30 Increase8.45 22 Increase3
United Left-Left of Castile-La Mancha (IUCLM) 80,482 7.60 Increase1.43 1 ±0
Centrist Union (UC) 3,568 0.34 Decrease3.15 0 ±0
Regionalist Party of Castile-La Mancha (PRCM) 3,121 0.29 Increase0.19 0 ±0
Action for Talavera Region (ACTAL) 2,015 0.19 Decrease0.07 0 ±0
The Greens-Green Group (LV-GV) 1,474 0.14 New 0 ±0
Communal Land-Castilian Nationalist Party (TC-PNC) 1,406 0.13 Increase0.03 0 ±0
Blank ballots 11,128 1.05 Increase0.06
Total 1,058,874 100.00 47 ±0
Valid votes 1,058,874 99.28 Increase0.04
Invalid votes 7,697 0.72 Decrease0.04
Votes cast / turnout 1,066,571 78.83 Increase6.33
Abstentions 286,387 21.17 Decrease6.33
Registered voters 1,352,958
Source: Argos Information Portal
Vote share
PSOE
 
45.70%
PP
 
44.30%
IUCLM
 
7.60%
Others
 
1.35%
Blank ballots
 
1.05%
Parliamentary seats
PSOE
 
51.06%
PP
 
46.81%
IUCLM
 
2.13%

References

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