Spanish regional elections, 2011

Spanish regional elections, 2011

22 May 2011

All 824 seats of the regional parliaments of Aragon, Asturias, Balearic Islands, Canary Islands, Cantabria, Castile-La Mancha, Castile and León, Extremadura, Madrid, Murcia, Navarre, La Rioja and Valencia Registered 19,319,332 Turnout 13,025,799 (67.4%) 0.9 pp   Majority party Minority party Third party   Leader Mariano Rajoy José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero Cayo Lara Party PP PSOE IU Leader since 2 September 2003 22 July 2000 14 December 2008 Last election 367 seats, 45.5% 327 seats, 37.0% 28 seats, 6.0% Seats won 410 261 34 Seat change 43 66 6 Popular vote 5,895,839 3,682,916 795,242 Percentage 46.0% 28.8% 6.2% Swing 0.5 pp 8.2 pp 0.2 pp

UPN+ PSOE PP PP PP+PAR PP PP PP PP FAC PP PP PP PP PP CC+PSOE

Regional administrations after the 2011 elections.

The 2011 Spanish regional elections were held on Sunday, 22 May 2011 in Spain, to elect the regional parliaments of 13 of the 17 autonomous communities: Aragon, Asturias, the Balearic Islands, the Canary Islands, Cantabria, Castile-La Mancha, Castile and León, Extremadura, Madrid, Murcia, Navarre, La Rioja and the Valencian Community. Andalusia, Catalonia, Galicia and the Basque Country did not held elections that day because they had separate electoral cycles. Municipal elections were held throughout Spain the same day.^[1]

The days before the elections were marked by the protests which had been held in different cities across Spain since 15 May.

The elections resulted in a landslide victory for the opposition People's Party (PP). The governing Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) was beaten in every region, including Extremadura and Castile-La Mancha, which the party had held since the first regional elections in 1983. The PP won outright majorities in 8 out of the 13 communities, and was able to govern in another 2 through pacts.

Following the election, the PSOE named Deputy Prime Minister Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba as prime ministerial candidate for the incoming general election, initially scheduled for March 2012 but finally held in November 2011.^[2]

Election date

The determination of the election date varied depending on the autonomous community, as they had different regulations. Initially, regional presidents didn't have the power to dissolve the regional parliaments and call elections of their own, but this notion evolved over time throughout different reforms of the autonomies' electoral laws and/or Statutes of Autonomy.

• The presidents of the Valencian Community (from 2006), Aragon, the Balearic Islands, Castile and León (2007) and Navarre (2010) could dissolve the regional legislatures and hold elections at any time different than the date set by law (usually the fourth Sunday of May).
• The presidents of Madrid (from 1990), Castile-La Mancha (1997), Cantabria, Murcia (1998), Asturias, Extremadura and La Rioja (1999) could dissolve the regional legislatures and hold elections at a time different than the date set by law, but these did not change the period to the next ordinary election, with newly elected MPs merely serving out what remained of the previous projected four-year parliamentary term.
• By the time of the 2011 regional elections, the President of the Canary Islands was the only chief of a regional government that hadn't been granted the power to dissolve the regional legislature, and elections in Canarias were only held at the fixed date set by law.^[3]

The fourth Sunday of May 2011 was 22 May, and elections were set to be held that day.

Regional governments

National results

Results

Autonomous communities

Party		Votes	%			Seats
			Prev.	2011	±pp	Prev.	2011	+/−
Aragon
	People's Party (PP)	269,729	31.1%	39.7%	8.6	23	30	7
	Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)	197,189	41.1%	29.0%	12.1	30	22	8
	Aragonese Party (PAR)	62,193	12.1%	9.2%	2.9	9	7	2
	Aragonese Union (CHA)	55,932	8.1%	8.2%	0.1	4	4	±0
	United Left (IU)	41,874	4.1%	6.2%	2.1	1	4	3
Asturias
	Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)	179,619	42.0%	29.9%	12.1	21	15	6
	Asturias Forum (FAC)	178,031	–	29.7%	New	–	16	16
	People's Party (PP)	119,767	41.5%	20.0%	21.5	20	10	10
	United Left (IU)	61,703	9.7%	10.3%	0.6	4	4	±0
Balearic Islands
	People's Party (PP)	196,214	46.5%	46.7%	0.2	29	35	6
	Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)	102,724	32.2%	24.4%	7.8	20	18	2
	Socialist Party of Majorca (PSM)	39,904	9.8%	9.5%	0.3	3	5	2
	United Left (IU)	13,270	w.BpM	3.2%	New	3	0	3
	Convergence for the Isles (CxI)	11,913	6.7%	2.8%	3.9	3	0	3
	Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC)	5,325	w.PSOE	1.3%	New	1	0	1
	People for Formentera (GxF)	1,904	0.3%	0.5%	0.2	0	1	1
Canary Islands
	People's Party (PP)	289,381	24.0%	31.9%	7.9	15	21	6
	Canarian Coalition (CC)	225,948	29.2%	24.9%	4.3	19	21	2
	Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)	190,028	34.5%	21.0%	13.5	26	15	11
	New Canaries (NC)	82,148	5.4%	9.1%	3.7	0	3	3
Cantabria
	People's Party (PP)	156,499	41.5%	46.1%	4.6	17	20	3
	Regionalist Party of Cantabria (PRC)	98,887	28.6%	29.1%	0.5	12	12	±0
	Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)	55,541	24.5%	16.4%	8.1	10	7	3
Castile and León
	People's Party (PP)	739,505	49.2%	51.6%	2.4	48	53	5
	Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)	425,777	37.7%	29.7%	8.0	33	29	4
	United Left (IU)	69,872	3.1%	4.9%	1.8	0	1	1
	Leonese People's Union (UPL)	26,660	2.7%	1.9%	0.8	2	1	1
Castile-La Mancha
	People's Party (PP)	564,954	42.4%	48.1%	5.7	21	25	4
	Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)	509,738	52.0%	43.4%	8.6	26	24	2
Community of Madrid
	People's Party (PP)	1,548,306	53.3%	51.7%	1.6	67	72	5
	Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)	786,297	33.6%	26.3%	7.3	42	36	6
	United Left (IU)	287,707	8.9%	9.6%	0.7	11	13	2
	Union, Progress and Democracy (UPyD)	189,055	–	6.3%	New	–	8	8
Extremadura
	People's Party (PP)	307,975	38.7%	46.1%	7.4	27	32	5
	Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)	290,045	53.0%	43.4%	9.6	38	30	8
	United Left (IU)	38,157	4.5%	5.7%	1.2	0	3	3
La Rioja
	People's Party (PP)	85,975	48.8%	52.0%	3.3	17	20	3
	Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)	50,169	40.4%	30.3%	10.1	14	11	3
	Riojan Party (PR)	8,983	6.0%	5.4%	0.6	2	2	±0
Murcia
	People's Party (PP)	382,871	58.3%	58.8%	0.5	29	33	4
	Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)	155,506	32.0%	23.9%	8.1	15	11	4
	United Left (IU)	50,988	6.3%	7.8%	1.5	1	1	±0
Navarre
	Navarrese People's Union (UPN)	111,474	42.2%	34.5%	7.7	22	19	3
	Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)	51,238	22.5%	15.9%	6.6	12	9	3
	Yes to Navarre (NaBai)	49,827	23.6%	15.4%	8.2	12	8	4
	Unite (Bildu)	42,916	–	13.3%	New	–	7	7
	People's Party (PP)	23,551	–	7.3%	New	–	4	4
	Left (I-E)	18,457	4.3%	5.7%	1.4	2	3	1
	Democrats' Convergence of Navarre (CDN)	4,654	4.4%	1.4%	3.0	2	0	2
Valencian Community
	People's Party (PP)	1,211,112	52.5%	49.4%	3.1	54	55	1
	Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)	687,141	34.5%	28.0%	6.5	38	33	5
	Commitment Coalition (Compromís)	176,213	–	7.2%	New	–	6	6
	United Left (IU)	144,703	8.0%	5.9%	2.1	7	5	2

Autonomous cities

Party		Votes	%			Seats
			2007	2011	±pp	2007	2011	+/−
Ceuta
	People's Party (PP)	20,054	65.2%	65.2%	±0.0	19	18	1
	Caballas Coalition (Caballas)	4,407	16.4%	14.3%	2.1	4	4	±0
	Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)	3,601	8.7%	11.7%	3.0	2	3	1
Melilla
	People's Party (PP)	16,852	56.0%	53.9%	2.1	15	15	±0
	Coalition for Melilla (CpM)	7,394	21.7%	23.7%	2.0	5	6	1
	Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)	2,683	18.2%	8.6%	9.6	5	2	3
	Freedom People's Party (PPL)	2,128	–	6.8%	New	–	2	2

References

External links

• (Spanish) El Pais election results website

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