Castile and León parliamentary election, 1991

Castile and León parliamentary election, 1991

26 May 1991

All 84 seats in the Courts of Castile and León 43 seats needed for a majority Registered 2,069,469 3.6% Turnout 1,398,248 (67.6%) 5.6 pp   First party Second party   Leader Juan José Lucas Jesús Quijano Party PP PSOE Leader since 12 December 1990 26 May 1990 Last election 34 seats, 37.0%[lower-alpha 1] 32 seats, 34.0% Seats won 43 35 Seat change 9 3 Popular vote 602,773 504,719 Percentage 43.5% 36.4% Swing 6.5 pp 2.4 pp   Third party Fourth party   Leader José Luis Sagredo José Antonio Herreros Party CDS IU Leader since 1991 1991 Last election 18 seats, 19.4% 0 seats, 3.8% Seats won 5 1 Seat change 13 1 Popular vote 112,821 74,197 Percentage 8.1% 5.4% Swing 11.3 pp 1.6 pp

President before election Jesús Posada PP Elected President Juan José Lucas PP

The 1991 Castile and León parliamentary election was held on Sunday, 26 May 1991, to elect the 3rd Courts of Castile and León, the regional legislature of the Spanish autonomous community of Castile and León. At stake were all 84 seats in the Courts, determining the President of the Junta of Castile and León.

Electoral system

The number of seats in the regional Courts was determined by the population count. For the 1991 election, the Courts size was set to 84 seats. All Courts members were elected in 9 multi-member districts, corresponding to Castile and León's nine provinces, using the D'Hondt method and a closed-list proportional representation system. Each district was entitled to an initial minimum of 3 seats, with 1 additional seat per each 45,000 inhabitants or fraction greater than 22,500. For the 1991 election, seats were distributed as follows: Avila (7), Burgos (11), Leon (15), Palencia (7), Salamanca (11), Segovia (6), Soria (5), Valladolid (14) and Zamora (8).

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 ballots—for none of the above) were entitled to enter the seat distribution.^[1]

Results

Overall

← Summary of the 26 May 1991 Castile and León Courts election results →

Party		Vote			Seats
		Votes	%	±pp	Won	+/−
	People's Party (PP)[lower-alpha 1]	602,773	43.51	6.56	43	9
	Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)	504,719	36.44	2.43	35	3
	Democratic and Social Centre (CDS)	112,821	8.14	11.23	5	13
	United Left (IU)	74,197	5.36	1.55	1	1
	The Greens (LV)	20,193	1.46	New	0	±0
	Leonese People's Union (UPL)	11,432	0.83	0.21	0	±0
	Burgalese People's Action (APB)	6,493	0.47	New	0	±0
	Regionalist Democracy of Castile and León (DRCL)	4,587	0.33	New	0	±0
	El Bierzo Party (PB)	4,465	0.32	0.06	0	±0
	Bercian Left (IB)	3,407	0.25	New	0	±0
	Castilian Regionalist Party (PREC)	3,042	0.22	New	0	±0
	Castilianist Union (UC)	2,229	0.16	New	0	±0
	Independent Progresist Union (UPI)	2,127	0.15	New	0	±0
	Regionalist Party of the Leonese Country (PREPAL)	2,123	0.15	0.13	0	±0
	Communal Land (TC)	1,900	0.14	0.12	0	±0
	The Greens Ecologist-Humanist List (LVLE-H)	1,622	0.12	0.15	0	±0
	Palentine Union (UPI)	1,558	0.11	New	0	±0

Parties with less than 0.1% of the vote		2,501	0.18	–	0	±0
	Spanish Falange of the JONS (FE-JONS)	895	0.06	0.07	0	±0
	Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain (PCPE)	873	0.06	New	0	±0
	Left Unitary Platform (PUI)	435	0.03	New	0	±0
	Nationalist Party of Castile and León (PANCAL)	298	0.02	0.34	0	±0
	Independent Solution (SI)	N/A	N/A	1.34	0	1

	Blank ballots	23,028	1.66	0.08
Total		1,385,217	100.00		84	±0
Valid votes		1,385,217	99.07	0.79
Invalid votes		13,031	0.93	0.79
Votes cast / turnout		1,398,248	67.57	5.58
Abstentions		671,221	32.43	5.58
Registered voters		2,069,469
Source: Argos Information Portal

Notes

References

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