Spanish regional elections, 2015

Spanish regional elections, 2015
Spain
24 May 2015

All 804 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 19,794,301 Increase2.5%
Turnout 12,970,917 (65.5%)
Decrease1.9 pp
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Mariano Rajoy Pedro Sánchez Pablo Iglesias
Party PP PSOE Podemos
Leader since 2 September 2003 26 July 2014 15 November 2014
Last election 410 seats, 46.0% 261 seats, 28.8% Did not stand
Seats won 281 227 118
Seat change Decrease129 Decrease34 Increase118
Popular vote 3,886,901 3,172,873 1,813,044
Percentage 30.4% 24.8% 14.2%
Swing Decrease15.6 pp Decrease4.0 pp New party

  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Albert Rivera Cayo Lara Mònica Oltra
Party C's IU Compromís
Leader since 9 July 2006 14 December 2008 31 January 2015
Last election 0 seats, 0.0% 34 seats, 6.2% 6 seats, 1.4%
Seats won 56 9 19
Seat change Increase56 Decrease25 Increase13
Popular vote 1,271,368 536,707 456,823
Percentage 10.0% 4.2% 3.6%
Swing Increase10.0 pp Decrease2.0 pp Increase2.2 pp

Results by autonomous community.

Most voted party:

  PP
  PSOE
  UPN
  No election held

Regional administrations after election:
(lighter shades show minority or coalition governments)

  PP
  PSOE
  CC
  PRC
  GBai
  No election held

The 2015 regional elections were held on 24 May 2015 in Spain, to elect the regional parliaments of 13 of its 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 hold elections that day because they had separate electoral cycles. Municipal elections were held throughout Spain the same day.

The novelty of these elections was the irruption of two new parties: Podemos (Spanish for "We can"), a party founded in 2014 before the 2014 European Parliament election, and Citizens (C's), a Catalan unionist party created in 2006 to stand in the Parliament of Catalonia elections. Podemos scored a strong third place, close to the two main parties in several regions and entering in all regional parliaments (a first for any party aside from PP and PSOE), while C's placed fourth in most regions, not achieving parliamentary representation only in Canarias, Castile-La Mancha and Navarre.

The People's Party (PP), which in 2011 had obtained some of its best historical results and went on to govern 10 out of the 13 autonomous communities at stake, suffered one of the harshest loss of votes for any party in regional elections. The party lost all of its absolute majorities, compared to the 8 it had achieved in 2011, suffering from the electorate's punishment to Mariano Rajoy's management of the economic crisis in the Spanish government, the party's loss of credibility after many broken 2011 election promises and a series of corruption scandals that had been affecting the party's national and regional leaderships since the unveiling of the Bárcenas affair in January 2013.

The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) still suffered from the party crisis resulting from the 2008-2011 Zapatero government and lost votes since 2011, which was already considered the worst historical result for the party. Namely, the rise of new and alternative parties prevented the PSOE of capitalizing the PP losses, though it still remained the first or second political force in most regions.

Election date

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

The fourth Sunday of May 2015 was 24 May, and elections were set to be held that day.

National results

Party Vote Seats
Votes %
People's Party (PP) 3,886,901 30.43 281
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) 3,172,873 24.84 227
We Can (Podemos) 1,813,044 14.19 118
Citizens-Party of the Citizenry (C's) 1,271,368 9.95 56
United Left (IU) 536,707 4.20 9
Commitment Coalition (Compromís) 456,823 3.58 19
Canarian Coalition-Canarian Nationalist Party (CC-PNC) 166,979 1.31 18
Union, Progress and Democracy (UPyD) 165,900 1.30 0
Animalist Party Against Mistreatment of Animals (PACMA) 102,700 0.79 0
Regionalist Party of Cantabria (PRC) 96,070 0.75 12
New Canaries (NC) 93,634 0.73 5
Navarrese People's Union (UPN) 92,705 0.73 15
More for Majorca (MÉS) 66,199 0.52 9
Yes to the Future (GBai) 53,497 0.42 9
Basque Country Unite (EHB) 48,166 0.38 8
Aragonese Party (PAR) 45,846 0.36 6
Asturias Forum (FAC) 44,480 0.35 3
Proposal for the Islands (PI) 34,237 0.27 3
Aragonese Union (CHA) 30,618 0.24 2
Leonese People's Union (UPL) 19,176 0.15 1
Gomera Socialist Group (ASG) 5,090 0.04 3
Other parties 367,594 2.87 0
Blank ballots 202,817 1.59
Total 12,773,424 100.00 804
Valid votes 12,773,424 98.48
Invalid votes 197,493 1.52
Votes cast / turnout 12,970,917 65.53
Abstentions 6,823,384 34.47
Registered voters 19,794,301

Regional governments

Autonomous community Party Before Outgoing Government Party After Incoming Government
Aragon   PP Coalition (PP-PAR)   PSOE Coalition (PSOE-CHA)
Asturias   PSOE Minority   PSOE Minority
Balearic Islands   PP Majority   PSOE Coalition (PSOE-MÉS)
Canary Islands   CC Coalition (CC-PSOE)   CC Coalition (CC-PSOE)
Cantabria   PP Majority   PRC Coalition (PRC-PSOE)
Castile and León   PP Majority   PP Minority
Castile-La Mancha   PP Majority   PSOE Minority
Extremadura   PP Minority   PSOE Minority
La Rioja   PP Majority   PP Minority
Madrid   PP Majority   PP Minority
Murcia   PP Majority   PP Minority
Navarre   UPN Minority   GBai Coalition (GBai-EHB-IE)
Valencian Community   PP Majority   PSOE Coalition (PSOE-Compromís)

References

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