Cantabrian parliamentary election, 1995
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The 1995 Cantabrian parliamentary election was held on Sunday, 28 May 1995, to elect the 4th Parliament of Cantabria (known from 1983 to 1998 as Regional Assembly of Cantabria), the regional legislature of the Spanish autonomous community of Cantabria. At stake were all 39 seats in the Assembly, determining the President of Cantabria.
The People's Party won the election, recovering much of the vote it had lost in 1991 to Hormaechea's Union for the Progress of Cantabria (UPCA), which fell to third place and lost over half of its seats and votes. The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), which in 1991 had won the regional election, collapsed and obtained its worst result until that time. The Regionalist Party of Cantabria (PRC) recovered and scored fourth with nearly 15% of the vote, while United Left (IU) entered the Assembly for the first time.
As a result of the election, José Joaquín Martínez Sieso from the People's Party was able to be elected as regional President thanks to a PP-PRC coalition agreement.
Electoral system
The number of seats in the Regional Assembly of Cantabria was set to a fixed-number of 39. All Assembly members were elected in a single multi-member district, consisting of the Community's territory (the province of Cantabria), using the D'Hondt method and a closed-list proportional representation system.
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.[1]
Results
Party | Vote | Seats | ||||
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Votes | % | ±pp | Won | +/− | ||
People's Party (PP) | 104,008 | 32.50 | 18.06 | 13 | 7 | |
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) | 80,464 | 25.14 | 9.67 | 10 | 6 | |
Union for the Progress of Cantabria (UPCA) | 53,191 | 16.62 | 16.91 | 7 | 8 | |
Regionalist Party of Cantabria (PRC) | 46,587 | 14.56 | 8.21 | 6 | 4 | |
United Left (IU) | 23,563 | 7.36 | 2.96 | 3 | 3 | |
Independents of Cantabria (INCA) | 3,182 | 0.99 | New | 0 | ±0 | |
Democratic and Social Centre (CDS) | 1,267 | 0.40 | 2.28 | 0 | ±0 | |
Cantabria Renewal Coalition (CRCA) | 879 | 0.27 | New | 0 | ±0 | |
Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain (PCPE) | 705 | 0.22 | 0.08 | 0 | ±0 | |
Blank ballots | 6,186 | 1.93 | 0.24 | |||
Total | 320,032 | 100.00 | 39 | ±0 | ||
Valid votes | 320,032 | 99.19 | 0.04 | |||
Invalid votes | 2,622 | 0.81 | 0.04 | |||
Votes cast / turnout | 322,654 | 74.05 | 1.71 | |||
Abstentions | 113,098 | 25.95 | 1.71 | |||
Registered voters | 435,752 | |||||
Source: Argos Information Portal |
Post-election
Investiture voting
Investiture voting for José Joaquín Martínez Sieso (PP) Absolute majority: 20/39 | ||
Vote | Parties | Votes |
Yes | PP (13), UPCA (7), PRC (6) | 26 / 39 |
No | PSOE (10) | 10 / 39 |
Abstentions | IU (3) | 3 / 39 |
Source: El País | ||