Valencian parliamentary election, 1999

Valencian parliamentary election, 1999
Valencian Community
13 June 1999
All 89 seats in the Valencian Courts
45 seats needed for a majority
Registered 3,361,989 Increase7.4%
Turnout 2,279,805 (67.8%)
Decrease8.2 pp
  First party Second party
 
Leader Eduardo Zaplana Antoni Asunción
Party PP PSPV–PSOE
Leader since 26 September 1993 8 April 1999
Last election 42 seats, 42.8% 32 seats, 34.0%
Seats won 49 35
Seat change Increase7 Increase3
Popular vote 1,085,011 768,548
Percentage 47.9% 33.9%
Swing Increase5.1 pp Decrease0.1 pp
  Third party Fourth party
 
Leader Joan Ribó Héctor Villalba
Party IU UV
Leader since 1997 15 October 1995
Last election 10 seats, 11.5% 5 seats, 7.0%
Seats won 5 0
Seat change Decrease5 Decrease5
Popular vote 137,212 106,119
Percentage 6.1% 4.7%
Swing Decrease5.4 pp Decrease2.3 pp
President before election

Eduardo Zaplana
PP

 Elected President

Eduardo Zaplana
PP

The 1999 Valencian parliamentary election was held on Sunday, 13 June 1999, to elect the 5th democratically-elected Valencian Courts, the regional legislature of the Spanish autonomous community of Valencia. At stake were all 89 seats in the Courts, determining the President of the Valencian Government.

The People's Party (PP), which had ruled the community from 1995 in a coalition government, won an absolute majority of seats; majority which it would maintain for the next 20 years. Its coalition partner, Valencian Union (UV), fell just below the 5% threshold, resulting in it losing all seats and being expelled from the Courts. The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) remained static on its 1995 vote share, though it gained 3 additional seats thanks to United Left (IU) electoral collapse from 10 to 5 seats.

Electoral system

The number of seats in the Valencian Courts was set to a fixed-number of 89. All Courts members were elected in 3 multi-member districts, corresponding to the Valencian Community's three provinces, using the D'Hondt method and a closed-list proportional representation system. Each district was entitled to an initial minimum of 20 seats, with the remaining 29 seats allocated among the three provinces in proportion to their populations, on the required condition that the number of inhabitants per seat in each district did not exceed 3 times those of any other. For the 1999 election, seats were distributed as follows: Alicante (30), Castellon (22) and Valencia (37).

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. This meant that in the case a list polled above 5% in one or more of the districts but below 5% in the community totals, it would remain outside of the seat apportionment.[1]

Results

Overall

← Summary of the 13 June 1999 Valencian Courts election results →
Party Vote Seats
Votes % ±pp Won +/−
People's Party (PP) 1,085,011 47.88 Increase5.05 49 Increase7
Socialist Party of the Valencian Country-Progresists (PSPV-PSOE) 768,548 33.91 Decrease0.07 35 Increase3
United Left of the Valencian Country (EUPV) 137,212 6.05 Decrease5.48 5 Decrease5
Valencian Union (UV) 106,119 4.68 Decrease2.33 0 Decrease5
Valencian Nationalist Bloc-The Greens (BNV-EV) 102,700 4.53 Increase1.82 0 ±0
Valencian Community Alternative (ACV) 6,146 0.27 New 0 ±0
Liberal Centre (CL) 4,813 0.21 New 0 ±0
The Ecologist Pacifist Greens (LVE) 4,176 0.18 New 0 ±0
Centrist Union-Democratic and Social Centre (UC-CDS) 2,978 0.13 Decrease0.10 0 ±0
Spanish Falange of the JONS (FE-JONS) 2,973 0.13 Increase0.06 0 ±0
Independent Initiative (II) 2,524 0.11 New 0 ±0
Humanist Party (PH) 2,253 0.10 Increase0.07 0 ±0
Valencian Nationalist Left (ENV) 2,070 0.09 Increase0.01 0 ±0
Federal Republican Left-Federal Republican Party (IRF-PRF) 1,660 0.07 New 0 ±0
Valencian Independent Organization (OIV) 1,316 0.06 New 0 ±0
Spanish Autonomous League (LAE) 608 0.03 Increase0.01 0 ±0
Blank ballots 35,168 1.55 Increase0.50
Total 2,266,275 100.00 89 ±0
Valid votes 2,266,275 99.41 Decrease0.03
Invalid votes 13,530 0.59 Increase0.03
Votes cast / turnout 2,279,805 67.81 Decrease8.22
Abstentions 1,082,184 32.19 Increase8.22
Registered voters 3,361,989
Source(s):
Vote share
PP
  
 47.88%
PSPV-PSOE
  
 33.91%
EUPV
  
 6.05%
UV
  
 4.68%
BNV-EV
  
 4.53%
Others
  
 1.39%
Blank ballots
  
 1.55%
Parliamentary seats
PP
  
 55.06%
PSPV-PSOE
  
 39.33%
EUPV
  
 5.62%

Results by province

Election results by province.

References

  1. ↑ "Law 1/1987, of 31 March, Valencian electoral".
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