Basque parliamentary election, 1990

Basque parliamentary election, 1990
Basque Country (autonomous community)
28 October 1990
All 75 seats in the Basque Parliament
38 seats needed for a majority
Registered 1,687,936 Increase1.7%
Turnout 1,029,457 (61.0%)
Decrease8.6 pp
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader José Antonio Ardanza Ramón Jáuregui Iñaki Esnaola
Party EAJ/PNV PSE–PSOE HB
Leader since 2 March 1985 16 June 1988 1986
Last election 17 seats, 23.6% 19 seats, 22.0% 13 seats, 17.4%
Seats won 22 16 13
Seat change Increase5 Decrease3 ±0
Popular vote 289,701 202,736 186,410
Percentage 28.3% 19.8% 18.2%
Swing Increase4.7 pp Decrease2.2 pp Increase0.8 pp
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Carlos Garaikoetxea Jaime Mayor Oreja Kepa Aulestia
Party EA PP EE
Leader since 4 September 1986 20 January 1989 1987
Last election 13 seats, 15.8% 2 seats, 4.8%[lower-alpha 1] 9 seats, 10.8%
Seats won 9 6 6
Seat change Decrease4 Increase4 Decrease3
Popular vote 115,703 83,719 79,105
Percentage 11.3% 8.2% 7.7%
Swing Decrease4.5 pp Increase3.4 pp Decrease3.1 pp
Lehendakari before election

José Antonio Ardanza
EAJ/PNV

 Elected Lehendakari

José Antonio Ardanza
EAJ/PNV

The 1990 Basque parliamentary election was held on Sunday, 28 October 1990, to elect the 4th Basque Parliament, the regional legislature of the Spanish autonomous community of the Basque Country. At stake were all 75 seats in the Parliament, determining the Lehendakari (President of the Basque Country).

The Basque Nationalist Party (EAJ-PNV) won 22 seats, the Socialist Party of the Basque Country (PSE-PSOE) came second with 16 seats, People's Unity (HB) came third with 13 seats and Basque Solidarity (EA) won 9 seats. The People's Party (PP) and Basque Country Left (EE) each won 6 seats.

Electoral system

The 75 members of the Basque Parliament were elected in 3 multi-member districts, corresponding to the Basque Country's three provinces, using the D'Hondt method and a closed-list proportional representation system. Each district was assigned a fixed set of seats, distributed as follows: Alava (25), Biscay (25) and Gipuzkoa (25).

Voting was on the basis of universal suffrage in a secret ballot. Only lists polling above 5% 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 28 October 1990 Basque Parliament election results →
Party Popular vote Seats
Votes % ±pp Won +/−
Basque Nationalist Party (EAJ/PNV) 289,701 28.28 +4.68 22 +5
Socialist Party of the Basque Country (PSE–PSOE) 202,736 19.79 –2.16 16 –3
Popular Unity (HB) 186,410 18.20 +0.80 13 ±0
Basque Solidarity (EA) 115,703 11.30 –4.47 9 –4
People's Party of the Basque Country (PP)[lower-alpha 1] 83,719 8.17 +3.33 6 +4
Basque Country Left (EE) 79,105 7.72 –3.11 6 –3
United Left (EB–IU) 14,440 1.41 +0.82 0 ±0
Alavese Unity (UA) 14,351 1.40 New 3 +3
Blank ballots 7,580 0.74 +0.30
Total 1,024,299 100.00 75 ±0
Valid votes 1,024,299 99.50 +0.09
Invalid votes 5,158 0.50 –0.09
Votes cast / turnout 1,029,457 60.99 –8.63
Abstentions 658,479 39.01 +8.63
Registered voters 1,687,936
Source: Argos Information Portal
  1. 1 2 People's Party of the Basque Country results are compared to AP–PL totals in the 1986 election.
Vote share
EAJ/PNV
  
 28.28%
PSE–PSOE
  
 19.79%
HB
  
 18.20%
EA
  
 11.30%
PP
  
 8.17%
EE
  
 7.72%
EB–IU
  
 1.41%
UA
  
 1.40%
Others
  
 2.98%
Blank ballots
  
 0.74%
Parliamentary seats
EAJ/PNV
  
 29.33%
PSE–PSOE
  
 21.33%
HB
  
 17.33%
EA
  
 12.00%
PP
  
 8.00%
EE
  
 8.00%
UA
  
 4.00%

References

  1. ↑ "Law 5/1990, of 15 June, of elections to the Basque Parliament.".
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 9/22/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.