Castile-La Mancha parliamentary election, 1995
Castile-La Mancha parliamentary election, 1995
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All 47 seats in the Courts of Castile-La Mancha
24 seats needed for a majority |
| Registered |
1,352,958  3.7% |
| Turnout |
1,066,571 (78.8%)
6.3 pp |
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First party |
Second party |
Third party |
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| Leader |
José Bono |
José Manuel Molina |
José Molina Martínez |
| Party |
PSOE |
PP |
IU |
| Leader since |
25 March 1983 |
23 December 1989 |
1991 |
| Last election |
27 seats, 52.2% |
19 seats, 35.9% |
1 seat, 6.2% |
| Seats won |
24 |
22 |
1 |
| Seat change |
 3 |
3 |
±0 |
| Popular vote |
483,888 |
469,127 |
80,482 |
| Percentage |
45.7% |
44.3% |
7.6% |
| Swing |
6.5 pp |
8.4 pp |
1.4 pp |
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The 1995 Castile-La Mancha parliamentary election was held on Sunday, 28 May 1995, to elect the 4th Courts of Castile-La Mancha, the regional legislature of the Spanish autonomous community of Castile-La Mancha. At stake were all 47 seats in the Courts, determining the President of the Junta of Communities of Castile-La Mancha.
Despite bearing enormous losses, the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) was able to maintain government, albeit with a mere 1-seat majority. The People's Party (PP), which in this election made the greatest gains, finished a close second but remained unable to win the PSOE in one of its — considered — strongest strongholds. Meanwhile, United Left (IU) maintained its presence in the Courts and was able to increase both its vote support and share, but remained unable to gain new seats.
Electoral system
The number of seats in the Castile-La Mancha Courts was set to a fixed-number of 47. All Courts members were elected in 5 multi-member districts, corresponding to Castile-La Mancha's five 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: Albacete (10), Ciudad Real (11), Cuenca (8), Guadalajara (7) and Toledo (11).
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
| Parties with less than 0.1% of the vote |
2,665 |
0.25 |
– |
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±0 |
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Cuencan People's Union (UPCo) |
720 | 0.07 | New |
0 | ±0 |
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Regionalist Party of Guadalajara (PRGU) |
543 | 0.05 | 0.03 |
0 | ±0 |
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Guadalajara Independent Union (UIG) |
513 | 0.05 | New |
0 | ±0 |
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Spanish Falange of the JONS (FE-JONS) |
498 | 0.05 | New |
0 | ±0 |
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Independent Regional Unity (URI) |
391 | 0.04 | New |
0 | ±0 |
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Blank ballots |
11,128 | 1.05 | 0.06 |
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| Total |
1,058,874 | 100.00 | |
47 | ±0 |
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| Valid votes |
1,058,874 | 99.28 | 0.04 |
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| Invalid votes |
7,697 | 0.72 | 0.04 |
| Votes cast / turnout |
1,066,571 | 78.83 | 6.33 |
| Abstentions |
286,387 | 21.17 | 6.33 |
| Registered voters |
1,352,958 | |
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| Source: Argos Information Portal |
| Vote share |
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| PSOE |
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45.70% |
| PP |
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44.30% |
| IUCLM |
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7.60% |
| Others |
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1.35% |
| Blank ballots |
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1.05% |
| Parliamentary seats |
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| PSOE |
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51.06% |
| PP |
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46.81% |
| IUCLM |
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2.13% |
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