Castile-La Mancha parliamentary election, 1999

Castile-La Mancha parliamentary
election, 1999

13 June 1999

All 47 seats in the Courts of Castile-La Mancha 24 seats needed for a majority Registered 1,413,503 4.5% Turnout 1,058,010 (74.9%) 3.9 pp   First party Second party   Leader José Bono Agustín Conde Party PSOE PP Leader since 25 March 1983 18 September 1996 Last election 24 seats, 45.7% 22 seats, 44.3% Seats won 26 21 Seat change 2 1 Popular vote 561,332 424,531 Percentage 53.4% 40.4% Swing 7.7 pp 3.9 pp

President before election José Bono PSOE Elected President José Bono PSOE

The 1999 Castile-La Mancha parliamentary election was held on Sunday, 13 June 1999, to elect the 5th 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.

The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) recovered after its 1995 result and increased its absolute majority in the regional Courts. The People's Party (PP), on the other hand, saw its share decrease 4 points to 40% and lost 1 seat from the previous election, not being able to maintain a part of its 1995 vote that it had received as a punishment to Felipe González's Socialist government.

United Left (IU) lost half of its votes as a result of the PSOE rise and lost its only seat in the Courts, being expelled from the regional parliament as a result.

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

← Summary of the 13 June 1999 Castile-La Mancha Courts election results →

Party		Vote			Seats
		Votes	%	±pp	Won	+/−
	Spanish Socialist Workers' Party-Progresists (PSOE-Progresistas)	561,332	53.42	7.72	26	2
	People's Party (PP)	424,531	40.40	3.90	21	1
	United Left-Left of Castile-La Mancha (IUCLM)	35,881	3.41	4.19	0	1
	Centrist Union-Democratic and Social Centre (UC-CDS)	2,809	0.27	0.07	0	±0
	Regionalist Party of Castile-La Mancha (PRCM)	1,919	0.18	0.11	0	±0
	Communal Land-Castilian Nationalist Party (TC-PNC)	1,737	0.17	0.04	0	±0
	Spanish Falange of the JONS (FE-JONS)	1,442	0.14	0.09	0	±0
	Spanish Democratic Party (PADE)	1,071	0.10	New	0	±0
	The Greens-Green Group (LV-GV)	1,034	0.10	0.04	0	±0

Parties with less than 0.1% of the vote		4,179	0.40	–	0	±0
	Manchegan Regionalist Party (PRM)	993	0.09	New	0	±0
	Humanist Party (PH)	967	0.09	New	0	±0
	Independent Regional Unity (URI)	635	0.06	0.03	0	±0
	Freelancers, Retired and Widows' Party (PAE)	598	0.06	New	0	±0
	Regionalist Party of Guadalajara (PRGU)	512	0.05	±0.00	0	±0
	Union of Talavera and Region (UTyC)	474	0.05	0.14	0	±0

	Blank ballots	14,929	1.42	0.37
Total		1,050,864	100.00		47	±0
Valid votes		1,050,864	99.32	0.04
Invalid votes		7,146	0.68	0.04
Votes cast / turnout		1,058,010	74.85	3.98
Abstentions		286,387	25.15	3.98
Registered voters		1,413,503
Source: Argos Information Portal

Vote share
PSOE-Progresistas			53.42%
PP			40.40%
IUCLM			3.41%
Others			1.35%
Blank ballots			1.42%

Parliamentary seats
PSOE-Progresistas			55.32%
PP			44.68%

References

1. "Law 5/1986, of 23 December, electoral of Castile-La Mancha.".