Basque parliamentary election, 2005

Basque parliamentary election, 2005
Basque Country (autonomous community)
17 April 2005

All 75 seats in the Basque Parliament
38 seats needed for a majority
Registered 1,799,523 Decrease0.8%
Turnout 1,223,634 (68.0%)
Decrease11.0 pp
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Juan José Ibarretxe Patxi López María San Gil
Party PNVEA PSE–EE (PSOE) PP
Leader since 31 January 1998 23 March 2002 6 November 2004
Leader's seat Álava Biscay Gipuzkoa
Last election 33 seats, 42.4% 13 seats, 17.8% 19 seats, 22.9%
Seats won 29 18 15
Seat change Decrease4 Increase5 Decrease4
Popular vote 468,117 274,546 210,614
Percentage 38.4% 22.5% 17.3%
Swing Decrease4.0 pp Increase4.7 pp Decrease5.6 pp

  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Maite Aranburu Javier Madrazo Aintzane Ezenarro
Party EHAK/PCTV EB–B Aralar
Leader since 2005 14 May 1994 14 November 2004
Leader's seat Biscay Biscay Gipuzkoa
Last election 7 seats, 10.0%[lower-alpha 1] 3 seats, 5.5% Did not contest
Seats won 9 3 1
Seat change Increase2 ±0 Increase1
Popular vote 150,644 65,023 28,180
Percentage 12.4% 5.3% 2.3%
Swing Increase2.4 pp Decrease0.2 pp New party

Provinces won by PNVEA (green)

Lehendakari before election

Juan José Ibarretxe
PNVEA

Elected Lehendakari

Juan José Ibarretxe
PNVEA

The 2005 Basque parliamentary election was held on Sunday, 17 April 2005, to elect the 8th Basque Parliament, the regional legislature of the Spanish autonomous community of the Basque Country. All 75 seats in the Parliament were up for election.

The electoral coalition Basque Nationalist Party-Basque Solidarity (EAJ-PNV/EA) won 29 seats, the Socialist Party of the Basque Country–Basque Country Left (PSE-EE) came second with 18 seats, the People's Party (PP) came in third with 15 seats. The controversial Communist Party of the Basque Homelands (PCTV-EHAK) won 9 seats, having been endorsed by the banned Batasuna party.

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 3% of valid votes in each district (which include blank ballotsfor none of the above) were entitled to enter the seat distribution.[1]

Results

Overall

Summary of the 17 April 2005 Basque Parliament election results
Party Popular vote Seats
Votes % ±pp Won +/−
Basque Nationalist PartyBasque Solidarity (PNV–EA) 468,117 38.38 –4.00 29 –4
Socialist Party of the Basque Country–Basque Country Left (PSE–EE (PSOE)) 274,546 22.51 +4.75 18 +5
People's Party of the Basque Country (PP) 210,614 17.27 –5.66 15 –4
Communist Party of the Basque Homelands (PCTV/EHAK)[lower-alpha 1] 150,644 12.35 +2.31 9 +2
United Left–Greens (EB–B) 65,023 5.33 –0.20 3 ±0
Aralar (Aralar) 28,180 2.31 New 1 +1
Blank ballots 9,001 0.74 –0.07
Total 1,219,599 100.00 75 ±0
Valid votes 1,219,599 99.67 +0.10
Invalid votes 4,035 0.33 –0.10
Votes cast / turnout 1,223,634 68.00 –10.97
Abstentions 575,889 32.00 +10.97
Registered voters 1,799,523
Source: Argos Information Portal
  1. 1 2 PCTV/EHAK results are compared to Basque Citizens totals in the 2001 election.
Vote share
PNVEA
 
38.38%
PSE–EE (PSOE)
 
22.51%
PP
 
17.27%
PCTV/EHAK
 
12.35%
EB–B
 
5.33%
Aralar
 
2.31%
Others
 
1.10%
Blank ballots
 
0.74%
Parliamentary seats
PNVEA
 
38.67%
PSE–EE (PSOE)
 
24.00%
PP
 
20.00%
PCTV/EHAK
 
12.00%
EB–B
 
4.00%
Aralar
 
1.33%

References

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