Castile-La Mancha parliamentary election, 1991

Castile-La Mancha parliamentary election, 1991

26 May 1991

All 47 seats in the Courts of Castile-La Mancha 24 seats needed for a majority Registered 1,304,996 3.6% Turnout 946,138 (72.5%) 2.9 pp   First party Second party Third party   Leader José Bono José Manuel Molina José Molina Martínez Party PSOE PP IU Leader since 25 March 1983 23 December 1989 1991 Last election 25 seats, 46.3% 18 seats, 35.9%[lower-alpha 1] 0 seats, 5.4% Seats won 27 19 1 Seat change 2 1 1 Popular vote 489,876 336,642 57,967 Percentage 52.2% 35.9% 6.2% Swing 5.9 pp ±0.0 pp 0.8 pp

President before election José Bono PSOE Elected President José Bono PSOE

The 1991 Castile-La Mancha parliamentary election was held on Sunday, 26 May 1991, to elect the 3rd 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.

For the third consecutive time, the election was won by the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, which under José Bono obtained a new absolute majority, with 27 out of 47 seats and over 52% of the share. The People's Party (PP), a party formed in 1989 from the merger of the People's Alliance (AP), the People's Democratic Party and the Liberal Party (PL), obtained 19 seats and 35.9% of the vote. United Left (IU) entered the Courts for the first time with 1 seat.

The three parties' gains came at the cost of the Democratic and Social Centre (CDS), which lost 2/3 of its votes and its 4 seats, being expelled from the Courts 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 26 May 1991 Castile-La Mancha Courts election results →

Party		Vote			Seats
		Votes	%	±pp	Won	+/−
	Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)	489,876	52.17	5.84	27	2
	People's Party (PP)[lower-alpha 1]	336,642	35.85	0.07	19	1
	United Left (IU)	57,967	6.17	0.81	1	1
	Democratic and Social Centre (CDS)	32,793	3.49	7.00	0	4
	The Greens (LV)	4,836	0.52	New	0	±0
	Action for Talavera (ACTAL)	2,441	0.26	New	0	±0
	Social Democratic Party of Castile-La Mancha (PSDCLM)	1,102	0.12	0.02	0	±0
	Regionalist Unitary Party (PUR)	1,052	0.11	0.02	0	±0
	Regionalist Party of Castile-La Mancha (PRCM)	984	0.10	New	0	±0
	Communal Land (TC)	918	0.10	New	0	±0
	Regionalist Party of Guadalajara (PRGU)	769	0.08	New	0	±0
	Alliance for the Republic (AR)	294	0.03	New	0	±0
	Blank ballots	9,300	0.99	0.01
Total		938,974	100.00		47	±0
Valid votes		938,974	99.24	0.40
Invalid votes		7,164	0.76	0.40
Votes cast / turnout		946,138	72.50	2.93
Abstentions		358,858	27.50	2.93
Registered voters		1,304,996
Source: Argos Information Portal

Notes

References

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