Pontevedra (Galician Parliament electoral district)

Pontevedra
Parliament of Galicia Electoral Constituency
Location of Pontevedra within Galicia.
Province	Province of Pontevedra
Autonomous community	Galicia
Population	947,374 (2016)
Electorate	901,233 (2016)
Major settlements	Vigo, Pontevedra
Current constituency
Created	1981
Seats	19 (1981–1985) 21 (1989–1993) 22 (1997–)

Pontevedra is one of the 4 electoral districts (Spanish: circunscripciones) used for the Parliament of Galicia—the regional legislature of the Spanish autonomous community of Galicia.

Electoral system

Voting is on the basis of universal suffrage in a secret ballot. Only lists polling above 5% of valid votes in each district (which includes blank ballots—for none of the above) are entitled to enter the seat distribution.^[1]

Seat summary (1981–2016)

	1981	1985	1989	1993	1997	2001	2005	2009	2012	2016
Seats	19	19	21	21	22	22	22	22	22	22
AP/CP/PP	7	9	11	12	12	12	10	11	11	11
AGE/Marea									3	5
PSdeG	4	6	7	5	4	5	8	7	5	4
BNPG/BNG	1		2	4	6	5	4	4	3	2
EG/PSG–EG	1	2	1
CG		2
UCD	6

Election results

2016

Summary of the 25 September 2016 Galician Parliament election results in Pontevedra
Party		Popular vote			Seats
Party		Votes	%	±pp	Won	+/−
	People's Party of Galicia (PPdeG)	213,045	43.29	+0.48	11	±0
	In Tide (En Marea)^{[lower-alpha 1]}	108,123	21.97	+7.55	5	+2
	Socialists' Party of Galicia (PSdeG–PSOE)	90,342	18.36	–2.45	4	–1
	Galician Nationalist Bloc–Us–Galician Candidacy (BNG–Nós)	44,063	8.95	–2.92	2	–1

	Citizens–Party of the Citizenry (C's)	19,135	3.89	New	0	±0
	Animalist Party Against Mistreatment of Animals (PACMA)	6,071	1.23	+0.62	0	±0

Parties with less than 1.0% of the vote		7,013	1.43	—	±0
	Commitment to Galicia (CxG)	1,243	0.25	–0.70	±0
	Blank Seats (EB)	1,111	0.23	–0.77	±0
	Anti-Corruption and Justice Party (PAyJ)	1,019	0.21	New	±0
	Let's Win Galicia: Yes We Can (Gañemos)	971	0.20	New	±0
	Zero Cuts–Green Group (Recortes Cero–GV)	865	0.18	New	±0
	Citizens–Centrum (C–C)	694	0.14	New	±0
	Communists of Galicia (PCPE–CdG)	520	0.11	–0.04	±0
	Democratic Action Citizens of Galicia (ADCG)	362	0.07	New	±0
	XXI Convergence (C21)	228	0.05	–0.05	±0

	Blank ballots	4,276	0.87	–1.56

Total		492,086	100.00		22	±0

Valid votes		492,086	98.94	+1.71
Invalid votes		5,287	1.06	–1.71
Votes cast / turnout		497,373	55.14	–1.24
Abstentions		404,624	44.86	+1.24
Registered voters		901,997

Source: Election results
↑ En Marea results are compared to Galician Left Alternative totals in the 2012 election.

2012

Summary of the 21 October 2012 Galician Parliament election results in Pontevedra
Party		Popular vote			Seats
Party		Votes	%	±pp	Won	+/−
	People's Party of Galicia (PPdeG)	209,804	42.81	–4.08	11	±0
	Socialists' Party of Galicia (PSdeG–PSOE)	101,988	20.81	–9.71	5	–2
	Galician Left Alternative (United Left–Anova) (AGE)^{[lower-alpha 1]}	70,666	14.42	+13.28	3	+3
	Galician Nationalist Bloc (BNG)	58,197	11.87	–5.07	3	–1

	Civil Society and Democracy (SCD)	9,605	1.96	New	0	±0
	Union, Progress and Democracy (UPyD)	8,016	1.64	+0.17	0	±0
	Blank Seats (EB)	4,913	1.00	New	0	±0

Parties with less than 1.0% of the vote		15,011	3.06	—	±0
	Commitment to Galicia (CxG)	4,640	0.95	New	±0
	Animalist Party Against Mistreatment of Animals (PACMA)	3,006	0.61	New	±0
	Pirates of Galicia (Pirata.gal)	1,215	0.25	New	±0
	Land Party (PT)	868	0.18	New	±0
	Communists of Galicia (PCPE–CdG)	735	0.15	New	±0
	For a Fairer World (PUM+J)	710	0.14	–0.07	±0
	Humanist Party (PH)	600	0.12	+0.04	±0
	Liberal Democratic Centre (CDL)	590	0.12	New	±0
	Communist Unification of Spain (UCE)	505	0.10	New	±0
	XXI Convergence (C.XXI)	503	0.10	New	±0
	Spanish Falange of the JONS (FE–JONS)	435	0.09	+0.02	±0
	Let us Give the Change (DeC)	432	0.09	New	±0
	Social Democratic Party of Law (SDD)	412	0.08	+0.03	±0
	Centre Democratic Action of Galicia (ADCG)	360	0.07	New	±0

	Blank ballots	11,890	2.43	+0.87

Total		490,090	100.00		22	±0

Valid votes		490,090	97.23	–1.80
Invalid votes		13,961	2.77	+1.80
Votes cast / turnout		504,051	56.38	–8.93
Abstentions		389,934	43.62	+8.93
Registered voters		893,985

Source: Argos Information Portal
↑ Galician Left Alternative results are compared to EU–IU totals in the 2012 election.

1981

Summary of the 20 October 1981 Galician Parliament election results in Pontevedra
Party		Popular vote			Seats
Party		Votes	%	±pp	Won	+/−
	People's Alliance (AP)	89,058	28.61	—	7	—
	Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD)	87,764	28.19	—	6	—
	Socialists' Party of Galicia (PSdG–PSOE)	53,505	17.19	—	4	—
	Galician Left (EG)	18,353	5.90	—	1	—
	Galician National-Popular Bloc–Galician Socialist Party (BNPG–PSG)	17,015	5.47	—	1	—
	Galicianist Party (PG)	12,311	3.95	—	0	—
	Communist Party of Galicia (PCG–PCE)	10,529	3.38	—	0	—

	Workers' Socialist Party (PST)	5,240	1.68	—	0	—
	Galician Brotherhood (IG)	4,929	1.58	—	0	—
	Galician Socialist Unity–PSOE (USG–PSOE)	3,511	1.13	—	0	—

Parties with less than 1.0% of the vote		9,062	2.91	—	—
	Spanish Democratic Right (DDE)	2,022	0.65	—	—
	New Force (FN)	1,706	0.55	—	—
	Spanish Ruralist Party (PRE)	1,674	0.54	—	—
	Revolutionary Communist League–Communist Movement (LCR–MCG)	1,674	0.54	—	—
	Liberated Galiza (GC)	1,433	0.46	—	—
	Spanish Falange of the JONS (FE–JONS)	553	0.18	—	—

	Blank ballots	0	0.00	—

Total		311,277	100.00		19	—

Valid votes		311,277	98.19	—
Invalid votes		5,751	1.81	—
Votes cast / turnout		317,028	49.43	—
Abstentions		324,302	50.57	—
Registered voters		641,330

Source: Argos Information Portal

References

↑ "Law 8/1985, of 13 August, of elections to the Parliament of Galicia.".

Electoral districts of the Parliament of Galicia

A Coruña Lugo Ourense Pontevedra

Coordinates: 42°30′N 8°30′W / 42.500°N 8.500°W / 42.500; -8.500

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