2019 Cantabrian regional election

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2019 Cantabrian regional election
← 2015 26 May 2019 2023 →
All 35 seats in the Parliament of Cantabria
18 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered 500,925 Green Arrow Up Darker.svg0.3%
Turnout 329,137 (65.7%)
Red Arrow Down.svg0.5 pp
  First party Second party Third party
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Leader Miguel Ángel Revilla María José Sáenz de Buruaga Pablo Zuloaga
Party PRC People's Party of Cantabria PSOE
Leader since 1983 22 January 2019 16 July 2017
Last election 12 seats, 29.9% 13 seats, 32.6% 5 seats, 14.0%
Seats won 14 9 7
Seat change Green Arrow Up Darker.svg2 Red Arrow Down.svg4 Green Arrow Up Darker.svg2
Popular vote 122,679 78,347 57,383
Percentage 37.6% 24.0% 17.6%
Swing Green Arrow Up Darker.svg7.7 pp Red Arrow Down.svg8.6 pp Green Arrow Up Darker.svg3.6 pp
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
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Leader Félix Álvarez Cristóbal Palacio Mónica Rodero
Party C's Vox (political party) [[Podemos (Spanish political party)|Template:Podemos (Spanish political party)/meta/shortname]]
Leader since 2 March 2019 20 March 2019 21 March 2019
Last election 2 seats, 6.9% 0 seats, 0.3% 3 seats, 8.9%
Seats won 3 2 0
Seat change Green Arrow Up Darker.svg1 Green Arrow Up Darker.svg2 Red Arrow Down.svg3
Popular vote 25,872 16,496 10,224
Percentage 7.9% 5.1% 3.1%
Swing Green Arrow Up Darker.svg1.0 pp Green Arrow Up Darker.svg4.8 pp Red Arrow Down.svg5.8 pp
President before election

Miguel Ángel Revilla
PRC

 Elected President

Miguel Ángel Revilla
PRC

The 2019 Cantabrian regional election was held on Sunday, 26 May 2019, to elect the 10th Parliament of the autonomous community of Cantabria. All 35 seats in the Parliament were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with regional elections in eleven other autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain, as well as the 2019 European Parliament election.

The election saw the Regionalist Party of Cantabria (PRC) of incumbent president Miguel Ángel Revilla become the most voted political force in a regional election for the first time, with 37.6% of the share and 14 out of the 35 seats at stake. Combined with an increase in the support for the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), the governing PRC–PSOE coalition went from a minority government to a majority one, with Revilla being re-elected for a fourth term in office. The People's Party (PP), with 24.0% of the vote and 9 seats, obtained its worst result since the 1991 election, whereas Podemos—which had seen an internal crisis ravage its parliamentary group in the region—fell below the five percent threshold and lost all of its seats. Both liberal Citizens and far-right Vox saw an increase in support, with both parties gaining seats and, in the latter's case, entering the chamber for the first time.

Overview

Electoral system

The Parliament of Cantabria was the devolved, unicameral legislature of the autonomous community of Cantabria, having legislative power in regional matters as defined by the Spanish Constitution and the Cantabrian Statute of Autonomy, as well as the ability to vote confidence in or withdraw it from a regional president.[1]

Voting for the Parliament was on the basis of universal suffrage, which comprised all nationals over 18 years of age, registered in Cantabria and in full enjoyment of their political rights. Additionally, Cantabrians abroad were required to apply for voting before being permitted to vote, a system known as "begged" or expat vote (Spanish: Voto rogado).[2] The 35 members of the Parliament of Cantabria were elected using the D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional representation, with an electoral threshold of five percent of valid votes—which included blank ballots—being applied regionally.[1][3]

Election date

The term of the Parliament of Cantabria expired four years after the date of its previous election. Elections to the Parliament were fixed for the fourth Sunday of May every four years. The previous election was held on 24 May 2015, setting the election date for the Parliament on Sunday, 26 May 2019.[1][3][4]

The president had the prerogative to dissolve the Parliament of Cantabria and call a snap election, provided that no motion of no confidence was in process, no nationwide election was due and some time requirements were met: namely, that dissolution did not occur either during the first legislative session or within the legislature's last year ahead of its scheduled expiry, nor before one year had elapsed since a previous dissolution. In the event of an investiture process failing to elect a regional president within a two-month period from the first ballot, the Parliament was to be automatically dissolved and a fresh election called. Any snap election held as a result of these circumstances would not alter the period to the next ordinary election, with elected deputies merely serving out what remained of their four-year terms.[1]

Parliamentary composition

The Parliament of Cantabria was officially dissolved on 2 April 2019, after the publication of the dissolution decree in the Official Gazette of Cantabria.[5] The table below shows the composition of the parliamentary groups in the Parliament at the time of dissolution.[6]

Parliamentary composition in April 2019
Groups Parties Legislators
Seats Total
People's Parliamentary Group PP 13 13
Regionalist Parliamentary Group PRC 12 12
Socialist Parliamentary Group PSOE 5 5
Mixed Parliamentary Group Cs 1 4
OlaCantabria 1[lower-alpha 1]
INDEP 2[lower-alpha 2]
Non-Inscrits Podemos 1[lower-alpha 3] 1

Parties and candidates

The electoral law allowed for parties and federations registered in the interior ministry, coalitions and groupings of electors to present lists of candidates. Parties and federations intending to form a coalition ahead of an election were required to inform the relevant Electoral Commission within ten days of the election call, whereas groupings of electors needed to secure the signature of at least one percent of the electorate in Cantabria, disallowing electors from signing for more than one list of candidates.[3][4]

Below is a list of the main parties and electoral alliances which contested the election:

Candidacy Parties and
alliances		 Candidate Ideology Previous result Gov. Ref.
Votes (%) Seats
PP
List
 50px María José Sáenz de Buruaga Conservatism
Christian democracy		 32.58% 13 N [10]
[11]
PRC
List
 50px Miguel Ángel Revilla Regionalism
Centrism		 29.89% 12 YesY [12]
PSOE
List
 50px Pablo Zuloaga Social democracy 14.04% 5 YesY [13]
Podemos
List
 50px Mónica Rodero Left-wing populism
Direct democracy
Democratic socialism		 8.89% 3 N [14]
[15]
[16]
Cs
List
 50px Félix Álvarez Liberalism 6.94% 2 N [17]
[18]
Vox
List
 50px Cristóbal Palacio Right-wing populism
Ultranationalism
National conservatism		 0.34% 0 N [19]

Opinion polls

The table below lists voting intention estimates in reverse chronological order, showing the most recent first and using the dates when the survey fieldwork was done, as opposed to the date of publication. Where the fieldwork dates are unknown, the date of publication is given instead. The highest percentage figure in each polling survey is displayed with its background shaded in the leading party's colour. If a tie ensues, this is applied to the figures with the highest percentages. The "Lead" column on the right shows the percentage-point difference between the parties with the highest percentages in a poll. When available, seat projections determined by the polling organisations are displayed below (or in place of) the percentages in a smaller font; 18 seats were required for an absolute majority in the Parliament of Cantabria.

Color key:

      Poll conducted after legal ban on opinion polls

Results

← Summary of the 26 May 2019 Parliament of Cantabria election results →
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Parties and alliances Popular vote Seats
Votes  % ±pp Total +/−
Regionalist Party of Cantabria (PRC) 122,679 37.64 +7.75 14 +2
People's Party (PP) 78,347 24.04 –8.54 9 –4
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) 57,383 17.61 +3.57 7 +2
Citizens–Party of the Citizenry (Cs) 25,872 7.94 +1.00 3 +1
Vox (Vox) 16,496 5.06 +4.72 2 +2
We Can (Podemos) 10,224 3.14 –5.75 0 –3
United Left+Equo (Cantabrian Tide) (IU+Equo (Marea Cántabra))1 6,204 1.90 –1.13 0 ±0
Animalist Party Against Mistreatment of Animals (PACMA) 1,854 0.57 –0.03 0 ±0
Cantabrists (Cantabristas) 1,584 0.49 New 0 ±0
Hi Cantabria (OlaCantabria) 1,119 0.34 New 0 ±0
Communist Party of the Workers of Spain (PCTE) 774 0.24 New 0 ±0
New People's Left (NIP) 187 0.06 New 0 ±0
Blank ballots 3,180 0.98 –0.57
Total 325,903 35 ±0
Valid votes 325,903 99.02 +0.75
Invalid votes 3,234 0.98 –0.75
Votes cast / turnout 329,137 65.71 –0.52
Abstentions 171,788 34.29 +0.52
Registered voters 500,925
Sources[6][20]
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Footnotes:
Popular vote
PRC
  
 37.64%
PP
  
 24.04%
PSOE
  
 17.61%
Cs
  
 7.94%
Vox
  
 5.06%
Podemos
  
 3.14%
IU+Equo
  
 1.90%
Others
  
 1.69%
Blank ballots
  
 0.98%
Seats
PRC
  
 40.00%
PP
  
 25.71%
PSOE
  
 20.00%
Cs
  
 8.57%
Vox
  
 5.71%

Aftermath

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Further information: Fourth government of Miguel Ángel Revilla
Investiture
Miguel Ángel Revilla (PRC)
Ballot → 27 June 2019
Required majority → 18 out of 35 YesY
Yes
21 / 35
No
  • • PP (9)
  • • Cs (3)
12 / 35
Abstentions
2 / 35
Absentees
0 / 35
Sources[6][21]

Notes

  1. ↑ Juan Ramón Carrancio, former Cs legislator.[7]
  2. ↑ José Ramón Blanco and Alberto Bolado, former Podemos legislators.[8]
  3. ↑ Verónica Ordóñez.[9]
  4. ↑ 4.00 4.01 4.02 4.03 4.04 4.05 4.06 4.07 4.08 4.09 4.10 4.11 4.12 4.13 4.14 4.15 Within Unidas Podemos.

References

Opinion poll sources
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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Ley Orgánica 8/1981, de 30 de diciembre, de Estatuto de Autonomía para Cantabria, Organic Law No. 8 of 30 December 1981 Boletín Oficial del Estado (in Español)
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  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Ley 5/1987, de 27 de marzo, de Elecciones a la Asamblea Regional de Cantabria, Law No. 5 of 27 March 1987 Boletín Oficial del Estado (in Español)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Ley Orgánica 5/1985, de 19 de junio, del Régimen Electoral General, Organic Law No. 5 of 19 June 1985 Boletín Oficial del Estado (in Español)
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