2019 Canarian regional election

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2019 Canarian regional election
← 2015 26 May 2019 2023 →
All 70 seats in the Parliament of the Canary Islands
36 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered Island: 1,719,596 Green Arrow Up Darker.svg3.5%
Regional: 1,720,724
Turnout Island: 904,369 (52.6%) Red Arrow Down.svg3.5 pp
Regional: 904.093 (52.5%)
  First party Second party Third party
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Leader Ángel Víctor Torres Fernando Clavijo Asier Antona
Party Socialist Party of the Canaries CCa–PNC People's Party of the Canary Islands
Leader since 23 July 2017 12 September 2014 22 April 2016
Leader's seat Regional Regional La Palma
Last election 15 seats, 19.9% 18 seats, 21.8%[lower-alpha 1] 12 seats, 18.6%
Seats won 25 20 11
Seat change Green Arrow Up Darker.svg10 Green Arrow Up Darker.svg2 Red Arrow Down.svg1
Island vote 258,255 196,080 135,722
Island % 28.9% 21.9% 15.2%
Island swing Green Arrow Up Darker.svg9.0 pp Green Arrow Up Darker.svg0.1 pp Red Arrow Down.svg3.4 pp
Reg. vote 264,221 209,150 130,617
Reg. % 29.5% 23.4% 14.6%
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
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Leader Román Rodríguez Noemí Santana Casimiro Curbelo
Party New Canaries Podemos–SSP–Equo Gomera Socialist Group
Leader since 26 February 2005 1 April 2015 6 March 2015
Leader's seat Regional Gran Canaria La Gomera
Last election 5 seats, 10.4%[lower-alpha 2] 7 seats, 14.5% 3 seats, 0.6%
Seats won 5 4 3
Seat change Arrow Blue Right 001.svg0 Red Arrow Down.svg3 Arrow Blue Right 001.svg0
Island vote 80,891 78,532 6,222
Island % 9.0% 8.8% 0.7%
Island swing Red Arrow Down.svg1.4 pp Red Arrow Down.svg5.7 pp Green Arrow Up Darker.svg0.1 pp
Reg. vote 82,980 76,433 n/a
Reg. % 9.3% 8.5% n/a
  Seventh party
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Leader Vidina Espino
Party C's
Leader since 2 March 2019
Leader's seat Gran Canaria
Last election 0 seats, 5.9%
Seats won 2
Seat change Green Arrow Up Darker.svg2
Island vote 65,854
Island % 7.4%
Island swing Green Arrow Up Darker.svg1.5 pp
Reg. vote 62,115
Reg. % 6.9%
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Constituency results map for the Parliament of the Canary Islands
President before election

Fernando Clavijo
CCa

 Elected President

Ángel Víctor Torres
Socialist Party of the Canaries

The 2019 Canarian regional election was held on Sunday, 26 May 2019, to elect the 10th Parliament of the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands. All 70 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.

Overview

Electoral system

The Parliament of the Canary Islands was the devolved, unicameral legislature of the autonomous community of the Canary Islands, having legislative power in regional matters as defined by the Spanish Constitution and the Canarian 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 the Canary Islands and in full enjoyment of their political rights. Additionally, Canarians 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 70 members of the Parliament of the Canary Islands were elected using the D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional representation, with an electoral threshold of 15 percent of valid votes—which included blank ballots—being applied in each constituency. Alternatively, parties could also enter the seat distribution as long as they reached four percent regionally. Seats were allocated to constituencies, corresponding to the islands of El Hierro, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, La Gomera, La Palma, Lanzarote and Tenerife, as well as an additional constituency comprising the whole archipelago, with each being allocated a fixed number of seats.[1]

As a result of the aforementioned allocation, each constituency was entitled the following seats for the 2019 regional election:

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Constituency Seats
El Hierro 3
Fuerteventura 8
Gran Canaria 15
La Gomera 4
La Palma 8
Lanzarote 8
Tenerife 15
Regional 9

Election date

The term of the Parliament of the Canary Islands expired four years after the date of its previous election, with elections to the Parliament being 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]

After legal amendments in 2018, the president was granted the prerogative to dissolve the Parliament of the Canary Islands and call a snap election, provided that no motion of no confidence was in process and that dissolution did not occur before one year had elapsed since the previous one. 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]

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 the constituencies for which they sought election, disallowing electors from signing for more than one list of candidates.[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
CCa–PNC
List
 50px Fernando Clavijo Regionalism
Canarian nationalism
Centrism		 21.84%[lower-alpha 1] 18 YesY [5]
[6]
PSOE
List
 50px Ángel Víctor Torres Social democracy 19.89% 15 N [7]
[8]
PP
List
 50px Asier Antona Conservatism
Christian democracy		 18.59% 12 N [9]
[10]
Podemos–
SSP–Equo
List
 50px Noemí Santana Left-wing populism
Direct democracy
Democratic socialism		 14.54% 7 N [11]
[12]
NCa
List
  • New Canaries (NCa)
  • Municipal Assemblies of Fuerteventura (AMF)
 50px Román Rodríguez Canarian nationalism
Social democracy		 10.39%[lower-alpha 2] 5 N
Cs
List
 50px Vidina Espino Liberalism 5.94% 0 N [13]
ASG
List
 50px Casimiro Curbelo Insularism
Social democracy		 0.56% 3 N
Vox
List
 50px Carmelo González Right-wing populism
Ultranationalism
National conservatism		 0.20% 0 N [14]

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; 36 seats were required for an absolute majority in the Parliament of the Canary Islands (31 until 6 November 2018).

Color key:

      Poll conducted after legal ban on opinion polls       Exit poll

Results

Overall

← Summary of the 24 May 2019 Parliament of the Canary Islands election results →
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Parties and alliances Island constituencies Regional
constituency		 Seats
Votes  % ±pp Votes  % Total +/−
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) 258,255 28.88 +8.99 264,221 29.53 25 +10
Canarian Coalition–Canarian Nationalist Party–United (CCa–PNC)1 196,080 21.93 +0.09 209,150 23.37 20 +2
People's Party (PP) 135,722 15.18 –3.41 130,617 14.60 11 –1
New Canaries (NCa)2 80,891 9.05 –1.34 82,980 9.27 5 ±0
Yes We Can Canaries (Podemos–SSP–Equo)3 78,532 8.78 –5.76 76,433 8.54 4 –3
Citizens–Party of the Citizenry (Cs) 65,854 7.36 +1.42 62,115 6.94 2 +2
Vox (Vox) 22,078 2.47 +2.27 22,178 2.48 0 ±0
Animalist Party Against Mistreatment of Animals (PACMA) 10,029 1.12 –0.11 12,166 1.36 0 ±0
Canarian United Left (IUC)4 9,115 1.02 –1.18 8,598 0.96 0 ±0
Gomera Socialist Group (ASG) 6,222 0.70 +0.14 — — 3 ±0
The Greens–Green Group (LV–GV) 5,058 0.57 New 6,263 0.70 0 ±0
Canaries Now (ANC–UP)5 2,515 0.28 –0.34 3,163 0.35 0 ±0
More for Telde (+xT) 1,985 0.22 –0.15 — — 0 ±0
Tenerife Socialist Group (ASTf) 1,512 0.17 New — — 0 ±0
Santa Cruz Common Sense (SCSC) 1,379 0.15 New — — 0 ±0
Nivaria (Nivaria) 1,153 0.13 New — — 0 ±0
Communist Party of the Canarian People (PCPC) 989 0.11 –0.09 1,200 0.13 0 ±0
With You, We Are Democracy (Contigo) 970 0.11 New 794 0.09 0 ±0
Fuerteventura Party (PF) 954 0.11 New — — 0 ±0
Seniors in Action (3e en acción) 911 0.10 New — — 0 ±0
United for Lanzarote (UPLanzarote) 657 0.07 New — — 0 ±0
For a Fairer World (PUM+J) 575 0.06 –0.14 979 0.11 0 ±0
Democratic Union of the Canary Islands (UDC) 522 0.06 New 1,248 0.14 0 ±0
Let's Vote Fuerteventura (Votemos) 387 0.04 New — — 0 ±0
Humanist Party (PH) 337 0.04 New — — 0 ±0
Canaries for Progress (Ci–Progreso) 263 0.03 New — — 0 ±0
Federation Free Socialist Party (PSLF) 224 0.03 New — — 0 ±0
Movement for the Unity of the Canarian People (MUPC) — — –0.19 782 0.09 0 ±0
Union of Independent Citizens (UCIN) — — New 450 0.05 0 ±0
Libertarian Party (P–LIB) — — New 436 0.05 0 ±0
Blank ballots 11,111 1.24 –0.59 11,089 1.24
Total 894,280 894,862 70 +10
Valid votes 894,280 98.88 +0.68 894,862 98.98
Invalid votes 10,089 1.12 –0.68 9,231 1.02
Votes cast / turnout 904,369 52.59 –3.50 904,093 52.54
Abstentions 815,227 47.41 +3.50 816,631 47.46
Registered voters 1,719,596 1,720,724
Sources[16][17]
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Footnotes:
Popular vote (island constituencies)
PSOE
  
 28.88%
CCa–PNC
  
 21.93%
PP
  
 15.18%
NCa
  
 9.05%
SPC
  
 8.78%
Cs
  
 7.36%
Vox
  
 2.47%
PACMA
  
 1.12%
IUC
  
 1.02%
ASG
  
 0.70%
Others
  
 2.28%
Blank ballots
  
 1.24%
Popular vote (regional constituency)
PSOE
  
 29.53%
CCa–PNC
  
 23.37%
PP
  
 14.60%
NCa
  
 9.27%
SPC
  
 8.54%
Cs
  
 6.94%
Vox
  
 2.48%
PACMA
  
 1.36%
Others
  
 2.67%
Blank ballots
  
 1.24%
Seats
PSOE
  
 35.71%
CCa–PNC
  
 28.57%
PP
  
 15.71%
NCa
  
 7.04%
SPC
  
 5.71%
ASG
  
 4.29%
Cs
  
 2.86%

Distribution by constituency

Constituency PSOE CC–PNC PP NCa SPC Cs ASG
 % S  % S  % S  % S  % S  % S  % S
El Hierro 31.5 1 35.4 1 18.2 1 5.0 − 3.7 −
Fuerteventura 26.0 3 25.1 3 13.8 1 11.2 1 7.0 − 5.7 −
Gran Canaria 28.3 5 11.7 2 16.5 3 17.7 3 8.9 1 8.9 1
La Gomera 20.7 1 9.1 − 4.4 − 4.0 − 6.6 − 1.7 − 52.1 3
La Palma 27.2 3 30.9 3 25.0 2 3.7 − 4.2 − 3.2 −
Lanzarote 28.4 3 32.0 3 12.7 1 5.3 − 8.1 1 5.6 −
Tenerife 30.2 6 29.2 5 13.5 2 2.0 − 9.6 1 7.0 1
Regional 29.5 3 23.4 3 14.6 1 9.3 1 8.5 1 6.9 −
Total 28.9 25 21.9 20 15.2 11 9.0 5 8.8 4 7.4 2 0.7 3

Aftermath

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Further information: Government of Ángel Víctor Torres
Investiture
Ángel Víctor Torres (PSOE)
Ballot → 12 July 2019
Required majority → 36 out of 70 YesY
Yes
37 / 70
No
33 / 70
Abstentions
0 / 70
Absentees
0 / 70
Sources[18]

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Results for CCa–PNC (18.25%, 18 seats) and Unidos (3.59%, 0 seats) in the 2015 election.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Results for NCa (10.23%, 5 seats) and AMF (0.16%, 0 seats) in the 2015 election.
  3. ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14 3.15 3.16 3.17 3.18 3.19 3.20 3.21 Within CCa.
  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.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Within PSOE.

References

Opinion poll sources
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Other
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  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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