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2019 Extremaduran regional election

2019 Extremaduran regional election

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The 2019 Extremaduran regional election was held on Sunday, 26 May 2019, to elect the 10th Assembly of the autonomous community of Extremadura. All 65 seats in the Assembly 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.

Quick Facts All 65 seats in the Assembly of Extremadura 33 seats needed for a majority, Registered ...

Overview

Electoral system

The Assembly of Extremadura was the devolved, unicameral legislature of the autonomous community of Extremadura, having legislative power in regional matters as defined by the Spanish Constitution and the Extremaduran Statute of Autonomy, as well as the ability to vote confidence in or withdraw it from a regional president.[1] Voting for the Assembly was on the basis of universal suffrage, which comprised all nationals over 18 years of age, registered in Extremadura and in full enjoyment of their political rights. Additionally, Extremadurans 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 65 members of the Assembly of Extremadura were elected using the D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional representation, with a electoral threshold of five percent of valid votes—which included blank ballots—being applied in each constituency. Alternatively, parties failing to reach the threshold in one of the constituencies were also entitled to enter the seat distribution as long as they ran candidates in both districts and reached five percent regionally. Seats were allocated to constituencies, corresponding to the provinces of Badajoz and Cáceres, with each being allocated an initial minimum of 20 seats and the remaining 25 being distributed in proportion to their populations.[1][3]

As a result of the aforementioned allocation, each Assembly constituency was entitled the following seats:[4]

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Election date

The term of the Assembly of Extremadura expired four years after the date of its previous election, unless it was dissolved earlier. The election decree was required to be issued no later than the twenty-fifth day prior to the date of expiry of parliament and published on the following day in the Official Journal of Extremadura (DOE), with election day taking place on the fifty-fourth day from publication. The previous election was held on 24 May 2015, which meant that the legislature's term would have expired on 24 May 2019. The election decree was required to be published in the DOE no later than 30 April 2019, with the election taking place on the fifty-fourth day from publication, setting the latest possible election date for the Assembly on Sunday, 23 June 2019.[1][3][5]

The president had the prerogative to dissolve the Assembly of Extremadura 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 Assembly was to be automatically dissolved and a fresh election called.[1]

The election to the Assembly of Extremadura was officially triggered on 2 April 2019 after the publication of the election decree in the Official Journal of Extremadura (DOE), setting the election date for 26 May.[4]

Parliamentary composition

The table below shows the composition of the parliamentary groups in the Assembly at the time of dissolution.[6]

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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 two percent of the electorate in the constituencies for which they sought election, disallowing electors from signing for more than one list of candidates.[3][5]

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

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Campaign

Election debates

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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; 33 seats were required for an absolute majority in the Assembly of Extremadura.

Color key:

  Poll conducted after legal ban on opinion polls

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Results

Overall

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Distribution by constituency

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Aftermath

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Notes

  1. Results for Podemos (8.02%, 6 seats), Ganemos–IULV (4.25%, 0 seats), eX (1.46%, 0 seats) and AEx (0.24%, 0 seats) in the 2015 election.
  2. Juan Antonio Morales, former PP legislator.[7]
  3. Denotes a main invitee attending the event.

References

Opinion poll sources
  1. "#emojiPanel Extremadura (24M)". Electomanía (in Spanish). 24 May 2019.
  2. "#emojiPanel Extremadura (23M)". Electomanía (in Spanish). 23 May 2019.
  3. "#emojiPanel Extremadura (22M)". Electomanía (in Spanish). 22 May 2019.
  4. "#emojiPanel Extremadura (21M)". Electomanía (in Spanish). 21 May 2019.
  5. "Resultados por comunidades. Encuesta mayo 2019" (PDF). La Razón (in Spanish). 20 May 2019. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 May 2019. Retrieved 20 May 2019.
  6. "#emojiPanel Extremadura (20M)". Electomanía (in Spanish). 20 May 2019.
  7. "El PSOE gana las elecciones y la llave se la disputarán Podemos y Cs". El Periódico de Extremadura (in Spanish). 12 May 2019.
  8. "ElectoPanel Extremadura: Ciudadanos tendría la llave". Electomanía (in Spanish). 27 January 2019.
  9. "Estimación Marzo 2018. Extremadura. Autonómicas 2019". SyM Consulting (in Spanish). 22 March 2018.
  10. "EXTREMADURA, Marzo 2017. Sondeo SigmaDos". Electograph (in Spanish). 18 March 2017.
Other
  1. Reig Pellicer, Naiara (16 December 2015). "Spanish elections: Begging for the right to vote". cafebabel.co.uk. Retrieved 17 July 2017.
  2. Ley 2/1987, de 16 de marzo, de Elecciones a la Asamblea de Extremadura (Law 2) (in Spanish). 16 March 1987. Retrieved 17 March 2017.
  3. "Decreto del Presidente 1/2019, de 1 de abril, por el que se convocan elecciones a la Asamblea de Extremadura" (PDF). Diario Oficial de Extremadura (in Spanish) (64): 13664–13665. 2 April 2019. ISSN 2483-5188.
  4. Ley Orgánica 5/1985, de 19 de junio, del Régimen Electoral General (Organic Law 5) (in Spanish). 19 June 1985. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
  5. "Elecciones a la Asamblea de Extremadura (1983 - 2019)". Historia Electoral.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 15 August 2019.
  6. "Juan Antonio Morales y Antonio Pozo se incorporan a VOX tras abandonar el PP de Extremadura". Europa Press (in Spanish). 7 September 2018. Retrieved 27 January 2019.
  7. "Vara volverá a ser el candidato del PSOE a la Presidencia de la Junta". eldiario.es (in Spanish). 8 May 2018. Retrieved 27 January 2019.
  8. "Irene de Miguel, ratificada como candidata de Podemos a la Presidencia de la Junta". eldiario.es (in Spanish). 27 November 2018. Retrieved 27 January 2019.
  9. "Cuatro partidos forman la coalición Unidas Podemos para las autonómicas". Hoy (in Spanish). 12 March 2019. Retrieved 12 March 2019.
  10. Romero, Matías (23 May 2019). "Canal Extremadura, líder de audiencia con el debate electoral autonómico, por delante del resto de TV autonómicas". Canal Extremadura (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 13 February 2021. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
  11. Romero, Matías (20 May 2019). "Martes a las 20:55h, el único debate de la campaña electoral autonómica en Canal Extremadura". Canal Extremadura (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 9 February 2021. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
  12. "Assembly of Extremadura election results, 26 May 2019" (PDF). www.juntaelectoralcentral.es (in Spanish). Electoral Commission of Extremadura. 10 June 2019. Retrieved 29 November 2019.
  13. "Vara resulta elegido con los votos del PSOE y la abstención de Cs y Podemos". El Periódico de Extremadura (in Spanish). 25 June 2019. Retrieved 25 June 2019.

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