Aragonese parliamentary election, 2003

Aragonese parliamentary election, 2003
Aragon
25 May 2003

All 67 seats in the Courts of Aragon
34 seats needed for a majority
Registered 1,019,644 Increase2.0%
Turnout 717,457 (70.4%)
Increase4.6 pp
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Marcelino Iglesias Gustavo Alcalde Chesús Bernal
Party PSOE PP CHA
Leader since 15 February 1995 18 May 2001 29 June 1986
Last election 23 seats, 30.8% 28 seats, 38.2% 5 seats, 11.0%
Seats won 27 22 9
Seat change Increase4 Decrease6 Increase4
Popular vote 270,468 219,058 97,763
Percentage 37.9% 30.7% 13.7%
Swing Increase7.1 pp Decrease7.5 pp Increase2.7 pp

  Fourth party Fifth party
 
Leader José Ángel Biel Adolfo Barrena
Party PAR IU
Leader since 2 June 2000 May 2002
Last election 10 seats, 13.3% 1 seat, 3.9%
Seats won 8 1
Seat change Decrease2 ±0
Popular vote 79,670 21,795
Percentage 11.2% 3.1%
Swing Decrease2.1 pp Decrease0.8 pp

President before election

Marcelino Iglesias
PSOE

Elected President

Marcelino Iglesias
PSOE

The 2003 Aragonese parliamentary election was held on Sunday, 25 May 2003, to elect the 6th democratically-elected Courts of Aragon, the regional legislature of the Spanish autonomous community of Aragon. At stake were all 67 seats in the Courts, determining the President of the Government of Aragon.

The election saw the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), which had ruled Aragon since the previous election, becoming the largest party in the Courts for the first time since the 1991 election. The PSOE gains came at the expense of the People's Party (PP), which saw a drop of 7 points on its vote share. The Aragonese Union (CHA) made gains and overtook the Aragonese Party (PAR) as the third largest party in the Courts. For the PAR, this was the fourth consecutive election where it lost ground. United Left (IU) held its single seat, albeit with a slightly reduced vote share.

The PSOE and PAR maintained the coalition administration formed after the previous election. As a result, Marcelino Iglesias was re-elected as President of Aragon.

Electoral system

The number of seats in the Aragonese Courts was set to a fixed-number of 67. All Courts members were elected in 3 multi-member districts, corresponding to Aragon's three provinces, using the D'Hondt method and a closed-list proportional representation system. Each district was entitled to an initial minimum of 13 seats, with the remaining 28 seats allocated among the three provinces in proportion to their populations, on the required condition that the number of inhabitants per seat in each district did not exceed 2.75 times those of any other. For the 2003 election, seats were distributed as follows: Huesca (18), Teruel (14) and Zaragoza (35).

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 ballotsfor none of the above) were entitled to enter the seat distribution.[1]

Results

Overall

Summary of the 25 May 2003 Aragonese Courts election results
Party Vote Seats
Votes % ±pp Won +/−
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) 270,468 37.94 Increase7.13 27 Increase4
People's Party (PP) 219,058 30.73 Decrease7.48 22 Decrease6
Aragonese Union (CHA) 97,763 13.71 Increase2.67 9 Increase4
Aragonese Party (PAR) 79,670 11.18 Decrease2.07 8 Decrease2
United Left of Aragon (IU) 21,795 3.06 Decrease0.80 1 ±0
The Greens-SOS Nature (LV-SOS) 4,308 0.60 Increase0.05 0 ±0
Aragonese Initiative (INAR) 1,703 0.24 New 0 ±0
Family and Life Party (PFyV) 1,300 0.18 New 0 ±0
Democratic and Social Centre (CDS) 1,056 0.15 New 0 ±0
Republican Left (IR) 519 0.07 New 0 ±0
Humanist Party (PH) 330 0.05 Decrease0.10 0 ±0
Blank ballots 14,874 2.09 Increase0.01
Total 712,844 100.00 67 ±0
Valid votes 712,844 99.36 Increase0.07
Invalid votes 4,613 0.64 Decrease0.07
Votes cast / turnout 717,457 70.36 Increase4.60
Abstentions 302,187 29.64 Decrease4.60
Registered voters 1,019,644
Source: Argos Information Portal
Vote share
PSOE
 
37.94%
PP
 
30.73%
CHA
 
13.71%
PAR
 
11.18%
IU
 
3.06%
Others
 
1.29%
Blank ballots
 
2.09%
Parliamentary seats
PSOE
 
40.30%
PP
 
32.84%
CHA
 
13.43%
PAR
 
11.94%
IU
 
1.49%

Results by province

References

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