Lugo (Galician Parliament electoral district)

Lugo
Parliament of Galicia Electoral Constituency
Location of Lugo within Galicia.
Province	Province of Lugo
Autonomous community	Galicia
Population	339,386 (2016)
Electorate	348,561 (2016)
Major settlements	Lugo
Current constituency
Created	1981
Seats	15 (1981–2012) 14 (2016–)

Lugo 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	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	14
AP/CP/PP	5	8	8	9	9	9	8	8	9	8
PSdeG	3	4	5	4	3	3	5	5	4	3
AGE/Marea									1	2
BNPG/BNG	1		1	2	3	3	2	2	1	1
CG		3	1
UCD	6

Election results

2016

Summary of the 25 September 2016 Galician Parliament election results in Lugo

Party		Popular vote			Seats
		Votes	%	±pp	Won	+/−
	People's Party of Galicia (PPdeG)	97,323	52.81	+1.33	8	–1
	Socialists' Party of Galicia (PSdeG–PSOE)	35,099	19.05	–3.62	3	–1
	In Tide (En Marea)[lower-alpha 1]	28,285	15.35	+5.06	2	+1
	Galician Nationalist Bloc–Us–Galician Candidacy (BNG–Nós)	13,579	7.37	–1.34	1	±0
	Citizens–Party of the Citizenry (C's)	5,117	2.78	New	0	±0

Parties with less than 1.0% of the vote		3,117	1.69	—	0	±0
	Animalist Party Against Mistreatment of Animals (PACMA)	1,491	0.81	+0.39	0	±0
	Anti-Corruption and Justice Party (PAyJ)	466	0.25	New	0	±0
	Commitment to Galicia (CxG)	439	0.24	–0.37	0	±0
	Zero Cuts–Green Group (Recortes Cero–GV)	338	0.18	New	0	±0
	Let's Win Galicia: Yes We Can (Gañemos)	311	0.17	New	0	±0
	XXI Convergence (C21)	72	0.04	–0.01	0	±0

	Blank ballots	1,770	0.96	–1.68
Total		184,290	100.00		14	–1
Valid votes		184,290	98.82	+1.67
Invalid votes		2,198	1.18	–1.67
Votes cast / turnout		186,488	53.55	–2.45
Abstentions		161,756	46.45	+2.45
Registered voters		348,244
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 Lugo

Party		Popular vote			Seats
		Votes	%	±pp	Won	+/−
	People's Party of Galicia (PPdeG)	98,284	51.48	+3.67	9	+1
	Socialists' Party of Galicia (PSdeG–PSOE)	43,370	22.72	–9.98	4	–1
	Galician Left Alternative (United Left–Anova) (AGE)[lower-alpha 1]	19,639	10.29	+9.65	1	+1
	Galician Nationalist Bloc (BNG)	16,622	8.71	–5.87	1	–1

Parties with less than 1.0% of the vote		7,973	4.18	—	0	±0
	Union, Progress and Democracy (UPyD)	1,730	0.91	–0.22	0	±0
	Blank Seats (EB)	1,440	0.75	New	0	±0
	Commitment to Galicia (CxG)	1,173	0.61	New	0	±0
	Jaded.org (Hartos.org)	868	0.45	New	0	±0
	Animalist Party Against Mistreatment of Animals (PACMA)	805	0.42	New	0	±0
	Civil Society and Democracy (SCD)	623	0.33	New	0	±0
	Land Party (PT)	352	0.18	New	0	±0
	Liberal Democratic Centre (CDL)	234	0.12	New	0	±0
	For a Fairer World (PUM+J)	233	0.12	–0.12	0	±0
	Spanish Falange of the JONS (FE–JONS)	184	0.10	+0.04	0	±0
	Communist Unification of Spain (UCE)	138	0.07	New	0	±0
	Community Integration Party (PYC)	106	0.06	New	0	±0
	XXI Convergence (C.XXI)	87	0.05	New	0	±0

	Blank ballots	5,036	2.64	+0.97
Total		190,924	100.00		15	±0
Valid votes		190,924	97.15	–1.78
Invalid votes		5,609	2.85	+1.78
Votes cast / turnout		196,533	56.00	–10.92
Abstentions		154,413	44.00	+10.92
Registered voters		350,946
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 Lugo

Party		Popular vote			Seats
		Votes	%	±pp	Won	+/−
	Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD)	48,733	35.03	—	6	—
	People's Alliance (AP)	43,617	31.35	—	5	—
	Socialists' Party of Galicia (PSdG–PSOE)	22,376	16.08	—	3	—
	Galician National-Popular Bloc–Galician Socialist Party (BNPG–PSG)	11,175	8.03	—	1	—
	Galicianist Party (PG)	5,779	4.15	—	0	—
	Communist Party of Galicia (PCG–PCE)	2,039	1.47	—	0	—
	Galician Socialist Unity–PSOE (USG–PSOE)	1,546	1.11	—	0	—
	Workers' Socialist Party (PST)	1,498	1.08	—	0	—

Parties with less than 1.0% of the vote		2,363	1.70	—	0	—
	Galician Left (EG)	1,272	0.91	—	0	—
	Spanish Ruralist Party (PRE)	654	0.47	—	0	—
	Revolutionary Communist League–Communist Movement (LCR–MCG)	437	0.31	—	0	—

	Blank ballots	0	0.00	—
Total		139,126	100.00		15	—
Valid votes		139,126	98.29	—
Invalid votes		2,415	1.71	—
Votes cast / turnout		141,541	42.52	—
Abstentions		191,361	57.48	—
Registered voters		332,902
Source: Argos Information Portal

References

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

Coordinates: 43°00′N 7°30′W / 43.000°N 7.500°W