1995 Canarian regional election

Date

The term of the Parliament of the Canary Islands expired four years after the date of its previous ordinary election, with election day being fixed for the fourth Sunday of May every four years. The election decree was required to be issued no later than 54 days before the scheduled election date and published on the following day in the Official Gazette of the Canaries (BOC).^[3] The previous election was held on 26 May 1991, setting the date for election day on the fourth Sunday of May four years later, which was 28 May 1995.

The Parliament of the Canary Islands could not be dissolved before the expiration date of parliament, except in the event of an investiture process failing to elect a regional president within a two-month period from the first ballot. In such a case, the Parliament was to be automatically dissolved and a snap election called, with elected lawmakers serving the remainder of its original four-year term.^[4]

The election to the Parliament of the Canary Islands was officially called on 4 April 1995 with the publication of the corresponding decree in the BOC, setting election day for 28 May.^[5]

Electoral system

Voting for the Parliament was based on universal suffrage, comprising all Spanish nationals over 18 years of age, registered in the Canary Islands and with full political rights, provided that they had not been deprived of the right to vote by a final sentence, nor were legally incapacitated.^[6]

The Parliament of the Canary Islands had a minimum of 50 and a maximum of 70 seats, with electoral provisions fixing its size at 60. All were elected in seven multi-member constituencies—corresponding to the islands of El Hierro, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, La Gomera, La Palma, Lanzarote and Tenerife, each of which was assigned a fixed number of seats—using the D'Hondt method and closed-list proportional voting, with a 20 percent-threshold of valid votes (including blank ballots) in each constituency or three percent regionally.^[7]

As a result of the aforementioned allocation, each Parliament constituency was entitled the following seats:^[8]

The law did not provide for by-elections to fill vacant seats; instead, any vacancies arising after the proclamation of candidates and during the legislative term were filled by the next candidates on the party lists or, when required, by designated substitutes.^[9]

Voting intention estimates

The table below lists weighted voting intention estimates. Refusals are generally excluded from the party vote percentages, while question wording and the treatment of "don't know" responses and those not intending to vote may vary between polling organisations. When available, seat projections determined by the polling organisations are displayed below (or in place of) the percentages in a smaller font; 31 seats were required for an absolute majority in the Parliament of the Canary Islands.

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  Exit poll

More information Polling firm/Commissioner, Fieldwork date ...

Polling firm/Commissioner	Fieldwork date	Sample size	Turnout					ICAN	AM				PCN	Lead
1995 regional election	28 May 1995	—N/a	64.2	23.1 16	[c]	0.7 0	31.1 18	[c]	[c]	0.3 1	32.8 21	5.1 0	3.0 4	1.7
Eco Consulting/RTVE[p 1]	28 May 1995	?	?	22.0 17/19	[c]	–	31.9 19/21	[c]	[c]	–	30.1 16/18	5.3 3	–	1.8
Demoscopia/El País[p 2][p 3][p 4]	10–15 May 1995	1,452	?	16.8 13/14	[c]	3.3 0	33.9 19/20	[c]	[c]	0.5 2	31.0 19	9.8 4	–	2.9
CIS[p 5][p 6]	24 Apr–10 May 1995	999	69.4	18.4	[c]	–	31.4	[c]	[c]	–	38.8	6.0	–	7.4
1994 EP election	12 Jun 1994	—N/a	49.9	24.8	[c]	0.7	43.9	[c]	[c]	–	18.8	8.3	–	19.1
1993 general election	6 Jun 1993	—N/a	68.9	29.9	[c]	1.2	33.9	[c]	[c]	–	25.6	5.0	–	4.0
1991 regional election	26 May 1991	—N/a	61.6	33.0 23	22.7 16	14.4 7	12.8 6	12.2 5	0.7 2	0.2 1	–	–	–	10.3

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Overall

More information Parties and alliances, Popular vote ...

← Summary of the 28 May 1995 Parliament of the Canary Islands election results →

Parties and alliances		Popular vote			Seats
		Votes	%	±pp	Total	+/−
	Canarian Coalition (CC)1	261,424	32.80	−1.33	21	+4
	People's Party (PP)	247,609	31.07	+18.24	18	+12
	Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)	183,969	23.08	−9.95	16	−7
	Canarian United Left (IUC)	40,614	5.10	New	0	±0
	Nationalist Canarian Platform (PCN)2	23,914	3.00	+0.43	4	−2
	Coalition for Gran Canaria (CGC)	10,964	1.38	New	0	±0
	Democratic and Social Centre–Centrist Union (CDS–UC)	5,340	0.67	−13.74	0	−7
	National Congress of the Canaries (CNC)	2,964	0.37	New	0	±0
	Popular Front of the Canary Islands–Awañac (FREPIC–Awañac)	2,436	0.31	−0.28	0	±0
	Independent Herrenian Group (AHI)	2,105	0.26	+0.05	1	±0
	Tenerife Assembly (ATF)	1,600	0.20	New	0	±0
	Humanist Platform (PH)3	1,561	0.20	+0.04	0	±0
	Green Left of the Canary Islands (Izegzawen)	1,357	0.17	New	0	±0
	Communist Party of the Canarian People (PCPC)	1,251	0.16	New	0	±0
	Party of The People (LG)	625	0.08	−0.13	0	±0
	Nationalist Canarian Initiative (ICAN)4	248	0.03	−0.03	0	±0
Blank ballots		9,078	1.14	+0.37
Total		797,059			60	±0
Valid votes		797,059	99.43	+0.16
Invalid votes		4,548	0.57	−0.16
Votes cast / turnout		801,607	64.20	+2.57
Abstentions		446,968	35.80	−2.57
Registered voters		1,248,575
Sources[10][11][12]
Footnotes: 1 Canarian Coalition results are compared to the combined totals of Canarian Independent Groups in Gran Canaria, La Palma and Tenerife, Canarian Initiative, Canarian Nationalist Party and Majorera Assembly in the 1991 election, not including Canarian Initiative results in El Hierro. 2 Nationalist Canarian Platform results are compared to Canarian Independent Groups totals in Fuerteventura and La Palma. 3 Humanist Platform results are compared to The Greens Ecologist–Humanist List totals in the 1991 election. 4 Nationalist Canarian Initiative results are compared to Canarian Initiative totals in El Hierro in the 1991 election. Canarian Coalition and its member parties, except for Nationalist Canarian Initiative, declined to run in El Hierro in order to respect Independent Herrenian Group's list there.

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Distribution by constituency