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2019 Extremaduran regional election

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A regional election was held in Extremadura on 26 May 2019 to elect the 10th Assembly of the autonomous community. All 65 seats in the Assembly were up for election. It was held concurrently with regional elections in eleven other autonomous communities and local elections all across Spain, as well as the 2019 European Parliament election.

Registered899,930 Decrease 1.3%
Turnout623,288 (69.3%)
Decrease 2.1 pp
Quick facts All 65 seats in the Assembly of Extremadura 33 seats needed for a majority, Registered ...
2019 Extremaduran regional election
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26 May 2019
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All 65 seats in the Assembly of Extremadura
33 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered899,930 Decrease 1.3%
Turnout623,288 (69.3%)
Decrease 2.1 pp
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Guillermo Fernández Vara José Antonio Monago Cayetano Polo
Party PSOE PP Cs
Leader since 20 September 2006 8 November 2008 19 February 2019
Leader's seat Badajoz Badajoz Cáceres
Last election 30 seats, 41.5% 28 seats, 37.0% 1 seat, 4.4%
Seats won 34 20 7
Seat change Increase 4 Decrease 8 Increase 6
Popular vote 287,619 168,982 68,343
Percentage 46.8% 27.5% 11.1%
Swing Increase 5.3 pp Decrease 9.5 pp Increase 6.7 pp
  Fourth party
 
Leader Irene de Miguel
Party Podemos–IU–eX–Equo
Leader since 27 November 2018
Leader's seat Cáceres
Last election 6 seats, 14.0%[a]
Seats won 4
Seat change Decrease 2
Popular vote 44,309
Percentage 7.2%
Swing Decrease 6.8 pp
Constituency results map for the Assembly of Extremadura
President before election

Guillermo Fernández Vara
PSOE

 President after election

Guillermo Fernández Vara
PSOE

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Overview

Under the 2011 Statute of Autonomy, the Assembly of Extremadura was the unicameral legislature of the homonymous autonomous community, having legislative power in devolved matters, as well as the ability to grant or withdraw confidence from a regional president.[1] The electoral and procedural rules were supplemented by national law provisions.[2]

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 25 days before the scheduled expiration date of parliament and published on the following day in the Official Journal of Extremadura (DOE), with election day taking place 54 days after the decree's publication.[3] The previous election was held on 24 May 2015, which meant that the chamber'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, setting the latest possible date for election day on 23 June 2019.

The regional president had the prerogative to dissolve the Assembly of Extremadura at any given time and call a snap election, provided that no motion of no confidence was in process and that dissolution did not occur before one year after a previous one.[4] 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.[5]

The election to the Assembly of Extremadura was officially called on 2 April 2019 with the publication of the corresponding decree in the DOE, setting election day for 26 May.[6]

Electoral system

Voting for the Assembly was based on universal suffrage, comprising all Spanish nationals over 18 years of age, registered in Extremadura and with full political rights, provided that they had not been deprived of the right to vote by a final sentence.[7][b] Additionally, non-resident citizens were required to apply for voting, a system known as "begged" voting (Spanish: Voto rogado).[9][10]

The Assembly of Extremadura had a maximum of 65 seats, with electoral provisions fixing its size at that number. All were elected in two multi-member constituencies—corresponding to the provinces of Badajoz and Cáceres, each of which was assigned an initial minimum of 20 seats and the remaining 25 distributed in proportion to population—using the D'Hondt method and closed-list proportional voting, with a five percent-threshold of valid votes (including blank ballots) in each constituency. Alternatively, parties could also enter the seat distribution as long as they ran candidates in both constituencies and reached five percent regionally.[11]

As a result of the aforementioned allocation, each Assembly constituency was entitled the following seats:[12]

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Seats Constituencies
36 Badajoz
29 Cáceres
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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.[13]

Outgoing parliament

The table below shows the composition of the parliamentary groups in the chamber at the time of the election call.[14][15]

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Parliamentary composition in April 2019
Groups Parties Legislators
Seats Total
Socialist Parliamentary Group PSOE 30 30
People's Parliamentary Group PP 27 27
We Can Extremadura Parliamentary Group Podemos 6 6
Mixed Parliamentary Group Cs 1 1
Non-Inscrits Vox 1[c] 1
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Parties and candidates

The electoral law allowed for parties and federations registered in the interior ministry, alliances and groupings of electors to present lists of candidates. Parties and federations intending to form an alliance were required to inform the relevant electoral commission within 10 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.[17] Additionally, a balanced composition of men and women was required in the electoral lists, so that candidates of either sex made up at least 40 percent of the total composition.[18]

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

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Candidacy Parties and
alliances		 Candidate Ideology Previous result Gov. Ref.
Vote % Seats
PSOE
List
 Guillermo Fernández Vara Social democracy 41.5% 30 Yes [19]
[20]
[21]
PP
List
 José Antonio Monago Conservatism
Christian democracy		 37.0% 28 No [22]
[23]
Podemos–
IU–eX–Equo
List
 Irene de Miguel Left-wing populism
Direct democracy
Democratic socialism
14.0%
[a]		 6 No [24]
[25]
Cs
List
 Cayetano Polo Liberalism 4.4% 1 No [26]
Vox
List
 Juan Antonio Morales Right-wing populism
Ultranationalism
National conservatism		 0.3% 0 No [27]
[28]
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Campaign

Debates

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2019 Extremaduran regional election debates
Date Organizer(s) Moderator(s)     P  Present[d]    S  Surrogate[e]    NI  Not invited   I  Invited    A  Absent invitee 
PSOE PP UxE Cs Vox EU PACT Audience Ref.
21 May Canal Extremadura Manu Pérez P
Vara		 P
Monago		 P
De Miguel		 P
Polo		 P
Morales		 P
Lanzas		 P
Marquéz		 9.3%
(33,000)		 [29]
[30]
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Opinion polls

The tables below list opinion polling results 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.

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; 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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Voting preferences

The table below lists raw, unweighted voting preferences.

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Results

Overall

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← Summary of the 26 May 2019 Assembly of Extremadura election results →
Parties and alliances Popular vote Seats
Votes % ±pp Total +/−
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) 287,61946.77+5.27 34+4
People's Party (PP) 168,98227.48−9.52 20−8
Citizens–Party of the Citizenry (Cs) 68,34311.11+6.72 7+6
United for Extremadura (Podemos–IU–eXtremeños–Equo)1 44,3097.20−6.76 4−2
Vox (Vox) 28,9924.71+4.43 0±0
United Extremadura (EU) 3,9700.65+0.16 0±0
Animalist Party Against Mistreatment of Animals (PACMA) 3,4600.56+0.32 0±0
Public Defense Organization (ODP) 1,4220.23New 0±0
Act (PACT) 1,3110.21New 0±0
For a Fairer World (PUM+J) 5550.09New 0±0
With You, We Are Democracy (Contigo) 4410.07New 0±0
Blank ballots 5,6110.91−0.43
Total 615,015 65±0
Valid votes 615,01598.67+0.53
Invalid votes 8,2731.33−0.53
Votes cast / turnout 623,28869.26−2.14
Abstentions 276,64230.74+2.14
Registered voters 899,930
Sources[14][31]
Footnotes:
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Popular vote
PSOE
 
 46.77%
PP
 
 27.48%
Cs
 
 11.11%
UxE
 
 7.20%
Vox
 
 4.71%
Others
 
 1.87%
Blank ballots
 
 0.91%
Seats
PSOE
 
 52.31%
PP
 
 30.77%
Cs
 
 10.77%
UxE
 
 6.15%

Distribution by constituency

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Constituency PSOE PP Cs UxE
% S % S % S % S
Badajoz 48.5 20 26.2 10 11.1 4 6.8 2
Cáceres 44.0 14 29.4 10 11.1 3 7.8 2
Total 46.8 34 27.5 20 11.1 7 7.2 4
Sources[14][31]
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Aftermath

Government formation

Further information: Third government of Guillermo Fernández Vara
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Investiture
Nomination of Guillermo Fernández Vara (PSOE)
Ballot → 25 June 2019
Required majority → 33 out of 65 checkY
Yes
34 / 65
No
  • • PP (20)
20 / 65
Abstentions
11 / 65
Absentees
0 / 65
Sources[14][32]
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Notes

  1. [a]
    Results for Podemos (8.0%, 6 seats), Ganemos–IU–LV (4.2%, 0 seats), eX (1.5%, 0 seats) and AEx (0.2%, 0 seats) in the 2015 election.
  2. [b]
    Amendments in 2018 granted the right to vote to those legally incapacitated.[8]
  3. [c]
    Juan Antonio Morales, former PP legislator.[16]
  4. [d]
    Denotes a main invitee attending the event.
  5. [e]
    Denotes a main invitee not attending the event, sending a surrogate in their place.
  6. [f]
    Within UxE.
  7. [g]
    Does not include non-resident citizens.

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