Spanish local and regional elections, 2011

22 May 2011 regional and local elections were held in Spain. The regional assemblies were elected in 13 of the 17 autonomous communities of Spain. These are the regions of Aragon, Asturias, Balearic Islands, Extremadura and the Canary Islands, Cantabria, Castile -La Mancha, Castile and León, La Rioja, Madrid, Murcia, Navarra and Valencia. In the remaining four Autonomous Communities (Andalusia, the Basque Country, Galicia and Catalonia ), see 2011, no regional elections, as their four-year parliamentary terms to those of the 13 other regions is postponed.

At the same time local elections were held in the whole of Spain (also in Andalusia, Galicia, Catalonia and the Basque Country and in the two autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla) instead.

In the context of the elections were formed in over 60 cities, the protests in Spain 2011/2012. The demonstrators from all social groups demanded, among other things, that more than 100 politicians are taken from the electoral lists, which have been accused of corruption.

The elections represented a significant mood test for the regular elections planned for spring 2012 elections for total Spanish Parliament, the Cortes Generales, dar.

Results of the regional elections

May 22, 2011, elections to regional parliaments held in 13 of the 17 Autonomous Communities. They brought the Socialist PSOE Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero heavy losses compared to the last elections in 2007. She is now in any of these 13 parliaments strongest party more while it was in the previous legislature still in Aragon, Asturias, Extremadura, Castile -La Mancha and the Canary Islands. This is offset by substantial gains of the conservative PP. These expanded its previously existing absolute majority in the regional parliament of Castilla- León, La Rioja, Madrid, Murcia and Valencia on. Except for Asturias and Navarra is the strongest force in all other of the 2011 elected parliaments and was able to win in the Balearic Islands and Castilla -La Mancha new absolute majority. The left-socialist IU succeeded in Extremadura and Castile-Leon the re-entry into parliament in which they had been 2007-2011 not represented.

Other notable results are the first-time collection of UPyD in the Asamblea de Madrid, the good performance of the Basque left nationalist electoral alliance Bildu in Navarre and that was only founded in 2011 as a breakaway from the Foro Asturias in Asturias PP immediately strongest force was.

PP: 39.7% ( 8.6 )
PSOE: 29.0 % ( -12.1 )
PAR: 9.2% ( -2.9 )
CHA: 8.2% (± 0)
IU: 6.2% ( 2.1 )

PP: 30 ( 7)
PSOE: 22 (-8)
PAR: 7 (-2)
CHA: 4 ( ± 0)
IU: 4 ( 3)

FAC: 29.8 % ( 29.8 )
PSOE: 29.8 % ( -12.2 )
PP: 20.0 % ( -21.5 )
IU- LV: 10.3% ( 0.6 )

FAC: 16 ( 16)
PSOE: 15 (-6)
PP: 10 (-10)
IU -LV: 4 ( ± 0)

IU- LV: Izquierda Unida and common list of the Green Party Los Verdes; 2007 belonged to the alliance even left the Bloque por Asturies regional party, which took in 2011 together with the party Unida Nacionalista Asturiana and received 1 % of the vote

PP: 46.4 % ( 0.4 )
PSOE: 21.4% (-6.2 )
PSM -IV - ExM: 8.6% (-0.4 )
PSOE Pacte: 3.0% (-1.6 )
PSM - EN: 0.9% ( 0.1 )
GxF - PSOE: 0.5 % ( 0.1 )
CXI: 2.8% ( -3.9 )
Sat Unio: 0.3 % (-0.1 )

PP: 35 ( 7)
PSOE: 14 (-2)
PSM -IV - ExM: 4 ( ± 0)
PSOE Pacte: 4 (-2)
PSM - EN: 1 ( ± 0)
GxF - PSOE: 1 ( 1)
UM: 0 ( -3)
AIPF: 0 (-1)

PSM -IV - ExM joint nomination of the left regional parties PSM Entesa Nacionalista, Entesa by Mallorca and the Green Party in the constituency IniciativaVerds Mallorca; earnings in 2011 is compared with the result in 2007 of the then opposition coalition of PSM Entesa Nacionalista de Mallorca, IU and ERC
PSOE Pacte: joint nomination of the PSOE, the ERC and the regional party left Ghent by Eivissa ( GXE ) in the constituency of Ibiza; earnings in 2011 is compared with the result in 2007 of the then opposition coalition of PSOE and the left regional party Eivissa pel Canvi ( ExC )
PSM - EN: left regional party PSM Entesa Nacionalista in the constituency Menorca; earnings in 2011 is compared with the result, which achieved this party in 2007 in an election alliance with the Greens
GxF - PSOE: joint nomination in both 2011 and 2007, the PSOE and the regional party left Ghent per Formentera ( GxF ) in the constituency Formentera
Was compared Civil regional party Convergència by les Illes Balears, the successor organization of the 2011 resolution due to a corruption scandal Majorcan Union (UM) with the result in 2007: CXI
Sat Unio: joint nomination of the PP and civil regional party Grupo Independientes Formentera Formentera in the constituency; earnings in 2011 is compared with that of Agrupació Independent Popular de Formentera ( AIPF ), which was supported in the 2007 elections in this constituency from the PP

PP: 31.9 % ( 7.9 )
CC -PNC CCN: 24.9 % ( 0.7 )
PSOE: 21.0% ( -13.5 )
NCA: 9.1% ( 3.7 )

PP: 21 ( 6)
CC -PNC CCN: 21 ( 2)
PSOE: 15 (-11 )
NCA: 3 ( 3)

Nueva Canarias (NCA ) at the 2011 election, a coalition of Nueva Canarias Nueva Gran Canaria (NC - NGC ), Nueva Fuerteventura ( NF), Nueva Gomera (NG), Social Followings x Tenerife ( SxTF ) Los Verdes de Canarias ( LVC ), Partido Nacionalista de Lanzarote ( PNL), Partido de Independientes de Lanzarote ( PIL), asambleas Municipales de Fuerteventura ( AMF), Social Followings x La Gomera ( SxLG ) and Iniciativa por La Palma ( INPA ).

PP: 46.1 % ( 4.6 )
PRC: 29.1% ( 0.5 )
PSOE: 16.4 % ( -8.1 )

PP: 20 ( 3)
PRC: 12 (± 0)
PSOE: 7 (-3)

PRC: Regional Regional Partido Paulista de Cantabria

PP: 48.1 % ( 5.7 )
PSOE: 43.4 % ( -8.6 )

PP: 25 ( 4)
PSOE: 24 (-2)

The number of members has increased compared to the previous legislature by two to 49 now.

PP: 51.4 % ( 2.2 )
PSOE: 29.6 % ( -8.1 )
IU: 4.9% ( 1.8 )
UPL: 1.9% (-0.8 )

PP: 53 ( 5)
PSOE: 29 (-4)
IU: 1 ( 1)
UPL: 1 ( -1)

The regional parliament was the last legislature of 83 members, since 2011, it is one more.
UPL: Unión del Pueblo Leonés is a regional party which (consisting of the provinces of León, Zamora and Salamanca) occurs for setting up your own Autonomous Community of León.

PP: 48.5 % ( -3.7 )
PSOE: 27.5 % ( -6.8 )
Coalició Compromís: 7.0%
IU: 5.8%

PP: 55 ( 1)
PSOE: 33 (-5)
Coalició Compromís: 6
IU: 5
Compromís PV: 0 (-7)

Coalició Compromís: joint nomination of the left regional parties Bloc Nacionalista Valencian ( Bloc), Iniciativa del Poble Valencian ( IdPV ) and the Green Party Els Verds Esquerra Ecologista del Pais Valencian (EEV )
At the 2007 elections, the electoral alliance " Compromís PV" was (8% of the vote) from Bloc Nacionalista Valencian, IU (the Valencian outline the term EUPV leads ), the Left party Izquierda Republicana and the two green parties Els Verds del Pais Valencian and Els Verds esquerra Ecologista del Pais Valencian.

PP- EU: 46.1 % ( 7.4 )
PSOE Regional Followings: 43.5 % ( -9.5 )
IU -V SIEX: 5.7% ( 1.2 )

PP- EU: 32 ( 5)
PSOE Regional Followings: 30 (-8)
IU -V SIEX: 3 ( 3)

The national parties entered in 2007 and 2011 respectively, together with a close to them regional party for election to: PP with Extremadura Unida ( EU), the PSOE with Coalition extremeña and IU (the regional association the name IU- V leads ) with Social Followings Independientes de Extremadura ( SIEX )

PP: 52.0 % ( 3.2 )
PSOE: 30.3 % ( -10.1 )
PR: 5.4% (-0.6 )

PP: 20 ( 3)
PSOE: 11 (-3)
PR: 2 ( ± 0)

PR: Regional Partido Riojano

PP: 51.7 % (-1.6 )
PSOE: 26.3 % ( -7.3 )
IU -LV: 9.6% ( 0.7 )
UPyD: 6.3% ( 6.3 )

PP: 72 ( 5)
PSOE: 36 (-6)
IU- LV: 13 ( 2)
UPyD: 8 ( 8)

The number of deputies increased compared to the last Legislature by nine to 129 now
IU appeared in 2011 together with the Green Party Los Verdes Grupo Verde; the comparison to 2007 refers to the result that the IU of his time alone achieved

PP: 58.8 % ( 0.5 )
PSOE: 23.9 % ( -8.1 )
IU: 7.8 ( 1.5 )

PP: 33 ( 4)
PSOE: 11 (-4)
IU: 1 ( ± 0)

UPN: 34.5 % ( -7.7 )
PSOE: 15.9 (-6.5 )
NaBai 2011: 15.4%
Bildu: 13.3%
PP: 7.3% ( 7.3 )
Izquierda - Ezkerra: 5.7% ( 1.3 )
CDN: 1.4% (-3.0 )

UPN: 19 (-3)
PSOE: 9 (-3)
NaBai 2011: 8
Bildu: 7
PP: 4 ( 4)
Izquierda - Ezkerra: 3 ( 1)
CDN: 0 ( -2)
NaBai: 12 (-12)

Unión del Pueblo Navarro (UPN) was up to the break between the two parties in the fall of 2008, the sister party of the PP in Navarra (similar to the CDU / CSU in Germany ); that is, the PP decreed in Navarra does not have regional association and joined up in 2011 not to choose to.
NaBai is a coalition of nationalist parties in the Basque- Navarre. 2007 ( 23.7 % of the vote ), it consisted of bourgeois PNV and the Left parties EA, Aralar and Batzarre. The new edition for the 2011 elections ( NaBai2011 ) consisted only of PNV and Aralar. EA came in 2011 along with Alternativa Eraikitzen in alliance Bildu to choose from, while Batzarre for this choice merged with IU for coalition Izquierda - Ezkerra.

Results of the local elections

In addition, local elections were held in a total of 8,116 Spanish municipalities on May 22, 2011. Even with these, the PSOE suffered heavy losses, while the PP was able to record substantial profits. Thus, the PSOE won the mayoral offices in the second largest city of Barcelona ( for the first time since 1979 ) and the fourth largest city of Seville lost ( for the first time since 1999). Although the socialist left IU could total reported profits, but lost with Cordoba, where they forfeited their seven so far eleven seats in the city council, the only major previously ruled by a mayor from among its city.

The Basque left nationalist coalition Bildu whose participation in the election, first by the Supreme Court (Tribunal Supremo ) had been prohibited and the lists were approved only after a constitutional complaint with the Constitutional Court, in the Basque Country scored 25 % and became there the second largest by votes force.

The following table contains the results of the cities with more than 250,000 inhabitants, the principal cities of the Autonomous Communities and the provinces and the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla:

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