Elections to the Corts Valencianes, 2011
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The 2011 elections to the Corts Valencianes were the eighth elections to the Corts Valencianes
, the regional parliament for the Spanish autonomous community
of the Valencian Community
. The elections were held on 22 May 2011 to elect the 99 members of the Corts in three electoral districts corresponding to the provinces
of Alicante, Castellón and Valencia. Only lists which polled 5% or more in the entire Valencian Community were eligible for seats which were then allocated on a provincial basis using the D'Hondt method
of allocation. The elected members then selected the President of the Generalitat Valenciana
from among their number.
The elections were won by the People's Party
(PP), which gained a seat, despite a drop in its vote share. Since the previous election, the electoral alliance between United Left of the Valencian Country (EUPV) and the Bloc Nacionalista Valencià (BNV) had ended and both groupings contested the elections in their own right, with both gaining seats in the legislature at the expense of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party
(PSOE), which continued its long term decline in the area.
The respective heads of the list for the Valencia Province are the candidates for President of the Generalitat Valenciana.
Corts Valencianes
The Corts Valencianes are the main legislative body of the Generalitat Valenciana and therefore of the Valencian Community. The main location of the Corts is in the Palace of Benicarló in Valencia; however it can meet at any location in Valencian territory. The Corts has its origins in bodies...
, the regional parliament for the Spanish autonomous community
Autonomous communities of Spain
An autonomous community In other languages of Spain:*Catalan/Valencian .*Galician .*Basque . The second article of the constitution recognizes the rights of "nationalities and regions" to self-government and declares the "indissoluble unity of the Spanish nation".Political power in Spain is...
of the Valencian Community
Valencian Community
The Valencian Community is an autonomous community of Spain located in central and south-eastern Iberian Peninsula. Its capital and largest city is Valencia...
. The elections were held on 22 May 2011 to elect the 99 members of the Corts in three electoral districts corresponding to the provinces
Provinces of Spain
Spain and its autonomous communities are divided into fifty provinces .In other languages of Spain:*Catalan/Valencian , sing. província.*Galician , sing. provincia.*Basque |Galicia]] — are not also the capitals of provinces...
of Alicante, Castellón and Valencia. Only lists which polled 5% or more in the entire Valencian Community were eligible for seats which were then allocated on a provincial basis using the D'Hondt method
D'Hondt method
The d'Hondt method is a highest averages method for allocating seats in party-list proportional representation. The method described is named after Belgian mathematician Victor D'Hondt who described it in 1878...
of allocation. The elected members then selected the President of the Generalitat Valenciana
President of the Generalitat Valenciana
The President of the Generalitat Valenciana is the head of government of the Spanish autonomous community of Valencian Community. The President is chosen by the Valencian parliament, the Corts Valencianes.-List of Presidents of the Valencian Community:...
from among their number.
The elections were won by the People's Party
People's Party (Spain)
The People's Party is a conservative political party in Spain.The People's Party was a re-foundation in 1989 of the People's Alliance , a party led and founded by Manuel Fraga Iribarne, a former Minister of Tourism during Francisco Franco's dictatorship...
(PP), which gained a seat, despite a drop in its vote share. Since the previous election, the electoral alliance between United Left of the Valencian Country (EUPV) and the Bloc Nacionalista Valencià (BNV) had ended and both groupings contested the elections in their own right, with both gaining seats in the legislature at the expense of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party
The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party is a social-democratic political party in Spain. Its political position is Centre-left. The PSOE is the former ruling party of Spain, until beaten in the elections of November 2011 and the second oldest, exceeded only by the Partido Carlista, founded in...
(PSOE), which continued its long term decline in the area.
Parties represented in the previous legislature
| Candidates by electoral districts |
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| Party | Alicante | Castellón | Valencia | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| People's Party People's Party (Spain) The People's Party is a conservative political party in Spain.The People's Party was a re-foundation in 1989 of the People's Alliance , a party led and founded by Manuel Fraga Iribarne, a former Minister of Tourism during Francisco Franco's dictatorship... (PP) |
Francisco Camps Francisco Camps Francisco Enrique Camps Ortiz is a Spanish politician belonging to the Partido Popular who served as President of the Generalitat Valenciana, the Valencian regional administration, in the period 2003-2011.-Biography:... |
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| Socialist Party of the Valencian Country Socialist Party of the Valencian Country The Socialist Party of the Valencian Country or PSPV was a small nationalist and leftist Valencian party, mostly confined to the academic world within the University of Valencia.... -PSOE (PSPV-PSOE) |
Ángel Luna | Francisco Toledo Lobo | Jorge Alarte | |
| Coalició Compromís Coalició Compromís Coalició Compromís , literally Coalition Commitment, is an electoral alliance in the Valencian Community in Spain. The parties involved include the Valencian Nationalist Bloc, the left-wing Valencian People's Initiative, and ecologist parties... |
Mireia Mollà | Josep Maria Pañella | Enric Morera i Català | electoral alliance of Bloc Nacionalista Valencià, Valencian People's Initiative and Green-Left |
| United Left of the Valencian Country (EUPV) | Lluís Torró | Marina Albiol | Marga Sanz |
The respective heads of the list for the Valencia Province are the candidates for President of the Generalitat Valenciana.
Parties unrepresented in the previous legislature
| Candidates |
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| Party | Candidate | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Coalición Valenciana (CVa) | Alfonso Doménech Irles | |
| Esquerra Republicana del País Valencià (ERPV) | Agustí Cerdà | |
| Greens of the Valencian Country-Greens Ecopacifists | Pura Peris | |
| Union, Progress and Democracy Union, Progress and Democracy Union, Progress and Democracy is a Spanish political party founded in September 2007.It is a progressivist party, between social democracy and social liberalism. One of its goals is to build a federal system for Spain and European Union, with clear responsibilities distributed among local... (UPyD) |
Rafael Soriano | |
| Units x Valéncia (UxV) | Carles Choví Añó | |
Opinion polls
| Poll details | PPCV People's Party (Spain) The People's Party is a conservative political party in Spain.The People's Party was a re-foundation in 1989 of the People's Alliance , a party led and founded by Manuel Fraga Iribarne, a former Minister of Tourism during Francisco Franco's dictatorship... |
PSPV-PSOE Socialist Party of the Valencian Country The Socialist Party of the Valencian Country or PSPV was a small nationalist and leftist Valencian party, mostly confined to the academic world within the University of Valencia.... |
Compromís | EUPV | Other | Undecided |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| El Mundo El Mundo (Spain) El Mundo is the second largest printed and the largest digital daily newspaper in Spain and one of the newspapers of record in that country, with a daily circulation topping 300,000 readers for the printed edition and 24 million unique web visitors per month for the... (5/2010) |
55.8% | 30.7% | 2.5% | 6.4% | 4.6% | |
| Seat projections | 59-64 | 30-33 | 0 | 4-6 | - | |
| Las Provincias(9/2010) | 53.4% | 31.7% | 3.5% | 6.4% | 5.0% | |
| Seat projections | 57 | 36 | 0 | 6 | - | |
| El País(10/2010) | 51.2% | 29.3% | 3.5% | 6.7% | 9.3% | |
| Seat projections | 60 | 33 | 0 | 6 | - | |
| PSOE(11/2010) | 56.1% | 29.9% | 5.0% | 5.3% | 4.8% | |
| Seat projections | 60 | 35 | 0 | 4 | - | |
| El Mundo El Mundo (Spain) El Mundo is the second largest printed and the largest digital daily newspaper in Spain and one of the newspapers of record in that country, with a daily circulation topping 300,000 readers for the printed edition and 24 million unique web visitors per month for the... (1/2011) |
56.7% | 27.3% | 3.0% | 5.6% | 7.4% | |
| Seat projections | 63-65 | 29-32 | 0 | 4-5 | - | |
| ABC(3/2011) | 55.1% | 30.5% | 3.7% | 6.8% | 3.9% | |
| Seat projections | 60 | 33 | 0 | 6 | - | |
| Público(4/2011) | 50.4% | 32.6% | 5.7% | 5.7% | 5.6% | |
| Seat projections | 55 | 35 | 4 | 5 | - | |
| COPE(4/2011) | 54.2% | 31.6% | 3.7% | 6.7% | 3.8% | |
| Seat Projections | 57-59 | 33-35 | 0 | 6-7 | - | |
| El Mundo El Mundo (Spain) El Mundo is the second largest printed and the largest digital daily newspaper in Spain and one of the newspapers of record in that country, with a daily circulation topping 300,000 readers for the printed edition and 24 million unique web visitors per month for the... (4/2011) |
52.3% | 32.6% | 3.5% | 6.4% | 5.2% | |
| Seat Projections | 56-59 | 36-39 | 0 | 4 | - | |
| CIS(5/2011) | 53.1% | 28.8% | 2.7% | 7.1% | 6.1% | |
| Seat Projections | 60 | 33 | 0 | 6 | 0 | - |
| La Gaceta(5/2011) | 54.1% | 31.1% | 3.9% | 7.2% | - | |
| Seat Projections | 58 | 35 | 0 | 6 | - | |
| Las Provincias(5/2011) | 52.6% | 30.1% | 3.2% | 6.0% | 8.1% | 15.6% |
| Seat Projections | 58-60 | 34-36 | 0 | 3-5 | - | |
| Antena 3 Antena 3 (Spain) Antena 3 is a Spanish terrestrial television channel owned by Antena 3 de Televisión. Some of the more popular programmes broadcast by Antena 3 include Aquí no hay quien viva, El Barco, Los Protegidos, Los Simpson and El Internado.... (5/2011) |
51.3% | 29.2% | 4.4% | 8.3% | 6.8% | |
| Seat Projections | 56-58 | 32-34 | 0 | 9 | - |
Results
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| President and government | Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/- |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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People's Party of the Valencian Community People's Party (Spain) The People's Party is a conservative political party in Spain.The People's Party was a re-foundation in 1989 of the People's Alliance , a party led and founded by Manuel Fraga Iribarne, a former Minister of Tourism during Francisco Franco's dictatorship... (PPCV) |
1,208,603 | 48.53 | 55 | +1 |
| Socialist Party of the Valencian Country Socialist Party of the Valencian Country The Socialist Party of the Valencian Country or PSPV was a small nationalist and leftist Valencian party, mostly confined to the academic world within the University of Valencia.... -PSOE (PSPV-PSOE) |
684,893 | 27.50 | 33 | -5 | |
| Coalició Compromís Valencian Nationalist Bloc The Valencian Nationalist Bloc is a Valencian nationalist party in the Valencian Country, Spain. It is the largest party in the Coalició Compromís.... (Compromís) |
175,087 | 7.03 | 6 | +2 | |
| United Left of the Valencian Country United Left (Spain) The United Left is a political coalition that was organized in 1986 bringing together several political organisations opposed to Spain joining NATO. It was formed by a number of groups of leftists, greens, left-wing socialists and republicans, but was dominated by the Communist Party of Spain... (EUPV) |
144,201 | 5.79 | 5 | +2 | |
| Union, Progress and Democracy Union, Progress and Democracy Union, Progress and Democracy is a Spanish political party founded in September 2007.It is a progressivist party, between social democracy and social liberalism. One of its goals is to build a federal system for Spain and European Union, with clear responsibilities distributed among local... (UPyD) |
60,734 | 2.44 | |||
| Greens and Ecopacifists (VERDS) | 31,897 | 1.28 | |||
| España 2000 España 2000 España 2000 is a social patriot political party of Spain. At present they are without parliamentary representation, but they have a growing presence in Valencia and a minor presence currently in Catalonia, Granada, Navarra, Sevilla and Madrid.... (ESPAÑA 2000) |
12,183 | 0.49 | |||
| Esquerra Republicana del País Valencià (ERPV) | 11,116 | 0.45 | |||
| Coalición Valenciana (CVa) | 9,334 | 0.37 | |||
| Party Against Bullfighting, Cruelty and Mistreatment to Animals Party Against Bullfighting, Cruelty and Mistreatment to Animals The Party Against Bullfighting, Cruelty and Mistreatment to Animals is a Spanish political party founded in Bilbao on February 24, 2003 focused in the animal rights and against the abuse to them, also as a part of the requirement... (PACMA) |
9,242 | 0.37 | |||
| Liberal Democratic Centre Liberal Democratic Centre The Liberal Democratic Centre is a liberal political party in Spain.It was launched in February 2008 and since January 2008 it is led by Manuel Alonso, a former leading member of the Union of the Democratic Centre and the Democratic and Social Centre... (C.D.L.) |
8,165 | 0.33 | |||
| Citizens for Blank Votes Citizens for Blank Votes Citizens for Blank Votes is a Spanish political party.In Spanish electoral law, a distinction is made between valid votes, blank votes and null votes. Blank votes are interpreted as correctly executed votes for "none of the above", and consistently about 2% of votes are blank... (CenB) |
4,201 | 0.17 | |||
| Units x Valéncia (UxV) | 3,629 | 0.15 | |||
| Communist Party of the Spanish People (PCPE) | 3,421 | 0.14 | |||
| Humanist Party Humanist Party (Spain) The Humanist Party is a Spanish political party founded in 1984 and is a member of the Humanist International.-External links:* *... (PH) |
2,547 | 0.10 | |||
| Centro Liberal Renovador (CLR) | 2,463 | 0.10 | |||
| National Democracy National Democracy (Spain) National Democracy is a far right political party in Spain, founded in 1995. It is modelled on the Front National of France, and grew indirectly out of several defunct parties like the CEDADE group and Juntas Españolas. Its leader is Manuel Canduela Serrano, a former member of Accion Radical, a... (DN) |
2,156 | 0.09 | |||
| Communist Unification of Spain Communist Unification of Spain Communist Unification of Spain is a political party in Spain. The group emerged around the publication Tribuna Obrera in 1968. It was constituted as UCE in 1973... (UCE) |
1,716 | 0.07 | |||
| Authentic Falange Authentic Falange True Falange is a Falangist political party in Spain. FA emerged in 2002 as a split from Falange Española/La Falange. FA claims to represent the heritage of the dissolved Falange Española de las JONS .... (FA) |
1,619 | 0.07 | |||
| Movement for Popular Unity - Republicans (MUP-R) | 1,.431 | 0.06 | |||
| Family and Life Party (PFyV) | 1,407 | 0.06 | |||
| Falange Española de las JONS Falange The Spanish Phalanx of the Assemblies of the National Syndicalist Offensive , known simply as the Falange, is the name assigned to several political movements and parties dating from the 1930s, most particularly the original fascist movement in Spain. The word means phalanx formation in Spanish.... (FE de las JONS) |
1,149 | 0.05 | |||
| The Republic (LA REPÚBLICA) | 722 | 0.03 | |||
| Valencian Nationalist Left-Valencian Republic/Valencian European Party (ENV-RVPVE) | 715 | 0.03 | |||
| Spanish Social Patriot Party (SPES) | 597 | 0.02 | |||
| Foreigner's Party (PDEX) | 530 | 0.02 | |||
| None of the above | 65,779 | 2.64 | N/A | N/A | |
| Void | 40,710 | 1.63 | N/A | N/A |