2019 Cantabrian regional election

2019 Cantabrian regional election

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All 35 seats in the Parliament of Cantabria 18 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered	500,925 0.3%
Turnout	329,137 (65.7%) 0.5 pp
First party Second party Third party   Leader Miguel Ángel Revilla María José Sáenz de Buruaga Pablo Zuloaga Party PRC PP PSOE Leader since 1983 22 January 2019 16 July 2017 Last election 12 seats, 29.9% 13 seats, 32.6% 5 seats, 14.0% Seats won 14 9 7 Seat change 2 4 2 Popular vote 122,679 78,347 57,383 Percentage 37.6% 24.0% 17.6% Swing 7.7 pp 8.6 pp 3.6 pp   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Félix Álvarez Cristóbal Palacio Mónica Rodero Party Cs Vox Podemos Leader since 2 March 2019 20 March 2019 21 March 2019 Last election 2 seats, 6.9% 0 seats, 0.3% 3 seats, 8.9% Seats won 3 2 0 Seat change 1 2 3 Popular vote 25,872 16,496 10,224 Percentage 7.9% 5.1% 3.1% Swing 1.0 pp 4.8 pp 5.8 pp
President before election Miguel Ángel Revilla PRC Elected President Miguel Ángel Revilla PRC

The 2019 Cantabrian regional election was held on Sunday, 26 May 2019, to elect the 10th Parliament of the autonomous community of Cantabria. All 35 seats in the Parliament were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with regional elections in eleven other autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain, as well as the 2019 European Parliament election.

The election saw the Regionalist Party of Cantabria (PRC) of incumbent president Miguel Ángel Revilla become the most voted political force in a regional election for the first time, with 37.6% of the share and 14 out of the 35 seats at stake. Combined with an increase in the support for the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), the governing PRC–PSOE coalition went from a minority government to a majority one, with Revilla being re-elected for a fourth term in office. The People's Party (PP), with 24.0% of the vote and 9 seats, obtained its worst result since the 1991 election, whereas Podemos—which had seen an internal crisis ravage its parliamentary group in the region—fell below the five percent threshold and lost all of its seats. Both liberal Citizens and far-right Vox saw an increase in support, with both parties gaining seats and, in the latter's case, entering the chamber for the first time.