2015 Castilian-Leonese regional election

2015 Castilian-Leonese regional election

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All 84 seats in the Cortes of Castile and León 43 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered	2,151,993 0.7%
Turnout	1,391,797 (64.7%) 2.8 pp
First party Second party Third party   Leader Juan Vicente Herrera Luis Tudanca Pablo Fernández Party PP PSOE Podemos Leader since 16 March 2001 18 October 2014 14 February 2015 Leader's seat Burgos Burgos León Last election 53 seats, 51.6% 29 seats, 29.7% Did not contest Seats won 42 25 10 Seat change 11 4 10 Popular vote 514,301 353,575 165,475 Percentage 37.7% 25.9% 12.1% Swing 13.9 pp 3.7 pp New party   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Luis Fuentes José Sarrión Luis Mariano Santos Party C's IU–Equo UPL Leader since 14 March 2015 15 February 2015 26 March 2015 Leader's seat Valladolid Valladolid León Last election 0 seats, 0.3%[a] 1 seat, 4.9% 1 seat, 1.9% Seats won 5 1 1 Seat change 5 0 0 Popular vote 139,954 56,516 19,176 Percentage 10.3% 4.1% 1.4% Swing 10.0 pp 0.8 pp 0.5 pp
Constituency results map for the Cortes of Castile and León
President before election Juan Vicente Herrera PP Elected President Juan Vicente Herrera PP

The 2015 Castilian-Leonese regional election was held on Sunday, 24 May 2015, to elect the 9th Cortes of the autonomous community of Castile and León. All 84 seats in the Cortes were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with regional elections in twelve other autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain.

The ruling People's Party (PP) sustained a sharp decline in its support, with a decrease of almost fourteen percentage points in the vote share and falling short of an overall majority for the first time since 1987. Concurrently, the opposition Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) secured its worst historical result with only 25.9% and 25 seats, whereas the Leonese People's Union (UPL) had its worst showing since 1991. Newcomers Podemos (Spanish for "We Can") and Citizens (C's) made substantial inroads, both securing over 10% of the share.

The election result forced the PP candidate and incumbent regional president Juan Vicente Herrera to secure the support of C's in order to be re-elected for a fifth term in office, which would also end up being his last.
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