2016 Galician regional election

2016 Galician regional election
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All 75 seats in the Parliament of Galicia
38 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered2,701,932 Green arrow up0.2%
Turnout1,448,962 (53.6%)
Red arrow down1.3 pp
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo Luis Villares Xoaquín Fernández Leiceaga
Party PP En Marea PSdeG–PSOE
Leader since 15 January 2006 19 August 2016 28 May 2016
Leader's seat Pontevedra Lugo A Coruña
Last election 41 seats, 45.8% 9 seats, 13.9%[a] 18 seats, 20.6%
Seats won 41 14 14
Seat change Blue arrow right0 Green arrow up5 Red arrow down4
Popular vote 682,150 273,523 256,381
Percentage 47.6% 19.1% 17.9%
Swing Green arrow up1.8 pp Green arrow up5.2 pp Red arrow down2.7 pp
  Fourth party
 
Leader Ana Pontón
Party BNG–Nós
Leader since 28 February 2016
Leader's seat A Coruña
Last election 7 seats, 10.1%
Seats won 6
Seat change Red arrow down1
Popular vote 119,446
Percentage 8.3%
Swing Red arrow down1.8 pp
Constituency results map for the Parliament of Galicia
President before election

Alberto Núñez Feijóo
PP

Elected President

Alberto Núñez Feijóo
PP

The 2016 Galician regional election was held on Sunday, 25 September 2016, to elect the 10th Parliament of the autonomous community of Galicia. All 75 seats in the Parliament were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with a regional election in the Basque Country.

Alberto Núñez Feijóo announced the election would be brought forward to September, after initially scheduling to hold it throughout October, following Lehendakari Iñigo Urkullu's announcement of a Basque election for 25 September.[1][2] Feijóo defended his decision in that it would make "no sense" to hold the election only weeks after the Basque poll, specially considering the state of political instability in Spain over the government formation process after the general election in June.[3] The election took place in a situation in which the Spanish political landscape had undergone a major transformation within a short time, with a decrease in support for the People's Party (PP) and the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) nationally and the emergence of new parties such as Podemos and Citizens (C's).

Feijóo's PP, with 47.6% and 41 seats, went on to secure a third consecutive absolute majority, the only one at the time in Spain after the 2015 electoral cycle. The Podemos-supported En Marea list, which had already achieved major breakthroughs in the region at the 2015 and 2016 general elections, placed narrowly ahead of the Socialists' Party of Galicia (PSdeG–PSOE) which scored the worst result of its history in a Galician regional election. Concurrently, the Galician Nationalist Bloc (BNG) saw a slight drop in support but was able to outperform opinion poll predictions of an electoral meltdown. Finally, with 3.4%, Cs fell well below their aspirations of entering parliament, failing to secure any seat.[4]

The results of the Basque and Galician elections, both of which saw very poor PSOE's performances after being overtaken by the Podemos-led alliances and polling at record-low levels of support,[5] prompted dissenters within the party—led by Andalusian president Susana Díaz—to call for Pedro Sánchez's resignation as PSOE secretary-general.[6][7] Sánchez's refusal to resign and his announcement of a party congress for later in the year—amid an ongoing government formation process and with the growing risk of a third general election in a row being held in Spain—led to an attempt from his critics to force his downfall,[8][9] triggering a severe party crisis and a breakdown of party discipline which led to Sánchez's ousting on 1 October 2016,[10] a divided PSOE abstaining in Mariano Rajoy's investiture on 29 October and a subsequent party leadership election in 2017 which would see Sánchez returning to his post of secretary-general and taking full control over the party.[11][12]


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  1. ^ "Urkullu adelanta las elecciones vascas al 25 de septiembre". El Mundo (in Spanish). 29 July 2016. Retrieved 27 January 2020.
  2. ^ "Urkullu convoca las elecciones vascas el 25 de septiembre". El País (in Spanish). 29 July 2016. Retrieved 27 January 2020.
  3. ^ "Feijóo adelanta las elecciones gallegas al 25 de septiembre". El País (in Spanish). 1 August 2016. Retrieved 27 January 2020.
  4. ^ "Feijóo logra la única mayoría absoluta de España y el PSOE pincha, superado en votos por En Marea". El Mundo (in Spanish). 25 September 2016. Retrieved 8 February 2020.
  5. ^ "El PP coge aire en las urnas gallegas y vascas frente a un PSOE en caída libre". 20 minutos (in Spanish). 26 September 2016. Retrieved 23 February 2020.
  6. ^ "Susana Díaz quiere retrasar el congreso y exige a Pedro Sánchez que asuma "responsabilidades"". El Mundo (in Spanish). 26 September 2016. Retrieved 23 February 2020.
  7. ^ "El PSOE andaluz estalla e inicia una guerra en campo abierto contra Sánchez". Público (in Spanish). 26 September 2016. Retrieved 23 February 2020.
  8. ^ "Media ejecutiva estudia dimitir para forzar la salida de Pedro Sánchez". El País (in Spanish). 27 September 2016. Retrieved 23 February 2020.
  9. ^ "Dimite media ejecutiva del PSOE para forzar el cese de Pedro Sánchez". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). 28 September 2016. Retrieved 23 February 2020.
  10. ^ "Pedro Sánchez dimite como secretario general del PSOE". El País (in Spanish). 2 October 2016. Retrieved 23 February 2020.
  11. ^ "Rajoy, investido presidente gracias a la abstención de todos los diputados del PSOE excepto 15". El Mundo (in Spanish). 29 October 2016. Retrieved 23 February 2020.
  12. ^ "Pedro Sánchez vuelve a ser el secretario general del PSOE". El País (in Spanish). 23 May 2017. Retrieved 23 February 2020.