2018 Andalusian regional election

2018 Andalusian regional election
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All 109 seats in the Parliament of Andalusia
55 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered6,542,076 Green arrow up1.2%
Turnout3,699,979 (56.6%)
Red arrow down5.7 pp
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Susana Díaz Juanma Moreno Juan Marín
Party PSOE–A PP Cs
Leader since 7 September 2013 1 March 2014 6 February 2015
Leader's seat Seville Málaga Seville
Last election 47 seats, 35.4% 33 seats, 26.7% 9 seats, 9.3%
Seats won 33 26 21
Seat change Red arrow down14 Red arrow down7 Green arrow up12
Popular vote 1,010,889 750,778 661,371
Percentage 27.9% 20.7% 18.3%
Swing Red arrow down7.5 pp Red arrow down6.0 pp Green arrow up9.0 pp
  Fourth party Fifth party
 
Leader Teresa Rodríguez Francisco Serrano
Party Adelante Andalucía Vox
Leader since 9 February 2015 6 February 2015
Leader's seat Málaga Seville
Last election 20 seats, 21.7%[a] 0 seats, 0.5%
Seats won 17 12
Seat change Red arrow down3 Green arrow up12
Popular vote 585,949 396,607
Percentage 16.2% 11.0%
Swing Red arrow down5.5 pp Green arrow up10.5 pp
Constituency results map for the Parliament of Andalusia
President before election

Susana Díaz
PSOE–A

Elected President

Juanma Moreno
PP

The 2018 Andalusian regional election was held on Sunday, 2 December 2018, to elect the 11th Parliament of the autonomous community of Andalusia. All 109 seats in the Parliament were up for election.

As a result of the previous election, the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party of Andalusia (PSOE–A) was able to retain power after obtaining confidence and supply support from Citizens (Cs),[1] with such alliance enduring President Susana Díaz's defeat in the 2017 PSOE leadership election.[2] The PSOE–Cs agreement broke up in September 2018 after Cs withdrew their support from Díaz's government,[3] prompting Díaz to announce the Parliament's dissolution on 8 October and call a snap election for 2 December 2018.[4]

Registered turnout was the second lowest in any Andalusian regional election, only behind that of 1990.[5] The PSOE–A remained the most voted party but suffered an unforeseen setback, dropping from 47 to 33 seats. A far-right party, Vox, gained parliamentary representation in a regional parliament in Spain for the first time since the country's transition to democracy, benefiting from a collapse in the People's Party (PP) vote which saw it nearly tied in votes with Cs. For the first time in the electoral history of Andalusia, right-of-centre parties commanded an absolute majority of seats in the Parliament of Andalusia, allowing a non-Socialist government to take power in the region after 36 years of uninterrupted PSOE rule.[6][7][8]

Subsequently, PP and Cs formed a coalition government with Vox support, electing Juanma Moreno as its president. This cooperation between the centre-right and the far-right (including a centrist conservative-liberal party which had supported a center-left government in the prior Andalusian parliament) was widely seen as breaking the cordon sanitaire that most mainstream parties in other European countries had maintained up until that time against parties like the Front National (France), AfD (Germany) or the Sweden Democrats, while paving the way for similar agreements between all three PP, Cs and Vox being reached in other autonomous communities and municipalities following the 2019 local and regional elections.[9]


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  2. ^ "Susana Díaz se aferra a Ciudadanos como "socio privilegiado" a largo plazo". Público (in Spanish). 5 June 2017. Archived from the original on 3 July 2018. Retrieved 3 July 2018.
  3. ^ "La ejecutiva de Ciudadanos aprobará romper el pacto con Susana Díaz". El Confidencial (in Spanish). 7 September 2018. Archived from the original on 7 September 2018. Retrieved 7 September 2018.
  4. ^ "Díaz: "Andalucía no merece la inestabilidad política que hay en el resto de España"". El Confidencial (in Spanish). 8 October 2018. Archived from the original on 8 October 2018. Retrieved 8 October 2018.
  5. ^ "Andalucía registra la segunda participación más baja en las autonómicas". ABC Sevilla (in Spanish). 2 December 2018. Archived from the original on 3 December 2018. Retrieved 5 December 2018.
  6. ^ "La derecha suma para gobernar en Andalucía gracias al batacazo de PSOE-A y la irrupción de Vox". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). 2 December 2018. Archived from the original on 3 December 2018. Retrieved 3 December 2018.
  7. ^ "Fin de una era: adiós a Susana Díaz, irrumpe Vox y la derecha suma". El Confidencial (in Spanish). 2 December 2018. Archived from the original on 3 December 2018. Retrieved 3 December 2018.
  8. ^ "Far right wins seats in Spanish region for first time since Franco". The Guardian. 2 December 2018. Archived from the original on 3 December 2018. Retrieved 3 December 2018.
  9. ^ Rama, José; Zanotti, Lisa; Turnbull-Dugarte, Stuart J.; Santana, Andrés (2021). VOX: The Rise of the Spanish Populist Radical Right. Routledge. pp. 144–145. ISBN 9781000394481. Archived from the original on 2022-04-26. Retrieved 2021-11-15.