2019 Castilian-Leonese regional election

2019 Castilian-Leonese regional election

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All 81 seats in the Cortes of Castile and León
41 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered2,114,811 Red arrow down1.7%
Turnout1,391,502 (65.8%)
Green arrow up1.1 pp
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Luis Tudanca Alfonso Fernández Mañueco Francisco Igea
Party PSOE PP Cs
Leader since 18 October 2014 1 April 2017 11 March 2019
Leader's seat Burgos Salamanca Valladolid
Last election 25 seats, 25.9% 42 seats, 37.7% 5 seats, 10.3%
Seats won 35 29 12
Seat change Green arrow up10 Red arrow down13 Green arrow up7
Popular vote 479,916 433,905 205,855
Percentage 34.8% 31.5% 14.9%
Swing Green arrow up8.9 pp Red arrow down6.1 pp Green arrow up4.6 pp

  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Pablo Fernández Jesús García-Conde Luis Mariano Santos
Party PodemosEquo Vox UPL
Leader since 14 February 2015 10 May 2019 26 March 2015
Leader's seat León Valladolid León
Last election 10 seats, 12.1% 0 seats, 0.7% 1 seat, 1.4%
Seats won 2 1 1
Seat change Red arrow down8 Green arrow up1 Blue arrow right0
Popular vote 68,869 75,731 28,057
Percentage 5.0% 5.5% 2.0%
Swing Red arrow down7.1 pp Green arrow up4.8 pp Green arrow up0.6 pp

  Seventh party Eighth party
 
Leader Pedro Pascual José Sarrión
Party XAV IUAPCAS/TCALTER
Leader since 9 April 2019 15 February 2015
Leader's seat Ávila Valladolid
Last election Did not contest 1 seat, 4.5%[a]
Seats won 1 0
Seat change Green arrow up1 Red arrow down1
Popular vote 9,455 31,580
Percentage 0.7% 2.3%
Swing New party Red arrow down2.2 pp

Constituency results map for the Cortes of Castile and León

President before election

Juan Vicente Herrera
PP

Elected President

Alfonso Fernández Mañueco
PP

The 2019 Castilian-Leonese regional election was held on Sunday, 26 May 2019, to elect the 10th Cortes of the autonomous community of Castile and León. All 81 seats in the Cortes 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 Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) saw its first plurality in a regional election in Castile and León since 1983, being only the second time in history that the party emerged as the most voted political force in a regional election. Conversely, support for the governing People's Party (PP) collapsed into the worst historical showing for the party, whereas the liberal Citizens (Cs) and the far-right Vox made substantial gains at its expense, though support for the latter, which rose from 0.7% to 5.5%, failed to materialize in more than one single seat due to the electoral system. Concurrently, the PodemosEquo alliance suffered a sizeable setback after losing eight out of the ten seats Podemos had won on its own in 2015.

As a result of PP and Cs being able to muster a slim majority of 41 seats in the Cortes, the two centre-right parties were able to form a coalition government—the second in the community's history, after the coalition between the PP and the late Democratic and Social Centre (CDS) that was formed for the 1989–1991 period—under PP candidate Alfonso Fernández Mañueco, who became the region's new president.[1]


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  1. ^ "La Comunidad repite el acuerdo de 1987 entre el CDS y AP". Diario de León (in Spanish). 2 July 2019. Retrieved 22 January 2022.