Extremaduran parliamentary election, 2003

25 May 2003

All 65 seats in the Assembly of Extremadura 33 seats needed for a majority

Registered	881,228 0.5%
Turnout	666,468 (75.6%) 2.2 pp
	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Juan Carlos Rodríguez Ibarra	Carlos Floriano	Manuel Cañada
Party	PSOE	PP	IU
Leader since	20 December 1982	13 October 2000	1 October 1995
Last election	34 seats, 49.6%^{[lower-alpha 1]}	28 seats, 40.0%	3 seats, 7.0%^{[lower-alpha 2]}
Seats won	36	26	3
Seat change	2	2	±0
Popular vote	341,522	255,808	41,448
Percentage	51.7%	38.7%	6.3%
Swing	2.1 pp	1.3 pp	0.7 pp

President before election

Juan Carlos Rodríguez Ibarra
PSOE

Elected President

Juan Carlos Rodríguez Ibarra
PSOE

The 2003 Extremaduran parliamentary election was held on Sunday, 25 May 2003, to elect the 6th Assembly of Extremadura, the unicameral regional legislature of the Spanish autonomous community of Extremadura. At stake were all 65 seats in the Assembly, determining the President of Extremadura.

The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), which in this election ran in coalition with the Extremaduran Coalition, enlarged its absolute majority from 34 to 36 seats, at the cost of the opposition People's Party (PP), which fell to 26 and lost ground for the first time since the 1987 election. United Left (IU), which formed a coalition with the Independent Socialists of Extremadura (SIEx), maintained its 3 seats but was unable to make gains.

Juan Carlos Rodríguez Ibarra was elected for his sixth and last term in office as President of Extremadura, as he would announce in September 2006 he would not stand for re-election in 2007.^[1]

Electoral system

The number of seats in the Extremaduran Assembly was set to a fixed-number of 65. All Assembly members were elected in 2 multi-member districts, corresponding to Extremadura's two provinces, using the D'Hondt method and a closed-list proportional representation system. Each district was entitled to an initial minimum of 20 seats, with the remaining 25 seats allocated among the two provinces in proportion to their populations. For the 2003 election, seats were distributed as follows: Badajoz (35) and Cáceres (30).

Voting was on the basis of universal suffrage in a secret ballot. Only lists polling above 5% of valid votes in each district (which include blank ballots—for none of the above) were entitled to enter the seat distribution. Alternatively, however, if a party did not reach the 5% threshold in a district, it could enter the seat distribution on the following conditions:

1. That the party did stood in both districts.
2. That, regionally, the party did reach the 5% threshold (even if it did not reach it in one of the two districts).^[2]

Results

Overall

← Summary of the 25 May 2003 Extremaduran Assembly election results →
Party		Vote			Seats

Party		Votes	%	±pp	Won	+/−
	Spanish Socialist Workers' Party-Progresists (PSOE-Progresistas)^{[lower-alpha 1]}	341,522	51.66	2.03	36	2
	People's Party (PP)	255,808	38.70	1.31	26	2
	United Left-Independent Socialists of Extremadura (IU-SIEx)^{[lower-alpha 2]}	41,448	6.27	0.74	3	±0

	United Extremadura (EU)	12,171	1.84	0.17	0	±0
	Humanist Party (PH)	1,082	0.16	New	0	±0
	Blank ballots	9,033	1.37	0.22

Total		661,064	100.00		65	±0

Valid votes		661,064	99.19	0.19
Invalid votes		5,404	0.81	0.19
Votes cast / turnout		666,468	75.63	2.19
Abstentions		214,760	24.37	2.19
Registered voters		881,228

Source(s): Extremaduran Electoral Board Argos Information Portal

Vote share

PSOE-Progresistas			51.66%
PP			38.70%
IU-SIEx			6.27%
EU			1.84%
PH			0.16%
Blank ballots			1.37%

Parliamentary seats

PSOE-Progresistas			55.38%
PP			40.00%
IU-SIEx			4.62%

Results by province

Election results by province.

Badajoz

Party		Vote			Seats
Party		Votes	%	±pp	Won	+/−
	Spanish Socialist Workers' Party-Progresists (PSOE-Progresistas)^{[lower-alpha 1]}	213,743	53.53	3.23	20	1
	People's Party (PP)	148,417	37.17	2.05	13	2
	United Left-Independent Socialists of Extremadura (IU-SIEx)^{[lower-alpha 2]}	27,577	6.91	1.37	2	±0

	United Extremadura (EU)	3,096	0.78	0.17	0	±0
	Humanist Party (PH)	1,082	0.27	New	0	±0
	Blank ballots	5,384	1.35	0.22

Total		399,299	100.00		35	1

Valid votes		399,299	99.23	0.16
Invalid votes		3,086	0.77	0.16
Votes cast / turnout		402,385	75.08	1.24
Abstentions		133,556	24.92	1.24
Registered voters		535,941

Source(s): Extremaduran Electoral Board Argos Information Portal

Caceres

Party		Vote			Seats
Party		Votes	%	±pp	Won	+/−
	Spanish Socialist Workers' Party-Progresists (PSOE-Progresistas)^{[lower-alpha 1]}	127,779	48.81	0.21	16	1
	People's Party (PP)	107,391	41.03	0.20	13	±0
	United Left-Independent Socialists of Extremadura (IU-SIEx)^{[lower-alpha 2]}	13,871	5.30	0.22	1	±0

	United Extremadura (EU)	9,075	3.47	0.17	0	±0
	Blank ballots	3,649	1.39	0.22

Total		261,765	100.00		30	1

Valid votes		261,765	99.12	0.16
Invalid votes		2,318	0.88	0.16
Votes cast / turnout		264,083	76.48	3.64
Abstentions		81,204	23.52	3.64
Registered voters		345,287

Source(s): Extremaduran Electoral Board Argos Information Portal

Notes

1 2 3 4 Compared to the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party+Extremaduran Coalition results in the 1999 election.
1 2 3 4 Compared to the United Left+Independent Socialists of Extremadura results in the 1999 election.

References

↑ "Rodríguez Ibarra will not stand for re-election" (in Spanish). El País. 2006-09-19.
↑ "Law 2/1987, of 16 March, of elections to the Assembly of Extremadura.".

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