Английская Википедия:2003 Spanish local elections
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:For Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Infobox election The 2003 Spanish local elections were held on Sunday, 25 May 2003, to elect all 65,510 councillors in the 8,108 municipalities of Spain and all 1,036 seats in 38 provincial deputations.[1][2] The elections were held simultaneously with regional elections in thirteen autonomous communities, as well as local elections in the three foral deputations of the Basque Country and the ten island councils in the Balearic and Canary Islands.
Electoral system
- Municipal elections
Municipalities in Spain were local corporations with independent legal personality. They had a governing body, the municipal council or corporation, composed of a mayor, deputy mayors and a plenary assembly of councillors. Voting for the local assemblies was on the basis of universal suffrage, with all nationals over eighteen, registered in the corresponding municipality and in full enjoyment of all political rights entitled to vote. The mayor was in turn elected by the plenary assembly, with a legal clause providing for the candidate of the most-voted party to be automatically elected to the post in the event no other candidate was to gather an absolute majority of votes.
Local councillors were elected using the D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional representation, with an electoral threshold of five percent of valid votes—which included blank ballots—being applied in each local council. Councillors were allocated to municipal councils based on the following scale:
| Population | Councillors |
|---|---|
| <250 | 5 |
| 251–1,000 | 7 |
| 1,001–2,000 | 9 |
| 2,001–5,000 | 11 |
| 5,001–10,000 | 13 |
| 10,001–20,000 | 17 |
| 20,001–50,000 | 21 |
| 50,001–100,000 | 25 |
| >100,001 | +1 per each 100,000 inhabitants or fraction +1 if total is an even number |
Councillors of municipalities with populations between 100 and 250 inhabitants were elected under an open list partial block voting, with electors voting for individual candidates instead of parties and for up to four candidates. Additionally, municipalities below 100 inhabitants, as well as those whose geographical location or the best management of municipal interests or other circumstances made it advisable, were to be organized through the open council system (Шаблон:Lang-es), in which voters would directly elect the local major.[3][4][5]
The electoral law provided that parties, federations, coalitions and groupings of electors were allowed to present lists of candidates. However, groupings of electors were required to secure the signature of a determined amount of the electors registered in the municipality for which they sought election:
- At least 1 percent of the electors in municipalities below 5,000 inhabitants, provided that the number of signers was more than double that of councillors at stake.
- At least 100 signatures in municipalities between 5,001 and 10,000.
- At least 500 signatures in municipalities between 10,001 and 50,000.
- At least 1,500 signatures in municipalities between 50,001 and 150,000.
- At least 3,000 signatures in municipalities between 150,001 and 300,000.
- At least 5,000 signatures in municipalities between 300,001 and 1,000,000.
- At least 8,000 signatures in municipalities over 1,000,001.
Electors were barred from signing for more than one list of candidates. Concurrently, parties and federations intending to enter in coalition to take part jointly at an election were required to inform the relevant Electoral Commission within ten days of the election being called.[3][4]
- Deputations and island councils
Provincial deputations were the governing bodies of provinces in Spain, having an administration role of municipal activities and composed of a provincial president, an administrative body, and a plenary. Basque provinces had foral deputations instead—called Juntas Generales—, whereas deputations for single-province autonomous communities were abolished: their functions transferred to the corresponding regional parliaments. For insular provinces, such as the Balearic and Canary Islands, deputations were replaced by island councils in each of the islands or group of islands. For Majorca, Menorca and Ibiza–Formentera this figure was referred to in Spanish as consejo insular (Шаблон:Lang-ca), whereas for Gran Canaria, Tenerife, Fuerteventura, La Gomera, El Hierro, Lanzarote and La Palma its name was cabildo insular.
Most deputations were indirectly elected by local councillors from municipalities in each judicial district. Seats were allocated to provincial deputations based on the following scale:
| Population | Seats |
|---|---|
| <500,000 | 25 |
| 500,001–1,000,000 | 27 |
| 1,000,001–3,500,000 | 31 |
| >3,500,001 | 51 |
Island councils and foral deputations were elected directly by electors under their own, specific electoral regulations.[3][4]
Municipal elections
Overall
| Parties and coalitions | Popular vote | Councillors | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | ±pp | Total | +/- | ||
| width="1" rowspan="3" bgcolor="Шаблон:Party color"| | Spanish Socialist Workers' Party and allies (PSOE–PSC) | 7,999,178 | 34.83 | +0.43 | 23,224 | +1,240 |
| Socialists' Party of Catalonia–Municipal Progress (PSC–PM) | 1,103,851 | 4.81 | –0.31 | 2,280 | +244 | |
| rowspan="4" bgcolor="Шаблон:Party color"| | People's Party and allies (PP–UPN–UPM) | 7,875,762 | 34.29 | –0.16 | 23,615 | –1,011 |
| People's Party–Melillan People's Union (PP–UPM)3 | 15,440 | 0.07 | +0.03 | 15 | +7 | |
| rowspan="3" bgcolor="Шаблон:Party color"| | United Left and allies (IU–ICV–EA) | 1,730,732 | 7.54 | –0.05 | 2,601 | +22 |
| Initiative–Alternative Left–Agreement for Municipal Progress (ICV–EA–EPM)4 | 335,861 | 1.46 | +0.12 | 397 | +78 | |
| bgcolor="Шаблон:Party color"| | Convergence and Union (CiU) | 791,932 | 3.45 | –0.18 | 3,687 | –402 |
| bgcolor="Шаблон:Party color"| | Basque Nationalist Party–Basque Solidarity (PNV–EA) | 514,850 | 2.24 | +0.31 | 1,671 | +465 |
| bgcolor="Шаблон:Party color"| | Republican Left of Catalonia–Municipal Agreement (ERC–AM) | 419,961 | 1.83 | +0.77 | 1,282 | +605 |
| bgcolor="Шаблон:Party color"| | Andalusian Party (PA)5 | 342,824 | 1.49 | –0.20 | 693 | +144 |
| bgcolor="Шаблон:Party color"| | Galician Nationalist Bloc (BNG) | 325,331 | 1.42 | +0.06 | 595 | +9 |
| bgcolor="Шаблон:Party color"| | Canarian Coalition (CC) | 283,701 | 1.24 | –0.02 | 458 | +26 |
| bgcolor="Шаблон:Party color"| | Valencian Nationalist Bloc–Green Left (Bloc–EV) | 139,307 | 0.61 | +0.08 | 298 | +64 |
| bgcolor="Шаблон:Party color"| | The Greens (LV)6 | 119,201 | 0.52 | +0.21 | 19 | +5 |
| bgcolor="Шаблон:Party color"| | Aragonese Union (CHA) | 88,939 | 0.39 | +0.13 | 196 | +116 |
| bgcolor="Шаблон:Party color"| | Valencian Union (UV) | 86,539 | 0.38 | –0.13 | 131 | –98 |
| bgcolor="Шаблон:Party color"| | Aragonese Party (PAR) | 85,857 | 0.37 | –0.04 | 907 | –18 |
| bgcolor="Шаблон:Party color"| | Regionalist Party of Cantabria (PRC) | 66,592 | 0.29 | +0.06 | 276 | +59 |
| bgcolor="Шаблон:Party color"| | Socialist Party of Andalusia (PSA) | 58,931 | 0.26 | New | 57 | +57 |
| bgcolor="Шаблон:Party color"| | Leonese People's Union (UPL) | 45,791 | 0.20 | +0.02 | 230 | +63 |
| bgcolor="Шаблон:Party color"| | Majorcan Union (UM) | 36,485 | 0.16 | +0.04 | 103 | +35 |
| rowspan="5" bgcolor="Шаблон:Party color"| | Canarian Nationalist Federation (FNC) | 36,205 | 0.16 | +0.05 | 45 | +5 |
| Independents of Fuerteventura (IF) | 2,072 | 0.01 | ±0.00 | 5 | –4 | |
| rowspan="3" bgcolor="Шаблон:Party color"| | PSM–Nationalist Agreement (PSM–EN) | 35,633 | 0.16 | –0.03 | 98 | –14 |
| Socialist Party of Menorca–Nationalist Agreement (PSM–EN) | 2,890 | 0.01 | ±0.00 | 6 | –1 | |
| bgcolor="Шаблон:Party color"| | Aralar (Aralar) | 31,235 | 0.14 | New | 48 | +48 |
| bgcolor="Шаблон:Party color"| | Liberal Independent Group (GIL) | 26,363 | 0.11 | –0.30 | 20 | –73 |
| bgcolor="Шаблон:Party color"| | Democratic and Social Centre (CDS) | 23,428 | 0.10 | –0.20 | 54 | –227 |
| bgcolor="Шаблон:Party color"| | Federation of Independents of Catalonia (FIC) | 23,278 | 0.10 | –0.01 | 104 | –76 |
| bgcolor="Шаблон:Party color"| | The Greens of the Community of Madrid (LVCM) | 21,672 | 0.09 | New | 2 | +2 |
| bgcolor="Шаблон:Party color"| | Independent Group for Almería (GIAL) | 18,961 | 0.08 | New | 31 | +31 |
| bgcolor="Шаблон:Party color"| | Commoners' Land–Castilian Nationalist Party (TC–PNC) | 16,411 | 0.07 | –0.01 | 42 | –3 |
| bgcolor="Шаблон:Party color"| | Asturian Renewal Union (URAS) | 15,621 | 0.07 | –0.10 | 29 | –54 |
| bgcolor="Шаблон:Party color"| | Progressive Pact (Pacte) | 15,262 | 0.07 | ±0.00 | 33 | –4 |
| bgcolor="Шаблон:Party color"| | Spanish Democratic Party (PADE) | 14,926 | 0.06 | –0.05 | 34 | +2 |
| bgcolor="Шаблон:Party color"| | Independent Candidacy–The Party of Castile and León (CI–PCL) | 13,977 | 0.06 | +0.02 | 65 | +47 |
| bgcolor="Шаблон:Party color"| | Meeting Point for Self-Determination (AuB)7 8 | 13,098 | 0.06 | –1.22 | 63 | –827 |
| bgcolor="Шаблон:Party color"| | Riojan Party (PR) | 12,667 | 0.06 | +0.01 | 65 | +7 |
| Independent Democratic Centre (CDI) | 11,381 | 0.05 | New | 24 | +24 | |
| bgcolor="Шаблон:Party color"| | United Extremadura (EU) | 10,489 | 0.05 | +0.01 | 55 | +5 |
| bgcolor="Шаблон:Party color"| | Convergence of Democrats of Navarre (CDN) | 10,440 | 0.05 | –0.02 | 17 | –8 |
| bgcolor="Шаблон:Party color"| | Galician Progressive Democracy (DPG) | 10,373 | 0.05 | –0.03 | 2 | –34 |
| bgcolor="Шаблон:Party color"| | Portuese Independents (IP) | 10,301 | 0.04 | –0.01 | 10 | ±0 |
| bgcolor="Шаблон:Party color"| | Platform of the Left of Coslada (PIC) | 10,285 | 0.04 | New | 6 | +6 |
| bgcolor="Шаблон:Party color"| | Citizens for Change Platform (AFV–CIUCA) | 10,026 | 0.04 | New | 5 | +5 |
| bgcolor="Шаблон:Party color"| | Humanist Party (PH) | 9,446 | 0.04 | –0.02 | 0 | ±0 |
| bgcolor="Шаблон:Party color"| | Independents for Ferrol (IF) | 9,412 | 0.04 | +0.02 | 6 | +3 |
| bgcolor="Шаблон:Party color"| | Independent Solution (SI) | 9,274 | 0.04 | New | 10 | +10 |
| bgcolor="Шаблон:Party color"| | Unity for Narón (UN) | 8,874 | 0.04 | +0.01 | 13 | +4 |
| bgcolor="Шаблон:Party color"| | Asturianist Party (PAS) | 8,823 | 0.04 | –0.04 | 3 | –9 |
| bgcolor="Шаблон:Party color"| | Assembly (Batzarre) | 8,449 | 0.04 | New | 15 | +15 |
| bgcolor="Шаблон:Party color"| | Cantabrian Unity (UCn) | 8,226 | 0.04 | New | 15 | +15 |
| Others | 1,096,620 | 4.77 | — | 4,573 | +28 | |
| Blank ballots | 404,448 | 1.76 | –0.19 | |||
| Total | 22,967,517 | 100.00 | 65,510 | +309 | ||
| Valid votes | 22,967,517 | 98.70 | –0.39 | |||
| Invalid votes | 302,555 | 1.30 | +0.39 | |||
| Votes cast / turnout | 23,270,072 | 67.67 | +3.68 | |||
| Abstentions | 11,116,390 | 32.33 | –3.68 | |||
| Registered voters | 34,386,462 | |||||
| Sources[6][7] | ||||||
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City control
The following table lists party control in provincial capitals, as well as in municipalities above or around 75,000.[8] Gains for a party are highlighted in that party's colour.
Provincial deputations
Summary
Deputation control
The following table lists party control in provincial deputations.[2] Gains for a party are highlighted in that party's colour.
Notes
References
