2007 Balearic regional election

2007 Balearic regional election
27 May 2007
All 59 seats in the Parliament of the Balearic Islands
30 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered699,947 Increase 2.5%
Turnout420,941 (60.1%)
Decrease 2.7 pp
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Jaume Matas Francesc Antich Xico Tarrés
Party PP PSIB–PSOE PSOE–ExC
Leader since 17 June 1996 9 November 1998 2007
Leader's seat Mallorca Mallorca Ibiza
Last election 29 seats, 44.7% 15 seats, 24.5% 5 seats, 4.0%[a]
Seats won 28 16 6
Seat change Decrease 1 Increase 1 Increase 1
Popular vote 192,577 115,477 19,094
Percentage 46.0% 27.6% 4.6%
Swing Increase 1.3 pp Increase 3.1 pp Increase 0.6 pp
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Biel Barceló Maria Antònia Munar Eduard Riudavets
Party Bloc UM PSM–EN
Leader since 27 May 2006 1 July 1991 2003
Leader's seat Mallorca Mallorca Menorca
Last election 5 seats, 12.1%[b] 3 seats, 7.5% 1 seat, 0.7%
Seats won 4 3 1
Seat change Decrease 1 Steady 0 Steady 0
Popular vote 37,572 28,178 3,292
Percentage 9.0% 6.7% 0.8%
Swing Decrease 3.1 pp Decrease 0.8 pp Increase 0.1 pp
  Seventh party
 
Leader Josep Mayans Serra
Party AIPF
Leader since 2003
Leader's seat Formentera
Last election 1 seat, 0.4%
Seats won 1
Seat change Steady 0
Popular vote 1,795
Percentage 0.4%
Swing Steady 0.0 pp
Constituency results map for the Parliament of the Balearic Islands
President before election

Jaume Matas
PP

 President after election

Francesc Antich
PSOE

A regional election was held in the Balearic Islands on 27 May 2007 to elect the 7th Parliament of the autonomous community. All 59 seats in the Parliament were up for election. It was held concurrently with regional elections in twelve other autonomous communities and local elections all across Spain.

On 1 March 2007, the reform of the Statute of Autonomy of the Balearic Islands came into effect. Among other changes, it gave more autonomy to every Island Council, with the creation of the Island Council of Formentera (formerly the Island Council of Ibiza and Formentera covered both islands), composed by the municipal councillors elected in the Formentera municipal election. This meant that to elect the island councillors a separate election was held for the first time. Since then, the regional election in every district was used to determine the councillors. The number of seats was the same as before—33 for Mallorca, 13 for Menorca and 13 for Ibiza.

Overview

Under the 2007 Statute of Autonomy, the Parliament of the Balearic Islands was the unicameral legislature of the homonymous autonomous community, having legislative power in devolved matters, as well as the ability to grant or withdraw confidence from a regional president.[1] The electoral and procedural rules were supplemented by national law provisions.[2]

Date

The term of the Parliament of the Balearic Islands expired four years after the date of its previous election. Amendments earlier in 2007 abolished fixed-term elections, instead allowing the term of the Parliament to expire after an early dissolution. The election decree was required to be issued no later than 25 days before the scheduled expiration date of parliament and published on the following day in the Official Gazette of the Balearic Islands (BOIB), with election day taking place 54 days after the decree's publication.[3] The previous election was held on 25 May 2003, which meant that the chamber's term would have expired on 25 May 2007. The election decree was required to be published in the BOIB no later than 1 May 2007, setting the latest possible date for election day on 24 June 2007.

The regional president was granted the prerogative to dissolve the Parliament of the Balearic Islands at any given time and call a snap election, provided that no motion of no confidence was in process and that dissolution did not occur before one year after a previous one under this procedure.[4] In the event of an investiture process failing to elect a regional president within a 60-day period from the first ballot, the Parliament was to be automatically dissolved and a fresh election called.[5]

The Parliament of the Balearic Islands was officially dissolved on 2 April 2007 with the publication of the corresponding decree in the BOIB, setting election day for 27 May.[6]

Electoral system

Voting for the Parliament was based on universal suffrage, comprising all Spanish nationals over 18 years of age, registered in the Balearic Islands and with full political rights, provided that they had not been deprived of the right to vote by a final sentence, nor were legally incapacitated.[7]

The Parliament of the Balearic Islands had 59 seats. All were elected in four multi-member constituencies—corresponding to the islands of Mallorca, Menorca, Ibiza and Formentera, each of which was assigned a fixed number of seats—using the D'Hondt method and closed-list proportional voting, with a five percent-threshold of valid votes (including blank ballots) in each constituency.[8]

As a result of the aforementioned allocation, each Parliament constituency was entitled the following seats:[9]

Seats Constituencies
33 Mallorca
13 Menorca
12 Ibiza
1 Formentera

The law did not provide for by-elections to fill vacant seats; instead, any vacancies arising after the proclamation of candidates and during the legislative term were filled by the next candidates on the party lists or, when required, by designated substitutes.[10]

Outgoing parliament

The table below shows the composition of the parliamentary groups in the chamber at the time of dissolution.[11]

Parliamentary composition in April 2007
Groups Parties Legislators
Seats Total
People's Parliamentary Group PP 29 29
Socialist Parliamentary Group PSIB–PSOE 18 19
Pacte 1
PSM–EN Parliamentary Group PSM 3 4
PSMe 1
United Left–The Greens Parliamentary Group EUIB 2 3
EV 1
Mixed Parliamentary Group UM 3 4
AIPF 1

Parties and candidates

The electoral law allowed for parties and federations registered in the interior ministry, alliances and groupings of electors to present lists of candidates. Parties and federations intending to form an alliance were required to inform the relevant electoral commission within 10 days of the election call, whereas groupings of electors needed to secure the signature of at least one percent of the electorate in the constituencies for which they sought election, disallowing electors from signing for more than one list.[12] Amendments earlier in 2007 required a balanced composition of men and women in the electoral lists, so that candidates of either sex made up at least 40 percent of the total composition.[13]

Below is a list of the main parties and alliances which contested the election:

Candidacy Parties and
alliances		 Leading candidate Ideology Previous result Gov. Ref.
Vote % Seats
PP
List
 Jaume Matas Conservatism
Christian democracy		 44.7% 29 Yes [14]
[15]
PSIB–PSOE Francesc Antich Social democracy 24.5% 15 No [16]
[17]
Bloc Biel Barceló Left-wing nationalism
Socialism
Environmentalism
12.1%
[b]		 5 No [18]
[19]
PSOE–ExC Xico Tarrés Socialism
Ecologism
4.0%
[a]		 5 No [20]
[21]
UM
List
 Maria Antònia Munar Regionalism
Liberalism		 7.5% 3 No [22]
[23]
PSM–EN Eduard Riudavets Left-wing nationalism
Democratic socialism
Environmentalism		 0.7% 1 No
AIPF José Mayans Serra Conservatism 0.4% 1 Yes
GxF Miquel Ferrer Environmentalism
Democratic socialism
0.3%
[f]		 0 No

Opinion polls

The tables below list opinion polling results in reverse chronological order, showing the most recent first and using the dates when the survey fieldwork was done, as opposed to the date of publication. Where the fieldwork dates are unknown, the date of publication is given instead. The highest percentage figure in each polling survey is displayed with its background shaded in the leading party's colour. If a tie ensues, this is applied to the figures with the highest percentages. The "Lead" column on the right shows the percentage-point difference between the parties with the highest percentages in a poll.

Voting intention estimates

The table below lists weighted voting intention estimates. Refusals are generally excluded from the party vote percentages, while question wording and the treatment of "don't know" responses and those not intending to vote may vary between polling organisations. When available, seat projections determined by the polling organisations are displayed below (or in place of) the percentages in a smaller font; 30 seats were required for an absolute majority in the Parliament of the Balearic Islands.

Color key:

  Exit poll

Results

Overall

← Summary of the 27 May 2007 Parliament of the Balearic Islands election results →
Parties and alliances Popular vote Seats
Votes % ±pp Total +/−
People's Party (PP) 192,57746.02+1.32 28−1
Socialist Party of the Balearic Islands (PSIB–PSOE) 115,47727.60+3.06 16+1
Bloc for Mallorca (PSM–EN, EU–EV, ERC)1 37,5728.98−3.14 4−1
Majorcan Union (UM) 28,1786.73−0.72 3±0
PSOE–Ibiza for Change (PSOE–ExC)2 19,0944.56+0.61 6+1
PSM–Nationalist Agreement–The Greens of Menorca (PSM–EN, EV–Me)3 3,2920.79+0.10 1±0
Independent Social Group (ASI) 1,9210.46−1.11 0±0
Independent Popular Council of Formentera (AIPF) 1,7950.43+0.05 1±0
Left of Menorca–United Left (EM–EU)4 1,7280.41±0.00 0±0
PSOE+People for Formentera (PSOE+GxF)5 1,4560.35+0.05 0±0
Citizens for Blank Votes (CenB) 1,2160.29+0.19 0±0
European Green Group (GVE) 8760.21+0.12 0±0
Balearic Party (PB) 8020.19New 0±0
Balearic People's Union (UPB) 6890.16+0.13 0±0
Union of Centrists of Menorca (UCM) 6860.16−0.10 0±0
Pityusic Democracy (DP) 6750.16New 0±0
Key of Mallorca (Clau) 5460.13−0.58 0±0
Workers for Democracy Coalition (TD) 5430.13+0.03 0±0
Islander Party of the Balearic Islands (PIIB) 3660.09New 0±0
Civic Union (UC) 3420.08−0.10 0±0
Blank ballots 8,6132.06+0.40
Total 418,444 59±0
Valid votes 418,44499.41+0.06
Invalid votes 2,4970.59−0.06
Votes cast / turnout 420,94160.14−2.70
Abstentions 279,00639.86+2.70
Registered voters 699,947
Sources[11][24][25]
Footnotes:
Popular vote
PP
 
 46.02%
PSIB–PSOE
 
 27.60%
Bloc
 
 8.98%
UM
 
 6.73%
PSOE–ExC
 
 4.56%
PSM–EN
 
 0.79%
AIPF
 
 0.43%
Others
 
 2.83%
Blank ballots
 
 2.06%
Seats
PP
 
 47.46%
PSIB–PSOE
 
 27.12%
PSOE–ExC
 
 10.17%
Bloc
 
 6.78%
UM
 
 5.08%
PSM–EN
 
 1.69%
AIPF
 
 1.69%

Distribution by constituency

Constituency PP PSIB Bloc UM PSOE–ExC PSM–EN AIPF
% S % S % S % S % S % S % S
Formentera 54.5 1
Ibiza 47.1 6 45.8 6
Mallorca 46.7 16 30.1 10 11.2 4 8.4 3
Menorca 43.0 6 38.4 6 9.0 1
Total 46.0 28 27.6 16 9.0 4 6.7 3 4.6 6 0.8 1 0.4 1
Sources[11][24][25]

Aftermath

Government formation

Investiture
Nomination of Francesc Antich (PSIB)
Ballot → 4 July 2007
Required majority → 30 out of 59 check
Yes
30 / 59
No
29 / 59
Abstentions
0 / 59
Absentees
0 / 59
Sources[11]

Notes

  1. 1 2 Results for Pacte (3.6%, 5 seats) and EV–Eiv (0.3%, 0 seats) in the 2003 election.
  2. 1 2 Results for PSM–EN (7.3%, 3 seats), EU–EV (4.5%, 2 seats) and ERC (0.4%, 0 seats) in the 2003 election.
  3. 1 2 3 In Mallorca.
  4. ↑ In Ibiza.
  5. 1 2 In Formentera.
  6. ↑ Results for COP in the 2003 election.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Within Bloc.
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Within PSIB–PSOE.
  9. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Within PP.
  10. 1 2 3 Within PSM–EN.
  11. 1 2 3 4 Within EUIB.
  12. 1 2 3 4 Within Progressives for the Balearic Islands.

References

Opinion poll sources

  1. ↑ "Navarra y Baleares podrían cambiar de gobierno". Expansión (in Spanish). 27 May 2007.
  2. ↑ "Sólo Navarra y Baleares podrían cambiar de gobierno, según el sondeo de RTVE y FORTA". Europa Press (in Spanish). 27 May 2007.
  3. ↑ "Jaume Matas mantiene la mayoría absoluta, el PSOE saca 22 escaños y Unió Mallorquina dos". El Mundo (in Spanish). 20 May 2007. Archived from the original on 23 May 2007.
  4. ↑ "La izquierda 'rojiverde' lucha por el sexto escaño". El Mundo (in Spanish). 20 May 2007. Archived from the original on 24 August 2007.
  5. ↑ "Rajoy saca peor nota que Zapatero en los bastiones electorales del PP". El País (in Spanish). 20 May 2007.
  6. ↑ "La izquierda progresa en Baleares frente a un PP resistente". El País (in Spanish). 20 May 2007.
  7. ↑ "Vuelco electoral en Navarra, Baleares y Canarias y aplastante victoria del PP en Madrid". Terra (in Spanish). 17 May 2007. Archived from the original on 20 May 2007. Retrieved 25 February 2021.
  8. ↑ "Encuestas autonómicas". Celeste-Tel (in Spanish). 17 May 2007. Archived from the original on 11 May 2009. Retrieved 25 February 2021.
  9. ↑ "Cambio de gobierno en Baleares". Cadena SER (in Spanish). 16 May 2007.
  10. ↑ "El PP de Matas perdería el Gobierno de Baleares". Cadena SER (in Spanish). 16 May 2007.
  11. ↑ "Pulsómetro 16/05/2007". Cadena SER (in Spanish). 16 May 2007. Archived from the original on 18 May 2007. Retrieved 25 February 2021.
  12. ↑ "Preelectoral elecciones autonómicas, 2007. CA de las Islas Baleares (Estudio nº 2689. Abril-Mayo 2007)". CIS (in Spanish). 11 May 2007.
  13. ↑ "La aritmética juega en contra del PSOE sólo en las islas Canarias". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). 12 May 2007.
  14. ↑ "El PP sigue a dos diputados de la mayoría absoluta en Balears". Diario de Mallorca (in Spanish). 5 May 2007.
  15. ↑ "La recuperación del PP en Eivissa deja otra vez el Govern en manos de Unió Mallorquina". Diario de Ibiza (in Spanish). 6 May 2007.
  16. ↑ "Sondeo de Sigma Dos: El PP renovaría siete autonomías y podría perder dos". El Mundo (in Spanish). 12 May 2007.
  17. ↑ "Matas mantiene sus resultados". El Mundo (in Spanish). 12 May 2007.
  18. ↑ "Elecciones 27-M / Sondeo El Mundo-Sigma Dos". El Mundo (in Spanish). 12 May 2007.
  19. ↑ "El PP pierde tres escaños y la mayoría absoluta en el Govern". Diario de Mallorca (in Spanish). 7 April 2007.
  20. ↑ "Formentera decide de nuevo si Matas o Antich asumen la presidencia balear". Diario de Ibiza (in Spanish). 7 April 2007.
  21. ↑ "El PP y el PSOE mantendrán sus gobiernos autonómicos, aunque los socialistas bajan". El Mundo (in Spanish). 27 November 2006.
  22. ↑ "Matas amplía su mayoría absoluta mientras se desploma Unió Mallorquina". El Mundo (in Spanish). 27 November 2006. Archived from the original on 16 November 2011.
  23. ↑ "El voto en las comunidades. Elecciones autonómicas 2007" (PDF). El Mundo (in Spanish). 27 November 2006.
  24. ↑ "Matas mantiene la mayoría absoluta, Antich avanza, Munar se desploma y el PSM aguanta". El Mundo (in Spanish). 28 May 2006. Archived from the original on 3 June 2006.

Other

  1. ↑ Statute (2007), arts. 40 & 47–50.
  2. ↑ LEIB (1986), final prov. 1.
  3. ↑ Statute (2007), arts. 41 & 52; LEIB (1986), art. 11 (suppl. by LOREG (1985), art. 42).
  4. ↑ Statute (2007), arts. 52 & 55; LGIB (2001), art. 10.
  5. ↑ Statute (2007), art. 54.
  6. ↑ Decree 5/2007 (2007), arts. 1–2.
  7. ↑ Statute (2007), arts. 41 & 43; LEIB (1986), art. 2 (suppl. by LOREG (1985), arts. 2–3).
  8. ↑ Statute (2007), art. 41; LEIB (1986), art. 12.
  9. ↑ LEIB (1986), art. 12; Decree 5/2007 (2007), art. 3.
  10. ↑ LEIB (1986), art. 13 (suppl. by LOREG (1985), arts. 46 & 48).
  11. 1 2 3 4 Lozano, Carles. "Eleccions al Parlament de les Illes Balears i Consells Insulars (desde 1979)". Historia Electoral.com (in Catalan). Retrieved 31 October 2025.
  12. ↑ LEIB (1986), art. 16 (suppl. by LOREG (1985), art. 44).
  13. ↑ LOREG (1985), art. 44 bis.
  14. ↑ "Jaume Matas, reelegido presidente del PP balear". El Mundo (in Spanish). Palma. EFE. 27 November 2004. Retrieved 27 July 2026.
  15. ↑ Gallego, Rafel (3 May 2006). "El PP proclamarà Matas candidat a la Presidència del Govern abans de l'estiu". DBalears (in Catalan). Palma. Retrieved 27 July 2026.
  16. ↑ "Antich, reelegido líder del PSOE balear con casi el 40 por ciento de los votos en blanco". ABC (in Spanish). Palma de Mallorca. 12 July 2004. Retrieved 27 July 2026.
  17. ↑ "Antich, candidato del PSOE a la presidencia de Balears". Diario de Ibiza (in Spanish). Palma. EFE. 13 April 2006. Retrieved 27 July 2026.
  18. ↑ Torres, Quim (10 April 2006). "PSM: les claus del proper congrés". DBalears (in Catalan). Palma. Retrieved 27 July 2026.
  19. ↑ "El Bloc ratifica la unión de Esquerra y espera superar el 15% de votos". Diario de Mallorca (in Spanish). Palma. EFE. 22 March 2007. Retrieved 27 July 2026.
  20. ↑ R., B. (22 March 2007). "PSOE y Eivissa pel Canvi inician su andadura conjunta para las elecciones". Periódico de Ibiza y Formentera (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 July 2026.
  21. ↑ "Xico Tarrés se presenta como candidato al Consell por la coalición PSOE-Eivissa pel Canvi". Diario de Mallorca (in Spanish). Europa Press. 23 March 2007. Retrieved 27 July 2026.
  22. ↑ Domblás, Nekane (14 December 2003). "UM reelige presidenta a Munar con el 81 por ciento de los votos". Última Hora (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 July 2026.
  23. ↑ "Munar será elegida en noviembre candidata de UM a la presidencia del Govern". Diario de Mallorca (in Spanish). Palma. Europa Press. 25 September 2006. Retrieved 27 July 2026.
  24. 1 2 "Resultats electorals (Eleccions al Parlament de les Illes Balears)" (PDF) (in Catalan). Electoral Commission of the Balearic Islands. Retrieved 13 June 2026.
  25. 1 2 "Proclamación de los diputados y consejeros electos" (PDF). Official Gazette of the Balearic Islands (in Spanish) (85): 38–40. 7 June 2007. ISSN 2254-1233. Retrieved 12 June 2026.

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