2011 Navarrese regional election

2011 Navarrese regional election
22 May 2011
All 50 seats in the Parliament of Navarre
26 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered485,386 Increase 2.9%
Turnout327,281 (67.4%)
Decrease 6.4 pp
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Yolanda Barcina Roberto Jiménez Patxi Zabaleta
Party UPN PSN–PSOE NaBai 2011
Leader since 19 April 2009 28 June 2008 16 September 2006
Last election 22 seats, 42.2% 12 seats, 22.5% 12 seats, 23.6%
Seats won 19 9 8
Seat change Decrease 3 Decrease 3 Decrease 4
Popular vote 111,474 51,238 49,827
Percentage 34.5% 15.9% 15.4%
Swing Decrease 7.7 pp Decrease 6.6 pp Decrease 8.2 pp
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Maiorga Ramírez Santiago Cervera José Miguel Nuin
Party Bildu PP I–E (n)
Leader since 2011 10 December 2009 29 January 2011
Last election Did not contest Did not contest 2 seats, 4.3%[a]
Seats won 7 4 3
Seat change Increase 7 Increase 4 Increase 1
Popular vote 42,916 23,551 18,457
Percentage 13.3% 7.3% 5.7%
Swing New party New party Increase 1.4 pp
President before election

Miguel Sanz
UPN

 President after election

Yolanda Barcina
UPN

A regional election was held in Navarre on 22 May 2011 to elect the 8th Parliament of the chartered community. All 50 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.

The election was the first since 1987 to see the People's Party (PP) fielding a separate list to that of the Navarrese People's Union (UPN), with the latter having served as the PP's sister party in Navarre since their 1991 agreement. The breakup of this alliance followed a dispute in October 2008 over a parliamentary vote in the Congress of Deputies, in which UPN chose not to support a PP's amendment to the 2009 budget of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero's government. Concurrently, incumbent president Miguel Sanz had announced his intention not to run for a fifth term in office, being replaced as UPN leader and candidate by mayor of Pamplona Yolanda Barcina.

The election saw UPN remaining the first political party of Navarre, albeit with a diminished result, scoring 34.5% and 19 seats. The Socialist Party of Navarre (PSN–PSOE) obtained the worst result of its history up until that point, but recovered the second place it had lost in 2007 to Nafarroa Bai (NaBai), which suffered from the abertzale left's legalization by the Constitutional Court of Spain under the Bildu umbrella and an internal split which saw Basque Solidarity (EA) and Assembly (Batzarre) leaving the alliance. Both UPN and the PSN formed a coalition government, electing Barcina as president.

Overview

Under the 1982 Reintegration and Improvement of the Chartered Regime, the Parliament of Navarre was the unicameral legislature of the homonymous chartered 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 Navarre expired four years after the date of its previous election, unless it was dissolved earlier. If no snap election was called before the last year of the legislative term, the election decree was required to be issued no later than 54 days before the scheduled election date and published on the following day in the Official Gazette of Navarre (BON), with election day taking place on the fourth Sunday of May four years after the previous election.[3] The previous election was held on 27 May 2007, setting the latest possible date for election day on the fourth Sunday of May four years later, which was 22 May 2011.

The regional president had the prerogative to dissolve the Parliament of Navarre at any given time and call a snap election, provided that no motion of no confidence was in process, no nationwide election was due and some time requirements are met: namely, that dissolution did not occur either during the first legislative session or during the last year of parliament before its planned expiration, nor 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 three-month period from election day, the Parliament was to be automatically dissolved and a fresh election called.[5][6]

The election to the Parliament of Navarre was officially called on 29 March 2011 with the publication of the corresponding decree in the BON, setting election day for 22 May and scheduling for the chamber to reconvene on 15 June.[7]

Electoral system

Voting for the Parliament was based on universal suffrage, comprising all Spanish nationals over 18 years of age, registered in Navarre 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.[8] Amendments earlier in 2011 required non-resident citizens to apply for voting, a system known as "begged" voting (Spanish: Voto rogado).[9][10]

The Parliament of Navarre had a minimum of 40 and a maximum of 60 seats, with electoral provisions fixing its size at 50. All were elected in a single multi-member constituency—corresponding to the chartered community's territory—using the D'Hondt method and closed-list proportional voting, with a three percent-threshold of valid votes (including blank ballots) regionally.[11]

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.[12]

Outgoing parliament

The table below shows the composition of the parliamentary groups in the chamber at the time of the election call.[13][14]

Parliamentary composition in March 2011
Groups Parties Legislators
Seats Total
Navarrese People's Union Parliamentary Group UPN 22 22
Navarre Yes Parliamentary Group Aralar 5 12
EA 4
EAJ/PNV 1
Batzarre 1
INDEP 1
Socialists of the Parliament of Navarre
Parliamentary Group		 PSN–PSOE 12 12
Mixed Group CDN 2 4
IU 2

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 a coalition ahead of an election 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 Navarre, disallowing electors from signing for more than one list.[15] Additionally, a balanced composition of men and women was required in the electoral lists, so that candidates of either sex made up at least 40 percent of the total composition.[16]

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
UPN Yolanda Barcina Conservatism
Christian democracy
Regionalism		 42.2% 22 Yes [17]
[18]
NaBai 2011
List
 Patxi Zabaleta Basque nationalism
Progressivism		 23.6% 12 No [19]
[20]
PSN–PSOE
List
 Roberto Jiménez Social democracy 22.5% 12 No
CDN José Andrés Burguete Christian democracy
Regionalism		 4.4% 2 No
I–E (n) José Miguel Nuin Socialism
Communism
4.3%
[a]		 2 No
PP
List
 Santiago Cervera Conservatism
Christian democracy		 Did not contest No [21]
[22]
[23]
Bildu–EA/
AE–EA–A
List
 Maiorga Ramírez Basque independence
Abertzale left
Socialism		 Did not contest No [24]
[25]

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; 26 seats were required for an absolute majority in the Parliament of Navarre.

Voting preferences

The table below lists raw, unweighted voting preferences.

Victory preferences

The table below lists opinion polling on the victory preferences for each party in the event of a regional election taking place.

Victory likelihood

The table below lists opinion polling on the perceived likelihood of victory for each party in the event of a regional election taking place.

Preferred President

The table below lists opinion polling on leader preferences to become president of the Government of Navarre.

Results

← Summary of the 22 May 2011 Parliament of Navarre election results →
Parties and alliances Popular vote Seats
Votes % ±pp Total +/−
Navarrese People's Union (UPN) 111,47434.48−7.70 19−3
Socialist Party of Navarre (PSN–PSOE) 51,23815.85−6.64 9−3
Navarre Yes 2011 (NaBai 2011) 49,82715.41−8.21 8−4
Gather–Basque Solidarity–Alternative (Bildu–EA/AE–EA–Alternatiba) 42,91613.28New 7+7
People's Party (PP) 23,5517.29New 4+4
Left (I–E (n))1 18,4575.71+1.36 3+1
Convergence of Democrats of Navarre (CDN) 4,6541.44−2.93 0−2
Greens of Navarre (VN–NB) 4,2351.31New 0±0
Navarrese Cannabis Representation (RCN/NOK) 3,1660.98−0.45 0±0
Union, Progress and Democracy (UPyD) 2,2120.68New 0±0
Initiative for Navarre (IxN) 1,3320.41New 0±0
Internationalist Solidarity and Self-Management (SAIn) 1,0540.33New 0±0
Navarrese and Spanish Right (DNE) 9770.30New 0±0
Blank ballots 8,1612.52+1.14
Total 323,254 50±0
Valid votes 323,25498.77+4.03
Invalid votes 4,0271.23−4.03
Votes cast / turnout 327,28167.43−6.36
Abstentions 158,10532.57+6.36
Registered voters 485,386
Sources[13][26][27]
Footnotes:
Popular vote
UPN
 
 34.48%
PSN–PSOE
 
 15.85%
NaBai 2011
 
 15.41%
Bildu
 
 13.28%
PP
 
 7.29%
I–E (n)
 
 5.71%
CDN
 
 1.44%
VN–NB
 
 1.31%
Others
 
 2.70%
Blank ballots
 
 2.52%
Seats
UPN
 
 38.00%
PSN–PSOE
 
 18.00%
NaBai 2011
 
 16.00%
Bildu
 
 14.00%
PP
 
 8.00%
I–E (n)
 
 6.00%

Aftermath

Government formation

Investiture
Nomination of Yolanda Barcina (UPN)
Ballot → 23 June 2011
Required majority → 26 out of 50 check
Yes
28 / 50
No
22 / 50
Abstentions
0 / 50
Absentees
0 / 50
Sources[13]

2013 motion of no confidence

Motion of no confidence
Nomination of Juan Carlos Longás (NaBai)
Ballot → 18 April 2013
Required majority → 26 out of 50 X mark
Yes
18 / 50
No
  • • UPN (19)
  • • PP (4)
23 / 50
Abstentions
9 / 50
Absentees
0 / 50
Sources[13]

Notes

  1. 1 2 Results for IUN/NEB in the 2007 election.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Within UPN.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Does not include non-resident citizens.

References

Opinion poll sources
  1. 1 2 "NaBai está a un paso de ser la segunda fuerza más votada en Nafarroa tras UPN". Deia (in Spanish). 14 May 2011. Archived from the original on 25 December 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  2. ↑ "Bildu logra tres escaños". El Mundo (in Spanish). 16 May 2011.
  3. ↑ "El PP doblega al PSOE a siete días de la cita electoral". La Razón (in Spanish). 15 May 2011. Archived from the original on 3 September 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
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Other
  1. ↑ LORAFNA (1982), arts. 11–13 & 19–22.
  2. ↑ LFEPN (1986), art. 2.
  3. ↑ LORAFNA (1982), art. 15; LFEPN (1986), arts. 12–14 (suppl. by LOREG (1985), art. 42).
  4. ↑ LORAFNA (1982), art. 30; LFGNP (2004), arts. 7, 22 & 30.
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  9. ↑ LOREG (1985), art. 75.
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  12. ↑ LFEPN (1986), art. 11 (suppl. by LOREG (1985), arts. 46 & 48).
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  16. ↑ LOREG (1985), art. 44 bis.
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