2003 Canarian regional election

2003 Canarian regional election
25 May 2003
All 60 seats in the Parliament of the Canary Islands
31 seats needed for a majority
Registered1,439,784 Increase 8.2%
Turnout930,449 (64.6%)
Increase 1.9 pp
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Adán Martín José Manuel Soria Juan Carlos Alemán
Party CC PP PSOE
Leader since 2003 16 July 1999 2000
Leader's seat Tenerife Gran Canaria Tenerife
Last election 26 seats, 37.3%[a] 15 seats, 27.1% 19 seats, 24.0%
Seats won 23 17 17
Seat change Decrease 3 Increase 2 Decrease 2
Popular vote 304,413 283,186 235,234
Percentage 32.9% 30.6% 25.4%
Swing Decrease 4.4 pp Increase 3.5 pp Increase 1.4 pp
  Fourth party
 
Leader Lorenzo Olarte
Party FNC
Leader since 2003
Leader's seat Gran Canaria (lost)
Last election 0 seats, 4.8%
Seats won 3
Seat change Increase 3
Popular vote 44,703
Percentage 4.8%
Swing Steady 0.0 pp
Constituency results map for the Parliament of the Canary Islands
President before election

Román Rodríguez
CC

Elected President

Adán Martín
CC

A regional election was held in the Canary Islands on 25 May 2003 to elect the 6th Parliament of the autonomous community. All 60 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.

Overview

Under the 1982 Statute of Autonomy, the Parliament of the Canary 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 Canary Islands expired four years after the date of its previous ordinary election, with election day being fixed for the fourth Sunday of May every four years. 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 the Canaries (BOC).[3] The previous election was held on 13 June 1999, setting the date for election day on the fourth Sunday of May four years later, which was 25 May 2003.

The Parliament of the Canary Islands could not be dissolved before the expiration date of parliament, except in the event of an investiture process failing to elect a regional president within a two-month period from the first ballot. In such a case, the Parliament was to be automatically dissolved and a snap election called, with elected lawmakers serving the remainder of its original four-year term.[4]

The election to the Parliament of the Canary Islands was officially called on 1 April 2003 with the publication of the corresponding decree in the BOC, setting election day for 25 May.[5]

Electoral system

Voting for the Parliament was based on universal suffrage, comprising all Spanish nationals over 18 years of age, registered in the Canary 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.[6]

The Parliament of the Canary Islands had a minimum of 50 and a maximum of 70 seats, with electoral provisions fixing its size at 60. All were elected in seven multi-member constituencies—corresponding to the islands of El Hierro, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, La Gomera, La Palma, Lanzarote and Tenerife, each of which was assigned a fixed number of seats—using the D'Hondt method and closed-list proportional voting, with a 30 percent-threshold of valid votes (including blank ballots) in each constituency. Alternatively, parties could also enter the seat distribution as long as they reached six percent regionally.[7]

As a result of the aforementioned allocation, each Parliament constituency was entitled the following seats:[8]

Seats Constituencies
15 Gran Canaria, Tenerife
8 La Palma, Lanzarote
7 Fuerteventura
4 La Gomera
3 El Hierro

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.[9]

Results

Overall

← Summary of the 25 May 2003 Parliament of the Canary Islands election results →
Parties and alliances Popular vote Seats
Votes % ±pp Total +/−
Canarian Coalition (CC)1 304,413 32.90 −4.36 23 −3
People's Party (PP) 283,186 30.61 +3.48 17 +2
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) 235,234 25.42 +1.39 17 −2
Canarian Nationalist Federation (FNC) 44,703 4.83 +0.02 3 +3
The Greens of the Canaries (Verdes) 18,340 1.98 +0.52 0 ±0
Canarian United Left (IUC) 12,128 1.31 −1.43 0 ±0
Canarian Popular Alternative (APCa) 6,737 0.73 New 0 ±0
25 May Citizens' Alternative (AC25M) 2,719 0.29 New 0 ±0
Communist Party of the Canarian People (PCPC) 1,776 0.19 New 0 ±0
Humanist Party (PH) 1,322 0.14 −0.02 0 ±0
Lanzarote Assembly–PdA–PCL (AC–PdA–PCL) 964 0.10 New 0 ±0
Tenerife Union (UTI) 571 0.06 New 0 ±0
Pensionist Assembly of the Canaries (TPC) 449 0.05 −0.03 0 ±0
Party of The People (LG) 448 0.05 New 0 ±0
National Democracy (DN) 409 0.04 New 0 ±0
Centrist Union (UC) 43 0.00 −0.53 0 ±0
Blank ballots 11,806 1.28 −0.23
Total 925,248 60 ±0
Valid votes 925,248 99.44 +0.02
Invalid votes 5,201 0.56 −0.02
Votes cast / turnout 930,449 64.62 +1.88
Abstentions 509,335 35.38 −1.88
Registered voters 1,439,784
Sources[10][11][12]
Footnotes:
  • 1 Canarian Coalition results are compared to the combined totals of Canarian Coalition and Independent Herrenian Group in the 1999 election.
Popular vote
CC
 
 32.90%
PP
 
 30.61%
PSOE
 
 25.42%
FNC
 
 4.83%
Verdes
 
 1.98%
IUC
 
 1.31%
Others
 
 1.67%
Blank ballots
 
 1.28%
Seats
CC
 
 38.33%
PP
 
 28.33%
PSOE
 
 28.33%
FNC
 
 5.00%

Distribution by constituency

Constituency CC PP PSOE FNC
% S % S % S % S
El Hierro 45.0 2 24.8 1 21.6 − 7.1 −
Fuerteventura 30.2 2 32.5 3 25.4 2 7.1 −
Gran Canaria 21.6 4 47.4 8 20.6 3 4.6 −
La Gomera 34.8 1 7.3 − 54.4 3 1.0 −
La Palma 50.7 4 23.4 2 23.1 2
Lanzarote 19.5 2 17.7 1 20.9 2 30.4 3
Tenerife 44.3 8 15.5 2 30.6 5 2.7 −
Total 32.9 23 30.6 17 25.4 17 4.8 3
Sources[10][11][12]

Notes

  1. ^ Results for CC (36.9%, 24 seats) and AHI (0.3%, 2 seats) in the 1999 election.

References

  1. ^ Statute (1982), arts. 9, 13 & 17.
  2. ^ LECC (2003), final prov. 1.
  3. ^ Statute (1982), art. 10; LECC (2003), art. 16 (suppl. by LOREG (1985), art. 42).
  4. ^ Statute (1982), art. 17.
  5. ^ Decree 52/2003 (2003), art. 1.
  6. ^ Statute (1982), arts. 9–10; LECC (2003), art. 2 (suppl. by LOREG (1985), arts. 2–3).
  7. ^ Statute (1982), art. 9 & trans. prov. 1.
  8. ^ Statute (1982), trans. prov. 1; Decree 52/2003 (2003), art. 2.
  9. ^ LECC (2003), art. 21 & single add. prov. (suppl. by LOREG (1985), arts. 46 & 48).
  10. ^ a b Lozano, Carles. "Elecciones al Parlamento de Canarias (desde 1983)". Historia Electoral.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 26 April 2026.
  11. ^ a b "Elecciones al Parlamento de Canarias. Elecciones 2003" (in Spanish). Parliament of the Canary Islands. Retrieved 26 April 2026.
  12. ^ a b "Anuncio de 12 de septiembre de 2003, por el que se hace pública la Resolución relativa a los resultados del escrutinio general en el conjunto de las circunscripciones electorales de la Comunidad Autónoma de Canarias" (PDF). Official Gazette of Canaries (in Spanish) (186): 15604–15615. 24 September 2003. Retrieved 27 April 2026.

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