1995 Catalan regional election

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All 135 seats in theParliament of Catalonia 68 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered	5,079,981 5.0%
Turnout	3,232,959 (63.6%) 8.7pp
First party Second party Third party   Leader Jordi Pujol Joaquim Nadal Alejo Vidal-Quadras Party CiU PSC–PSOE PP Leader since 17 November 1974 22 July 1995 9 January 1991 Leader's seat Barcelona Barcelona Barcelona Last election 70 seats, 46.2% 40 seats, 27.5% 7 seats, 6.0% Seats won 60 34 17 Seat change 10 6 10 Popular vote 1,320,071 802,252 421,752 Percentage 40.9% 24.9% 13.1% Swing 5.3pp 2.6pp 7.1pp   Fourth party Fifth party   Leader Àngel Colom Rafael Ribó Party ERC IC–EV Leader since 19 November 1989 23 February 1987 Leader's seat Barcelona Barcelona Last election 11 seats, 8.0% 7 seats, 7.7%[a] Seats won 13 11 Seat change 2 4 Popular vote 305,867 313,092 Percentage 9.5% 9.7% Swing 1.5pp 2.0pp
Vote winner strength by constituency Election results by constituency
President before election Jordi Pujol CDC (CiU) ElectedPresident Jordi Pujol CDC (CiU)

Aregional election was held inCatalonia on Sunday, 19 November 1995, to elect the 5thParliament of theautonomous community. All 135 seats in the Parliament were up for election.

Under the1979 Statute of Autonomy, theParliament of Catalonia was theunicameral legislature of thehomonymous autonomous community, having legislative power indevolved matters, as well as the ability to vote confidence in or withdraw it from aregional president.^[1] As a result of no regional electoral law having been approved since the re-establishment of Catalan autonomy, the electoral procedure came regulated under transitory provisions, supplemented by the provisions within thenational electoral law.^[2]

Voting for the Parliament was on the basis ofuniversal suffrage, which comprised all nationals over 18 years of age, registered in Catalonia and in full enjoyment of their political rights, provided that they were not sentenced—by a final court ruling—to deprivation of the right to vote, nor beinglegally incapacitated.^[2][3]

The Parliament of Catalonia was entitled to 135 seats. All members were elected in fourmulti-member constituencies—corresponding to theprovinces ofBarcelona,Girona,Lleida andTarragona, with each being allocated a fixed number of seats—using theD'Hondt method and aclosed listproportional voting system, with athreshold of three percent of valid votes (which includedblank ballots) being applied in each constituency.^[2][4] The use of the electoral method resulted in a highereffective threshold based on thedistrict magnitude and the distribution of votes among candidacies.^[5]

As a result of the aforementioned allocation, each Parliament constituency was entitled the following seats:^[2][6]

The law did not provide forby-elections to fillvacated seats; instead, any vacancies that occurred after the proclamation of candidates and into the legislative term were to be covered by the successive candidates in thelist and, when required, by the designatedsubstitutes.^[7]

The term of the Parliament of Catalonia expired four years after the date of its previous election, unless it wasdissolved earlier. The electiondecree was required to be issued no later than the twenty-fifth day prior to the scheduled date of expiry of parliament and published on the following day in the Official Journal of the Government of Catalonia (DOGC), withelection day taking place on the fifty-fourth day from publication.^[2][8] Theprevious election was held on 15 March 1992, which meant that the legislature's term would have expired on 15 March 1996. The election decree was required to be published in the DOGC no later than 20 February 1996, with the election taking place on the fifty-fourth day from publication, setting the latest possible date for election day on Sunday, 14 April 1996.

The regional president had the prerogative to dissolve the Parliament of Catalonia and call asnap election, provided that nomotion of no confidence was in process and that dissolution did not occur before one year had elapsed since a previous one under this procedure.^[9] In the event of an investiture process failing to elect a regional president within a two-month period from the first ballot, the Parliament was to be automatically dissolved and a fresh election called.^[10][11]

The Parliament of Catalonia was officially dissolved on 26 September 1995 with the publication of the dissolution decree in the DOGC, setting election day for 19 November.^[6][12]

The electoral law allowed forparties andfederations registered in theinterior ministry,alliances andgroupings of electors to present lists of candidates. Parties and federations intending to form an alliance ahead of an election were required to inform the relevant electoral commission within ten 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 of candidates.^[13]

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

Candidacy		Parties and alliances	Leading candidate		Ideology	Previous result		Gov.	Ref.
						Vote %	Seats
	CiU	List Democratic Convergence of Catalonia (CDC) Democratic Union of Catalonia (UDC)		Jordi Pujol	Catalan nationalism Centrism	46.2%	70
	PSC–PSOE	List Socialists' Party of Catalonia (PSC–PSOE)		Joaquim Nadal	Social democracy	27.5%	40		[14]
	ERC	List Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC)		Àngel Colom	Catalan independence Left-wing nationalism Social democracy	8.0%	11
	IC–EV	List Initiative for Catalonia (IC) –Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia (PSUC) –Party of the Communists of Catalonia (PCC) The Greens–Ecologist Confederation of Catalonia (EV–CEC)		Rafael Ribó	Eco-socialism Green politics	7.7% [a]	7
	PP	List People's Party (PP)		Alejo Vidal-Quadras	Conservatism Christian democracy	6.0%	7

The table below lists voting intention estimates 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. When available, seat projections determined by the polling organisations are displayed below (or in place of) the percentages in a smaller font; 68 seats were required for anabsolute majority in theParliament of Catalonia.

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  Exit poll

Polling firm/Commissioner	Fieldwork date	Sample size	Turnout				IC		Lead
1995 regional election	19 Nov 1995	—N/a	63.6	40.9 60	24.9 34	9.5 13	9.7 11	13.1 17	16.0
Vox Pública/Antena 3[p 1]	19 Nov 1995	?	?	44.0 64/67	22.0 30/33	11.0 13/15	9.5 9/10	12.0 14/16	22.0
Eco Consulting/CCRTV[p 1]	19 Nov 1995	?	?	43.0 64/68	22.0 28/31	11.0 14/16	9.9 10/12	12.0 14/16	21.0
Sigma Dos/El Mundo[p 1]	12 Nov 1995	1,000	?	45.2 65/68	23.8 31/35	8.8 11/12	7.4 8/9	11.4 15/16	21.4
Demoscopia/El País[p 1][p 2]	12 Nov 1995	2,000	63	45.4 66/70	23.2 29/30	7.2 10/11	11.6 12/13	11.7 14/16	22.2
Vox Pública/El Periódico[p 1][p 3]	12 Nov 1995	1,200	?	46.5 68/72	23.2 31/35	8.3 10/12	9.4 11/12	8.4 11/12	23.3
Imagen & Opinión/ABC[p 4]	7–8 Nov 1995	1,260	?	44.7 62/65	24.3 33/34	9.2 12/13	7.8 11	10.4 13/15	20.4
Opina/La Vanguardia[p 5]	6–7 Nov 1995	2,000	?	46.0 69/71	21.0 28/30	10.0 11/14	10.0 9/13	11.0 11/14	25.0
EMB Yankelovich/Avui[p 1]	5 Nov 1995	1,223	?	46.7 68/69	22.1 30/31	9.3 11/12	9.3 11/12	12.6 13/14	24.6
Vox Pública/El Periódico[p 6]	25–26 Oct 1995	1,200	?	46.3 67/70	21.7 31/33	8.2 11/12	10.3 12	9.8 12/13	24.6
Imagen & Opinión/ABC[p 7]	22–24 Oct 1995	1,000	?	45.5 65/69	24.4 32/34	8.6 10/12	8.7 9/11	11.4 15/16	21.1
Opina/La Vanguardia[p 8]	16–17 Oct 1995	1,500	?	45.5 67/69	22.3 32/33	10.2 12/13	8.4 10	10.5 12/13	23.2
Demoscopia/El País[p 1][p 9]	9 Oct 1995	800	?	42.0 60/64	23.0 29/33	9.0 10/11	12.0 13/15	13.0 15/17	19.0
CIS[p 10][p 11][p 12]	22 Sep–4 Oct 1995	2,492	67.0	44.5 65/67	24.0 33/34	9.0 11/12	9.5 10/11	10.0 11/13	20.5
Sigma Dos/El Mundo[p 13]	20 Sep 1995	?	?	40.6 60/63	27.7 38/40	7.4 9/11	7.6 8/9	12.1 16/17	12.9
Imagen & Opinión/ABC[p 14]	14–20 Jul 1995	2,000	?	42.1 59/62	23.0 31/33	8.4 10/11	8.0 8/9	16.4 22/24	19.1
1995 local elections	28 May 1995	—N/a	64.8	30.2	33.3	6.3	11.9	12.2	3.1
1994 EP election	12 Jun 1994	—N/a	51.9	31.5 (48)	28.2 (41)	5.5 (7)	11.1 (13)	18.5 (26)	3.3
1993 general election	6 Jun 1993	—N/a	75.4	31.8 (49)	34.9 (48)	5.1 (6)	7.5 (8)	17.0 (24)	3.1
1992 regional election	15 Mar 1992	—N/a	54.9	46.2 70	27.5 40	8.0 11	6.5 7	6.0 7	18.7

← Summary of the 19 November 1995Parliament of Catalonia election results→

Parties and alliances		Popular vote			Seats
		Votes	%	±pp	Total	+/−
	Convergence and Union (CiU)	1,320,071	40.95	−5.24	60	−10
	Socialists' Party of Catalonia (PSC–PSOE)	802,252	24.89	−2.66	34	−6
	People's Party (PP)	421,752	13.08	+7.11	17	+10
	Initiative for Catalonia–The Greens (IC–EV)1	313,092	9.71	+1.98	11	+4
	Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC)	305,867	9.49	+1.53	13	+2
	Ecologist Alternative of Catalonia (AEC)2	14,651	0.45	−0.08	0	±0
	Ecologist Party of Catalonia–VERDE (PEC–VERDE)	5,639	0.17	−0.12	0	±0
	Revolutionary Workers' Party (POR)	3,886	0.12	+0.03	0	±0
	Workers' Revolutionary Party (PRT)3	2,221	0.07	−0.32	0	±0
	Citizens of Catalonia–Platform of Independents of Spain (PICC–PIE)	1,580	0.05	New	0	±0
	Civic Platform–New Socialist Party (PC–NPS)4	869	0.03	−0.05	0	±0
	Spanish Phalanx of the CNSO (FE–JONS)	327	0.01	New	0	±0
	Party of Self-employed of Spain (PAE)	194	0.01	New	0	±0
	Democratic Party of the People (PDEP)	134	0.00	New	0	±0
Blank ballots		31,417	0.97	−0.21
Total		3,223,952			135	±0
Valid votes		3,223,952	99.72	+0.14
Invalid votes		9,007	0.28	−0.14
Votes cast / turnout		3,232,959	63.64	+8.77
Abstentions		1,847,022	36.36	−8.77
Registered voters		5,079,981
Sources[15][16][17][18]
Footnotes: 1Initiative for Catalonia–The Greens results are compared to the combined totals of Initiative for Catalonia,Party of the Communists of Catalonia andGreen Alternative–Ecologist Movement of Catalonia in the 1992 election. 2Ecologist Alternative of Catalonia results are compared toThe Greens–Green Union totals in the 1992 election. 3Workers' Revolutionary Party results are compared toWorkers' Socialist Party totals in the 1992 election. 4Civic Platform–New Socialist Party results are compared toIndependent Socialists totals in the 1992 election.

Investiture Nomination ofJordi Pujol (CDC)
Ballot →		14 December 1995	16 December 1995
Required majority →		68 out of 135N	SimpleY
	Yes •CiU (60)	60 / 135	60 / 135
	No •ERC (13)(on 14 Dec) •IC (11)	24 / 135	11 / 135
	Abstentions •PSC (33)(31 on 14 Dec) •PP (17) •ERC (13)(on 16 Dec)	48 / 135	63 / 135
	Absentees •PSC (1)(3 on 14 Dec)	3 / 135	1 / 135
Sources[15][19][20]

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