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District One
Former Regional Assembly of Murcia
Electoral constituency
Location of the District One within the Region of Murcia
ProvinceMurcia
Autonomous communityRegion of Murcia
Former constituency
Created1983
Abolished2015
Seats7

District One was one of the five constituencies (Spanish: circunscripciones) represented in the Regional Assembly of Murcia, the regional legislature of the Region of Murcia. The constituency elected seven deputies. It comprised the municipalities of Lorca, Aguilas, Puerto Lumbreras, Totana, Alhama de Murcia, Librilla, Aledo and Mazarrón. The electoral system used the D'Hondt method and a closed-list proportional representation, with a minimum threshold of five percent regionally.

Electoral system

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The constituency was created as per the Statute of Autonomy for the Region of Murcia of 1982 and was first contested in the 1983 regional election. The Statute provided for sub-provincial divisions of the Principality's territory to be established as multi-member districts in the Regional Assembly of Murcia, with this regulation being maintained under the 1986 regional electoral law. Each constituency was entitled to an initial minimum of one seat, with the remaining 40 being distributed in proportion to their populations. The exception was the 1983 election, when constituencies were allocated one fixed member and one additional member per each 25,000 inhabitants or fraction greater than 12,500.[1][2]

Voting was on the basis of universal suffrage, which comprised all nationals over eighteen, registered in the Region of Murcia and in full enjoyment of their political rights. Amendments to the electoral law in 2011 required for Murcians abroad to apply for voting before being permitted to vote, a system known as "begged" or expat vote (Spanish: Voto rogado).[3] Seats 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 regionally.[1][2] The use of the D'Hondt method might result in a higher effective threshold, depending on the district magnitude.[4]

The electoral law allowed for parties and federations registered in the interior ministry, coalitions 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 ten days of the election call—fifteen before 1985—whereas groupings of electors needed to secure the signature of at least two percent of the electorate in the constituencies for which they sought election—one-thousandth of the electorate, with a compulsory minimum of 500 signatures, until 1985—disallowing electors from signing for more than one list of candidates.[2][5][6]

A 2015 legal amendment saw the abolition of the five constituencies and their replacement by a single multi-member district comprising all the municipalities in the autonomous community. The electoral threshold was also lowered from five to three percent.[7]

Deputies

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Deputies 1983–2015
Key to parties
  IU
  Podemos
  PSOE
  PP
  CP
  AP
Assembly Election Distribution
1st 1983
5 2
2nd 1987
5 2
3rd 1991
1 4 2
4th 1995
1 3 3
5th 1999
3 4
6th 2003
3 4
7th 2007
2 5
8th 2011
2 5
9th 2015
1 2 4

Elections

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2015 regional election

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Summary of the 24 May 2015 Regional Assembly of Murcia election results in District One
Parties and alliances Popular vote Seats
Votes % ±pp Total +/−
People's Party (PP) 38,950 41.64 –15.55 4 –1
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) 26,251 28.06 +1.37 2 ±0
We Can (Podemos) 9,488 10.14 New 1 +1
Winning the Region of Murcia: Plural Left (IU–V–RM–CLI–AS)1 7,131 7.62 –1.94 0 ±0
Citizens–Party of the Citizenry (C's) 6,888 7.36 New 0 ±0
Citizens of Democratic Centre (CCD) 900 0.96 New 0 ±0
Union, Progress and Democracy (UPyD) 722 0.77 –1.68 0 ±0
Animalist Party Against Mistreatment of Animals (PACMA) 631 0.67 New 0 ±0
Vox (Vox) 379 0.41 New 0 ±0
Blank Seats (EB) 309 0.33 New 0 ±0
Zero Cuts (Recortes Cero) 197 0.21 New 0 ±0
Citizens' Democratic Renewal Movement (RED) 80 0.09 New 0 ±0
Spain on the Move (LEM) 74 0.08 New 0 ±0
Centre and Democracy Forum (CyD) 72 0.08 –0.05 0 ±0
Blank ballots 1,468 1.57 –0.26
Total 93,540 7 ±0
Valid votes 93,540 97.87 –0.60
Invalid votes 2,039 2.13 +0.60
Votes cast / turnout 95,579 62.35 –4.08
Abstentions 37.65 +4.08
Registered voters
Sources[8][9][10]
Footnotes:

2011 regional election

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Summary of the 22 May 2011 Regional Assembly of Murcia election results in District One
Parties and alliances Popular vote Seats
Votes % ±pp Total +/−
People's Party (PP) 55,637 57.19 +1.95 5 ±0
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) 25,963 26.69 –6.33 2 ±0
United Left–Greens of the Region of Murcia (IU–V–RM) 9,303 9.56 +0.98 0 ±0
Union, Progress and Democracy (UPyD) 2,381 2.45 New 0 ±0
The Greens of the Region of Murcia–Ecolo (LV–Ecolo) 982 1.01 New 0 ±0
Liberal Democratic Centre (CDL) 685 0.70 +0.02 0 ±0
Party for the Regeneration of Democracy in Spain (PRDE) 151 0.16 New 0 ±0
Centre and Democracy Forum (CyD) 129 0.13 New 0 ±0
Employment Business Party (PEE) 116 0.12 New 0 ±0
Communist Unification of Spain (UCE) 97 0.10 New 0 ±0
State Reform of Nostradamus (REN) 56 0.06 New 0 ±0
Blank ballots 1,781 1.83 +0.49
Total 97,281 7 ±0
Valid votes 97,281 98.47 –0.16
Invalid votes 1,513 1.53 +0.16
Votes cast / turnout 98,794 66.43 –4.01
Abstentions 33.57 +4.01
Registered voters
Sources[8][9][11]

2007 regional election

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Summary of the 27 May 2007 Regional Assembly of Murcia election results in District One
Parties and alliances Popular vote Seats
Votes % ±pp Total +/−
People's Party (PP) 55,534 55.24 +6.14 5 +1
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) 33,197 33.02 –7.68 2 –1
United Left–The Greens of the Region of Murcia (IU–LV–RM)1 8,629 8.58 –0.05 0 ±0
Regional Citizens' Coalition (CCR) 836 0.83 New 0 ±0
Liberal Democratic Centre (CDL) 681 0.68 New 0 ±0
Spanish Phalanx of the CNSO (FE–JONS) 183 0.18 New 0 ±0
Centrist Party (PCTR) 124 0.12 New 0 ±0
Blank ballots 1,343 1.34 +0.08
Total 100,527 7 ±0
Valid votes 100,527 98.63 –0.24
Invalid votes 1,394 1.37 +0.24
Votes cast / turnout 101,921 70.44 +0.47
Abstentions 29.56 –0.47
Registered voters
Sources[8][9][12]
Footnotes:

2003 regional election

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Summary of the 25 May 2003 Regional Assembly of Murcia election results in District One
Parties and alliances Popular vote Seats
Votes % ±pp Total +/−
People's Party (PP) 47,888 49.10 +5.62 4 +1
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) 39,695 40.70 –2.89 3 –1
United Left of the Region of Murcia (IURM) 7,505 7.69 –0.61 0 ±0
The Greens (LV) 914 0.94 +0.30 0 ±0
Citizens' Convergence of the South-East (CCSE) 311 0.32 New 0 ±0
Blank ballots 1,225 1.26 –0.04
Total 97,538 7 ±0
Valid votes 97,538 98.87 –0.25
Invalid votes 1,111 1.13 +0.25
Votes cast / turnout 98,649 69.97 ±0.00
Abstentions 30.03 ±0.00
Registered voters
Sources[8][9][13]

1999 regional election

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Summary of the 13 June 1999 Regional Assembly of Murcia election results in District One
Parties and alliances Popular vote Seats
Votes % ±pp Total +/−
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) 41,591 43.59 +4.30 4 +1
People's Party (PP) 41,485 43.48 –1.38 3 ±0
United Left of the Region of Murcia (IURM) 7,923 8.30 –4.52 0 –1
Spanish Democratic Party (PADE) 2,069 2.17 New 0 ±0
The Greens (LV) 607 0.64 New 0 ±0
Union of the Peoples of Murcia (UPM) 262 0.27 New 0 ±0
Centrist Union–Democratic and Social Centre (UC–CDS) 233 0.24 –0.22 0 ±0
Blank ballots 1,240 1.30 –0.06
Total 95,410 7 ±0
Valid votes 95,410 99.12 +0.60
Invalid votes 845 0.88 –0.60
Votes cast / turnout 96,255 69.97 –1.91
Abstentions 30.03 +1.91
Registered voters
Sources[8][9][14]

1995 regional election

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Summary of the 28 May 1995 Regional Assembly of Murcia election results in District One
Parties and alliances Popular vote Seats
Votes % ±pp Total +/−
People's Party (PP) 41,956 44.86 +17.98 3 +1
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) 36,744 39.29 –13.85 3 –1
United Left–The Greens of the Region of Murcia (IU–LV–RM)1 11,991 12.82 +0.66 1 ±0
Centrist Union–Democratic and Social Centre (UC–CDS) 428 0.46 –4.18 0 ±0
Regional Murcianist Party (PMR) 416 0.44 New 0 ±0
Democratic Bloc (BD) 344 0.37 New 0 ±0
New Region (NR) 226 0.24 New 0 ±0
Cantonal Party (PCAN) 144 0.15 –0.98 0 ±0
Blank ballots 1,272 1.36 +0.26
Total 93,521 7 ±0
Valid votes 93,521 98.52 +0.26
Invalid votes 1,408 1.48 –0.26
Votes cast / turnout 94,929 71.88 +3.35
Abstentions 28.12 –3.35
Registered voters
Sources[8][9][15]
Footnotes:

1991 regional election

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Summary of the 26 May 1991 Regional Assembly of Murcia election results in District One
Parties and alliances Popular vote Seats
Votes % ±pp Total +/−
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) 41,804 53.14 +0.83 4 –1
People's Party (PP)1 21,147 26.88 +0.78 2 ±0
United Left (IU) 8,963 11.39 +2.14 1 +1
Democratic and Social Centre (CDS) 3,646 4.64 –5.54 0 ±0
Regional Electoral Coalition (PCAN–PRM)2 888 1.13 +0.53 0 ±0
The Greens (LV) 609 0.77 New 0 ±0
The Greens Ecologist–Humanist List (LVLE–H)3 397 0.50 +0.17 0 ±0
Rainbow (Arcoiris) 340 0.43 New 0 ±0
Blank ballots 868 1.10 –0.14
Total 78,662 7 ±0
Valid votes 78,662 98.26 –0.22
Invalid votes 1,389 1.74 +0.22
Votes cast / turnout 80,051 68.53 –4.10
Abstentions 31.47 +4.10
Registered voters
Sources[8][9][16][17]
Footnotes:

1987 regional election

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Summary of the 10 June 1987 Regional Assembly of Murcia election results in District One
Parties and alliances Popular vote Seats
Votes % ±pp Total +/−
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) 39,175 52.31 –8.08 5 ±0
People's Alliance (AP)1 19,544 26.10 –3.97 2 ±0
Democratic and Social Centre (CDS) 7,624 10.18 New 0 ±0
United Left (IU)2 6,930 9.25 +2.40 0 ±0
Humanist Platform (PH) 246 0.33 New 0 ±0
Murcian Regionalist Party (PRM) 223 0.30 New 0 ±0
Cantonal Party (PCAN) 222 0.30 +0.03 0 ±0
Blank ballots 931 1.24 +0.74
Total 74,895 7 ±0
Valid votes 74,895 98.48 –0.52
Invalid votes 1,158 1.52 +0.52
Votes cast / turnout 76,053 72.63 +3.41
Abstentions 28,658 27.37 –3.41
Registered voters 104,711
Sources[18][19]
Footnotes:

1983 regional election

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Summary of the 8 May 1983 Regional Assembly of Murcia election results in District One
Parties and alliances Popular vote Seats
Votes % ±pp Total +/−
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) 41,294 60.39 n/a 5 n/a
People's Coalition (AP–PDP–UL) 20,562 30.07 n/a 2 n/a
Communist Party of Spain (PCE) 4,684 6.85 n/a 0 n/a
Liberal Democratic Party (PDL) 1,307 1.91 n/a 0 n/a
Cantonal Party (PCAN) 187 0.27 n/a 0 n/a
Blank ballots 343 0.50 n/a
Total 68,377 7 n/a
Valid votes 68,377 99.00 n/a
Invalid votes 693 1.00 n/a
Votes cast / turnout 69,070 69.22 n/a
Abstentions 30,708 30.78 n/a
Registered voters 99,778
Sources[8][20][21]

References

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  1. ^ a b Ley 2/1987, de 24 de febrero, Electoral de la Región de Murcia. Boletín Oficial del Estado (Organic Law 4) (in Spanish). 9 June 1982. Retrieved 22 February 2017.
  2. ^ a b c Ley 2/1987, de 24 de febrero, Electoral de la Región de Murcia. Boletín Oficial del Estado (Law 2) (in Spanish). 24 February 1987. Retrieved 22 February 2017.
  3. ^ Reig Pellicer, Naiara (16 December 2015). "Spanish elections: Begging for the right to vote". cafebabel.co.uk. Retrieved 17 July 2017.
  4. ^ Gallagher, Michael (30 July 2012). "Effective threshold in electoral systems". Trinity College, Dublin. Archived from the original on 30 July 2017. Retrieved 22 July 2017.
  5. ^ Real Decreto-ley 20/1977, de 18 de marzo, sobre Normas Electorales. Boletín Oficial del Estado (Royal Decree-Law 20) (in Spanish). 18 March 1977. Retrieved 14 December 2019.
  6. ^ Ley Orgánica 5/1985, de 19 de junio, del Régimen Electoral General. Boletín Oficial del Estado (Organic Law 5) (in Spanish). 19 June 1985. Retrieved 28 December 2016.
  7. ^ "Murcia cambia su ley electoral para pasar a ser una única circunscripción". El País (in Spanish). Cartagena. 23 July 2015. Retrieved 9 February 2020.
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  16. ^ "Regional Assembly of Murcia election results, 26 May 1991" (PDF). www.juntaelectoralcentral.es (in Spanish). Electoral Commission of Murcia. 19 October 1991. Retrieved 30 September 2017.
  17. ^ "Number 150. Report-declaration of the Regional Assembly of Murcia election of 26 May 1991" (PDF). tcu.es (in Spanish). Court of Auditors. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
  18. ^ "Regional Assembly of Murcia election results, 10 June 1987" (PDF). www.juntaelectoralcentral.es (in Spanish). Electoral Commission of Murcia. 27 June 1987. Retrieved 30 September 2017.
  19. ^ "Number 75. Audit report on the regularity of electoral accounting derived from the elections held on June 10, 1987" (PDF). tcu.es (in Spanish). Court of Auditors. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
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