Palencia (Cortes of Castile and León constituency)

Palencia is one of the nine constituencies (Spanish: circunscripciones) represented in the Cortes of Castile and León, the regional legislature of the Autonomous Community of Castile and León. The constituency currently elects seven deputies. Its boundaries correspond to those of the Spanish province of Palencia. The electoral system uses the D'Hondt method and a closed-list proportional representation, with a minimum threshold of three percent.

Palencia
Cortes of Castile and León Electoral Constituency
Location of Palencia within Castile and León
Province	Palencia
Autonomous community	Castile and León
Population	160,980 (2019)[1]
Electorate	141,613 (2019)
Major settlements	Palencia
Current constituency
Created	1983
Seats	7
Member(s)	PP (4)   PSOE (2)   Podemos (1)

Electoral system

The constituency was created as per the Statute of Autonomy of Castile and León of 1983 and was first contested in the 1983 regional election. The Statute provided for the nine provinces in Castile and León—Ávila, Burgos, León, Palencia, Salamanca, Segovia, Soria, Valladolid and Zamora—to be established as multi-member districts in the Cortes of Castile and León, with this regulation being maintained under the 1987 regional electoral law. Each constituency is entitled to an initial minimum of three seats, with one additional member per each 45,000 inhabitants or fraction greater than 22,500.[2][3][4]

Voting is on the basis of universal suffrage, which comprises all nationals over eighteen, registered in Castile and León and in full enjoyment of their political rights. Amendments to the electoral law in 2011 required for Castilian-Leonese people abroad to apply for voting before being permitted to vote, a system known as "begged" or expat vote (Spanish: Voto rogado).[5] Seats are elected using the D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional representation, with a threshold of three percent of valid votes—which includes blank ballots—being applied in each constituency.[2][3][4] The use of the D'Hondt method might result in a higher effective threshold, depending on the district magnitude.[6]

The electoral law allows 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 are required to inform the relevant Electoral Commission within ten days of the election call—fifteen before 1985—whereas groupings of electors need to secure the signature of at least one percent of the electorate in the constituencies for which they seek 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.[4][7][8]

Procurators

Procurators 1983–present
Cortes	Election	Distribution
1st	1983	3 4
2nd	1987	2 1 4
3rd	1991	3 4
4th	1995	3 4
5th	1999	3 4
6th	2003	3 4
7th	2007	3 4
8th	2011	3 4
9th	2015	1 2 4
10th	2019	3 1 3

Elections

2019 regional election

Summary of the 26 May 2019 Cortes of Castile and León election results in Palencia

Parties and coalitions		Popular vote			Seats
		Votes	%	±pp	Total	+/−
	Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)	34,898	35.90	+6.88	3	+1
	People's Party (PP)	33,532	34.49	–6.50	3	–1
	Citizens–Party of the Citizenry (Cs)	14,669	15.09	+5.17	1	+1
	Vox (Vox)	5,531	5.69	New	0	±0
	We Can–Equo (Podemos–Equo)	4,456	4.58	–6.26	0	–1
	United Left–Anticapitalists (IU–Anticapitalistas–PCAS/TC–ALTER)^1	2,040	2.10	–2.43	0	±0
	Animalist Party Against Mistreatment of Animals (PACMA)	648	0.67	New	0	±0
	Regionalist Union of Castile and León (Unión Regionalista)^2	246	0.25	–0.04	0	±0
	Spanish Phalanx of the CNSO (FE–JONS)	153	0.16	–0.23	0	±0
Blank ballots		1,038	1.07	–1.44
Total		97,211			7	±0
Valid votes		97,211	98.96	+1.13
Invalid votes		1,025	1.04	–1.13
Votes cast / turnout		98,236	69.37	+1.72
Abstentions		43,377	30.63	–1.72
Registered voters		141,613
Sources[9]

2015 regional election

Summary of the 24 May 2015 Cortes of Castile and León election results in Palencia

Parties and coalitions		Popular vote			Seats
		Votes	%	±pp	Total	+/−
	People's Party (PP)	39,387	40.99	–12.05	4	±0
	Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)	27,881	29.02	–3.76	2	–1
	We Can (Podemos)	10,411	10.84	New	1	+1
	Citizens–Party of the Citizenry (C's)	9,534	9.92	New	0	±0
	United Left–Equo: Convergence for Castile and León (IU–Equo)	3,703	3.85	–0.56	0	±0
	Union, Progress and Democracy (UPyD)	1,107	1.15	–1.25	0	±0
	Castilian Party–Commoners' Land: Pact (PCAS–TC–Pacto)	650	0.68	–1.95	0	±0
	Spanish Phalanx of the CNSO (FE–JONS)	373	0.39	+0.05	0	±0
	Blank Seats (EB)	348	0.36	New	0	±0
	Regionalist Democracy of Castile and León (DRCyL)^1	276	0.29	–0.05	0	±0
Blank ballots		2,410	2.51	–0.81
Total		96,080			7	±0
Valid votes		96,080	97.83	–0.20
Invalid votes		2,127	2.17	+0.20
Votes cast / turnout		98,207	67.65	–2.48
Abstentions		46,962	32.35	+2.48
Registered voters		145,169
Sources[10][11]

2011 regional election

Summary of the 22 May 2011 Cortes of Castile and León election results in Palencia

Parties and coalitions		Popular vote			Seats
		Votes	%	±pp	Total	+/−
	People's Party (PP)	53,939	53.04	+3.80	4	±0
	Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)	33,336	32.78	–7.46	3	±0
	United Left of Castile and León (IUCyL)	4,490	4.41	+1.91	0	±0
	Party of Castile and León (PCAL)^1	2,675	2.63	+1.02	0	±0
	Union, Progress and Democracy (UPyD)	2,436	2.40	New	0	±0
	Anti-Bullfighting Party Against Mistreatment of Animals (PACMA)	422	0.41	New	0	±0
	Regionalist Unity of Castile and León (URCL)	343	0.34	New	0	±0
	Spanish Phalanx of the CNSO (FE–JONS)	341	0.34	+0.07	0	±0
	Communist Party of the Castilian People (PCPC)	206	0.20	–0.01	0	±0
	Internationalist Solidarity and Self-Management (SAIn)	142	0.14	New	0	±0
Blank ballots		3,372	3.32	+1.22
Total		101,702			7	±0
Valid votes		101,702	98.03	–1.09
Invalid votes		2,047	1.97	+1.09
Votes cast / turnout		103,749	70.13	–2.85
Abstentions		44,191	29.87	+2.85
Registered voters		147,940
Sources[10][12]

2007 regional election

Summary of the 27 May 2007 Cortes of Castile and León election results in Palencia

Parties and coalitions		Popular vote			Seats
		Votes	%	±pp	Total	+/−
	People's Party (PP)	53,672	49.24	+0.61	4	±0
	Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)	43,864	40.24	–1.32	3	±0
	Independent Candidacy–The Party of Castile and León (CI–PCL)	3,065	2.81	New	0	±0
	United Left–The Greens–Commitment for Castile and León (IU–LV–CyL)	2,729	2.50	–0.73	0	±0
	Commoners' Land–Alternative for Castile and León (TC–ACAL)	1,755	1.61	–0.54	0	±0
	The Greens (LV)^1	793	0.73	–0.56	0	±0
	Spanish Phalanx of the CNSO (FE–JONS)	292	0.27	New	0	±0
	Communist Party of the Castilian People (PCPC)	225	0.21	New	0	±0
	Republican Left (IR)	193	0.18	±0.00	0	±0
	Humanist Party (PH)	134	0.12	–0.11	0	±0
Blank ballots		2,288	2.10	–0.41
Total		109,010			7	±0
Valid votes		109,010	99.12	+0.16
Invalid votes		966	0.88	–0.16
Votes cast / turnout		109,976	72.98	–2.03
Abstentions		40,725	27.02	+2.03
Registered voters		150,701
Sources[10][13]

2003 regional election

Summary of the 25 May 2003 Cortes of Castile and León election results in Palencia

Parties and coalitions		Popular vote			Seats
		Votes	%	±pp	Total	+/−
	People's Party (PP)	55,214	48.63	–2.39	4	±0
	Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)	47,188	41.56	+3.82	3	±0
	United Left of Castile and León (IUCyL)	3,672	3.23	–2.59	0	±0
	Commoners' Land–Castilian Nationalist Party (TC–PNC)	2,439	2.15	+1.23	0	±0
	The Greens–Cives (LV–Cives)	1,459	1.29	New	0	±0
	Castilian Left (IzCa)	257	0.23	New	0	±0
	Humanist Party (PH)	257	0.23	–0.08	0	±0
	Republican Left (IR)	208	0.18	New	0	±0
Blank ballots		2,845	2.51	–0.37
Total		113,539			7	±0
Valid votes		113,539	98.96	+0.28
Invalid votes		1,192	1.04	–0.28
Votes cast / turnout		114,731	75.01	+3.81
Abstentions		38,233	24.99	–3.81
Registered voters		152,964
Sources[10][14]

1999 regional election

Summary of the 13 June 1999 Cortes of Castile and León election results in Palencia

Parties and coalitions		Popular vote			Seats
		Votes	%	±pp	Total	+/−
	People's Party (PP)	55,451	51.02	–1.27	4	±0
	Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)	41,022	37.74	+5.82	3	±0
	United Left of Castile and León (IUCyL)	6,323	5.82	–2.61	0	±0
	Regionalist Unity of Castile and León (URCL)	1,419	1.31	+0.16	0	±0
	Commoners' Land–Castilian Nationalist Party (TC–PNC)	996	0.92	+0.39	0	±0
	Humanist Party (PH)	338	0.31	New	0	±0
Blank ballots		3,134	2.88	+1.10
Total		108,683			7	±0
Valid votes		108,683	98.68	–0.39
Invalid votes		1,458	1.32	+0.39
Votes cast / turnout		110,141	71.20	–5.24
Abstentions		44,560	28.80	+5.24
Registered voters		154,701
Sources[10][15]

1995 regional election

Summary of the 28 May 1995 Cortes of Castile and León election results in Palencia

Parties and coalitions		Popular vote			Seats
		Votes	%	±pp	Total	+/−
	People's Party (PP)	60,111	52.29	+7.03	4	±0
	Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)	36,688	31.92	–5.24	3	±0
	United Left of Castile and León (IU)	9,692	8.43	+3.10	0	±0
	People's Palentine Group (APP)	4,071	3.54	New	0	±0
	Regionalist Unity of Castile and León (URCL)^1	1,321	1.15	–0.66	0	±0
	Commoners' Land–Castilian Nationalist Party (TC–PNC)	609	0.53	New	0	±0
	Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain (PCPE)	236	0.21	–0.12	0	±0
	Party of El Bierzo (PB)	183	0.16	New	0	±0
Blank ballots		2,041	1.78	+0.11
Total		114,952			7	±0
Valid votes		114,952	99.07	+0.14
Invalid votes		1,083	0.93	–0.14
Votes cast / turnout		116,035	76.44	+5.27
Abstentions		35,763	23.56	–5.27
Registered voters		151,798
Sources[10][16]

1991 regional election

Summary of the 26 May 1991 Cortes of Castile and León election results in Palencia

Parties and coalitions		Popular vote			Seats
		Votes	%	±pp	Total	+/−
	People's Party (PP)^1	47,767	45.26	+0.22	4	±0
	Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)	39,211	37.16	+3.78	3	+1
	Democratic and Social Centre (CDS)	7,088	6.72	–6.97	0	–1
	United Left (IU)	5,629	5.33	+1.04	0	±0
	Palentine Unity (UP)	1,558	1.48	New	0	±0
	The Greens (LV)	1,522	1.44	New	0	±0
	Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain (PCPE)	353	0.33	New	0	±0
	Regionalist Democracy of Castile and León (DRCL)	344	0.33	New	0	±0
	Castilianist Union (UC)	298	0.28	New	0	±0
Blank ballots		1,759	1.67	+0.23
Total		105,529			7	±0
Valid votes		105,529	98.93	+0.33
Invalid votes		1,142	1.07	–0.33
Votes cast / turnout		106,671	71.17	–6.81
Abstentions		43,215	28.83	+6.81
Registered voters		149,886
Sources[10][17][18]

1987 regional election

Summary of the 10 June 1987 Cortes of Castile and León election results in Palencia

Parties and coalitions		Popular vote			Seats
		Votes	%	±pp	Total	+/−
	People's Alliance (AP)^1	49,144	45.04	–1.84	4	±0
	Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)	36,420	33.38	–7.65	2	–1
	Democratic and Social Centre (CDS)	14,940	13.69	+8.81	1	+1
	United Left (IU)^2	4,679	4.29	–0.24	0	±0
	Nationalist Party of Castile and León (PNCL–PANCAL)	1,102	1.01	New	0	±0
	Workers' Party of Spain–Communist Unity (PTE–UC)	777	0.71	New	0	±0
	Humanist Platform (PH)	296	0.27	New	0	±0
	Leonesist Union (UNLE)	184	0.17	New	0	±0
Blank ballots		1,574	1.44	+0.63
Total		109,116			7	±0
Valid votes		109,116	98.60	–0.17
Invalid votes		1,549	1.40	+0.17
Votes cast / turnout		110,665	77.98	+4.35
Abstentions		31,255	22.02	–4.35
Registered voters		141,920
Sources[10][19][20]

1983 regional election

Summary of the 8 May 1983 Cortes of Castile and León election results in Palencia

Parties and coalitions		Popular vote			Seats
		Votes	%	±pp	Total	+/−
	People's Coalition (AP–PDP–UL)	48,753	46.88	n/a	4	n/a
	Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)	42,665	41.03	n/a	3	n/a
	Democratic and Social Centre (CDS)	5,072	4.88	n/a	0	n/a
	Communist Party of Spain (PCE)	4,707	4.53	n/a	0	n/a
	Castilian Communal Unity (UCC)	1,958	1.88	n/a	0	n/a
Blank ballots		839	0.81	n/a
Total		103,994			7	n/a
Valid votes		103,994	98.77	n/a
Invalid votes		1,296	1.23	n/a
Votes cast / turnout		105,290	73.63	n/a
Abstentions		37,702	26.37	n/a
Registered voters		142,992
Sources[10][21][22]

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