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2003 Canarian regional election

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2003 Canarian regional election
BERJAYA
← 1999
25 May 2003
2007 →
All 60 seats in the Parliament of the Canary Islands
31 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered1,440,576 Increase 4.9%
Turnout930,449 (64.6%)
Increase 3.8 pp
  First party Second party Third party
  BERJAYA BERJAYA BERJAYA
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
  BERJAYA
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
BERJAYA
Constituency results map for the Parliament of the Canary Islands
President before election

Román Rodríguez
ICAN (CC)

 Elected President

Adán Martín
AIC (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

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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

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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

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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 or 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]

Outgoing parliament

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The table below shows the composition of the parliamentary groups in the chamber at the time of the election call.[10][11]

Parliamentary composition in April 2003
Groups Parties Legislators
Seats Total


Canarian Coalition Parliamentary Group (CC) AIC 16 24
ICAN 3
AM 3
CCN 2
Canarian Socialist Parliamentary Group PSOE 18 18
People's Parliamentary Group PP 14 14
Mixed Parliamentary Group AHI 2 2
Non-Inscrits INDEP 1[b] 1

Parties and candidates

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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 an alliance 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 the constituencies for which they sought election, disallowing electors from signing for more than one list.[12]

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

Candidacy Parties and
alliances		 Candidate Ideology Previous result Gov. Ref.
Vote % Seats
CC
List
 BERJAYA Adán Martín Regionalism
Canarian nationalism
Centrism
37.3%
[a]		 26 Yes
PSOE BERJAYA Juan Carlos Alemán Social democracy 24.0% 19 No
PP
List
 BERJAYA José Manuel Soria Conservatism
Christian democracy		 27.1% 15 No [13]
FNC BERJAYA Lorenzo Olarte Canarian nationalism 4.8% 0 No

Opinion polls

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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

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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; 31 seats were required for an absolute majority in the Parliament of the Canary Islands.

Voting preferences

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The table below lists raw, unweighted voting preferences.

Victory preferences

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

Victory likelihood

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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

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The table below lists opinion polling on leader preferences to become president of the Canary Islands.

Results

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Overall

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← Summary of the 25 May 2003 Parliament of the Canary Islands election results →
BERJAYA
Parties and alliances Popular vote Seats
Votes % ±pp Total +/−
Canarian Coalition (CC)1 304,41332.90−4.36 23−3
People's Party (PP) 283,18630.61+3.48 17+2
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) 235,23425.42+1.39 17−2
Canarian Nationalist Federation (FNC) 44,7034.83+0.02 3+3
The Greens of the Canaries (Verdes) 18,3401.98+0.52 0±0
Canarian United Left (IUC) 12,1281.31−1.43 0±0
Canarian Popular Alternative (APCa) 6,7370.73New 0±0
25 May Citizens' Alternative (AC25M) 2,7190.29New 0±0
Communist Party of the Canarian People (PCPC) 1,7760.19New 0±0
Humanist Party (PH) 1,3220.14−0.02 0±0
Lanzarote Assembly–PdA–PCL (AC–PdA–PCL) 9640.10New 0±0
Tenerife Union (UTI) 5710.06New 0±0
Pensionist Assembly of the Canaries (TPC) 4490.05−0.03 0±0
Party of The People (LG) 4480.05New 0±0
National Democracy (DN) 4090.04New 0±0
Centrist Union (UC) 430.00−0.53 0±0
Blank ballots 11,8061.28−0.23
Total 925,248 60±0
Valid votes 925,24899.44+0.02
Invalid votes 5,2010.56−0.02
Votes cast / turnout 930,44964.59+3.79
Abstentions 510,12735.41−3.79
Registered voters 1,440,576
Sources[10][14][15]
Footnotes:
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

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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][14][15]

Aftermath

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Government formation

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Investiture
Nomination of Adán Martín (AIC)
Ballot → 4 July 2003
Required majority → 31 out of 60 check
Yes
  • • CC (23)
  • • PP (17)
  • • PIL (2)
42 / 60
No
17 / 60
Abstentions
0 / 60
Absentees
1 / 60
Sources[10]

Notes

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  1. 1 2 Results for CC (36.9%, 24 seats) and AHI (0.3%, 2 seats) in the 1999 election.
  2. ↑ Dolores Rodríguez, former PSOE legislator.[10]
  3. 1 2 3 4 Within CC.
  4. 1 2 Results for PIL.
  5. 1 2 3 Does not include non-resident citizens.

References

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Opinion poll sources
  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Preelectoral elecciones municipales y autonómicas, 2003. CA de Canarias (Estudio nº 2487. Marzo-Abril 2003)". CIS (in Spanish). 17 May 2003.
  2. ↑ "La guerra pasa factura electoral al PP". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). 18 May 2003. Archived from the original on 7 December 2017. Retrieved 11 December 2017.
  3. 1 2 "Instituciones y autonomías, II. CA de Aragón (Estudio nº 2455. Septiembre-Octubre 2002)". CIS (in Spanish). 19 November 2002. Archived from the original on 12 December 2017. Retrieved 11 December 2017.
  4. ↑ "El PP, partido más votado en diez Comunidades Autónomas" (PDF). El Mundo (in Spanish). 19 November 2002. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 28 June 2018.
  5. ↑ "El PP ganaría las autonómicas en diez Comunidades y el PSOE en cuatro, según el CIS". ABC (in Spanish). 20 November 2002. Archived from the original on 11 December 2017. Retrieved 11 December 2017.
  6. 1 2 "Sociobarómetro de Canarias (diciembre 2001)" (PDF). Regional Government of the Canary Islands (in Spanish). 23 December 2001.
  7. 1 2 "Sociobarómetro de Canarias (junio 2001)" (PDF). Regional Government of the Canary Islands (in Spanish). 20 June 2001.
  8. 1 2 "Sociobarómetro de Canarias (junio 2001)" (PDF). Regional Government of the Canary Islands (in Spanish). 30 December 2000.
  9. ↑ "Sociobarómetro de Canarias (julio 2000)" (PDF). Regional Government of the Canary Islands (in Spanish). 20 June 2001.
Other
  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. 1 2 3 4 5 Lozano, Carles. "Elecciones al Parlamento de Canarias (desde 1983)". Historia Electoral.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 26 April 2026.
  11. ↑ "Los grupos parlamentarios. V Legislatura" (in Spanish). Parliament of the Canary Islands. Retrieved 3 May 2026.
  12. ↑ LECC (2003), art. 18 (suppl. by LOREG (1985), art. 44).
  13. ↑ "Soria es elegido presidente del PP en Canarias y Fraga en Galicia". El Mundo (in Spanish). Santa Cruz de Tenerife / Santiago de Compostela. EFE. 3 October 1999. Retrieved 2 May 2026.
  14. 1 2 "Elecciones al Parlamento de Canarias. Elecciones 2003" (in Spanish). Parliament of the Canary Islands. Retrieved 26 April 2026.
  15. 1 2 "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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