2019 Canarian regional election
26 May 2019
All 70 seats in the Parliament of the Canary Islands
36 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
RegisteredIsland: 1,719,596 3.5%
Regional: 1,720,724
TurnoutIsland: 904,369 (52.6%) 3.5 pp
Regional: 904,093 (52.5%)
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Ángel Víctor Torres Fernando Clavijo Asier Antona
Party PSOE CCa–PNC PP
Leader since 23 July 2017 12 September 2014 22 April 2016
Leader's seat Regional Regional La Palma
Last election 15 seats, 19.9% 18 seats, 21.8%[lower-alpha 1] 12 seats, 18.6%
Seats won 25 20 11
Seat change 10 2 1
Island vote 258,255 196,080 135,722
Island % 28.9% 21.9% 15.2%
Island swing 9.0 pp 0.1 pp 3.4 pp
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Román Rodríguez Noemí Santana Casimiro Curbelo
Party NCa Podemos–SSP–Equo ASG
Leader since 26 February 2005 1 April 2015 6 March 2015
Leader's seat Regional Gran Canaria La Gomera
Last election 5 seats, 10.4%[lower-alpha 2] 7 seats, 14.5% 3 seats, 0.6%
Seats won 5 4 3
Seat change 0 3 0
Island vote 80,891 78,532 6,222
Island % 9.0% 8.8% 0.7%
Island swing 1.4 pp 5.7 pp 0.1 pp
  Seventh party
 
Leader Vidina Espino
Party Cs
Leader since 2 March 2019
Leader's seat Gran Canaria
Last election 0 seats, 5.9%
Seats won 2
Seat change 2
Island vote 65,854
Island % 7.4%
Island swing 1.5 pp
Constituency results map for the Parliament of the Canary Islands
President before election

Fernando Clavijo
CCa

 Elected President

Ángel Víctor Torres
PSOE

The 2019 Canarian regional election was held on Sunday, 26 May 2019, to elect the 10th Parliament of the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands. All 70 seats in the Parliament were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with regional elections in eleven other autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain, as well as the 2019 European Parliament election.

The election saw the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) under Ángel Víctor Torres becoming the largest force in the islands. Together with New Canaries (NCa), the Yes We Can Canaries alliance led by Podemos and the Gomera Socialist Group (ASG), Torres was able to become regional president, sending Canarian Coalition (CCa) into opposition for the first time since 1993. Support for the People's Party (PP) shrunk, with the party obtaining its worst result since 1991.

Overview

Electoral system

The Parliament of the Canary Islands was the devolved, unicameral legislature of the autonomous community of the Canary Islands, having legislative power in regional matters as defined by the Spanish Constitution and the Canarian Statute of Autonomy, as well as the ability to vote confidence in or withdraw it from a regional president.[1] Voting for the Parliament was on the basis of universal suffrage, which comprised all nationals over 18 years of age, registered in the Canary Islands and in full enjoyment of their political rights. Additionally, Canarians abroad were required to apply for voting before being permitted to vote, a system known as "begged" or expat vote (Spanish: Voto rogado).[2]

The 70 members of the Parliament of the Canary Islands were elected using the D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional representation, with an electoral threshold of 15 percent of valid votes—which included blank ballots—being applied in each constituency. Alternatively, parties could also enter the seat distribution as long as they reached four percent regionally. Seats were allocated to constituencies, corresponding to the islands of El Hierro, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, La Gomera, La Palma, Lanzarote and Tenerife, as well as an additional constituency comprising the whole archipelago, with each being allocated a fixed number of seats:[1]

Seats Constituencies
15 Gran Canaria, Tenerife
9 Regional
8 Fuerteventura(+1), La Palma, Lanzarote
4 La Gomera
3 El Hierro

Election date

The term of the Parliament of the Canary Islands expired four years after the date of its previous election, with elections to the Parliament being fixed for the fourth Sunday of May every four years. The previous election was held on 24 May 2015, setting the election date for the Parliament on Sunday, 26 May 2019.[1][3][4]

After legal amendments in 2018, the president was granted the prerogative to dissolve the Parliament of the Canary Islands and call a snap election, provided that no motion of no confidence was in process and that dissolution did not occur before one year had elapsed since the previous one. 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. Any snap election held as a result of these circumstances would not alter the period to the next ordinary election, with elected deputies merely serving out what remained of their four-year terms.[1]

The election to the Parliament of the Canary Islands was officially triggered on 2 April 2019 after the publication of the election decree in the Official Gazette of the Canary Islands (BOC).[5]

Parties and candidates

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, 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.[4]

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

Candidacy Parties and
alliances		 Candidate Ideology Previous result Gov. Ref.
Votes (%) Seats
CCa–PNC Fernando Clavijo Regionalism
Canarian nationalism
Centrism		 21.84%[lower-alpha 1] 18 check [6]
[7]
PSOE Ángel Víctor Torres Social democracy 19.89% 15 ☒ [8]
[9]
PP
List
 Asier Antona Conservatism
Christian democracy		 18.59% 12 ☒ [10]
[11]
Podemos–
SSP–Equo
List
 Noemí Santana Left-wing populism
Direct democracy
Democratic socialism		 14.54% 7 ☒ [12]
[13]
NCa
List
  • New Canaries (NCa)
  • Municipal Assemblies of Fuerteventura (AMF)
Román Rodríguez Canarian nationalism
Social democracy		 10.39%[lower-alpha 2] 5 ☒ [14]
Cs Vidina Espino Liberalism 5.94% 0 ☒ [15]
ASG Casimiro Curbelo Insularism
Social democracy		 0.56% 3 ☒
Vox
List
 Carmelo González Right-wing populism
Ultranationalism
National conservatism		 0.20% 0 ☒ [16]

Campaign

Election debates

2019 Canarian regional election debates
Date Organisers Moderator(s)     P  Present[lower-alpha 3]    NI  Not invited 
CCa–PNC PSOE PP USP NCa Cs Audience Ref.
10 May Cadena SER Miguel Ángel Rodríguez P
Clavijo		 P
Torres		 P
Antona		 P
Santana		 P
Rodríguez		 P
Espino		 — [17]
15 May RTVC Roberto González
Pilar Rumeu		 P
Clavijo		 P
Torres		 P
Antona		 P
Santana		 P
Rodríguez		 NI 6.1%
(46,000)		 [18]
[19]
23 May RTVE Nayra Santana P
Clavijo		 P
Torres		 P
Antona		 P
Santana		 P
Rodríguez		 P
Espino		 N/A [20]
24 May COPE Mayer Trujillo P
Clavijo		 P
Torres		 P
Antona		 P
Santana		 P
Rodríguez		 P
Espino		 — [21]

Opinion polls

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; 36 seats were required for an absolute majority in the Parliament of the Canary Islands (31 until 6 November 2018).

Color key:

  Poll conducted after legal ban on opinion polls   Exit poll

Results

Overall

← Summary of the 26 May 2019 Parliament of the Canary Islands election results →
Parties and alliances Island constituencies Regional constituency Seats
Votes  % ±pp Votes  % ±pp Total +/−
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) 258,25528.88+8.99 264,22129.53n/a 25+10
Canarian Coalition–Canarian Nationalist Party–United (CCa–PNC)1 196,08021.93+0.09 209,15023.37n/a 20+2
People's Party (PP) 135,72215.18–3.41 130,61714.60n/a 11–1
New Canaries (NCa)2 80,8919.05–1.34 82,9809.27n/a 5±0
Yes We Can Canaries (Podemos–SSP–Equo)3 78,5328.78–5.76 76,4338.54n/a 4–3
Citizens–Party of the Citizenry (Cs) 65,8547.36+1.42 62,1156.94n/a 2+2
Vox (Vox) 22,0782.47+2.27 22,1782.48n/a 0±0
Animalist Party Against Mistreatment of Animals (PACMA) 10,0291.12–0.11 12,1661.36n/a 0±0
Canarian United Left (IUC)4 9,1151.02–1.18 8,5980.96n/a 0±0
Gomera Socialist Group (ASG) 6,2220.70+0.14 ——n/a 3±0
The Greens–Green Group (LV–GV) 5,0580.57New 6,2630.70n/a 0±0
Canaries Now (ANC–UP)5 2,5150.28–0.34 3,1630.35n/a 0±0
More for Telde (+xT) 1,9850.22–0.15 ——n/a 0±0
Tenerife Socialist Group (ASTf) 1,5120.17New ——n/a 0±0
Santa Cruz Common Sense (SCSC) 1,3790.15New ——n/a 0±0
Nivaria (Nivaria) 1,1530.13New ——n/a 0±0
Communist Party of the Canarian People (PCPC) 9890.11–0.09 1,2000.13n/a 0±0
With You, We Are Democracy (Contigo) 9700.11New 7940.09n/a 0±0
Fuerteventura Party (PF) 9540.11New ——n/a 0±0
Seniors in Action (3e en acción) 9110.10New ——n/a 0±0
United for Lanzarote (UPLanzarote) 6570.07New ——n/a 0±0
For a Fairer World (PUM+J) 5750.06–0.14 9790.11n/a 0±0
Democratic Union of the Canary Islands (UDC) 5220.06New 1,2480.14n/a 0±0
Let's Vote Fuerteventura (Votemos) 3870.04New ——n/a 0±0
Humanist Party (PH) 3370.04New ——n/a 0±0
Canaries for Progress (Ci–Progreso) 2630.03New ——n/a 0±0
Federation Free Socialist Party (PSLF) 2240.03New ——n/a 0±0
Movement for the Unity of the Canarian People (MUPC) ——–0.19 7820.09n/a 0±0
Union of Independent Citizens (UCIN) ——New 4500.05n/a 0±0
Libertarian Party (P–LIB) ——New 4360.05n/a 0±0
Blank ballots 11,1111.24–0.59 11,0891.24n/a
Total 894,280 894,862 70+10
Valid votes 894,28098.88+0.68 894,86298.98n/a
Invalid votes 10,0891.12–0.68 9,2311.02n/a
Votes cast / turnout 904,36952.59–3.50 904,09352.54n/a
Abstentions 815,22747.41+3.50 816,63147.46n/a
Registered voters 1,719,596 1,720,724
Sources[23][24]
Footnotes:
Popular vote (island constituencies)
PSOE
 
 28.88%
CCa–PNC
 
 21.93%
PP
 
 15.18%
NCa
 
 9.05%
SPC
 
 8.78%
Cs
 
 7.36%
Vox
 
 2.47%
PACMA
 
 1.12%
IUC
 
 1.02%
ASG
 
 0.70%
Others
 
 2.28%
Blank ballots
 
 1.24%
Popular vote (regional constituency)
PSOE
 
 29.53%
CCa–PNC
 
 23.37%
PP
 
 14.60%
NCa
 
 9.27%
SPC
 
 8.54%
Cs
 
 6.94%
Vox
 
 2.48%
PACMA
 
 1.36%
Others
 
 2.67%
Blank ballots
 
 1.24%
Seats
PSOE
 
 35.71%
CCa–PNC
 
 28.57%
PP
 
 15.71%
NCa
 
 7.04%
SPC
 
 5.71%
ASG
 
 4.29%
Cs
 
 2.86%

Distribution by constituency

Constituency PSOE CC–PNC PP NCa SPC Cs ASG
 % S  % S  % S  % S  % S  % S  % S
El Hierro 31.5 1 35.4 1 18.2 1 5.0 − 3.7 −
Fuerteventura 26.0 3 25.1 3 13.8 1 11.2 1 7.0 − 5.7 −
Gran Canaria 28.3 5 11.7 2 16.5 3 17.7 3 8.9 1 8.9 1
La Gomera 20.7 1 9.1 − 4.4 − 4.0 − 6.6 − 1.7 − 52.1 3
La Palma 27.2 3 30.9 3 25.0 2 3.7 − 4.2 − 3.2 −
Lanzarote 28.4 3 32.0 3 12.7 1 5.3 − 8.1 1 5.6 −
Tenerife 30.2 6 29.2 5 13.5 2 2.0 − 9.6 1 7.0 1
Regional 29.5 3 23.4 3 14.6 1 9.3 1 8.5 1 6.9 −
Total 28.9 25 21.9 20 15.2 11 9.0 5 8.8 4 7.4 2 0.7 3

Aftermath

Investiture
Ángel Víctor Torres (PSOE)
Ballot → 12 July 2019
Required majority → 36 out of 70 check
Yes
37 / 70
No
33 / 70
Abstentions
0 / 70
Absentees
0 / 70
Sources[25]

Notes

  1. 1 2 Results for CCa–PNC (18.25%, 18 seats) and Unidos (3.59%, 0 seats) in the 2015 election.
  2. 1 2 Results for NCa (10.23%, 5 seats) and AMF (0.16%, 0 seats) in the 2015 election.
  3. ↑ Denotes a main invitee attending the event.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Within CCa.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Within Unidas Podemos.
  6. 1 2 Within PSOE.

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Opinion poll sources
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