Andalusian regional election, 2012

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All 109 seats in the Parliament of Andalusia
55 seats needed for a majority

Opinion polls

Registered

6,392,620

2.6%

Turnout

3,885,137 (60.8%)

11.9 pp

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Javier Arenas	José Antonio Griñán	Diego Valderas
Party	PP	PSOE–A	IULV–CA
Leader since	18 April 2004	23 April 2009	10 October 2000
Leader's seat	Almería	Seville	Huelva
Last election	47 seats, 38.5%	56 seats, 48.4%	6 seats, 7.1%
Seats won	50	47	12
Seat change	3	9	6
Popular vote	1,570,833	1,527,923	438,372
Percentage	40.7%	39.6%	11.3%
Swing	2.2 pp	8.8 pp	4.2 pp

Constituency results map for the Parliament of Andalusia

President before election

José Antonio Griñán
PSOE–A

Elected President

José Antonio Griñán
PSOE–A

The 2012 Andalusian regional election was held on Sunday, 25 March 2012, to elect the 9th Parliament of the Autonomous Community of Andalusia. All 109 seats in the Parliament were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with a regional election in Asturias.

Being a Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE–A) stronghold for decades, the People's Party (PP) had scored a decisive win in the region in the November 2011 general election and was widely expected to come out on top for the first time in its history, with opinion polls suggesting it could win an absolute majority on its own. The election, however, came to be seen as the first major electoral test for the national Mariano Rajoy's government since coming to power in December 2011; Rajoy's policies of raising taxes and the passing of a new, harsher labour reform had triggered a general strike scheduled for 29 March. Incumbent President José Antonio Griñán chose not to held the election simultaneously with the 2011 general election—the first time since 1994 that both elections were not held at the same time.

Final results showed a surprising close race between the PP and the PSOE–A, the first emerging out on top but falling far short of an overall majority. In contrast, the PSOE–A held its own and retained 47 seats despite polls predicting a tougher defeat, allowing Griñán to remain in power through a coalition government with United Left (IULV–CA), which doubled its seat count from 6 to 12 and was placed in a "kingmaker" position.

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