Asturian parliamentary election, 2003

Asturian regional election, 2003

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25 May 2003

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All 45 seats in the General Junta of the Principality of Asturias
23 seats needed for a majority

Registered

976,104

0.4%

Turnout

623,149 (63.8%)

0.2 pp

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Vicente Álvarez Areces	Ovidio Sánchez	Francisco Javier García Valledor
Party	PSOE	PP	IU–BA
Leader since	14 June 1998	9 December 1998	April 2000
Leader's seat	Central	Central	Central
Last election	24 seats, 46.0%	15 seats, 32.3%	3 seats, 9.0%
Seats won	22	19	4
Seat change	2	4	1
Popular vote	250,474	242,396	68,360
Percentage	40.5%	39.2%	11.0%
Swing	5.5 pp	6.9 pp	2.0 pp

Constituency results map for the General Junta of the Principality of Asturias

President before election

Vicente Álvarez Areces
PSOE

Elected President

Vicente Álvarez Areces
PSOE

The 2003 Asturian regional election was held on Sunday, 25 May 2003, to elect the 6th General Junta of the Principality of Asturias. All 45 seats in the General Junta were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with regional elections in 12 other autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain.

The electoral system for the General Junta of the Principality of Asturias was regulated under the General Junta of the Principality of Asturias Elections System Law 14/1986 and, subsidiarily, under the general provisions of the General Electoral System Organic Law 5/1985 (LOREG). The General Junta was composed of 45 seats, allocated to constituencies established by law as follows:

Each constituency was entitled to an initial minimum of two seats, with the remaining 39 allocated in proportion to the constituencies' population. Deputies were elected using the D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional representation, with a threshold of 3% of valid votes—which included blank ballots—being applied in each constituency. Parties not reaching the threshold were not taken into consideration for seat distribution.

Under the LOREG and the 1981 Statute of Autonomy of Asturias, elections were fixed for the fourth Sunday of May every four years. The President of the Principality of Asturias had the prerogative to dissolve the General Junta and call a snap election, provided that no motion of censure process was ongoing and some time requirements were met—namely, that dissolution did not occur during the first period of sessions, nor after three years into the parliamentary term or before one year had passed since a previous dissolution triggered under this procedure—. Additionally, the chamber's dissolution was to be automatically triggered if an investiture process failed to elect a regional President within a two-month period from the first ballot. 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 the previous four-year parliamentary term.

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