Asturian regional election, 1999

Asturian regional election, 1999

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All 45 seats in the General Junta of the Principality of Asturias 23 seats needed for a majority
Registered	979,618 3.7%
Turnout	623,242 (63.6%) 5.5 pp
First party Second party Third party   Leader Vicente Álvarez Areces Ovidio Sánchez Gaspar Llamazares Party PSOE PP IU Leader since 14 June 1998 9 December 1998 1991 Leader's seat Central Central Central Last election 17 seats, 33.8% 21 seats, 42.0% 6 seats, 16.4% Seats won 24 15 3 Seat change 7 6 3 Popular vote 284,972 200,164 55,747 Percentage 46.0% 32.3% 9.0% Swing 12.2 pp 9.7 pp 7.4 pp   Fourth party Fifth party   Leader Sergio Marqués Xuan Xosé Sánchez Party URAS PAS Leader since 2 December 1998 1985 Leader's seat Central Central (lost) Last election Did not contest 1 seat, 3.2% Seats won 3 0 Seat change 3 1 Popular vote 44,261 15,998 Percentage 7.1% 2.6% Swing New party 0.6 pp
Constituency results map for the General Junta of the Principality of Asturias
President before election Sergio Marqués URAS Elected President Vicente Álvarez Areces PSOE

Sergio Marqués
URAS

Vicente Álvarez Areces
PSOE

The 1999 Asturian regional election was held on Sunday, 13 June 1999, to elect the 5th 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 twelve other autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain, as well as the 1999 European Parliament election.

An internal People's Party (PP) crisis starting in 1997 between the regional PP leadership and President Sergio Marqués resulted in a party split, with Marqués' government breaking away from the PP in 1998, maintaining the support of only 5 of the 21 PP deputies for the remainder of the legislature.

As a result of the ensuing political crisis, the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) of Vicente Álvarez Areces went on to win an absolute majority of seats, at the cost of the greatly weakened PP. United Left (IU) also suffered from the party crisis at the national level and lost half of its support, while Sergio Marqués' party, the Asturian Renewal Union (URAS), entered parliament with 3 seats.