Basque regional election, 2016

Basque regional election, 2016

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All 75 seats in the Basque Parliament 38 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered	1,783,419 0.5%
Turnout	1,070,357 (60.0%) 3.9 pp
First party Second party Third party   Leader Iñigo Urkullu Maddalen Iriarte Pilar Zabala Party EAJ/PNV EH Bildu Elkarrekin Podemos Leader since 2 December 2007 24 August 2016 11 August 2016 Leader's seat Álava Gipuzkoa Gipuzkoa Last election 27 seats, 34.2% 21 seats, 24.7% 0 seats, 3.7% Seats won 28 18 11 Seat change 1 3 11 Popular vote 398,168 225,172 157,334 Percentage 37.4% 21.1% 14.8% Swing 3.2 pp 3.6 pp 11.1 pp   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Idoia Mendia Alfonso Alonso Nicolás de Miguel Party PSE–EE (PSOE) PP C's Leader since 20 September 2014 15 October 2015 2 August 2016 Leader's seat Biscay Álava Álava Last election 16 seats, 18.9% 10 seats, 11.6% Did not contest Seats won 9 9 0 Seat change 7 1 0 Popular vote 126,420 107,771 21,477 Percentage 11.9% 10.1% 2.0% Swing 7.0 pp 1.5 pp New party
Constituency results map for the Basque Parliament
Lehendakari before election Iñigo Urkullu EAJ/PNV Elected Lehendakari Iñigo Urkullu EAJ/PNV

Iñigo Urkullu
EAJ/PNV

Iñigo Urkullu
EAJ/PNV

The 2016 Basque regional election was held on Sunday, 25 September 2016, to elect the 11th Parliament of the Basque Autonomous Community. All 75 seats in the Parliament were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with a regional election in Galicia.

Lehendakari Iñigo Urkullu announced the election would be held one month ahead of schedule, on September 2016, as a result of the ongoing "climate of ungovernability" affecting national politics and intending to move the regional election away from a possible new general election and from the speculation surrounding the national government formation process. In a domino effect, this prompted Galician President Alberto Núñez Feijóo to also set the Galician regional election, scheduled for autumn 2016, for the same date.

On 1 March 2016, Sortu Secretary-General Arnaldo Otegi left the Logroño prison after serving his full prison sentence imposed for attempting to reorganize the banned Batasuna party. In addition to the prison sentence, Otegi had been sentenced to disqualification from holding any public office until 2021. Despite this, on 24 May the EH Bildu coalition proclaimed him as its candidate for lehendakari, on grounds that the ruling did not specify what specific charges affected his disqualification. After the official announcement of elections for 25 September, the various parties began to express their opinions on the issue.