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Turnout | 931,876 (56.1%) 2.8 pp |
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The 2015 Canarian regional election was held on Sunday, 24 May 2015, to elect the 9th Parliament of the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands. All 60 seats in the Parliament were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with regional elections in 12 other autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain.
The 60 members of the Canarian Parliament are elected in 7 multi-member districts using the D'Hondt method and a closed-list proportional representation system. Unlike other regions, districts do not coincide with provincial limits, being determined by law for each of the main islands to become a district of its own. The electoral system came regulated under the Autonomous Statute of Autonomy. Each district is assigned a fixed set of seats, distributed as follows: El Hierro (3), Fuerteventura (7), Gran Canaria (15), La Gomera (4), La Palma (8), Lanzarote (8) and Tenerife (15).
Voting is on the basis of universal suffrage in a secret ballot. Only lists polling above 30% of the total vote in each district, being the most voted in a district or polling above 6% in all of the community (which include blank ballots—for none of the above) are entitled to enter the seat distribution.