Canarian regional election, 2007

Canarian regional election, 2007

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All 60 seats in the Parliament of the Canaries 31 seats needed for a majority
Registered	1,537,139 6.8%
Turnout	940,852 (61.2%) 3.4 pp
First party Second party Third party   Leader Juan Fernando López Aguilar Paulino Rivero José Manuel Soria Party PSOE CC–PNC PP Leader since 28 October 2006 3 February 2007 16 July 1999 Last election 17 seats, 25.4% 23 seats, 32.9% 17 seats, 30.6% Seats won 26 19 15 Seat change 9 4 2 Popular vote 322,833 226,122 224,883 Percentage 34.5% 24.2% 24.0% Swing 9.1 pp 8.7 pp 6.6 pp
Island-level units won by PSOE (red) and CC (yellow)
President before election Adán Martín CC Elected President Paulino Rivero CC

Adán Martín
CC

Paulino Rivero
CC

The 2007 Canarian regional election was held on Sunday, 27 May 2007, to elect the 7th 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 were elected in 7 multi-member districts using the D'Hondt method and a closed-list proportional representation system. Unlike other regions, districts did 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 was 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 was on the basis of universal suffrage in a secret ballot. Only lists polling above 30% of the total vote in each district or above 6% in all of the community (which include blank ballots—for none of the above) were entitled to enter the seat distribution.