Cantabrian regional election, 1991

Cantabrian regional election, 1991

← 1987 26 May 1991 1995 →
All 39 seats in the Regional Assembly of Cantabria 20 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered	412,406 4.4%
Turnout	298,348 (72.3%) 3.4 pp
First party Second party Third party   Leader Jaime Blanco Juan Hormaechea José Luis Vallines Party PSOE UPCA PP Leader since 1977 23 January 1991 1990 Leader's seat Cantabria Cantabria Cantabria Last election 13 seats, 29.6% Did not contest 18 seats, 43.7% Seats won 16 15 6 Seat change 3 15 12 Popular vote 102,958 99,194 42,714 Percentage 34.8% 33.5% 14.4% Swing 5.2 pp New party 29.3 pp   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Miguel Ángel Revilla Ángel Agudo Manuel Garrido Party PRC IU CDS Leader since 1983 1983 1987 Leader's seat Cantabria Cantabria Cantabria Last election 5 seats, 12.9% 0 seats, 3.6% 3 seats, 6.6% Seats won 2 0 0 Seat change 3 0 3 Popular vote 18,789 13,023 7,926 Percentage 6.4% 4.4% 2.7% Swing 6.5 pp 0.8 pp 3.9 pp
President before election Jaime Blanco PSOE Elected President Juan Hormaechea UPCA

Jaime Blanco
PSOE

Juan Hormaechea
UPCA

The 1991 Cantabrian regional election was held on Sunday, 26 May 1991, to elect the 3rd Regional Assembly of the Autonomous Community of Cantabria. All 39 seats in the Regional Assembly were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with regional elections in 12 other autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain.

The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) under incumbent President Jaime Blanco went on to win its first and only regional election in Cantabria. Juan Hormaechea's Union for the Progress of Cantabria (UPCA), a split from the People's Party (PP), won 15 seats and 33% of the vote, with the PP vote collapsing to 6 seats and 14% of the vote as a result. The Regionalist Party of Cantabria (PRC) suffered from the UPCA's surge and returned to its 1983 results, while the Democratic and Social Centre did not reach the required 5% threshold and was expelled from parliament.

Juan Hormaechea managed to get re-elected as regional President thanks to a UPCA-PP agreement. He had been forced to resign in late 1990, after a no-confidence motion was passed against him by an alliance of PSOE, PP, PRC and CDS.

The 1987 election had seen AP candidate Juan Hormaechea win the election with 19 out of 39 seats, 1 short for the absolute majority. Hormaechea, who had been Mayor of Santander between 1974 and 1987 and stood as an independent within AP, was elected as President of Cantabria thanks to the abstention vote of the CDS two deputies.

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