Castilian-Leonese regional election, 2011

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All 84 seats in the Cortes of Castile and León
43 seats needed for a majority

Opinion polls

Registered

2,166,385

0.2%

Turnout

1,462,397 (67.5%)

3.2 pp

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Juan Vicente Herrera	Óscar López	José María González
Party	PP	PSOE	IUCyL
Leader since	16 March 2001	20 September 2008	2007
Last election	48 seats, 49.2%	33 seats, 37.7%	0 seats, 3.1%
Seats won	53	29	1
Seat change	5	4	1
Popular vote	739,505	425,777	69,872
Percentage	51.6%	29.7%	4.9%
Swing	2.4 pp	8.0 pp	1.8 pp

	Fourth party

Leader	Alejandro Valderas
Party	UPL
Leader since	2011
Last election	2 seats, 2.7%
Seats won	1
Seat change	1
Popular vote	26,660
Percentage	1.9%
Swing	0.8 pp

President before election

Juan Vicente Herrera
PP

Elected President

Juan Vicente Herrera
PP

The 2011 Castilian-Leonese regional election was held on Sunday, 22 May 2011, to elect the 8th Cortes of the Autonomous Community of Castile and León. All 84 seats in the Cortes were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with regional elections in 12 other autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain.

The elections were won by the People's Party (pp), which had formed the government of the region since the second democratic election in 1987 and had won a majority of seats since the 1991 election. Both the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) and Leonese People's Union (UPL) lost seats, while United Left (IU) won its first seat since the 1999 election.

One of the first tasks of the Courts was to elect the President of Castile and León from among their number, with the incumbent President, Juan Vicente Herrera of the PP, being re-elected.

The number of seats in the regional Courts was determined by the population count. For the 2011 election, the Courts size was set to 84 seats. All Courts members were elected in 9 multi-member districts, corresponding to Castile and León's nine provinces, using the D'Hondt method and a closed-list proportional representation system. Each district was entitled to an initial minimum of 3 seats, with 1 additional seat per each 45,000 inhabitants or fraction greater than 22,500. For the 2011 election, seats were distributed as follows: Avila (7), Burgos (11), Leon (14), Palencia (7), Salamanca (11), Segovia (7), Soria (5), Valladolid (15) and Zamora (7).

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