Catalan parliamentary election, 1999

Catalan parliamentary election, 1999

1995 ← 17 October 1999 → 2003

All 135 seats in the Parliament of Catalonia 68 seats needed for a majority Opinion polls Registered 5,293,657 4.2% Turnout 3,133,926 (59.2%) 4.4 pp   First party Second party Third party   Leader Pasqual Maragall Jordi Pujol Alberto Fernández Díaz Party PSC CiU PPC Leader since 6 March 1999 19 September 1978 28 September 1996 Last election 34 seats, 24.9% 60 seats, 40.9% 17 seats, 13.1% Seats won 52 56 12 Seat change 18 4 5 Popular vote 1,183,299 1,178,420 297,265 Percentage 37.9% 37.7% 9.5% Swing 13.0 pp 3.2 pp 3.6 pp   Fourth party Fifth party   Leader Josep-Lluís Carod-Rovira Rafael Ribó Party ERC ICV Leader since 25 November 1996 23 February 1987 Last election 13 seats, 9.5% 11 seats, 9.7% Seats won 12 3 Seat change 1 8 Popular vote 271,173 78,441 Percentage 8.7% 2.5% Swing 0.8 pp 7.2 pp

Graphic of the results in the Catalan Parliament election, 1999, based in seats and constituencies.

President before election Jordi Pujol CiU Elected President Jordi Pujol CiU

Jordi Pujol
CiU

Jordi Pujol
CiU

The 1999 Catalan parliamentary election was held on Sunday, 17 October 1999, to elect the 6th Parliament of Catalonia, the regional legislature of the Spanish autonomous community of Catalonia. At stake were all 135 seats in the Parliament, determining the President of Catalonia.

The 135 members of the Parliament of Catalonia were elected in 4 multi-member districts, corresponding to Catalonia's four provinces, using the D'Hondt method and a closed-list proportional representation. As the community did not have an electoral law of its own passed into law at the time of the 1999 election, the electoral system came regulated under the community's Statute of Autonomy rules, and subsidiarily, under the Spanish general electoral law (Organic Law 5/1985, of the General Electoral Regime). As a result of the lack of an autonomous electoral law, seats were allocated to districts through specific Laws or Decrees for each election. For the 1999 election, seats were distributed as follows: Barcelona (85), Girona (17), Lleida (15) and Tarragona (18).

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