Catalan parliamentary election, 2010

Catalan parliamentary election, 2010

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All 135 seats in the Parliament of Catalonia 68 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered	5,363,688 0.8%
Turnout	3,152,630 (58.8%) 2.8 pp
First party Second party Third party   Leader Artur Mas José Montilla Alicia Sánchez-Camacho Party CiU PSC–PSOE PP Leader since 7 January 2002 15 July 2006 6 July 2008 Leader's seat Barcelona Barcelona Barcelona Last election 48 seats, 31.5% 37 seats, 26.8% 14 seats, 10.7% Seats won 62 28 18 Seat change 14 9 4 Popular vote 1,202,830 575,233 387,066 Percentage 38.4% 18.4% 12.4% Swing 6.9 pp 8.4 pp 1.7 pp   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Joan Herrera Joan Puigcercós Joan Laporta Party ICV–EUiA ERC SI Leader since 23 November 2008 7 June 2008 4 September 2010 Leader's seat Barcelona Barcelona Barcelona Last election 12 seats, 9.5% 21 seats, 14.0% Did not contest Seats won 10 10 4 Seat change 2 11 4 Popular vote 230,824 219,173 102,921 Percentage 7.4% 7.0% 3.3% Swing 2.1 pp 7.0 pp New party
Constituency results map for the Parliament of Catalonia
President before election José Montilla PSC–PSOE Elected President Artur Mas CiU

José Montilla
PSC–PSOE

Artur Mas
CiU

The 2010 Catalan parliamentary election was held on Sunday, 28 November 2010, to elect the 9th Parliament of Catalonia, the regional legislature of the Spanish autonomous community of Catalonia. All 135 seats in the Parliament were up for election.

The election resulted in the ousting of the Catalan tripartite coalition, composed of the Socialists' Party of Catalonia (PSC), Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC) and Initiative for Catalonia Greens (ICV) from the Catalan government and the return to power of Convergence and Union (CiU) after 7 years in opposition.

Artur Mas was sworn in as President of the Generalitat of Catalonia and was able to govern with confidence and supply support from the People's Party of Catalonia (PPC) until Mas' independentist drift in late-2012.

No electoral law was in force at the time, with election rules for the Parliament regulated under the electoral system for the Congress of Deputies and special provisions within the regional Statute of Autonomy. The Parliament of Catalonia was elected using the D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional representation. Under the Statute, the Parliament was entitled to a minimum of 100 members and a maximum of 150, which provisional statutory rules set to 135. All seats were allocated to four multi-member districts—each corresponding to a province, with allocation awarding 85 seats to Barcelona, 17 to Girona, 15 to Lleida and 18 to Tarragona—. A threshold of 3% of valid votes—which included blank ballots—was applied in each constituency, with parties not reaching the threshold not taken into consideration for seat distribution.