Catalan regional election, 2015

Catalan regional election, 2015

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All 135 seats in the Parliament of Catalonia 68 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered	5,510,853 1.8%
Turnout	4,130,196 (74.9%) 7.1 pp
First party Second party Third party   Leader Artur Mas Inés Arrimadas Miquel Iceta Party JxSí C's PSC–PSOE Leader since 15 July 2015 3 July 2015 19 July 2014 Leader's seat Barcelona Barcelona Barcelona Last election 62 seats, 38.9% 9 seats, 7.6% 20 seats, 14.4% Seats won 62 25 16 Seat change 0 16 4 Popular vote 1,628,714 736,364 523,283 Percentage 39.6% 17.9% 12.7% Swing 0.7 pp 10.3 pp 1.7 pp   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Lluís Rabell Xavier García Albiol Antonio Baños Party CatSíqueesPot PP CUP Leader since 23 July 2015 28 July 2015 30 July 2015 Leader's seat Barcelona Barcelona Barcelona Last election 13 seats, 9.9% 19 seats, 13.0% 3 seats, 3.5% Seats won 11 11 10 Seat change 2 8 7 Popular vote 367,613 349,193 337,794 Percentage 8.9% 8.5% 8.2% Swing 1.0 pp 4.5 pp 4.7 pp
Constituency results map for the Parliament of Catalonia
President before election Artur Mas CDC (JxSí) Elected President Carles Puigdemont CDC (JxSí)

Artur Mas
CDC (JxSí)

Carles Puigdemont
CDC (JxSí)

The 2015 Catalan regional election was held on Sunday, 27 September 2015, electing the 11th Parliament of the Autonomous Community of Catalonia. All 135 seats in the Parliament were up for election. This was the third regional Catalan election in only five years, after the 2010 and 2012 elections and the first one in over 37 years in which Democratic Convergence of Catalonia (CDC) and Democratic Union of Catalonia (UDC) ran separately, after the dissolution of Convergence and Union (CiU) in June 2015 over disgreements on the coalition's separatist turn.

The plan to hold a snap election in 2015 was announced on 14 January by President Artur Mas. After the non-binding 2014 independence referendum, Mas declared that the election was to be turned into an alternative vote on independence, with pro-independence parties including the independence goal in their election manifestos. As part of the process, CDC, along with Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC), Democrats of Catalonia (DC) and Left Movement (MES) would run together under the Together for Yes (JxSí) platform, with support from members of the pro-independence Catalan National Assembly (ANC), Òmnium and the Municipalities' Association for Independence (AMI). The alliance, however, failed to achieve its self-stated goal to attain an absolute majority on its own.