Catalonian parliamentary election, 1999

Catalan regional election, 1999

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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 Jordi Pujol Pasqual Maragall Alberto Fernández Díaz Party CiU PSC–CpC PP Leader since 17 November 1974 6 March 1999 28 September 1996 Leader's seat Barcelona Barcelona Barcelona Last election 60 seats, 40.9% 35 seats, 26.1% 17 seats, 13.1% Seats won 56 52 12 Seat change 4 17 5 Popular vote 1,178,420 1,183,299 297,265 Percentage 37.7% 37.9% 9.5% Swing 3.2 pp 11.8 pp 3.6 pp   Fourth party Fifth party   Leader Josep-Lluís Carod-Rovira Rafael Ribó Party ERC IC–V Leader since 25 November 1996 23 February 1987 Leader's seat Barcelona Barcelona Last election 13 seats, 9.5% 10 seats, 8.5% Seats won 12 3 Seat change 1 7 Popular vote 271,173 78,441 Percentage 8.7% 2.5% Swing 0.8 pp 6.0 pp
Constituency results map for the Parliament of Catalonia
President before election Jordi Pujol CiU Elected President Jordi Pujol CiU

Jordi Pujol
CiU

Jordi Pujol
CiU

The 1999 Catalan regional election was held on Sunday, 17 October 1999, to elect the 6th Parliament of the Autonomous Community of Catalonia. All 135 seats in the Parliament were up for election.

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 a regional law, the Parliament was entitled to a minimum of 100 members and a maximum of 150, which provisional rules in the Statute 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.

Voting was on the basis of universal suffrage, with all residents over eighteen and in the full enjoyment of all political rights entitled to vote. Concurrently, residents meeting the previous criteria and not involved in any cause of ineligibility were eligible for the Parliament. Groups of electors were required to obtain the signatures of at least 1% of registered electors in a particular district in order to be able to field candidates.