Elections to the Corts Valencianes, 2003

Valencian regional election, 2003

← 1999 25 May 2003 2007 →
All 89 seats in the Corts Valencianes 45 seats needed for a majority
Registered	3,423,098 1.8%
Turnout	2,447,788 (71.5%) 3.7 pp
First party Second party Third party   Leader Francisco Camps Joan Ignasi Pla Joan Ribó Party PP PSPV–PSOE EU–V–EV Leader since 10 July 2002 24 September 2000 1997 Leader's seat Valencia Valencia Valencia Last election 49 seats, 47.9% 35 seats, 33.9% 5 seats, 6.1% Seats won 48 35 6 Seat change 1 0 1 Popular vote 1,146,780 874,288 154,494 Percentage 47.2% 35.9% 6.4% Swing 0.7 pp 2.0 pp 0.3 pp
Constituency results map for the Corts Valencianes
President before election José Luis Olivas PP Elected President Francisco Camps PP

José Luis Olivas
PP

Francisco Camps
PP

The 2003 Valencian regional election was held on Sunday, 25 May 2003, to elect the 6th Corts of the Valencian Community. All 89 seats in the Corts were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with regional elections in 12 other autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain.

Despite growing discontent with the nationwide José María Aznar's government, the People's Party (PP) was able to comfortably retain its absolute majority in the Courts, losing only 1 seat compared to 1999, which went to United Left (IU). The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), despite becoming the party that grew the most from 1999, was unable to translate those new votes into any new seats.

Valencian Union (UV), the former coalition partner of the PP during the first Zaplana Government (1999-2003), continued its decline into irrelevance and fell below 3%, depriving it of any possibility of overcoming the 5% required threshold to enter the Courts.

Francisco Camps became the new President of the Valencian Community succeeding José Luis Olivas, who had replaced Eduardo Zaplana in 2002 after the latter was named Minister of Labour and Social Affairs in Aznar's Cabinet.