Galician regional election, 2016

Galician regional election, 2016

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All 75 seats in the Parliament of Galicia 38 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered	2,701,932 0.2%
Turnout	1,448,962 (53.6%) 1.3 pp
First party Second party Third party   Leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo Luis Villares Xoaquín Fernández Leiceaga Party PP En Marea PSdeG–PSOE Leader since 15 January 2006 19 August 2016 28 May 2016 Leader's seat Pontevedra Lugo A Coruña Last election 41 seats, 45.8% 9 seats, 13.9% 18 seats, 20.6% Seats won 41 14 14 Seat change 0 5 4 Popular vote 682,150 273,523 256,381 Percentage 47.6% 19.1% 17.9% Swing 1.8 pp 5.2 pp 2.7 pp   Fourth party Fifth party   Leader Ana Pontón Cristina Losada Party BNG C's Leader since 30 April 2016 9 August 2016 Leader's seat A Coruña A Coruña Last election 7 seats, 10.1% Did not contest Seats won 6 0 Seat change 1 0 Popular vote 119,446 48,553 Percentage 8.3% 3.4% Swing 1.8 New party
Constituency results map for the Parliament of Galicia
President before election Alberto Núñez Feijóo PP Elected President Alberto Núñez Feijóo PP

Alberto Núñez Feijóo
PP

Alberto Núñez Feijóo
PP

The 2016 Galician regional election was held on Sunday, 25 September 2016, to elect the 10th Parliament of the Autonomous Community of Galicia. All 75 seats in the Parliament were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with a regional election in the Basque Country.

Alberto Núñez Feijóo announced the election would be brought forward to September, after initially scheduling to held it throughout October, after Basque Lehendakari Iñigo Urkullu announced he would held the Basque election on 25 September. Feijóo argued his decision in that it would make "no sense" to hold the election just mere weeks after the Basque poll, specially considering the state of political instability dominating the national landscape and the possible backlash the regional elections could have on parties' stances during the government formation process.

The election took place in a situation in which the Spanish political landscape had undergone a major transformation in a short time, with a decrease of PP and PSOE nationally and the emergence of new options such as Podemos and C's.

The 75 members of the Parliament of Galicia are elected in 4 multi-member districts using the D'Hondt method and a closed-list proportional representation for four-year terms. Each district is entitled to an initial minimum of 10 seats, with the remaining 35 seats being allocated among the four provinces in proportion to their populations. Only lists polling above 5% of the total vote in each district (which includes blank ballots—for none of the above) are entitled to enter the seat distribution. However, in some districts there is a higher effective threshold at the constituency level, depending on the district magnitude.