Navarrese parliamentary election, 2015

Navarrese regional election, 2015

← 2011 24 May 2015
All 50 seats in the Parliament of Navarre 26 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered	501,267 3.3%
Turnout	342,173 (68.3%) 0.9 pp
First party Second party Third party   Leader Javier Esparza Uxue Barkos Adolfo Araiz Party UPN GBai EH Bildu Leader since 30 November 2014 3 October 2014 11 October 2014 Leader's seat Navarre Navarre Navarre Last election 19 seats, 34.5% 8 seats, 15.4% 7 seats, 13.3% Seats won 15 9 8 Seat change 4 1 1 Popular vote 92,705 53,497 48,166 Percentage 27.4% 15.8% 14.2% Swing 7.1 pp 0.4 pp 0.9 pp   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Laura Pérez María Chivite Ana Beltrán Party Podemos/Ahal Dugu PSN–PSOE PP Leader since 14 February 2015 13 December 2014 6 March 2015 Leader's seat Navarre Navarre Navarre Last election Did not contest 9 seats, 15.9% 4 seats, 7.3% Seats won 7 7 2 Seat change 7 2 2 Popular vote 46,207 45,164 13,289 Percentage 13.7% 13.4% 3.9% Swing New party 2.5 pp 3.4 pp
President before election Yolanda Barcina UPN Elected President Uxue Barkos GBai

Yolanda Barcina
UPN

Uxue Barkos
GBai

The 2015 Navarrese regional election was held on Sunday, 24 May 2015, to elect the 9th Parliament of the Foral Community of Navarre. All 50 seats in the Parliament were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with regional elections in 12 other autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain.

Outgoing President Yolanda Barcina, having first been elected in 2011, announced on 10 November 2014 that she would not seek re-election for a second term in office. This election was held after 19 years of uninterrupted UPN rule and marked the end of one of the most unstable parliamentary terms in the recent history of Navarre.

The 50 members of the Parliament of Navarre were elected in a single multi-member district, consisting of the Community's territory (the province of Navarre), using the D'Hondt method and a closed-list proportional representation system.

Voting was on the basis of universal suffrage in a secret ballot. Only lists polling above 3% of the total vote in all of the community (which include blank ballots—for none of the above) were entitled to enter the seat distribution.

As per article 12 of the Navarrese Electoral Law, election day was set for the fourth Sunday of May every four years. From the 2001 reform of Navarre's Statute of Autonomy, the President of Navarre could dissolve Parliament and call for a snap election at a time different than the legally established date, but was barred from doing so when less than one year remained for the next election's scheduled date. New elections would also be automatically held in the event of a parliamentary deadlock in the election of a new President for three months after voting day. Before the 2001 reform, the head of the largest parliamentary party became President if no candidate obtained a majority within 90 days. In both cases, the newly elected Parliament would have a full mandate for a four-year period.

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