Navarrese regional election, 2011

Navarrese regional election, 2011

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All 50 seats in the Parliament of Navarre 26 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered	485,386 2.9%
Turnout	327,281 (67.4%) 6.4 pp
First party Second party Third party   Leader Yolanda Barcina Roberto Jiménez Patxi Zabaleta Party UPN PSN–PSOE NaBai 2011 Leader since 19 April 2009 28 June 2008 16 September 2006 Last election 22 seats, 42.2% 12 seats, 22.5% 12 seats, 23.6% Seats won 19 9 8 Seat change 3 3 4 Popular vote 111,474 51,238 49,827 Percentage 34.5% 15.9% 15.4% Swing 7.7 pp 6.6 pp 8.2 pp   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Maiorga Ramírez Santiago Cervera José Miguel Nuin Party B–EA/AE–EA PP I-E Leader since 2011 10 December 2009 2010 Last election Did not contest Did not contest 2 seats, 4.3% Seats won 7 4 3 Seat change 7 4 1 Popular vote 42,916 23,551 18,457 Percentage 13.3% 7.3% 5.7% Swing New party New party 1.4 pp
President before election Miguel Sanz UPN Elected President Yolanda Barcina UPN

Miguel Sanz
UPN

Yolanda Barcina
UPN

The 2011 Navarrese regional election was held on Sunday, 22 May 2011, to elect the 8th 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 twelve other autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain.

The Navarrese People's Union (UPN) had formed the government of the region since the 1996. Between 1991 and 2008 UPN had an agreement with the People's Party (PP), functioning as PP sister party in the region in exchange for the PP itself not contesting elections in Navarre. The pact was broken in October 2008 following a dispute over a budgetary vote in the Congress of Deputies. As a result, this was the first regional election since 1987 in which both parties ran separately.

Another novelty for this election was that incumbent President Miguel Sanz had announced his intention not to run for a fifth term in office, being replaced as UPN candidate by Mayor of Pamplona Yolanda Barcina.

UPN remained the first political party of Navarre, albeit with a diminished popular vote due to the PP split. The PSN-PSOE obtained the worst result of its history up until that point, but recovered the 2nd place it had lost to Nafarroa Bai in 2007, which dropped to 3rd place as a result of Bildu's entry into Parliament.

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