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Next Basque regional election

Next Basque regional election
Basque Country (autonomous community)
← 2016 No later than 25 October 2020

All 75 seats in the Basque Parliament
38 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
  First party Second party Third party
  Iñigo Urkullu 2015 (cropped).jpg Maddalen Iriarte 2016 (cropped).jpg Pilar Zabala 2016 (cropped).jpg
Leader Iñigo Urkullu Maddalen Iriarte Pilar Zabala
Party EAJ/PNV EH Bildu Elkarrekin Podemos
Leader since 2 December 2007 24 August 2016 11 August 2016
Leader's seat Álava Gipuzkoa Gipuzkoa
Last election 28 seats, 37.4% 18 seats, 21.1% 11 seats, 14.8%

  Fourth party Fifth party
  Idoia Mendia Cueva (cropped).jpg Alfonso Alonso 2015b (cropped).jpg
Leader Idoia Mendia Alfonso Alonso
Party PSE–EE (PSOE) PP
Leader since 20 September 2014 15 October 2015
Leader's seat Biscay Álava
Last election 9 seats, 11.9% 9 seats, 10.1%

Lehendakari before election

Iñigo Urkullu
EAJ/PNV

Elected Lehendakari

TBD


Iñigo Urkullu
EAJ/PNV

TBD

The Next Basque regional election will be held on or before Sunday, 25 October 2020, to elect the 12th Parliament of the Basque Autonomous Community. All 75 seats in the Parliament will be up for election.

The Basque Parliament is elected using the D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional representation. Under the regional Statute of Autonomy, all three Basque historical territories—the provinces—are to constitute multi-member districts, being assigned an equal number of seats each. The electoral law set this to a fixed-number of 25, for a total of 75 seats. A threshold of 3% of valid votes—which includes blank ballots—is applied in each constituency, with parties not reaching the threshold not taken into consideration for seat distribution.

Voting is on the basis of universal suffrage, with all residents over eighteen and in the full enjoyment of all political rights entitled to vote—however, amendments to the electoral law in 2011 required for Spaniards abroad to apply for voting before being permitted to vote, a system known as "requested" or expat vote (Spanish: Voto rogado)—. Concurrently, residents meeting the previous criteria and not involved in any cause of ineligibility are eligible for the Parliament. Gender quotas were introduced in 2005, requiring for party lists to be composed of at least 50% of women candidates and for this proportion to be maintained for each group of six candidates. Groups of electors are required to obtain the signatures of at least 1% of registered electors in a particular district in order to be able to field candidates.


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