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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.