Valencian parliamentary election, 1995

Valencian parliamentary election, 1995

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All 89 seats in the Corts Valencianes 45 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered	3,131,191 7.4%
Turnout	2,380,614 (76.0%) 6.8 pp
First party Second party Third party   Leader Eduardo Zaplana Joan Lerma Albert Taberner Party PP PSOE IU–LV–CE Leader since 26 September 1993 31 July 1979 1986 Leader's seat Valencia Valencia Valencia Last election 31 seats, 27.8% 45 seats, 42.8% 6 seats, 9.3% Seats won 42 32 10 Seat change 11 13 4 Popular vote 1,013,859 804,463 273,030 Percentage 42.8% 34.0% 11.5% Swing 15.0 pp 8.8 pp 4.0 pp   Fourth party   Leader Vicente González Lizondo Party UV–FICVA–CCV Leader since 1995 Leader's seat Valencia Last election 7 seats, 10.4% Seats won 5 Seat change 2 Popular vote 165,956 Percentage 7.0% Swing 3.4 pp
Constituency results map for the Corts Valencianes
President before election Joan Lerma PSOE Elected President Eduardo Zaplana PP

Joan Lerma
PSOE

Eduardo Zaplana
PP

The 1995 Valencian parliamentary election was held on Sunday, 28 May 1995, to elect the 4th democratically elected Corts Valencianes, the regional legislature of the Spanish autonomous community of the Land of Valencia. All 89 seats in the Corts were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with regional elections in 12 other autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain.

As a result of the election, the People's Party (PP) increased its vote share by 15 percentage points relative to the 1991 Courts elections. For the first time, the PP had won a regional election, becoming the first party to poll more than 1 million votes in the area and gaining eleven seats, 3 short of an absolute majority. Most of the gains came from Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), which lost 13 seats in the election. The regionalist Valencian Union (UV) also lost 1 seat, while United Left (IU) gained 4 seats to overtake UV as the third largest party.

A coalition agreement between the PP and UV was able to force the PSOE out from the Valencian Government after 12 years of Socialist rule. Eduardo Zaplana, the People's Party's candidate, became the second democratically elected President of the autonomous community

The number of seats in the Corts Valencianes was set to a fixed-number of 89. All Courts members were elected in 3 multi-member districts, corresponding to the Valencian Community's three provinces, using the D'Hondt method and a closed-list proportional representation system. Each district was entitled to an initial minimum of 20 seats, with the remaining 29 seats allocated among the three provinces in proportion to their populations, on the required condition that the number of inhabitants per seat in each district did not exceed 3 times those of any other. For the 1995 election, seats were distributed as follows: Alicante (30), Castellon (22) and Valencia (37).