28 May 1995 1999 → Turnout 322,654 (74.0%)
1.7 pp 23 February 1995 13 December 1994 | Registered 435,752 5.7% 1995 23 February 1995 6 seats, 14.4% 16 seats, 34.8% | |
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The 1995 Cantabrian parliamentary election was held on Sunday, 28 May 1995, to elect the 4th Regional Assembly of Cantabria, the regional legislature of the Spanish autonomous community of Cantabria. All 39 seats in the Regional Assembly were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with regional elections in 12 other autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain.
The People's Party won the election, recovering much of the vote it had lost in 1991 to Hormaechea's Union for the Progress of Cantabria (UPCA), which fell to third place and lost over half of its seats and votes. The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), which in 1991 had won the regional election, collapsed and obtained its worst result until that time. The Regionalist Party of Cantabria (PRC) recovered and scored fourth with nearly 15% of the vote, while United Left (IU) entered the Assembly for the first time.
As a result of the election, José Joaquín Martínez Sieso from the People's Party was able to be elected as regional President thanks to a PP-PRC coalition agreement.
Electoral system
The number of seats in the Regional Assembly of Cantabria was set to a fixed-number of 39. All Assembly members were elected in a single multi-member district, consisting of the Community's territory (the province of Cantabria), 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 5% of valid votes in all of the community (which include blank ballots—for none of the above) were entitled to enter the seat distribution.