25 May 2003 2007 → 16 March 2001 22 October 2000 48 seats, 50.6% 30 seats, 33.0% | Registered 2,177,222 3.2% 22 October 2000 1997 | |
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Turnout 1,581,983 (72.7%)
3.3 pp | ||
The 2003 Castile and León parliamentary election was held on Sunday, 25 May 2003, to elect the 6th Courts of Castile and León, the regional legislature of the Spanish autonomous community of Castile and León. At stake were all seats in the Courts, determining the President of the Junta of Castile and León. The number of members decreased from 83 to 82 compared to the previous election.
Electoral system
The number of seats in the regional Courts was determined by the population count. For the 2003 election, the Courts size was set to 82 seats. All Courts members were elected in 9 multi-member districts, corresponding to Castile and León's nine provinces, using the D'Hondt method and a closed-list proportional representation system. Each district was entitled to an initial minimum of 3 seats, with 1 additional seat per each 45,000 inhabitants or fraction greater than 22,500. For the 2003 election, seats were distributed as follows: Avila (7), Burgos (11), Leon (14), Palencia (7), Salamanca (11), Segovia (6), Soria (5), Valladolid (14) and Zamora (7).
Voting was on the basis of universal suffrage in a secret ballot. Only lists polling above 3% of valid votes in each district (which include blank ballots—for none of the above) were entitled to enter the seat distribution.