General election in Catalonia 1992
In the 1992 parliamentary elections in Catalonia on March 15, 1995, the fifth parliament of the Autonomous Community of Catalonia was elected. All 135 seats in parliament were up for election.
Electoral system
The Parliament of Catalonia is the unicameral legislature of the Autonomous Community of Catalonia, which has legislative power in regional matters. Parliament was elected on the basis of universal suffrage. All Spanish nationals over the age of eighteen registered in Catalonia were eligible to vote. The 135 members of the Parliament of Catalonia were elected using the D'Hondt procedure and a closed proportional representation system, with a threshold of 3 percent of the valid votes - including blank ballots - in each constituency. Parties that did not reach the threshold were not taken into account in the allocation of seats. The seats were assigned to the constituencies, which corresponds to the provinces of Barcelona, Girona, Lleida and Tarragona. A fixed number of seats was allocated to each constituency: 85 for Barcelona, 17 for Girona, 15 for Lleida and 18 for Tarragona. The electoral law stipulated that parties, associations, coalitions and groups of voters were allowed to submit lists of candidates. The associations of voters were required, however, to produce the signatures of at least one percent of the voters registered in the constituency for which they had stood for election. Voters were only allowed to sign on a list of candidates. At the same time, parties and associations intending to form a coalition in order to jointly take part in the election were obliged to inform the responsible election commission within ten days of the calling of the election.
Election date
The term of office of the Parliament of Catalonia ended four years after the date of its last election, unless it was dissolved earlier. The district president was obliged to call an election fifteen days before the end of parliament, with election day taking place within sixty days of the call. The last election took place on March 15, 1992, which means that Parliament's term would have expired on March 15, 1996. The election had to take place no later than February 29, 1996, on the sixtieth day after the election, with the latest possible election date for Parliament being set on Monday, April 29, 1996. The district president had the prerogative to dissolve the parliament of Catalonia and to hold a quick election, provided that there is no motion of no confidence and the dissolution has not taken place within the framework of this procedure within a year since an earlier one. Should an investiture process fail to elect a regional president within two months of the first ballot, parliament should automatically be dissolved and a new election held.
Election results
All in all
| Political party | Party list votes |
Votes in% | Seats | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Convergència i Unió (CiU) | 1,221,233 | 46.19 | 70 | |
(PSC-CPC)
|
728,311 | 27.55 | 40 | |
| Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (ERC) | 210.366 | 7.96 | 11 | |
| Iniciativa per Catalunya Verds (ICV) | 171.794 | 6.50 | 7th | |
| Partit Popular (PPC) | 157.772 | 5.97 | 7th | |
| Otherwise. | 123342 | 4.67% | - | |
| All in all | 2,643,910 | 100.0% | 135 |
