General election in Catalonia 2017

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(in %)
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20th
10
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25.37
21.65
21.39
13.88
7.45
4.45
4.24
1.13
0.44
Gains and losses
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+7.44
+1.85
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-1.37
-1.49
-3.75
-4.26
-0.51
-0.09
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Remarks:
b PDeCat electoral alliancewith independents.
c The ERC's electoral alliancewith smaller parties. In 2015 the ERC joined the CDC (predecessor organization of PDeCat) in the electoral alliance JxSí.
d PSC joined UDC's successor party, the Units per Avançar .
e Comparative value 2015: electoral alliance CSP
f CUP electoral alliancewith smaller parties
i Blank ballot papers
Distribution of seats
4th
8th
32
17th
34
36
4th
4th 8th 32 17th 34 36 4th 
A total of 135 seats

The early election to the Parliament of the Autonomous Community of Catalonia took place on December 21, 2017. The early elections had become necessary after the Parliament of Catalonia had been dissolved under Article 155 of the Spanish Constitution .

Starting position

The elections were called early on October 27, 2017 as part of the Catalonia crisis by the Spanish government after the Catalan regional government held the judicially forbidden independence referendum on October 1, 2017 and on October 10 declared that Catalonia's independence was initially suspended October 27th was put to a vote in parliament and entered into force by majority vote. At the request of the Spanish government, the Spanish Senate voted with a bipartisan majority for the application of Article 155 of the Spanish Constitution, which made it possible for the regional government of Catalonia to be overturned and the parliament to be dissolved. The regular legislative period would have lasted until 2019.

Electoral alliances

The Catalan parties could have formed electoral alliances until November 7, 2017 (i.e. 10 days after the election was called), which would have been advantageous because of the D'Hondt procedure in determining the mandates. A new edition of the separatist electoral alliance Junts pel Sí from 2015 between the ERC and the PDeCAT did not materialize; just as the rival parties Ciutadans (C's) , PPC and PSC could not agree on an electoral alliance.

Various smaller electoral alliances nevertheless came about on the separatist and left sides of the political spectrum through the affiliation of various splinter groups:

Result

Allocation of seats in parliament, majorities in the comarcas and allocation of seats to the four provinces

The preliminary official final result is:

Parties be right Votes in%
(change) 6 		Seats
(change)
Ciutadans (C's) 1,102,099 25.37 +7.47 36 +11
Junts per Catalunya (JuntsxCat) 3 940.602 21.65 2 34 2
Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya – Catalunya Sí ( ERC -CatSí) 1 929,407 21.39 2 32 2
Partit dels Socialistes de Catalunya (PSC-PSOE) 4 602,969 13.88 +1.16 17th +1
Catalunya en Comú-Podem (CatComú – Podem) 5 323,695 7.45 −1.49 5 8th −3 5
Candidatura d'Unitat Popular - Crida Constituent (CUP-CC) 193,352 4.45 −3.76 4th −6
Partit Popular (PP) 184.108 4.24 −4.25 4th −7
Other 49.207 1.13 0
Abstentions 19,377 0.44 6
All in all 100.0%   135
1Electoral alliance of ERC and the small party Catalunya Sí (CatSí).
2Only comparison of the sums possible. For the last election, the CDC was the predecessor of the PDeCat and the ERC together as Junts pel Sí . +241,295 votes (+ 3.45% compared to 2015) and +4 seats.
3Formally a joint candidacy of the PDeCAT and CDC parties . The CDC is the predecessor organization of PDeCat, which still exists as a legal entity and can therefore formally be part of a joint candidacy.
4thPSC is the Catalan "sister party" of the all-Spanish social democratic PSOE .
5Electoral alliance of the parties Catalunya en Comú, Barcelona en Comú, Podemos , ICV and EUiA . Comparison with the result of the electoral alliance Catalunya Sí que es pot (Podemos-ICV-EUiA) in the last election.
6thAbstentions ( votos en blanco or vots en blanc ) count as valid votes according to Spanish and Catalan electoral law (unlike e.g. blank ballot papers in Germany). The voting share of the parties in percent is therefore usually given in Spain based on the total number of valid votes (including abstentions).

  • Majorities in the communities

  • Majorities in the four provinces

"Plebiscitary character" of choice

As with the plebiscitary character of the 2015 parliamentary election , this election also has an important plebiscitary significance for the question of the independence of Catalonia. If you put the two blocks pro and decidedly against independence next to each other, then the relationship between these two camps looks as follows:

  • Pro independence: 47.5%
  • Against independence: 43.5%
  • Rejection of the unilateral independence process (CatComú-Podem): 7.5%
  • Other parties & abstentions: 1.5%

Compared to the parliamentary elections in 2015, despite the enormous increase in voter turnout, the percentage of independence supporters has hardly changed (2015: 47.7%). While the electoral alliance around the CUP lost much of its approval, the electoral alliances of the two moderate independence parties ( ERC and PDeCat ) increased both in votes and seats compared to two years ago. What was surprising compared to the opinion polls was that PDeCat was the second strongest party before the ERC.

The opponents of independence were able to increase their percentage, but failed to achieve their common electoral goal of achieving a parliamentary majority - the proportional electoral system according to provinces favors the rural districts that are strongly in favor of independence over the negative metropolitan areas around Barcelona. The PP, as the ruling party of Spain, has once again lost its approval due to its tough stance and the refusal of any dialogue with the leadership of Catalonia and the application of Article 155 of the Constitution, and has achieved its worst election result in Catalonia (if the Solidaridad Catalana is recognized as the predecessor party: its second worst result ), while the Ciutadans were able to mobilize a large number of previous non-voters and expand their representation in the Catalan parliament. The PP lost half of its previous voters to the Ciutadans. PSC socialists improved slightly for the first time since the 1999 election (ignoring UDC), but fell significantly short of expectations from the polls. Catalunya en Comú-Podem , who have no official party line for independence, but which is sharply rejected by their national organization, Podemos , and their boss, Pablo Iglesias , but who also condemned the application of Article 155 and advocate a referendum, lost Be right.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Elecciones Catalanes 2017 (Spanish)
  2. ↑ Thomas Urban The secret star of the Catalonia election . sz.de , December 22, 2017.
  3. ↑ La DUI catalana siembra el caos en Podemos: del rechazo a la "solidaridad" . vozpopuli, October 29, 2017 (Spanish); accessed on December 23, 2017