Basque Parliament Election Results

The results for the Elections to the Basque Parliament are already out since last Sunday. However, the exterior vote still remains to be counted (it will be counted today).

For the moment, EAJ-PNV has 38.56% of the vote, which accounts for 30 seats.

PSE-EE/PSOE is second, with 30.71% of the votes, and 24 seats.

Next is PP, with 14.09% of the votes, meaning it gets 13 seats.

ARALAR is next, with 6.05% of the total votes and 4 seats.

EA is fifth with 3.68% of the vote - 2 seats.

Last of all are EB-B (3.51% of the votes) and UPyD (2.14%), each of which will get 1 seat in Parliament.

Adding up the seats gives a total of 75. The number of seats required to reach absolute majority is 38, which means that, for the moment, no single party has reached it.

This leads to a number of possible coalitions between the political parties in order to reach the required majority. If PSOE joined PP and UPyD, they would get absolute majority. The same applies for PNV, ARALAR, EA, EB-B, and UPyD. PSOE and PNV together would also achieve this majority. The above mentioned coalitions, are however, quite unlikely.

The number of voters was 1,040,295, and the abstention rate, 34.12%, so the total number of abstentions was 354,948. This means the participation rate was 65.88%. Out of the total votes, 8.84% were null. The total census included 1,732,340 people.