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2003 Balearic regional election

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2003 Balearic regional election
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25 May 2003
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All 59 seats in the Parliament of the Balearic Islands
30 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered682,857 Increase 6.8%
Turnout429,135 (62.8%)
Increase 5.3 pp
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Jaume Matas Francesc Antich Pilar Costa
Party PP PSIB–PSOE Pacte+COP
Leader since 17 June 1996 9 November 1998 21 March 1999
Leader's seat Mallorca Mallorca Ibiza
Last election 28 seats, 44.0% 13 seats, 22.0% 7 seats, 4.9%
Seats won 29 15 5
Seat change Increase 1 Increase 2 Decrease 2
Popular vote 190,562 104,614 16,811
Percentage 44.7% 24.5% 3.9%
Swing Increase 0.7 pp Increase 2.5 pp Decrease 1.0 pp
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Pere Sampol Maria Antònia Munar Margalida Rosselló
Party PSM–EN UM EU–EV
Leader since 1991 1 July 1991 2002
Leader's seat Mallorca Mallorca Mallorca
Last election 5 seats, 11.7% 3 seats, 7.3% 3 seats, 5.4%
Seats won 4 3 2
Seat change Decrease 1 Steady 0 Decrease 1
Popular vote 33,920 31,781 20,797
Percentage 8.0% 7.5% 4.9%
Swing Decrease 3.7 pp Increase 0.2 pp Decrease 0.5 pp
  Seventh party
 
Leader Josep Mayans Serra
Party AIPF
Leader since 2003
Leader's seat Formentera
Last election 0 seats, 0.3%
Seats won 1
Seat change Increase 1
Popular vote 1,647
Percentage 0.4%
Swing Increase 0.1 pp
Constituency results map for the Parliament of the Balearic Islands
President before election

Francesc Antich
PSOE

 President after election

Jaume Matas
PP

A regional election was held in the Balearic Islands on 25 May 2003 to elect the 6th Parliament of the autonomous community. All 59 seats in the Parliament were up for election. It was held concurrently with regional elections in twelve other autonomous communities and local elections all across Spain.

Overview

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Under the 1983 Statute of Autonomy, the Parliament of the Balearic Islands was the unicameral legislature of the homonymous autonomous community, having legislative power in devolved matters, as well as the ability to grant or withdraw confidence from a regional president.[1] The electoral and procedural rules were supplemented by national law provisions.[2]

Date

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The term of the Parliament of the Balearic Islands expired four years after the date of its previous ordinary election, with election day being fixed for the fourth Sunday of May every four years. The election decree was required to be issued no later than 54 days before the scheduled election date and published on the following day in the Official Gazette of the Balearic Islands (BOIB).[3] The previous election was held on 13 June 1999, setting the date for election day on the fourth Sunday of May four years later, which was 25 May 2003.

The Parliament of the Balearic Islands could not be dissolved before the expiration date of parliament, except in the event of an investiture process failing to elect a regional president within a 60-day period from the Parliament's reconvening. In such a case, the chamber was to be automatically dissolved and a snap election called, with elected lawmakers serving the remainder of its original four-year term.[4]

The election to the Parliament of the Balearic Islands was officially called on 1 April 2003 with the publication of the corresponding decree in the BOIB, setting election day for 25 May.[5]

Electoral system

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Voting for the Parliament was based on universal suffrage, comprising all Spanish nationals over 18 years of age, registered in the Balearic Islands and with full political rights, provided that they had not been deprived of the right to vote by a final sentence, nor were legally incapacitated.[6]

The Parliament of the Balearic Islands had 59 seats. All were elected in four multi-member constituencies—corresponding to the islands of Mallorca, Menorca, Ibiza and Formentera, each of which was assigned a fixed number of seats—using the D'Hondt method and closed-list proportional voting, with a five percent-threshold of valid votes (including blank ballots) in each constituency.[7] The use of this electoral method resulted in a higher effective threshold depending on district magnitude and vote distribution.[8]

As a result of the aforementioned allocation, each Parliament constituency was entitled the following seats:[9]

Seats Constituencies
33 Mallorca
13 Menorca
12 Ibiza
1 Formentera

The law did not provide for by-elections to fill vacant seats; instead, any vacancies arising after the proclamation of candidates and during the legislative term were filled by the next candidates on the party lists or, when required, by designated substitutes.[10]

Outgoing parliament

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The table below shows the composition of the parliamentary groups in the chamber at the time of the election call.[11]

Parliamentary composition in April 2003
Groups Parties Legislators
Seats Total
People's Parliamentary Group PP 28 28
Socialist Parliamentary Group PSIB–PSOE 17 17
PSM–EN Parliamentary Group PSM 4 5
PSMe 1
United and Ecologist Left Parliamentary Group EUIB 4 4
Mixed Parliamentary Group UM 3 5
EV 1
COP 1

Parties and candidates

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The electoral law allowed for parties and federations registered in the interior ministry, alliances and groupings of electors to present lists of candidates. Parties and federations intending to form an alliance were required to inform the relevant electoral commission within 10 days of the election call, whereas groupings of electors needed to secure the signature of at least one percent of the electorate in the constituencies for which they sought election, disallowing electors from signing for more than one list.[12]

Below is a list of the main parties and alliances which contested the election:

Candidacy Parties and
alliances		 Leading candidate Ideology Previous result Gov. Ref.
Vote % Seats
PP
List
 Jaume Matas Conservatism
Christian democracy		 44.0% 28 No [13]
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PSIB–PSOE Francesc Antich Social democracy 22.0% 13 Yes [15]
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Pacte+COP Pilar Costa Progressivism 4.9% 7 Yes
PSM–EN Pere Sampol Left-wing nationalism
Democratic socialism
Environmentalism		 11.7% 5 Yes
UM
List
 Maria Antònia Munar Regionalism
Liberalism		 7.3% 3 No
EU–EV Margalida Rosselló Socialism
Communism		 5.4% 3 Yes
AIPF José Mayans Serra Conservatism 0.3% 0 No

Opinion polls

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The tables below list opinion polling results in reverse chronological order, showing the most recent first and using the dates when the survey fieldwork was done, as opposed to the date of publication. Where the fieldwork dates are unknown, the date of publication is given instead. The highest percentage figure in each polling survey is displayed with its background shaded in the leading party's colour. If a tie ensues, this is applied to the figures with the highest percentages. The "Lead" column on the right shows the percentage-point difference between the parties with the highest percentages in a poll.

Voting intention estimates

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The table below lists weighted voting intention estimates. Refusals are generally excluded from the party vote percentages, while question wording and the treatment of "don't know" responses and those not intending to vote may vary between polling organisations. When available, seat projections determined by the polling organisations are displayed below (or in place of) the percentages in a smaller font; 30 seats were required for an absolute majority in the Parliament of the Balearic Islands.

Color key:

  Exit poll

Results

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Overall

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← Summary of the 25 May 2003 Parliament of the Balearic Islands election results →
Parties and alliances Popular vote Seats
Votes % ±pp Total +/−
People's Party (PP) 190,56244.70+0.69 29+1
Socialist Party of the Balearic Islands (PSIB–PSOE) 104,61424.54+2.52 15+2
PSM–Nationalist Agreement (PSM–EN) 33,9207.95−3.77 4−1
Socialist Party of Mallorca–Nationalist Agreement (PSM–EN) 30,9647.26−3.57 3−1
Socialist Party of Menorca–Nationalist Agreement (PSM–EN) 2,9560.69−0.20 1±0
Majorcan Union (UM) 31,7817.45+0.14 3±0
United Left–The Greens (EU–EV) 20,7974.88−0.55 2−1
United Left of Mallorca–The Greens of Mallorca (EU–EV) 19,0504.47−0.30 2±0
Left of Menorca–United Left (EM–EU) 1,7470.41−0.25 0−1
Progressive Pact+Coalition of Progressive Organizations (Pacte+COP) 16,8113.94−0.91 5−2
Progressive Pact (Pacte) 15,5133.64−0.79 5−1
Coalition of Progressive Organizations (COP) 1,2980.30−0.12 0−1
Independent Social Group (ASI) 6,7071.57+0.92 0±0
Key of Mallorca (Clau) 3,0300.71New 0±0
The Greens (EV) 2,4110.57New 0±0
Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC) 1,6670.39+0.09 0±0
Independent Popular Council of Formentera (AIPF) 1,6470.39+0.07 1+1
Balearic Islands Renewal Party (PRIB) 1,1620.27New 0±0
Union of Centrists of Menorca (UCM) 1,1290.26New 0±0
Civic Union (UC) 7510.18−0.08 0±0
Menorcan Party (PMQ) 5660.13New 0±0
Workers for Democracy Coalition (TD) 4380.10−0.03 0±0
Citizens for Blank Votes (CenB) 4160.10New 0±0
European Green Group (GVE) 3730.09New 0±0
Renewal Party of Ibiza and Formentera (PREF) 3350.08New 0±0
Balearic People's Union (UPB) 1300.03−0.58 0±0
Blank ballots 7,0931.66−0.20
Total 426,340 59±0
Valid votes 426,34099.35+0.13
Invalid votes 2,7950.65−0.13
Votes cast / turnout 429,13562.84+5.34
Abstentions 253,72237.16−5.34
Registered voters 682,857
Sources[11][17][18]
Popular vote
PP
 
 44.70%
PSIB–PSOE
 
 24.54%
PSM–EN
 
 7.95%
UM
 
 7.45%
EU–EV
 
 4.88%
Pacte+COP
 
 3.94%
ASI
 
 1.57%
AIPF
 
 0.39%
Others
 
 2.91%
Blank ballots
 
 1.66%
Seats
PP
 
 49.15%
PSIB–PSOE
 
 25.42%
Pacte+COP
 
 8.47%
PSM–EN
 
 6.78%
UM
 
 5.08%
EU–EV
 
 3.39%
AIPF
 
 1.69%

Distribution by constituency

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Constituency PP PSIB PSM–EN UM EU–EV Pacte AIPF
% S % S % S % S % S % S % S
Formentera 53.4 1
Ibiza 50.4 7 37.8 5
Mallorca 45.0 16 26.3 9 9.0 3 9.2 3 5.5 2
Menorca 39.1 6 37.3 6 8.1 1 4.8 −
Total 44.7 29 24.5 15 8.0 4 7.5 3 4.9 2 3.6 5 0.4 1
Sources[11][17][18]

Aftermath

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Government formation

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Investiture
Nomination of Jaume Matas (PP)
Ballot → 26 June 2003
Required majority → 30 out of 59 check
Yes
33 / 59
No
25 / 59
Abstentions
0 / 59
Absentees
1 / 59
Sources[11]

Notes

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  1. 1 2 In Ibiza and Formentera.
  2. ↑ In Ibiza.
  3. 1 2 3 Within PSIB–PSOE.
  4. 1 2 Within PP.
  5. ↑ Within EUIB.

References

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Opinion poll sources

  1. ↑ "El sondeo de Sigma Dos determina una lucha codo a codo entre populares y socialistas en Madrid". ABC (in Spanish). 25 May 2003. Archived from the original on 25 May 2019. Retrieved 19 May 2019.
  2. ↑ "Comunidad de Baleares". El Periódico de Catalunya (in Spanish). 5 May 2003. Archived from the original on 8 June 2003.
  3. ↑ "Munar tendrá la clave en Baleares". El Periódico de Aragón (in Spanish). 6 May 2003.
  4. ↑ "Ficha técnica". El Periódico de Aragón (in Spanish). 6 May 2003.
  5. ↑ "Preelectoral elecciones autonómicas, 2003. CA de las Islas Baleares (Estudio nº 2486. Marzo-Abril 2003)". CIS (in Spanish). 17 May 2003.
  6. ↑ "La guerra pasa factura electoral al PP". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). 18 May 2003.
  7. ↑ "Instituciones y autonomías, II. CA de las Islas Baleares (Estudio nº 2455. Septiembre-Octubre 2002)". CIS (in Spanish). 19 November 2002.
  8. ↑ "El PP, partido más votado en diez Comunidades Autónomas" (PDF). El Mundo (in Spanish). 19 November 2002.
  9. ↑ "El PP ganaría las autonómicas en diez Comunidades y el PSOE en cuatro, según el CIS". ABC (in Spanish). 20 November 2002.

Other

  1. ↑ Statute (1983), arts. 19 & 26–28 (am. by Statute (1999), art. 1).
  2. ↑ LEIB (1986), final prov. 1.
  3. ↑ Statute (1983), art. 20; LEIB (1986), art. 11 (suppl. by LOREG (1985), art. 42).
  4. ↑ Statute (1983), arts. 19 & 30 (am. by Statute (1999), art. 1); LGIB (2001), art. 10.
  5. ↑ Decree 2/2003 (2003), art. 1.
  6. ↑ Statute (1983), arts. 20–22; LEIB (1986), art. 2 (suppl. by LOREG (1985), arts. 2–3).
  7. ↑ Statute (1983), art. 20 (am. by Statute (1999), art. 1); LEIB (1986), art. 12.
  8. ↑ Gallagher, Michael (30 July 2012). "Effective threshold in electoral systems". Dublin: Trinity College Dublin. Archived from the original on 30 July 2017. Retrieved 22 July 2017.
  9. ↑ LEIB (1986), art. 12; Decree 2/2003 (2003), art. 2.
  10. ↑ LEIB (1986), art. 13 (suppl. by LOREG (1985), arts. 46 & 48).
  11. 1 2 3 4 Lozano, Carles. "Eleccions al Parlament de les Illes Balears i Consells Insulars (desde 1979)". Historia Electoral.com (in Catalan). Retrieved 31 October 2025.
  12. ↑ LEIB (1986), art. 16 (suppl. by LOREG (1985), art. 44).
  13. ↑ Mestre, Juan (6 October 2002). "Jaume Matas se ofrece al PP para recuperar el Govern". Periódico de Ibiza y Formentera (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 July 2026.
  14. ↑ "El PP pospone la designación de Piqué y Matas como candidatos". La Voz de Galicia (in Spanish). 16 October 2002. Retrieved 27 July 2026.
  15. ↑ Candia, Patricio (25 September 2000). "Antich, nuevo líder de los socialistas baleares con el 92% de los votos". El País (in Spanish). Palma de Mallorca. Retrieved 27 July 2026.
  16. ↑ Mestre, Juan; P., B. (22 May 2002). "El PSOE reelige a Antich como candidato para las autonómicas". Última Hora (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 July 2026.
  17. 1 2 "Resultats electorals a les Illes Balears (1983-2003)" (PDF) (in Catalan). Electoral Commission of the Balearic Islands. Retrieved 24 July 2026.
  18. 1 2 "Elecciones al Parlamento de las Illes Balears" (PDF). Official Gazette of the Balearic Islands (in Spanish) (83): 22–23. 12 June 2003. ISSN 2254-1233. Retrieved 24 July 2026.

Bibliography

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