Balearic parliamentary election, 2015

Balearic regional election, 2015

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All 59 seats in the Parliament of the Balearic Islands 30 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered	766,383 5.5%
Turnout	437,838 (57.1%) 1.7 pp
First party Second party Third party   Leader José Ramón Bauzà Francina Armengol Alberto Jarabo Party PP PSIB–PSOE Podemos/Podem Leader since 11 September 2009 26 February 2012 14 February 2015 Leader's seat Majorca Majorca Majorca Last election 35 seats, 46.7% 19 seats, 24.9% Did not contest Seats won 20 15 10 Seat change 15 4 10 Popular vote 123,183 83,804 63,489 Percentage 28.5% 19.4% 14.7% Swing 18.2 pp 5.5 pp New party   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Gabriel Barceló Jaume Font Xavier Pericay Party Més PI C's Leader since 27 May 2006 2 November 2012 13 April 2015 Leader's seat Majorca Majorca Majorca Last election 5 seats, 9.5% 0 seats, 6.0% 0 seats, 0.3% Seats won 9 3 2 Seat change 4 3 2 Popular vote 66,199 34,237 27,589 Percentage 15.3% 7.9% 6.4% Swing 5.8 pp 1.9 pp 6.1 pp
Constituency results map for the Parliament of the Balearic Islands
President before election José Ramón Bauzà PP Elected President Francina Armengol PSIB–PSOE

José Ramón Bauzà
PP

Francina Armengol
PSIB–PSOE

The 2015 Balearic regional election was held on Sunday, 24 May 2015, to elect the 9th Parliament of the Autonomous Community of the Balearic Islands. All 59 seats in the Parliament were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with regional elections in 12 other autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain.

In the 2011 election, the People's Party, led by José Ramón Bauzà regained their majority. A series of controversial and unpopular decrees and laws proceeded, the most discussed ones involving the language of the Balearic Islands—Catalan in its island dialects—and the education. These generated record-attendance demonstrations, the most important one on 29 September 2013, when more than 70,000 people demonstrated in Palma protesting, amongst others, against the changes in the language decree. It established more school-hours in Spanish and English, when the majority of public schools and their teachers were not prepared to carry it out.

In addition, the Spanish politics were observing the growth of new parties like We Can in the left and young parties like Citizens in the center-right. In the Balearic Islands politics, the Socialist Party of Majorca formed a coalition with Initiative Greens and Nationalist Agreement in Majorca and Minorca called More. The disbanded Majorcan Union had resulted in two parties with similar political views in the 2011 election: Convergence for the Isles—the political heir of Majorcan Union—and Regionalist League of the Balearic Islands—a split party with critics of Majorcan Union—. They both united to create a new party called Proposal for the Isles to contest in the 2015 election not only in Majorca, but also in Minorca and Ibiza.