Canarian parliamentary election, 1991

Canarian regional election, 1991

← 1987 26 May 1991 1995 →
All 60 seats in the Parliament of the Canaries 31 seats needed for a majority
Registered	1,136,767 13.4%
Turnout	700,541 (61.6%) 5.9 pp
First party Second party Third party   Leader Jerónimo Saavedra Manuel Hermoso Lorenzo Olarte Party PSOE AIC CDS Leader since 1977 1991 1983 Last election 21 seats, 27.8% 11 seats, 20.1% 13 seats, 19.5% Seats won 23 16 7 Seat change 2 5 6 Popular vote 229,692 157,859 100,197 Percentage 33.0% 22.7% 14.4% Swing 5.2 pp 2.6 pp 5.1 pp
Island-level units won by PSOE (red), AIC (blue) and AM (lightblue)
President before election Lorenzo Olarte CDS Elected President Jerónimo Saavedra PSOE

Lorenzo Olarte
CDS

Jerónimo Saavedra
PSOE

The 1991 Canarian regional election was held on Sunday, 26 May 1991, to elect the 3rd Parliament of the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands. All 60 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.

The 60 members of the Canarian Parliament were elected in 7 multi-member districts using the D'Hondt method and a closed-list proportional representation system. Unlike other regions, districts did not coincide with provincial limits, being determined by law for each of the main islands to become a district of its own. The electoral system came regulated under the Autonomous Statute of Autonomy. Each district was assigned a fixed set of seats, distributed as follows: El Hierro (3), Fuerteventura (7), Gran Canaria (15), La Gomera (4), La Palma (8), Lanzarote (8) and Tenerife (15).

Voting was on the basis of universal suffrage in a secret ballot. Only lists polling above 20% of the total vote in each district or above 3% in all of the community (which include blank ballots—for none of the above) were entitled to enter the seat distribution.