Extremaduran regional election, 2003

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25 May 2003

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All 65 seats in the Assembly of Extremadura
33 seats needed for a majority

Registered

881,228

0.5%

Turnout

666,468 (75.6%)

2.2 pp

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Juan Carlos Rodríguez Ibarra	Carlos Floriano	Manuel Cañada
Party	PSOE–p	PP	IU–SIEx
Leader since	20 December 1982	13 October 2000	1 October 1995
Leader's seat	Badajoz	Cáceres	Badajoz
Last election	34 seats, 49.6%	28 seats, 40.0%	3 seats, 7.0%
Seats won	36	26	3
Seat change	2	2	0
Popular vote	341,522	255,808	41,448
Percentage	51.7%	38.7%	6.3%
Swing	2.1 pp	1.3 pp	0.7 pp

Constituency results map for the Assembly of Extremadura

President before election

Juan Carlos Rodríguez Ibarra
PSOE

Elected President

Juan Carlos Rodríguez Ibarra
PSOE

The 2003 Extremaduran regional election was held on Sunday, 25 May 2003, to elect the 6th Assembly of the Autonomous Community of Extremadura. All 65 seats in the Assembly were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with regional elections in twelve other autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain.

The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), which in this election ran in coalition with the Extremaduran Coalition, enlarged its absolute majority from 34 to 36 seats, at the cost of the opposition People's Party (PP), which fell to 26 and lost ground for the first time since the 1987 election. United Left (IU), which formed a coalition with the Independent Socialists of Extremadura (SIEx), maintained its 3 seats but was unable to make gains.

Juan Carlos Rodríguez Ibarra was elected for his sixth and last term in office as President of Extremadura, as he would announce in September 2006 he would not stand for re-election in 2007.

The Assembly of Extremadura was the devolved, unicameral legislature of the autonomous community of Extremadura, having legislative power in regional matters as defined by the Spanish Constitution and the Extremaduran Statute of Autonomy, as well as the ability to vote confidence in or withdraw it from a President of the Junta. Voting for the Assembly was on the basis of universal suffrage, which comprised all nationals over eighteen, registered in Extremadura and in full enjoyment of their political rights.

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