A regional election was held in the Community of Madrid on 28 May 1995 to elect the 4th Assembly of the autonomous community. All 103 seats in the Assembly were up for election. It was held concurrently with regional elections in twelve other autonomous communities and local elections all across Spain.

The election resulted in the People's Party (PP) winning an absolute majority of votes and seats for the first time, which allowed Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón to become President and end 12 years of Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) rule in the community. Joaquín Leguina's PSOE suffered from Prime Minister Felipe González's unpopularity at national level and fell below 30% for the first time in a regional election. The third party, United Left (IU), benefitted from the PSOE's decline and polled just over 16%, their highest vote share at a Madrid Assembly election to date.

Overview Under the 1983 Statute of Autonomy, the Assembly of Madrid 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.. The electoral and procedural rules were supplemented by national law provisions..

Date The term of the Assembly of Madrid 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 Community of Madrid (BOCM).; . The previous election was held on 26 May 1991, setting the date for election day on the fourth Sunday of May four years later, which was 28 May 1995.

The regional president had the prerogative to dissolve the Assembly of Madrid at any given time and call a snap election, provided that no motion of no confidence was in process, no nationwide election had been called and that dissolution did not occur either during the first legislative session or during the last year of parliament before its planned expiration, nor before one year after a previous one.; . In the event of an investiture process failing to elect a regional president within a two-month period from the first ballot, the Assembly was to be automatically dissolved and a fresh election called.; . Any snap election held as a result of these circumstances did not alter the date of the chamber's next ordinary election, with elected lawmakers serving the remainder of its original four-year term.; .

The election to the Assembly of Madrid was officially called on 4 April 1995 with the publication of the corresponding decree in the BOCM, setting election day for 28 May and scheduling for the chamber to reconvene on 22 June..

Electoral system Voting for the Assembly was based on universal suffrage, comprising all Spanish nationals over 18 years of age, registered in the Community of Madrid 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.; ( by ).

The Assembly of Madrid had one seat per 50,000 inhabitants or fraction above 25,000. All were elected in a single multi-member constituency—corresponding to the autonomous community's territory—using the D'Hondt method and closed-list proportional voting, with a five percent-threshold of valid votes (including blank ballots) regionally.; . As a result of the aforementioned allocation, the Assembly was entitled to 103 seats, based on the official population figures resulting from the latest revision of the municipal register (as of 1 January 1994)..

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. ( by ).

Outgoing parliament The table below shows the composition of the parliamentary groups in the chamber at the time of the election call.

+ Parliamentary composition in April 1995 Groups Parties Legislators Seats Total People's Parliamentary Group PP 47 47 Socialist Parliamentary Group PSOE 41 41 United Left Parliamentary Group IU 13 13

Parties and candidates 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 0.5 percent of the electorate in the Community of Madrid, disallowing electors from signing for more than one list. ( by ).

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

Candidacy Parties andalliances Leading candidate Ideology Previous result Vote % Seats PP Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón ConservatismChristian democracy 42.7% PSOE Joaquín Leguina Social democracy 36.6% IU Ángel Pérez SocialismCommunism 12.1%

Opinion polls 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 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; 52 seats were required for an absolute majority in the Assembly of Madrid (51 in the 1991 election).

Polling firm/Commissioner Fieldwork date Sample size Turnout LV Lead 1995 regional election 28 May 1995 70.4 51.0 29.7 16.0 – 21.3 Eco Consulting/RTVE 28 May 1995?? 50.6 26.4 18.6 – 24.2 Demoscopia/El País 10–15 May 1995 1,000? 51.1 25.5 20.3 – 25.6 CIS 24 Apr–10 May 1995 1,395 72.6 51.5 27.6 15.9 – 23.9 Tábula V/ABC 19–25 Apr 1995 1,000? 50.0 24.0 20.0 – 26.0 Tábula V/ABC 28 Nov–2 Dec 1994?? 47.0 19.0 23.0 – 24.0 1994 EP election 12 Jun 1994 49.9 50.3 24.0 19.6 – 26.3 Tábula V/ABC 10–11 May 1994?? 48.0 24.0 23.0 – 24.0 Demoscopia/El País 10 Apr 1994?? 49.4 23.6 21.6 5.4 25.8 1993 general election 6 Jun 1993 78.9 43.9 35.0 14.6 1.1 8.9 PP 21 Feb 1993?? 51.0 30.0 – – 21.0 1991 regional election 26 May 1991 58.8 42.7 36.6 12.1 1.6 6.1

Results Overall + ← Summary of the 28 May 1995 Assembly of Madrid election results → Parties and alliances Popular vote Seats Votes % ±pp Total +/− People's Party (PP) 1,476,442 50.98 +8.31 54 +7 Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) 860,726 29.72 −6.87 32 −9 United Left (IU) 464,167 16.03 +3.96 17 +4 The Greens–Green Group (LV–GV) 21,239 0.73 New 0 ±0 The Alternative Greens (LVA)1 10,638 0.37 −0.03 0 ±0 Platform of Independents of Spain (PIE) 5,368 0.19 New 0 ±0 Madrilenian Independent Regional Party (PRIM) 3,136 0.11 −0.24 0 ±0 United Extremadura (EU) 2,379 0.08 New 0 ±0 Citizen Unity (UC) 2,086 0.07 New 0 ±0 Revolutionary Workers' Party (POR) 2,066 0.07 −0.03 0 ±0 Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain (PCPE) 2,053 0.07 New 0 ±0 Spanish Phalanx of the CNSO (FE–JONS) 1,853 0.06 New 0 ±0 Humanist Platform (PH) 1,834 0.06 New 0 ±0 Independent Regional Unity (URI) 1,636 0.06 New 0 ±0 Independent Spanish Phalanx (FEI) 1,060 0.04 New 0 ±0 Coalition for a New Socialist Party (NPS)2 731 0.03 −0.05 0 ±0 Blank ballots 38,763 1.34 +0.05 Total 2,896,177 103 +2 Valid votes 2,896,177 99.62 +0.03 Invalid votes 10,964 0.38 −0.03 Votes cast / turnout 2,907,141 70.39 +11.72 Abstentions 1,222,711 29.61 −11.72 Registered voters 4,129,852 Sources

Elected legislators The following table lists the elected legislators sorted by order of election.

Elected legislators # Name List 1 Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón Jiménez PP 2 Joaquín Leguina Herrán PSOE 3 Rosa María Posada Chapado PP 4 Pío García-Escudero Márquez PP 5 Ángel Pérez Martínez IU 6 Jaime Lissavetzky Díez PSOE 7 Antonio Germán Beteta Barreda PP 8 Jesús Pedroche Nieto PP 9 Francisco Cabaco López PSOE 10 Juan Van-Halen Acedo PP 11 Virginia Díaz Sanz IU 12 Dolores García-Hierro Caraballo PSOE 13 Manuel Cobo Vega PP 14 María del Carmen Álvarez-Arenas Cisneros PP 15 Jorge Gómez Moreno PSOE 16 Pedro Luis Calvo y Poch PP 17 Adolfo de Luxán Meléndez IU 18 María Teresa de Lara Carbó PP 19 Pedro Feliciano Sabando Suárez PSOE 20 Pedro Núñez Morgades PP 21 Luis María Huete Morillo PP 22 Alejandro Lucas Fernández Martín PSOE 23 María Luisa Sánchez Peral IU 24 José López López PP 25 María Helena Almazán Vicario PSOE 26 José Martín Crespo Díaz PP 27 Francisco Javier Rodríguez Rodríguez PP 28 Carmen Ferrero Torres PSOE 29 Mariano Gamo Sánchez IU 30 Cristina Cifuentes Cuencas PP 31 Carlos María Mayor Oreja PP 32 Juan Antonio Barrios de Penagos PSOE 33 Ismael Bardisa Jordá PP 34 Juan Antonio Ruiz Castillo PSOE 35 Tomás Pedro Burgos Beteta PP 36 Juan Ramón Sanz Arranz IU 37 Sandra Sue Myers Brown PP 38 Ramón Espinar Gallego PSOE 39 José Antonio Bermúdez de Castro Fernández PP 40 Luis Manuel Partida Brunete PP 41 Adolfo Gilaberte Fernández IU 42 Virgilio Cano de Lope PSOE 43 José María Román Ugarte PP 44 Fermín Lucas Giménez PP 45 Adolfo Piñedo Simal PSOE 46 María Teresa García-Siso Pardo PP 47 Juan Antonio Candil Martín PP 48 Ginés Meléndez González PSOE 49 José María de Federico Corral PP 50 Roberto Sanz Pinacho PP 51 Eulalia García Sánchez PSOE 52 Cándida O'Shea Suárez Inclán PP 53 Miguel Ángel Bilbatúa Pérez IU 54 Juan Soler-Espiauba Gallo PP 55 Elena Vázquez Menéndez PSOE 56 Fernando Utande Martínez PP 57 Fernando Abad Bécquer PSOE 58 Juan Andrés Naranjo Escobar PP 59 Marina María González Izquierdo IU 60 Pedro Argüelles Salaverría PP 61 Antonio Chazarra Montiel PSOE 62 Pilar Busó Borús PP 63 Luis Ángel Gutiérrez-Vierna Espada PP 64 Miryam Alvarez Páez PSOE 65 Julio Setién Martínez IU 66 Victorino Ramón Rosón Ferreiro PP 67 Jesús Adriano Valverde Bocanegra PP 68 Agapito Ramos Cuenca PSOE 69 Alejandro Sanz Peinado PP 70 Modesto Nolla Estrada PSOE 71 Blanca Nieves de la Cierva de Hoces PP 72 José Nieto Cicuéndez IU 73 José Luis Álvarez de Francisco PP 74 Luis Miguel Maza Alcázar PSOE 75 Paloma Fernández-Fontecha Torres PP 76 María Gador Ongil Cores PP 77 Armando García Martínez PSOE 78 Luis Miguel Sánchez Seseña IU 79 Jorge Tapia Sáez PP 80 María Luz Martln Barrios PSOE 81 Tomás Casado González PP 82 Francisco Javier Espadas López-Terradas PP 83 Jaime Ramón Ruiz Reig IU 84 José Manuel Franco Pardo PSOE 85 José Luis Moreno Casas PP 86 Esteban Parro del Prado PP 87 Jesús Zúñiga Pérez-Lemaur PSOE 88 Manuel Troitiño Pelaz PP 89 Carlos Paíno Capón IU 90 María Esther García Romero-Nieva PP 91 Margarita Alba García PSOE 92 Luis del Olmo Flórez PP 93 María Isabel López Navarro PSOE 94 Paloma García Romero PP 95 Luisa María Teresa Biehn Cañedo IU 96 Sonsoles Trinidad Aboín Aboín PP 97 Saturnino Zapata Llerena PSOE 98 Miguel Ángel Villanueva González PP 99 Pedro Muñoz Abrines PP 100 Javier Ledesma Bartret PSOE 101 Benjamín Martín Vasco PP 102 Julio Misiego Gascón IU 103 Henar Corbi Murgui PSOE

Aftermath Government formation Investiture Ballot → 28 June 1995 Required majority → 52 out of 103 Abstentions Absentees Sources

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