A regional election was held in Extremadura on 26 May 2019 to elect the 10th Assembly of the autonomous community. All 65 seats in the Assembly were up for election. It was held concurrently with regional elections in eleven other autonomous communities and local elections all across Spain, as well as the 2019 European Parliament election.

Overview Under the 2011 Statute of Autonomy, the Assembly of Extremadura 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 Extremadura expired four years after the date of its previous election, unless it was dissolved earlier. The election decree was required to be issued no later than 25 days before the scheduled expiration date of parliament and published on the following day in the Official Journal of Extremadura (DOE), with election day taking place 54 days after the decree's publication.; ( by ). The previous election was held on 24 May 2015, which meant that the chamber's term would have expired on 24 May 2019. The election decree was required to be published in the DOE no later than 30 April 2019, setting the latest possible date for election day on 23 June 2019.

The regional president had the prerogative to dissolve the Assembly of Extremadura at any given time and call a snap election, provided that no motion of no confidence was in process and that dissolution did not occur 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..

The election to the Assembly of Extremadura was officially called on 2 April 2019 with the publication of the corresponding decree in the DOE, setting election day for 26 May..

Electoral system Voting for the Assembly was based on universal suffrage, comprising all Spanish nationals over 18 years of age, registered in Extremadura and with full political rights, provided that they had not been deprived of the right to vote by a final sentence.; ( by ). Additionally, non-resident citizens were required to apply for voting, a system known as "begged" voting ()..

The Assembly of Extremadura had a maximum of 65 seats, with electoral provisions fixing its size at that number. All were elected in two multi-member constituencies—corresponding to the provinces of Badajoz and Cáceres, each of which was assigned an initial minimum of 20 seats and the remaining 25 distributed in proportion to population—using the D'Hondt method and closed-list proportional voting, with a five percent-threshold of valid votes (including blank ballots) in each constituency. Alternatively, parties could also enter the seat distribution as long as they ran candidates in both constituencies and reached five percent regionally.; .

As a result of the aforementioned allocation, each Assembly constituency was entitled the following seats:.

Seats Constituencies 36 Badajoz 29 Cáceres

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 2019 Groups Parties Legislators Seats Total Socialist Parliamentary Group PSOE 30 30 People's Parliamentary Group PP 27 27 We Can Extremadura Parliamentary Group Podemos 6 6 Mixed Parliamentary Group Cs 1 1 Non-Inscrits Vox 1 1

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 two percent of the electorate in the constituencies for which they sought election, disallowing electors from signing for more than one list. ( by ). Additionally, a balanced composition of men and women was required in the electoral lists, so that candidates of either sex made up at least 40 percent of the total composition..

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

Candidacy Parties andalliances Candidate Ideology Previous result Vote % Seats PSOE Guillermo Fernández Vara Social democracy 41.5% PP José Antonio Monago ConservatismChristian democracy 37.0% Podemos–IU–eX–Equo Irene de Miguel Left-wing populismDirect democracyDemocratic socialism 14.0% Cs Cayetano Polo Liberalism 4.4% Vox Juan Antonio Morales Right-wing populismUltranationalismNational conservatism 0.3%

Campaign Debates + 2019 Extremaduran regional election debates Date Organizer(s) Moderator(s) PSOE PP UxE Cs Vox EU PACT Audience 21 May Canal Extremadura Manu Pérez 9.3%

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; 33 seats were required for an absolute majority in the Assembly of Extremadura.

Polling firm/Commissioner Fieldwork date Sample size Turnout eX Lead 2019 regional election 26 May 2019 69.3 46.8 27.5 11.1 4.7 7.2 19.3 ElectoPanel/Electomanía 22–23 May 2019?? 40.6 25.8 15.8 6.5 8.6 14.8 ElectoPanel/Electomanía 21–22 May 2019?? 40.7 26.2 15.6 6.2 8.4 14.5 ElectoPanel/Electomanía 20–21 May 2019?? 40.5 26.1 15.6 6.4 8.5 14.4 ElectoPanel/Electomanía 19–20 May 2019?? 40.4 25.9 15.8 6.0 8.4 14.5 NC Report/La Razón 19 May 2019?? 42.9 23.2 ? ?? 19.3 ElectoPanel/Electomanía 16–19 May 2019?? 40.4 24.9 16.0 6.5 8.1 15.5 ElectoPanel/Electomanía 13–16 May 2019?? 39.0 23.3 17.5 8.1 9.3 15.7 ElectoPanel/Electomanía 10–13 May 2019?? 37.1 23.0 18.8 9.2 10.2 14.1 ElectoPanel/Electomanía 7–10 May 2019?? 36.2 22.2 19.8 8.6 10.9 14.0 Sigma Dos/Hoy 6–8 May 2019 1,100? 40.2 30.1 13.8 4.5 8.3 10.1 ElectoPanel/Electomanía 4–7 May 2019?? 37.0 21.6 19.8 8.7 10.8 15.4 Ágora Integral/El Periódico 29 Apr–6 May 2019 1,200? 44.1 21.1 13.1 10.1 10.1 23.0 ElectoPanel/Electomanía 29 Apr–4 May 2019?? 37.0 21.5 19.7 8.6 10.9 15.5 April 2019 general election 28 Apr 2019 74.2 38.1 21.4 18.0 0.3 10.8 9.5 16.7 CIS 21 Mar–23 Apr 2019 531? 45.6 28.6 9.3 2.6 12.3 17.0 ElectoPanel/Electomanía 31 Mar–7 Apr 2019?? 37.4 23.3 11.9 13.9 10.0 14.1 ElectoPanel/Electomanía 24–31 Mar 2019?? 37.4 22.6 12.3 14.0 9.8 14.8 ElectoPanel/Electomanía 17–24 Mar 2019?? 38.6 22.8 11.9 13.8 9.4 15.8 ElectoPanel/Electomanía 10–17 Mar 2019?? 37.0 22.6 11.2 16.4 9.3 14.4 ElectoPanel/Electomanía 3–10 Mar 2019?? 36.4 22.4 11.8 16.3 9.5 14.0 ElectoPanel/Electomanía 22 Feb–3 Mar 2019?? 36.2 22.6 11.9 16.2 9.5 13.6 ElectoPanel/Electomanía 20–26 Jan 2019 578? 34.2 23.1 17.2 1.6 9.4 10.9 11.1 Celeste-Tel/PSOE 14–25 Jan 2019 1,500 72.3 40.8 28.9 6.0 13.8 4.3 – 4.8 – 11.9 Sigma Dos/Hoy 14–18 May 2018 1,100? 40.2 32.8 7.1 14.7 – – – – 7.6 SyM Consulting 13–14 Mar 2018 1,430 73.2 42.3 32.5 6.0 8.5 4.7 1.6 – – 9.8 Sigma Dos/Hoy 6–13 Mar 2017 1,200? 40.1 37.0 8.8 7.5 1.6 – – – 3.1 2016 general election 26 Jun 2016 68.6 34.5 39.9 10.5 – 0.2 13.1 5.4 2015 general election 20 Dec 2015 72.2 36.0 34.8 12.7 11.4 3.0 0.3 0.1 – 1.2 2015 regional election 24 May 2015 71.4 41.5 37.0 8.0 4.4 4.2 1.5 0.3 – 4.5

Voting preferences The table below lists raw, unweighted voting preferences.

Polling firm/Commissioner Fieldwork date Sample size eX Lead 2019 regional election 26 May 2019 32.9 19.4 7.8 3.3 5.1 28.7 13.5 April 2019 general election 28 Apr 2019 28.6 16.1 13.5 0.2 8.1 7.1 23.7 12.5 CIS 21 Mar–23 Apr 2019 531 43.2 20.4 5.6 1.4 5.8 18.2 3.5 22.8 2016 general election 26 Jun 2016 24.0 27.7 7.3 – 0.1 9.1 29.6 3.7 2015 general election 20 Dec 2015 26.3 25.5 9.2 8.3 2.2 0.2 0.1 – 25.9 0.8 2015 regional election 24 May 2015 29.9 26.7 5.8 3.1 3.1 1.0 0.2 – 26.6 3.2

Results Overall + ← Summary of the 26 May 2019 Assembly of Extremadura election results → Parties and alliances Popular vote Seats Votes % ±pp Total +/− Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) 287,619 46.77 +5.27 34 +4 People's Party (PP) 168,982 27.48 −9.52 20 −8 Citizens–Party of the Citizenry (Cs) 68,343 11.11 +6.72 7 +6 United for Extremadura (Podemos–IU–eXtremeños–Equo)1 44,309 7.20 −6.76 4 −2 Vox (Vox) 28,992 4.71 +4.43 0 ±0 United Extremadura (EU) 3,970 0.65 +0.16 0 ±0 Animalist Party Against Mistreatment of Animals (PACMA) 3,460 0.56 +0.32 0 ±0 Public Defense Organization (ODP) 1,422 0.23 New 0 ±0 Act (PACT) 1,311 0.21 New 0 ±0 For a Fairer World (PUM+J) 555 0.09 New 0 ±0 With You, We Are Democracy (Contigo) 441 0.07 New 0 ±0 Blank ballots 5,611 0.91 −0.43 Total 615,015 65 ±0 Valid votes 615,015 98.67 +0.53 Invalid votes 8,273 1.33 −0.53 Votes cast / turnout 623,288 69.26 −2.14 Abstentions 276,642 30.74 +2.14 Registered voters 899,930 Sources

Distribution by constituency Constituency PSOE PP Cs UxE % S % S % S % S Badajoz 48.5 20 26.2 10 11.1 4 6.8 2 Cáceres 44.0 14 29.4 10 11.1 3 7.8 2 Total 46.8 34 27.5 20 11.1 7 7.2 4 Sources

Aftermath Government formation

Investiture Ballot → 25 June 2019 Required majority → 33 out of 65 Absentees Sources

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