The 2023 Aranese Council Election, was held on Sunday, 28 May 2023, to elect the General Council of Aran, an administrative entity in the province of Lleida (Spain). All 13 seats in the council were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with regional elections in twelve autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain.

Overview Electoral system The General Council of Aran is elected every four years on the basis of universal suffrage, which comprises all nationals over eighteen who can vote in the local elections in any of the 9 municipalities that make up Aran. It was officially established after the 1991 elections and is made up of 13 members. According to Law 16/1990, of July 13, on the special regime of the Val d'Aran, it is made up of the Síndic d'Aran, the General Councilors (Occitan: Conselhers Generaus), that work in plenary, and by the Commission of Accounts Auditors (Occitan: Commission d'Auditors de Compdes).

In every election, electors choose the General Councilors, that will later elect the Síndic, who acts as the head of government. Aran is divided in six electoral districts, whose borders coincide with those of the "thirds" (Occitan: Terçon, Catalan: Terçó, Spanish: Tersón), a traditional division of the valley. In every district, members are allocated using the proportional D'Hônt method with closed lists, with an electoral threshold of five percent of the valid votes in every district. The electoral system results in a higher effective threshold depending on the district magnitude and the distribution of votes among candidacies.

On the 2019 election, members were distributed in the following way: Constituency Seats Pujòlo 2 Arties e Garòs 2 Castièro 4 Marcatosa 1Lairissa1Quate Lòcs3 As Catalonia has not developed its own electoral law, Aranese elections are regulated by Organic Law No. 5 of 19 June 1985, which regulates elections nationwide.

Election date The date of the elections is set for the same day that local elections are held in Spain, that is, the fourth Sunday of May every 4 years.

Parties and candidates The electoral law allowed for parties and federations registered in the interior ministry, coalitions and groupings of electors to present lists of candidates. Parties and federations intending to form a coalition ahead of an election were required to inform the relevant Electoral Commission within ten days of the election call, whereas groupings of electors needed to secure the signature of at least one percent of the electorate in the constituencies for which they sought election, disallowing electors from signing for more than one list of candidates.

Below is a list of the main parties and electoral alliances which contested the election: CandidacyParties andalliancesLeading candidateIdeologyPrevious resultVotes (%)SeatsUA–PSC Maria Vergés Pérez Social democracyAranese autonomism49.72%CDA–PNA Ròsa Maria Salgueiro LiberalismAranese autonomyOccitan nationalism29.97% AA–AM None SocialismCatalan independenceOccitan nationalism10.86%PRAG José Antonio Bruna LocalismProgressivismAranese autonomy1.91%

Results

Overall +← Summary of the 28 May 2023 Conselh Generau d'Aran election resultsParties and alliancesPopular voteSeatsVotes %±ppTotal+/−Unity of Aran–Socialists' Party of Catalonia (UA–PSC) 2,279 49.05 –0.67 9 ±0Aranese Democratic Convergence-Aranese Nationalist Party (CDA–PNA) 1,626 34.99 +5.03 4 ±0Aran Together–Municipal Agreement (Aran Amassa–AM) 498 10.71 –0.15 0 ±0Renewal Party of Arties e Garòs (PRAG) 91 1.95 +0.05 0 ±0Blank ballots 152 3.27 +1.25Total 4,646 13 ±0Valid votes 4,646 97.74 –0,93Invalid votes 107 2.25 +0.93Votes cast / turnout 4,753 65.02 –7.35Abstentions 2,556 34.97 +7.35Registered voters 7,309 Sources

Distribution by constituency Constituency UA–PSC CDA–PNA AA–AM PRAG % S % S % S % S Arties e Garòs 27.4 1 38.4 1 8.4 − 23.9 − Castièro 56.0 3 29.4 1 11.2 − Lairissa 59.6 1 35.3 − Marcatosa 46.2 1 40.1 − 11.4 − Pujòlo 33.2 1 52.4 1 11.5 − Quate Lòcs 52.7 2 30.8 1 13.1 − Total 49.1 9 35.0 4 10.7 − 2.0 − Sources

See also 2023 Spanish local elections

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