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2023 Aranese Council election

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2023 Aranese Council election

← 2019 28 May 2023

All 13 seats in the Conselh Generau d'Aran
7 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party
 
Leader Maria Vergés Pérez Ròsa Maria Salgueiro
Party UAPSC CDA–PNA
Leader's seat Castièro Castièro
Last election 9 seats, 49.7% 4 seats, 30.0%
Seats won 9 4
Seat change 0 0
Popular vote 2,279 1,626
Percentage 49.1% 35.0%
Swing 0.6 pp 5.0 pp

Síndic d'Aran before election

Maria Vergés Pérez
UAPSC

Elected Síndic d'Aran

Maria Vergés Pérez
UAPSC

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

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Electoral system

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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).[1]

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.[2] The electoral system results in a higher effective threshold depending on the district magnitude and the distribution of votes among candidacies.[3]

On the 2019 election, members were distributed in the following way:[2]

Constituency Seats
Pujòlo 2
Arties e Garòs 2
Castièro 4
Marcatosa 1
Lairissa 1
Quate Lòcs 3

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

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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.[4]

Parties and candidates

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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.[5]

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

Candidacy Parties and
alliances
Leading candidate Ideology Previous result Gov. Ref.
Votes (%) Seats
UAPSC Maria Vergés Pérez Social democracy
Aranese autonomism
49.72% 9 checkY [6]
CDA–PNA Ròsa Maria Salgueiro Liberalism
Aranese autonomy
Occitan nationalism
29.97% 4 ☒N [7]
AAAM None[a] Socialism
Catalan independence
Occitan nationalism
10.86% 0 ☒N [9]
[8]
PRAG José Antonio Bruna Localism
Progressivism
Aranese autonomy
1.91% 0 ☒N

Results

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Overall

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Summary of the 28 May 2023 Conselh Generau d'Aran election results
Parties and alliances Popular vote Seats
Votes % ±pp Total +/−
Unity of AranSocialists' Party of Catalonia (UA–PSC) 2,279 49.05 –0.67 9 ±0
Aranese Democratic Convergence-Aranese Nationalist Party (CDA–PNA) 1,626 34.99 +5.03 4 ±0
Aran TogetherMunicipal Agreement (Aran Amassa–AM) 498 10.71 –0.15 0 ±0
Renewal Party of Arties e Garòs (PRAG) 91 1.95 +0.05 0 ±0
Blank ballots 152 3.27 +1.25
Total 4,646 13 ±0
Valid votes 4,646 97.74 –0,93
Invalid votes 107 2.25 +0.93
Votes cast / turnout 4,753 65.02 –7.35
Abstentions 2,556 34.97 +7.35
Registered voters 7,309
Sources[10]
Popular vote
UA–PSC
49.05%
CDA–PNA
34.99%
AAAM
10.71%
PRAG
1.95%
Blank ballots
3.27%
Seats
UA–PSC
69.23%
CDA–PNA
30.76%

Distribution by constituency

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Constituency UA–PSC CDA–PNA AAAM 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[10]

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ Aran Amassa did not unveil the name of its candidate for the post of Síndic d'Aran.[8]

References

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  1. ^ Ley 16/1990, de 13 de julio, sobre régimen especial del Valle de Arán (PDF) (in Spanish). Boletín Oficial del Estado.
  2. ^ a b Decreto 73/2019, de 26 de marzo, de convocatoria de elecciones al Consejo General de Arán de 2019 (PDF) (in Spanish and Occitan). Diari Oficial de la Generalitat de Catalunya.
  3. ^ Gallagher, Michael (30 July 2012). "Effective threshold in electoral systems". Trinity College, Dublin. Archived from the original on 2017-07-30. Retrieved 22 July 2017.
  4. ^ Comunidad Autónoma de Cataluña (4 March 2015), Ley 1/2015, de 5 de febrero, del régimen especial de Arán, pp. 20067–20100, retrieved 9 May 2022
  5. ^ Ley Orgánica 5/1985, de 19 de junio, del Régimen Electoral General. Boletín Oficial del Estado (Organic Law 5) (in Spanish). 19 June 1985. Retrieved 28 December 2016.
  6. ^ "Maria Vergés, nueva secretaria general de UA". Segre.com (in Spanish). 12 December 2021. Retrieved 4 February 2023.
  7. ^ Moga, Manu (4 March 2023). "Convergéncia Aranesa escuelh a Ròsa Mari Salgueiro coma candidata a sindica d'Aran enes eleccions deth 28 de mai". aue.cat (in Catalan). Retrieved 18 April 2023.
  8. ^ a b "El futuro del Conselh Generau de Arán estará en manos de una mujer: Maria Vergès (UA) o Ròsa Maria Salgueiro (CDA)". Segre (in Spanish). 11 May 2023. Retrieved 15 May 2023.
  9. ^ Tedó, Xavi (28 December 2022). "ERC s'alia amb el partit de Mireia Boya per tenir presència a l'Aran". Ara.cat (in Catalan). Retrieved 4 February 2023.
  10. ^ a b "Resultats definitius Conselh Generau d'Aran". resultats.aran2023.cat (in Catalan). gencat.