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1999 Ceuta Assembly election

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1999 Ceuta Assembly election

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All 25 seats in the Assembly of Ceuta
13 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered54,609 Green arrow up7.2%
Turnout33,505 (61.4%)
Green arrow up4.7 pp
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Antonio Sampietro[1] Juan Jesús Vivas
Party GIL PP PDSC
Leader since October 1999
Last election Did not contest 9 seats, 30.9% 1 seats, 5.0%
Seats won 12 8 3
Seat change Green arrow up12 Red arrow down1 Green arrow up2
Popular vote 12,721 9,334 3,340
Percentage 38.2% 28.0% 10.0%
Swing New party Red arrow down2.9 pp Green arrow up5.0 pp

  Fourth party
 
Leader Alberto Núñez Thome[1]
Party PSOE
Last election 3 seats, 13.1%
Seats won 2
Seat change Red arrow down1
Popular vote 2,481
Percentage 7.4%
Swing Red arrow down5.7 pp

Mayor-President before election

Juan Jesús Vivas
PP

Elected Mayor-President

Juan Jesús Vivas
PP

The 1999 Ceuta Assembly election was held on Sunday, 13 June 1999, to elect the 2nd Assembly of the Autonomous City of Ceuta. All 25 seats in the Assembly were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with regional elections in thirteen autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain, as well as the 1999 European Parliament election.

Electoral system

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The Assembly of Ceuta was the top-tier administrative and governing body of the autonomous city of Ceuta. Voting for the Assembly was on the basis of universal suffrage, which comprised all nationals over eighteen, registered and residing in the municipality of Ceuta and in full enjoyment of their political rights, as well as resident non-national European citizens and those whose country of origin allowed Spanish nationals to vote in their own elections by virtue of a treaty.[2][3][4]

The 25 members of the Assembly of Ceuta were elected using the D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional representation, with a threshold of 5 percent of valid votes—which included blank ballots—being applied. Parties not reaching the threshold were not taken into consideration for seat distribution.[2][3][4]

The Mayor-President was indirectly elected by the plenary assembly. A legal clause required that mayoral candidates earned the vote of an absolute majority of members, or else the candidate of the most-voted party in the assembly was to be automatically appointed to the post. In case of a tie, a toss-up would determine the appointee.[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.[4][2]

Results

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Summary of the 13 June 1999 Assembly of Ceuta election results
Parties and alliances Popular vote Seats
Votes % ±pp Total +/−
Liberal Independent Group (GIL) 12,721 38.15 New 12 +12
People's Party (PP) 9,334 27.99 –2.86 8 –1
Democratic and Social Party of Ceuta (PDSC) 3,340 10.02 +4.98 3 +2
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) 2,481 7.44 –5.68 2 –1
Socialist Party of the People of Ceuta (PSPC) 1,467 4.40 –3.63 0 –2
United Left of Ceuta (IU) 1,321 3.96 +2.19 0 ±0
United Ceuta (CEU) 1,297 3.89 –10.62 0 –4
Progress and Future of Ceuta (PFC) 625 1.87 –18.24 0 –6
Ceutan Party (PC) 356 1.07 +0.77 0 ±0
Blank ballots 400 1.20 +0.22
Total 33,342 25 ±0
Valid votes 33,342 99.51 –0.07
Invalid votes 163 0.49 +0.07
Votes cast / turnout 33,505 61.35 +4.70
Abstentions 21,104 38.65 –4.70
Registered voters 54,609
Sources[5][6][7]
Popular vote
GIL
38.15%
PP
27.99%
PDSC
10.02%
PSOE
7.44%
PSPC
4.40%
IU
3.96%
CEU
3.89%
PFC
1.87%
PC
1.07%
Blank ballots
1.20%
Seats
GIL
48.00%
PP
32.00%
PDSC
12.00%
PSOE
8.00%

References

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  1. ^ a b "Elecciones municipales 1999. Candidatos" (in Spanish). Retrieved 19 November 2021.
  2. ^ a b c General Electoral System Organic Law of 1985. Official State Gazette (Organic Law 5) (in Spanish). 19 June 1985. Retrieved 28 December 2016.
  3. ^ a b "Representation of the people Institutional Act". juntaelectoralcentral.es. Central Electoral Commission. Retrieved 16 June 2017.
  4. ^ a b c d Statute of Autonomy of Ceuta of 1995. Official State Gazette (Law 1) (in Spanish). 13 March 1995. Retrieved 7 April 2018.
  5. ^ "Electoral Results Consultation. Municipal. June 1999. City of Ceuta". Ministry of the Interior (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 April 2018.
  6. ^ "Acuerdo de 15 de julio de 1999, de la Junta Electoral Central, por el que se procede a la publicación del resumen de los resultados de las elecciones locales convocadas por Real Decreto 606/1999, de 19 de abril, y celebradas el 13 de junio, según los datos que figuran en las actas de proclamación remitidas por cada una de las Juntas Electorales de Zona" (PDF) (in Spanish). Boletín Oficial del Estado. Retrieved 22 October 2021.
  7. ^ "Elecciones Municipales y Autonómicas en Ceuta (1979-2019)". Historia Electoral.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 26 October 2021.