1995 Melilla Assembly election

The 1995 Melilla Assembly election was held on Sunday, 28 May 1995, to elect the 1st Assembly of the Autonomous City of Melilla. 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.

Electoral system

The Assembly of Melilla was the top-tier administrative and governing body of the autonomous city of Melilla. Voting for the Assembly was on the basis of universal suffrage, which comprised all nationals over eighteen, registered and residing in the municipality of Melilla and in full enjoyment of their political rights, as well as resident non-nationals whose country of origin allowed Spanish nationals to vote in their own elections by virtue of a treaty.[1][2][3]

The 25 members of the Assembly of Melilla 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.[1][2][3]

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.[3]

The electoral law provided that parties, federations, coalitions and groupings of electors were allowed to present lists of candidates. However, groupings of electors were required to secure the signature of a determined amount of the electors registered in Melilla. Concurrently, parties and federations intending to enter in coalition to take part jointly at an election were required to inform the relevant Electoral Commission within ten days of the election being called.[1][2]

Results

Summary of the 28 May 1995 Assembly of Melilla election results →

Parties and coalitions		Popular vote			Seats
		Votes	%	±pp	Total	+/−
	People's Party (PP)	12,425	47.20	+4.96	14	+2
	Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)	5,232	19.88	–20.66	5	–6
	Coalition for Melilla (CpM)	4,072	15.47	New	4	+4
	Melillan People's Union (UPM)	2,605	9.90	New	2	+2
	Nationalist Party of Melilla (PNM)	1,008	3.83	–4.77	0	–2
	United Left (IU)	715	2.72	New	0	±0
Blank ballots		265	1.01	+0.12
Total		26,322			25	±0
Valid votes		26,322	99.58	–0.10
Invalid votes		110	0.42	+0.10
Votes cast / turnout		26,432	61.73	+4.34
Abstentions		16,388	38.27	–4.34
Registered voters		42,820
Sources[4][5][6]

Popular vote PP   47.20% PSOE   19.88% CpM   15.47% UPM   9.90% PNM   3.83% IU   2.72% Blank ballots   1.01%

Seats PP   56.00% PSOE   20.00% CpM   16.00% UPM   8.00%

References

1. "General Electoral System Organic Law of 1985". Organic Law No. 5 of 19 June 1985. Official State Gazette (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 December 2016.
2. "Representation of the people Institutional Act". juntaelectoralcentral.es. Central Electoral Commission. Retrieved 16 June 2017.
3. "Statute of Autonomy of Melilla of 1995". Law No. 2 of 13 March 1995. Official State Gazette (in Spanish). Retrieved 7 April 2018.
4. "Electoral Results Consultation. Municipal. May 1995. City of Melilla". Ministry of the Interior (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 April 2018.
5. "Local election results, 28 May 1995" (PDF). juntaelectoralcentral.es (in Spanish). Central Electoral Commission. Retrieved 7 April 2018.
6. "Elecciones Municipales y Autonómicas en Melilla (1979 - 2019)". Historia Electoral.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 6 April 2018.