2007 Balearic regional election

The 2007 Balearic regional election was held on Sunday, 27 May 2007, to elect the 7th Parliament of the autonomous community of the Balearic Islands. All 59 seats in the Parliament were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with regional elections in twelve other autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain.

2007 Balearic regional election
27 May 2007
All 59 seats in the Parliament of the Balearic Islands
30 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered699,947 2.5%
Turnout420,941 (60.1%)
2.7 pp
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Jaume Matas Francesc Antich Xico Tarrés
Party PP PSOE PSOE–ExC
Leader since 17 June 1996 9 November 1998 2007
Leader's seat Mallorca Mallorca Ibiza
Last election 29 seats, 44.7% 15 seats, 24.5% 5 seats, 4.0%
Seats won 28 16 6
Seat change 1 1 1
Popular vote 192,577 115,477 19,094
Percentage 46.0% 27.6% 4.6%
Swing 1.3 pp 3.1 pp 0.6 pp
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Biel Barceló Maria Antònia Munar Eduard Riudavets
Party Bloc UM PSM–EN
Leader since 27 May 2006 1 July 1991 2003
Leader's seat Mallorca Mallorca Menorca
Last election 5 seats, 12.1% 3 seats, 7.5% 1 seat, 0.7%
Seats won 4 3 1
Seat change 1 0 0
Popular vote 37,572 28,178 3,292
Percentage 9.0% 6.7% 0.8%
Swing 3.1 pp 0.8 pp 0.1 pp
  Seventh party
 
Leader Josep Mayans Serra
Party AIPF
Leader since 2003
Leader's seat Formentera
Last election 1 seat, 0.4%
Seats won 1
Seat change 0
Popular vote 1,795
Percentage 0.4%
Swing 0.0 pp
Constituency results map for the Parliament of the Balearic Islands
President before election

Jaume Matas
PP

 Elected President

Francesc Antich
PSOE

On 1 March 2007, the reform of the Statute of Autonomy of the Balearic Islands came into effect. Among other changes, it gave more autonomy to every Island Council, with the creation of the Island Council of Formentera—formerly the Island Council of Ibiza and Formentera covered both islands—, composed by the municipal councillors elected in the Formentera municipal election. This meant that to elect the island councillors a separate election was held for the first time. Since then, the regional election in every district was used to determine the councillors. The number of seats was the same as before—33 for Mallorca, 13 for Menorca and 13 for Ibiza. The voters had therefore an extra blue ballot to vote for each Island Council, different from the salmon ballot existing for the regional election.

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