2019 Navarrese regional election

The 2019 Navarrese regional election was held on Sunday, 26 May 2019, to elect the 10th Parliament of the Chartered Community of Navarre. All 50 seats in the Parliament were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with regional elections in eleven other autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain, as well as the 2019 European Parliament election.

2019 Navarrese regional election

26 May 2019

All 50 seats in the Parliament of Navarre
26 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered511,225 2.0%
Turnout350,362 (68.5%)
0.2 pp
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Javier Esparza María Chivite Uxue Barkos
Party NA+ PSN–PSOE GBai
Leader since 30 November 2014 19 October 2014 3 October 2014
Last election 17 seats, 34.3% 7 seats, 13.4% 9 seats, 15.8%
Seats won 20 11 9
Seat change 3 4 0
Popular vote 127,346 71,838 60,323
Percentage 36.6% 20.6% 17.3%
Swing 2.3 pp 7.2 pp 1.5 pp

  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Bakartxo Ruiz Mikel Buil Marisa de Simón
Party EH Bildu Podemos I–E (n)
Leader since 30 May 2018 27 November 2018 9 March 2019
Last election 8 seats, 14.2% 7 seats, 13.7% 2 seats, 3.7%
Seats won 7 2 1
Seat change 1 5 1
Popular vote 50,631 16,518 10,472
Percentage 14.5% 4.7% 3.0%
Swing 0.3 pp 9.0 pp 0.7 pp

President before election

Uxue Barkos
GBai

Elected President

María Chivite
PSN–PSOE

Ahead of the election, the three main right-from-centre parties—namely, Navarrese People's Union (UPN), the People's Party (PP) and Citizens (Cs)—signed an electoral alliance under the Navarra Suma (NA+) brand, in order to maximize their options against the incumbent government, formed by Geroa Bai (GBai), EH Bildu and Izquierda-Ezkerra (I–E) with external support from Podemos, which in the previous election had ousted UPN from power after 19 years of uninterrupted rule. Concurrently, the Socialist Party of Navarre (PSN–PSOE) under María Chivite was on the rise, benefitting from a national bandwagon effect for the party following the general election held only one month earlier, on 28 April.

The election saw a victory for the NA+ alliance, which was able to secure more seats than the incumbent government (20 to 19). In particular, the collapse in the Podemos's vote share benefitted the PSN–PSOE, which scored its best result since 2007. There was speculation that UPN would be able to access the regional government through an agreement or consent from the PSN, but Chivite opted instead to secure the support of GBai, Podemos and I–E, as well as EH Bildu's tactical abstention, to become the first Socialist president of Navarre since Javier Otano stepped down from the office in 1996.

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