2023 Aranese Council election explained

Election Name:2023 Aranese Council election
Country:Val d'Aran
Type:parliamentary
Ongoing:no
Previous Election:2019 Aranese Council election
Previous Year:2019
Seats For Election:All 13 seats in the Conselh Generau d'Aran
Majority Seats:7
Election Date:28 May 2023
Leader1:Maria Vergés Pérez
Party1:UAPSC
Leaders Seat1:Castièro
Last Election1:9 seats, 49.7%
Seats1:9
Seat Change1:0
Popular Vote1:2,279
Percentage1:49.1%
Swing1:0.6 pp
Leader2:Ròsa Maria Salgueiro
Party2:CDA–PNA
Leaders Seat2:Castièro
Last Election2:4 seats, 30.0%
Seats2:4
Seat Change2:0
Popular Vote2:1,626
Percentage2:35.0%
Swing2:5.0 pp
Map Size:275px
Síndic d'Aran
Before Election:Maria Vergés Pérez
Before Party:UAPSC
After Election:Maria Vergés Pérez
After Party: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

Electoral system

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:

ConstituencySeats
Pujòlo2
Arties e Garòs2
Castièro4
Marcatosa1
Lairissa1
Quate Lòcs3
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

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.

Parties and candidates

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]

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

CandidacyParties and
alliances
Leading candidateIdeologyPrevious result
Votes (%)Seats
UAPSCMaria Vergés PérezSocial democracy
Aranese autonomism
49.72%[5]
CDA–PNARòsa Maria SalgueiroLiberalism
Aranese autonomy
Occitan nationalism
29.97%[6]
AAAMNoneSocialism
Catalan independence
Occitan nationalism
10.86%[7]
PRAGJosé Antonio BrunaLocalism
Progressivism
Aranese autonomy
1.91%

Results

Overall

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Parties and alliancesPopular voteSeats
Votes%±ppTotal+/−
Unity of AranSocialists' Party of Catalonia (UA–PSC)2,279 49.05 –0.679 ±0
Aranese Democratic Convergence-Aranese Nationalist Party (CDA–PNA)1,626 34.99 +5.034 ±0
Aran TogetherMunicipal Agreement (Aran Amassa–AM)498 10.71 –0.150 ±0
Renewal Party of Arties e Garòs (PRAG)91 1.95 +0.050 ±0
Blank ballots152 3.27 +1.25
Total4,646 13 ±0
Valid votes4,646 97.74 –0,93
Invalid votes107 2.25 +0.93
Votes cast / turnout4,753 65.02 –7.35
Abstentions2,556 34.97 +7.35
Registered voters7,309
Sources[8]

Distribution by constituency

ConstituencyUA–PSCCDA–PNAAAAMPRAG
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Arties e Garòs27.4138.418.423.9
Castièro56.0329.4111.2
Lairissa59.6135.3
Marcatosa46.2140.111.4
Pujòlo33.2152.4111.5
Quate Lòcs52.7230.8113.1
Total49.1935.0410.72.0
Sources

See also

Notes and References

  1. Book: Ley 16/1990, de 13 de julio, sobre régimen especial del Valle de Arán. . Boletín Oficial del Estado . es.
  2. Book: Decreto 73/2019, de 26 de marzo, de convocatoria de elecciones al Consejo General de Arán de 2019. . Diari Oficial de la Generalitat de Catalunya . es, oc.
  3. Web site: Gallagher . Michael . 30 July 2012 . Effective threshold in electoral systems . https://web.archive.org/web/20170730092518/http://www.tcd.ie/Political_Science/staff/michael_gallagher/ElSystems/Docts/effthresh.php . 2017-07-30 . 22 July 2017 . Trinity College, Dublin.
  4. Organic Law. 5. 19 June 1985. Ley Orgánica 5/1985, de 19 de junio, del Régimen Electoral General. es. Boletín Oficial del Estado. 28 December 2016.
  5. News: 12 December 2021 . Maria Vergés, nueva secretaria general de UA . 4 February 2023 . Segre.com . es.
  6. News: Moga . Manu . 4 March 2023 . Convergéncia Aranesa escuelh a Ròsa Mari Salgueiro coma candidata a sindica d'Aran enes eleccions deth 28 de mai . 18 April 2023 . aue.cat . ca.
  7. News: Tedó . Xavi . 28 December 2022 . ERC s'alia amb el partit de Mireia Boya per tenir presència a l'Aran . 4 February 2023 . Ara.cat . ca.
  8. Web site: Resultats definitius Conselh Generau d'Aran . ca . gencat . resultats.aran2023.cat.