All 45 seats in the General Junta of the Principality of Asturias 23 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered
987,305 0.6%
Turnout
609,072 (61.7%) 0.1 pp
First party
Second party
Leader
Francisco Álvarez Cascos
Javier Fernández
Party
FAC
PSOE
Leader since
18 January 2011
23 October 2010
Leader's seat
Central
Central
Last election
Did not contest
21 seats, 42.0%
Seats won
16
15
Seat change
16
6
Popular vote
178,031
179,619
Percentage
29.7%
29.9%
Swing
New party
12.1 pp
Third party
Fourth party
Leader
Isabel Pérez-Espinosa
Jesús Iglesias
Party
PP
IU–LV
Leader since
29 December 2010
2007
Leader's seat
Central
Central
Last election
20 seats, 41.5%
4 seats, 9.7%
Seats won
10
4
Seat change
10
0
Popular vote
119,767
61,703
Percentage
20.0%
10.3%
Swing
21.5 pp
0.6%
Constituency results map for the General Junta of the Principality of Asturias
President before election
Vicente Álvarez Areces
PSOE
Elected President
Francisco Álvarez Cascos
FAC
The 2011 Asturian regional election was held on Sunday, 22 May 2011, to elect the 8th General Junta of the Principality of Asturias. All 45 seats in the General Junta were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with regional elections in twelve other autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain.
Except for the 1995-1999 legislature, the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) had governed the autonomous community since the first election in 1983. However, in the 2011 election, the Asturias Forum (FAC), a split from the People's Party (PP), won the most seats despite PSOE obtaining more votes. The FAC was established on 19 January 2011 by Francisco Álvarez Cascos, former Deputy Prime Minister of Spain, after failing to be selected as PP's candidate. FAC gains came at the expense of the PP and the PSOE, but while PSOE's collapse had been predicted in early opinion polls, the PP had been widely expected to make strong gains before Cascos' split, instead scoring the worst result of its history. The Asturian Bloc (BA) had terminated its coalition with United Left (IU) and the Asturian Greens (LVA) in August 2010 and run separately, failing to win any seats. IU and the Greens maintained their coalition and retained their existing four seats.
Vicente Álvarez Areces, incumbent since 1999, did not seek re-election. As in Asturias it is not allowed for parties to vote against a proposed presidential candidate (instead being forced to either abstain or vote a candidate of their own), in July 2011, the PSOE and PP announced that they would abstain in the investiture voting of Álvarez Cascos, who thus became the new president at the head of a minority administration.[1]
The resulting government, however, was not able to gather legislative support to approve its 2012 regional budget, with both PP and PSOE blocking the vote, resulting in a fresh election being held in March 2012.
^Cuartas, Javier (2011-07-09). "Cascos will have to govern Asturias in minority". El País (in Spanish).
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