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2015 Valencian regional election

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All 99 seats in the Corts Valencianes 50 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered	3,609,265 1.7%
Turnout	2,510,459 (69.6%) 0.6 pp
First party Second party Third party   Leader Alberto Fabra Ximo Puig Mónica Oltra Party PP PSPV–PSOE Compromís Leader since 28 July 2011 31 March 2012 31 January 2015 Leader's seat Valencia Castellón Valencia Last election 55 seats, 49.4% 33 seats, 28.0% 6 seats, 7.2% Seats won 31 23 19 Seat change 24 10 13 Popular vote 658,612 509,098 456,823 Percentage 26.6% 20.6% 18.5% Swing 22.8 pp 7.4 pp 11.3 pp   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Carolina Punset Antonio Montiel Ignacio Blanco Party C's Podemos/Podem Acord Ciutadà Leader since 2 February 2015 14 February 2015 8 November 2014 Leader's seat Valencia Valencia Valencia (lost) Last election Did not contest Did not contest 5 seats, 7.6% Seats won 13 13 0 Seat change 13 13 5 Popular vote 309,121 282,389 106,917 Percentage 12.5% 11.4% 4.3% Swing New party New party 3.3 pp
Election result by constituency
President before election Alberto Fabra PP Elected President Ximo Puig PSPV–PSOE

The 2015 Valencian regional election was held on Sunday, 24 May 2015, to elect the 9th Corts of the Valencian Community. All 99 seats in the Corts were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with regional elections in twelve other autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain.

While incumbent President Alberto Fabra's People's Party (PP) remained as the party with the most votes, it lost 24 seats and 22 percentage points compared to its 2011 result, losing the absolute majority it had held in the Corts since 1999. This result was attributed to the party's management of the economic crisis, as well as the various corruption scandals that affected the PP throughout the entire 2011–2015 period, some of which were unveiled just weeks before the election. The Socialist Party of the Valencian Country (PSPV–PSOE) came second, with 23 seats, 10 fewer than in 2011 and the worst electoral result in its history.

Three other parties achieved representation, of which two were newly formed since 2011: Commitment Coalition (Compromís), with 19 seats, Podemos and Citizens (C's). The Citizen Agreement, an electoral alliance led by United Left of the Valencian Country (EUPV), did not reach the minimum threshold of five percent of the regional vote to achieve representation and therefore lost all of its seats in the Corts. Turnout was, at 69.6%, the lowest since 1999. Subsequently, Alberto Fabra announced he would retire from his party's leadership in the region after a PSPV–Compromís coalition with Podemos' support expelled the PP from the regional government after 20 years in power. Ximo Puig from the PSPV–PSOE was elected as new regional President.

Overview

Electoral system

The Corts Valencianes were the devolved, unicameral legislature of the Valencian autonomous community, having legislative power in regional matters as defined by the Spanish Constitution and the Valencian Statute of Autonomy, as well as the ability to vote confidence in or withdraw it from a regional president. Voting for the Corts was on the basis of universal suffrage, which comprised all nationals over 18 years of age, registered in the Valencian Community and in full enjoyment of their political rights. Additionally, Valencians abroad were required to apply for voting before being permitted to vote, a system known as "begged" or expat vote (Spanish: Voto rogado).

The 99 members of the Corts Valencianes were elected using the D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional representation, with a threshold of five percent of valid votes—which included blank ballots—being applied regionally. Seats were allocated to constituencies, corresponding to the provinces of Alicante, Castellón and Valencia, with each being allocated an initial minimum of 20 seats and the remaining 39 being distributed in proportion to their populations (provided that the seat-to-population ratio in any given province did not exceed three times that of any other).

As a result of the aforementioned allocation, each Corts constituency was entitled the following seats:

Election date

The term of the Corts Valencianes expired four years after the date of their previous election, unless they were dissolved earlier. The election decree was required to be issued no later than the twenty-fifth day prior to the date of expiry of parliament and published on the following day in the Official Journal of the Valencian Government (DOGV), with election day taking place on the fifty-fourth day from publication. The previous election was held on 22 May 2011, which meant that the legislature's term would have expired on 22 May 2015. The election decree was required to be published no later than 28 April 2015, with the election taking place on the fifty-fourth day from publication, setting the latest possible election date for the Corts on Sunday, 21 June 2015.

The president had the prerogative to dissolve the Corts Valencianes and call a snap election, provided that no motion of no confidence was in process. In the event of an investiture process failing to elect a regional president within a two-month period from the first ballot, the Corts were to be automatically dissolved and a fresh election called.

The Corts Valencianes were officially dissolved on 31 March 2015 after the publication of the dissolution decree in the DOGV, setting the election date for 24 May and scheduling for the chamber to convene on 11 June.

Background

The 2011 regional election had resulted in the People's Party (PP) increasing its absolute majority despite losing votes, thanks to the collapse of the Socialist Party of the Valencian Country vote, which scored its worst historical result up to that point. However, after 16 years of uninterrupted rule, corruption scandals involving the PP began to erupt. Two months after the election, President Francisco Camps resigned because of his alleged implication in the Gürtel corruption scandal, being replaced as president of the Valencian Government by Alberto Fabra. The following years saw the unveiling of a series of corruption scandals that rocked the PP, involving party deputies, mayors, local councillors, two Corts's speakers and former regional president José Luis Olivas. At one point, about 20% of the party members in the Corts Valencianes—11 out of 55—were involved in various corruption cases; a joke popularized at the time said that they would become the third political force in the Corts Valencianes, only behind PP and PSOE, if they were to form their own parliamentary group. The regional party leadership also had to cope with accusations of illegal financing, as well as possible embezzlement offences in the additional costs incurred in the Formula 1 project and Pope Benedict XVI's 2006 visit to Valencia.

At the same time, the regional government had to deal with the effects of an ongoing financial crisis. Despite the regional decision to ask for a bailout from the central government headed by Mariano Rajoy in July 2012, its economic situation remained severe. Fabra's government had to close down RTVV, the regional public television broadcasting channel, because of financing issues, a decision which was met with widespread protests.

The 2014 European Parliament election resulted in enormous losses for the PP, which, in the largest Valencian cities, lost almost half of its votes in percentage terms compared to the previous elections. Both the economic crisis and corruption scandals helped hasten the party's decline, which had already seen support drop in opinion polls since 2011. The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party found itself unable to gain any of the PP's lost support and lost votes too, to the benefit of until then minority parties such as United Left of the Valencian Country (EUPV), Union, Progress and Democracy (UPyD), Citizens (C's), Compromís or the newly created Podemos party.

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.

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

Candidacy		Parties and alliances	Leading candidate		Ideology	Previous result		Gov.	Ref.
						Votes (%)	Seats
	PP	List People's Party (PP)		Alberto Fabra	Conservatism Christian democracy	49.42%	55	Y
	PSPV–PSOE	List Socialist Party of the Valencian Country (PSPV–PSOE)		Ximo Puig	Social democracy	28.04%	33	N
	EUPV–EV– ERPV–AS	List United Left of the Valencian Country (EUPV) The Greens of the Valencian Country (EVPV) Republican Left of the Valencian Country (ERPV) Building the Left–Socialist Alternative (CLI–AS)		Ignacio Blanco	Valencian nationalism Democratic socialism Green politics	7.65%	5	N
	Compromís	List Valencian Nationalist Bloc (Bloc) Valencian People's Initiative (IdPV) Greens Equo of the Valencian Country (VerdsEquo)		Mónica Oltra	Valencian nationalism Eco-socialism Green politics	7.19%	6	N
	Podemos/ Podem	List We Can (Podemos/Podem)		Antonio Montiel	Left-wing populism Direct democracy Democratic socialism	New party		N
	C's	List Citizens–Party of the Citizenry (C's)		Carolina Punset	Liberalism	New party		N

Opinion polls

The tables below list opinion polling results in reverse chronological order, showing the most recent first and using the dates when the survey fieldwork was done, as opposed to the date of publication. Where the fieldwork dates are unknown, the date of publication is given instead. The highest percentage figure in each polling survey is displayed with its background shaded in the leading party's colour. If a tie ensues, this is applied to the figures with the highest percentages. The "Lead" column on the right shows the percentage-point difference between the parties with the highest percentages in a poll.

Voting intention estimates

The table below lists weighted voting intention estimates. Refusals are generally excluded from the party vote percentages, while question wording and the treatment of "don't know" responses and those not intending to vote may vary between polling organisations. When available, seat projections determined by the polling organisations are displayed below (or in place of) the percentages in a smaller font; 50 seats were required for an absolute majority in the Corts Valencianes.

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  Poll conducted after legal ban on opinion polls   Exit poll

Polling firm/Commissioner	Fieldwork date	Sample size	Turnout									Lead
2015 regional election	24 May 2015	—	69.6	26.6 31	20.6 23	18.4 19	4.3 0	1.2 0	11.4 13	12.5 13	0.4 0	6.0
GfK/GVA	24 May 2015	15,864	?	31.2 35/37	19.4 22/23	15.5 15/16	3.8 0	–	11.5 13/14	12.5 13/14	–	11.8
GAD3/Antena 3	11–22 May 2015	?	?	? 33/35	? 22/24	? 13/15	–	–	? 12/13	? 13/15	–	?
JM&A/El Mundo	17 May 2015	?	69.6	29.5 34	19.5 22	8.5 8	4.8 0	1.1 0	16.7 18	15.7 17	–	10.0
GAD3/ABC	17 May 2015	?	?	? 33/34	? 20/21	? 12/13	–	–	? 12/13	? 18/19	–	?
NC Report/La Razón	17 May 2015	800	?	32.6 36/38	20.9 23/25	8.7 8/9	5.4 4/5	1.5 0	10.2 11/12	15.7 14/15	–	11.7
GIPEyOP	28 Apr–14 May 2015	977	?	30.0 34	20.9 25	13.4 15	7.7 8	4.3 0	8.8 8	9.0 9	–	9.1
Sigma Dos/El Mundo	8–12 May 2015	1,200	?	31.2 34/36	21.2 24/25	9.5 8/9	4.9 0/5	–	13.0 12/13	15.4 16	–	10.0
Encuestamos	1–12 May 2015	600	?	26.1 27/30	21.1 24/27	11.5 9/11	5.1 0/3	1.1 0	16.9 17/19	14.8 14/16	–	5.0
JM&A/El Mundo	10 May 2015	?	69.0	30.0 33	19.7 21	9.0 9	5.1 4	1.1 0	16.2 17	15.2 15	–	10.3
KMC/Valencia Plaza	9 May 2015	?	?	27.2 26/30	20.0 20/22	10.3 9/12	5.5 0/6	1.0 0	14.9 14/16	18.6 17/25	–	7.2
Invest Group/Levante-EMV	22 Apr–8 May 2015	1,600	74.5	24.7 27	19.3 20	13.2 13	5.8 6	–	13.5 14	17.6 19	–	5.4
Sigma Dos/Mediaset	4–7 May 2015	1,800	?	30.5 33/34	20.7 23/24	9.2 8/9	5.2 4/5	–	12.2 11/13	16.8 17	–	9.8
GAD3/ABC	29 Apr–5 May 2015	1,000	?	29.7 32/33	19.5 20/21	11.6 12/13	4.2 0	0.8 0	12.2 13/14	16.2 19/20	–	10.2
JM&A/El Mundo	3 May 2015	?	69.3	28.7 31	19.6 21	8.8 8	6.1 6	0.9 0	17.5 18	14.7 15	–	9.1
JM&A/El Mundo	26 Apr 2015	?	69.9	28.2 31	19.8 22	8.9 8	5.8 5	0.9 0	17.5 18	14.1 15	–	8.4
Sigma Dos/Las Provincias	22–24 Apr 2015	1,200	?	29.7 33	18.4 19/22	12.2 12/14	3.6 0	1.0 0	14.8 15/16	16.1 17	–	11.3
MyWord/Cadena SER	16–21 Apr 2015	1,218	?	26.5 28/31	19.7 22/26	10.8 8/11	5.3 3/5	1.0 0	13.8 13/15	18.1 17/19	–	6.8
CIS	23 Mar–19 Apr 2015	1,955	?	30.4 33/35	19.9 22/23	8.1 7/8	4.3 0	1.5 0	16.5 19	15.3 16	–	10.5
Metroscopia/El País	13–15 Apr 2015	1,500	72	24.5 28	21.0 23	10.9 9	5.9 5	–	16.9 17	17.7 17	–	3.5
Sigma Dos/El Mundo	26–28 Mar 2015	1,200	?	28.8 30/32	19.5 20/21	8.4 8	6.8 6	–	17.3 17/19	15.2 15/16	–	9.3
NC Report/La Razón	16–26 Mar 2015	800	?	35.2 40/42	20.4 23/25	8.2 7/8	5.1 3/4	2.1 0	11.2 11/12	13.4 12/13	–	14.8
Sigma Dos/Las Provincias	13–17 Mar 2015	1,200	?	30.6 33/36	19.4 21/22	10.2 9/10	5.2 4	3.9 0	14.3 15/16	12.9 14	–	11.2
ODEC/PSPV	1–15 Mar 2015	2,056	?	27.0– 27.5 34	23.0– 23.9 26/28	12.0– 12.5 13	4.7– 4.9 0	2.0– 2.4 0	11.4– 12.0 12	10.8– 11.6 12/14	0.5– 0.6 0	3.6– 4.0
PP	5 Mar 2015	?	?	? 37	? 24	? 6	–	–	? 20	? 12	–	?
ODEC/PSPV	21 Feb 2015	?	?	27.6– 28.2 35	22.6– 23.8 29	11.9– 12.1 13	5.2– 6.0 6	4.2– 4.9 0	12.8– 13.0 16	4.4– 4.7 0	0.3– 0.4 0	4.4– 5.0
PP	8 Feb 2015	?	?	30.0	17.0	10.0	5.0	5.0	20.0	9.0	–	?
JM&A/El Mundo	25 Jan 2015	?	68.7	30.8 36/41	18.6 22/24	8.5 8/9	4.4 0/4	4.1 0/4	20.9 23/25	3.9 0/2	–	9.9
PP	4 Jan 2015	?	?	? 42	? 20	? 8/11	–	–	? 20	? 5/7	–	?
Llorente & Cuenca	31 Oct 2014	?	?	? 38/40	? 26/28	? 6/10	? 6/7	? 5/6	? 15/20	–	–	?
Inmerco/Valencia Plaza	6–16 Oct 2014	400	?	28.2	19.4	8.8	5.1	5.9	17.6	–	–	8.8
Sigma Dos/PP	15 Oct 2014	2,400	?	36.4 41/43	20.0 22/23	10.8 10	6.2 5/6	3.8 0	16.3 18/20	–	–	16.4
PP	26 Sep 2014	?	?	34.0– 37.0 41/42	21.0– 22.0 24/25	8.0– 9.0 8	5.7 6	5.1 5/6	15.0 13	–	–	13.0– 15.0
Metroscopia/El País	24–26 Sep 2014	1,500	71.5	29.9 32	25.8 29	13.0 14	8.4 7	3.0 0	15.3 17	–	–	4.1
PP	7 Sep 2014	?	?	27.0– 29.0	20.0– 22.0	–	–	–	17.0– 19.0	–	–	7.0
2014 EP election	25 May 2014	—	49.1	29.0 (36)	21.6 (27)	7.9 (8)	10.6 (11)	8.5 (9)	8.2 (8)	2.9 (0)	1.7 (0)	7.4
ODEC/PSPV	27 Mar–2 Apr 2014	1,201	66.9	29.8 32/34	27.4 33/35	14.6 16/17	10.2 11/10	5.4 4/5	–	–	–	2.4
La Vanguardia	30 Mar 2014	?	?	36.5 42	26.6 31	11.2 12	9.9 9	5.0 5	–	–	–	9.9
MyWord/Cadena SER	6–12 Mar 2014	800	?	29.7	21.2	15.0	12.2	13.3	–	–	–	8.5
PP	5 Mar 2014	?	?	? 30/32	? 28/29	? 14/16	? 12/13	? 10/11	–	–	–	?
PP	12 Feb 2014	?	?	26.4 29/30	28.6 31/32	15.6 16/17	13.1 13/14	6.8 7	–	–	–	2.2
ODEC/PSPV	17–19 Dec 2013	1,200	66	27.0– 29.5 34/36	22.3– 24.7 29/31	12.5– 13.5 14/16	10.4– 11.1 11	5.3– 8.1 7	–	–	–	4.7– 4.8
NC Report/La Razón	15 Oct–12 Nov 2013	?	?	38.6 39/40	20.6 22/23	? 12/13	? 14/15	? 8/9	–	–	–	18.0
ODEC/eldiario.es	7 Nov 2013	1,200	?	37.2 40	24.2 28	12.1 13	10.5 11	8.6 7	–	–	–	13.0
Metroscopia/El País	26 Sep–1 Oct 2013	1,000	63.7	33.9 41	23.6 27	13.3 13	11.7 13	6.9 5	–	–	–	10.3
ODEC/PSPV	29 Jul 2013	?	?	30.4– 31.3	27.2– 28.6	12.6– 12.9	11.9– 12.2	6.1– 6.3	–	–	–	2.7– 3.2
PP	16 Jul 2013	?	?	31.0– 32.0	27.0– 28.0	–	–	–	–	–	–	4.0
Compromís	13 Jun 2013	?	?	? 38/39	? 22	? 18	? 13	? 7/8	–	–	–	?
NC Report/La Razón	15 Apr–10 May 2013	350	?	42.6 44/45	20.8 22/23	? 12/13	? 10/11	? 8/9	–	–	–	21.8
PP	8 Apr 2013	?	?	30.0	25.0	12.0– 15.0	15.0	7.0– 8.0	–	–	–	5.0
Compromís	27–29 Mar 2013	800	65	37.4 37/39	22.9 22/24	14.8 13/15	10.8 12/14	6.9 7/9	–	–	–	14.5
Celeste-Tel	30 Nov 2012	?	?	? 50/51	? 19/21	? 12	? 15	? 3	–	–	–	?
ODEC/PSPV	17 Nov 2012	3,520	?	37.1	28.2	10.7	9.2	5.1	–	–	–	8.9
Celeste-Tel	22–31 Oct 2012	1,200	?	46.6 50/51	19.2 20/21	12.8 13	10.1 10	6.6 5	–	–	–	27.4
Metroscopia/El País	1–5 Oct 2012	1,000	65	34.2 42	19.9 25	13.6 13	11.5 13	7.1 6	–	–	–	14.3
PSPV	30 Sep 2012	?	?	? 49	? 31	? 8	? 6	? 5	–	–	–	?
2011 general election	20 Nov 2011	—	74.2	53.3 (59)	26.8 (29)	4.8 (0)	6.5 (6)	5.6 (5)	–	–	–	26.5
2011 regional election	22 May 2011	—	70.2	49.4 55	28.0 33	7.2 6	5.9 5	2.5 0	–	–	–	21.4

Voting preferences

The table below lists raw, unweighted voting preferences.

Polling firm/Commissioner	Fieldwork date	Sample size								?	N	Lead
2015 regional election	24 May 2015	—	18.7	14.4	12.9	3.0	0.3	8.0	8.8	—	28.9	4.3
Invest Group/Levante-EMV	22 Apr–8 May 2015	1,600	15.6	11.3	8.8	4.1	–	8.7	12.6	21.8	8.7	3.0
MyWord/Cadena SER	16–21 Apr 2015	1,218	8.8	6.9	12.8	2.2	1.3	12.5	15.1	30.6	5.4	2.3
CIS	23 Mar–19 Apr 2015	1,955	15.5	11.9	3.9	2.8	0.5	11.1	8.9	32.9	8.7	3.6
Metroscopia/El País	13–15 Apr 2015	1,500	13.5	11.0	6.7	3.3	0.8	10.2	8.8	37.3	6.5	2.5
Metroscopia/El País	24–26 Sep 2014	1,500	11.0	10.4	8.4	4.6	2.2	–	–	28.4	17.5	0.6
2014 EP election	25 May 2014	—	14.2	10.6	3.9	5.9	4.2	4.0	1.4	—	49.9	3.6
2011 general election	20 Nov 2011	—	39.8	19.9	3.6	4.9	4.2	–	–	—	24.5	19.9
2011 regional election	22 May 2011	—	34.7	19.7	5.0	4.1	1.7	–	–	—	28.5	15.0

Victory preferences

The table below lists opinion polling on the victory preferences for each party in the event of a general election taking place.

Polling firm/Commissioner	Fieldwork date	Sample size								Other/ None	?	Lead
Invest Group/Levante-EMV	22 Apr–8 May 2015	1,600	16.6	11.8	9.1	3.7	–	8.6	13.9	19.6	16.7	2.7
CIS	23 Mar–19 Apr 2015	1,955	19.2	16.7	4.8	3.1	1.3	12.0	10.5	24.8	7.7	2.5

Victory likelihood

The table below lists opinion polling on the perceived likelihood of victory for each party in the event of a regional election taking place.

Polling firm/Commissioner	Fieldwork date	Sample size							Other/ None	?	Lead
Invest Group/Levante-EMV	22 Apr–8 May 2015	1,600	62.1	5.3	1.8	–	1.3	2.7	5.7	21.1	56.8
CIS	23 Mar–19 Apr 2015	1,955	63.5	9.1	0.6	0.0	2.4	0.4	23.0	0.9	54.4

Preferred President

The table below lists opinion polling on leader preferences to become president of the Valencian Government.

Polling firm/Commissioner	Fieldwork date	Sample size										Other/ None/ Not care	?	Lead
			Fabra PP	Barberá PP	Puig PSPV	Morera Compromís	Oltra Compromís	Sanz EUPV	Blanco EUPV	Montiel Podemos	Punset C's
CIS	23 Mar–19 Apr 2015	1,955	19.5	–	9.8	–	11.1	–	1.7	3.1	2.5	4.2	48.1	8.4
Metroscopia/El País	24–26 Sep 2014	1,500	9.0	9.0	8.0	2.0	16.0	1.0	2.0	16.0	–	18.0	19.0	Tie
Metroscopia/El País	26 Sep–1 Oct 2013	1,000	13.0	12.0	7.0	3.0	16.0	2.0	–	–	–	24.0	23.0	3.0

Results

Overall

← Summary of the 24 May 2015 Corts Valencianes election results →

Parties and alliances		Popular vote			Seats
		Votes	%	±pp	Total	+/−
	People's Party (PP)	658,612	26.61	–22.81	31	–24
	Socialist Party of the Valencian Country (PSPV–PSOE)	509,098	20.57	–7.47	23	–10
	Commitment Coalition: Bloc–Initiative–Greens (Compromís)	456,823	18.46	+11.27	19	+13
	Citizens–Party of the Citizenry (C's)	309,121	12.49	New	13	+13
	We Can (Podemos/Podem)	282,389	11.41	New	13	+13
	Citizen Agreement (EUPV–EV–ERPV–AS)	106,917	4.32	–3.33	0	–5
	Union, Progress and Democracy (UPyD)	28,754	1.16	–1.32	0	±0
	Animalist Party Against Mistreatment of Animals (PACMA)	19,781	0.80	+0.42	0	±0
	Let's Win Valencian Country (Ganemos)	18,322	0.74	New	0	±0
	Vox (Vox)	10,336	0.42	New	0	±0
	Spain 2000 (E–2000)	7,509	0.30	–0.20	0	±0
	We Are Valencian (SOMVAL)	6,835	0.28	New	0	±0
	Spanish Phalanx of the CNSO (FE–JONS)	3,569	0.14	+0.09	0	±0
	Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain (PCPE)	2,925	0.12	–0.02	0	±0
	Zero Cuts (Recortes Cero)	2,906	0.12	New	0	±0
	Citizens of Democratic Centre (CCD)	2,510	0.10	New	0	±0
	Democratic People (Poble)	2,210	0.09	New	0	±0
	Blank Seats (EB)	1,806	0.07	New	0	±0
	Together (Junts)	1,476	0.06	+0.03	0	±0
	United for Valencia (UxV)	1,438	0.06	–0.09	0	±0
	Forward (Avant)	1,322	0.05	New	0	±0
	Democratic Forum (FDEE)	1,310	0.05	New	0	±0
	Libertarian Party (P–LIB)	1,219	0.05	New	0	±0
	The Greens–The Ecologist Alternative (EV–AE)	1,149	0.05	New	0	±0
	Citizen Hope (EsC)	1,129	0.05	New	0	±0
	The National Coalition (LCN)	1,106	0.04	New	0	±0
	Republican Social Movement (MSR)	603	0.02	New	0	±0
Blank ballots		34,083	1.38	–1.10
Total		2,475,258			99	±0
Valid votes		2,475,258	98.60	+0.23
Invalid votes		35,201	1.40	–0.23
Votes cast / turnout		2,510,459	69.56	–0.63
Abstentions		1,098,806	30.44	+0.63
Registered voters		3,609,265
Sources
Footnotes: Citizen Agreement results are compared to the combined totals of United Left of the Valencian Country, Greens and Eco-pacifists and Republican Left of the Valencian Country in the 2011 election. Together results are compared to Valencian Nationalist Left–European Valencianist Party totals in the 2011 election.

Distribution by constituency

Aftermath

Investiture Ximo Puig (PSPV)
Ballot →		25 June 2015
Required majority →		50 out of 99 Y
	Yes • PSPV (23) • Compromís (19) • Podemos (8)	50 / 99
	No • PP (31) • C's (13)	44 / 99
	Abstentions • Podemos (5)	5 / 99
	Absentees	0 / 99
Sources

Notes

1. ^ Results for EUPV (5.90%, 5 seats), VyE (1.30%, 0 seats) and ERPV (0.45%, 0 seats) in the 2011 election.

References

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Other

1. Valencian SoA (1982), tit. III, ch. II, art. 21–26.
2. Valencian El. Law (1987), tit. I, ch. I, art. 2.
3. LOREG (1985), tit. I, ch. VI, art. 75.
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8. Valencian SoA (1982), tit. III, ch. II, art. 23.
9. Valencian El. Law (1987), tit. III, art. 14.
10. LOREG (1985), tit. I, ch. V, art. 42.
11. Valencian SoA (1982), tit. III, ch. III, art. 27.
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20. Zafra, Ignacio (16 December 2014). "El juez procesa a 19 personas por la financiación ilegal del PP valenciano". El País (in Spanish). Valencia. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
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22. Ferrandis, Joaquín (16 November 2014). "La hoguera valenciana de las corrupciones del PP". El País (in Spanish). Valencia. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
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