1999 Melilla Assembly election

The 1999 Melilla Assembly election was held on Sunday, 13 June 1999, to elect the 2nd Assembly of the Autonomous City of Melilla. All 25 seats in the Assembly were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with regional elections in thirteen autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain, as well as the 1999 European Parliament election.

Electoral system[]

The Assembly of Melilla was the top-tier administrative and governing body of the autonomous city of Melilla. Voting for the Assembly was on the basis of universal suffrage, which comprised all nationals over eighteen, registered and residing in the municipality of Melilla and in full enjoyment of their political rights, as well as resident non-national European citizens and those whose country of origin allowed Spanish nationals to vote in their own elections by virtue of a treaty.^[1][2][3]

The 25 members of the Assembly of Melilla were elected using the D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional representation, with a threshold of 5 percent of valid votes—which included blank ballots—being applied. Parties not reaching the threshold were not taken into consideration for seat distribution.^[1][2][3]

The Mayor-President was indirectly elected by the plenary assembly. A legal clause required that mayoral candidates earned the vote of an absolute majority of members, or else the candidate of the most-voted party in the assembly was to be automatically appointed to the post. In case of a tie, a toss-up would determine the appointee.^[3]

The electoral law provided that parties, federations, coalitions and groupings of electors were allowed to present lists of candidates. However, groupings of electors were required to secure the signature of a determined amount of the electors registered in Melilla. Concurrently, parties and federations intending to enter in coalition to take part jointly at an election were required to inform the relevant Electoral Commission within ten days of the election being called.^[1][2]

Results[]

← Summary of the 13 June 1999 Assembly of Melilla election results →

Parties and alliances		Popular vote			Seats
		Votes	%	±pp	Total	+/−
	Liberal Independent Group (GIL)	7,402	25.93	New	7	+7
	Coalition for Melilla (CpM)	5,833	20.44	+4.97	5	+1
	People's Party (PP)	5,338	18.70	–28.50	5	–9
	Melillan People's Union (UPM)	3,258	11.41	+1.51	3	+1
	Independent Party of Melilla (PIM)	2,941	10.30	New	3	+3
	Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)	2,674	9.37	–10.51	2	–3
	Social Democratic Party of Melilla (PSDM)	498	1.74	New	0	±0
	United Left of Melilla (IU)	254	0.89	–1.83	0	±0
	Nationalist Aprome (Aprome)	49	0.17	–3.66	0	±0
Blank ballots		297	1.04	+0.03
Total		28,544			25	±0
Valid votes		28,544	99.67	+0.09
Invalid votes		94	0.33	–0.09
Votes cast / turnout		28,638	60.44	–1.29
Abstentions		18,748	39.56	+1.29
Registered voters		47,386
Sources[4][5][6]

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