2015 Aranese Council election

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2015 Aranese Council election - Wikipedia

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2015 Aranese Council election

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All 13 seats in the Conselh Generau d'Aran
7 seats needed for a majority

Registered

6,967

4.3%

Turnout

4,877 (69.96%)

3.3 pp

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Carles Barrera	Francés Boya	José Antonio Bruna
Party	CDA-PNA	UA-PSC-CP	PRAG
Leader's seat	Castièro	Quate Lòcs	Arties e Garòs
Last election	7 seats, 46.38%	5 seats, 41.13%	1 seat, 2.70%
Seats won	7	5	1
Seat change	0	0	0
Popular vote	1,972	2,193	130
Percentage	41.06%	45.66%	2.69%
Swing	5.32 pp	4.53 pp	0.01 pp

UA-PSC-CP CDA-PNA
Constituency results map for the Conselh Generau d'Aran

Síndic d'Aran before election

Carlos Barrera
CDA-PNA

Elected Síndic d'Aran

Carlos Barrera
CDA-PNA

The 2015 Aranese Council Election, was held on Sunday, 24 May 2015, 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 of 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]

For the 2015 elections, members were distributed in the following way:^[2]

Pujòlo: 2 members.
Arties e Garòs: 2 members.
Castièro: 4 members.
Marcatosa: 1 member.
Lairissa: 1 member.
Quate Lòcs: 3 members.

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.^[3]

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:

Candidacy		Parties and alliances	Leading candidate		Ideology	Previous result		Gov.	Ref.
Candidacy		Parties and alliances	Leading candidate		Ideology	Votes (%)	Seats	Gov.	Ref.
	CDA-PNA	List Aranese Democratic Convergence-Aranese Nationalist Party (CDA-PNA)		Carles Barrera	Liberalism Aranese autonomy Occitan nationalism	46.38%	7	Y
	UA-PSC-CP	List Unity of Aran (UA) Socialists' Party of Catalonia (PSC) Candidatura de Progrés (CP)		Francés Boya	Social democracy Aranese autonomism	41.13%	5	N
	PRAG	List Partit Renovador d'Arties e Garòs (PRAG)		José Antonio Bruna	Localism Progressivism Aranese autonomy	2.70%	1	N

Campaign

Party slogans

	Original slogan	English translation
CDA-PNA	« Aran, èm era fòrça, èm país »	"Aran, we are force, we are country"
UA-PSC-CP	« Per tu, per Aran »	"For you, for Aran"
PRAG
PP
Corròp Quatre Lòcs	« Toti èm de besonh »	"Everyone is necessary"

Results

Overall

← Summary of the 24 May 2015 Conselh Generau d'Aran election results →
Parties and alliances		Popular vote			Seats

Parties and alliances		Votes	%	±pp	Total	+/−
	Unity of Aran-Socialists' Party of Catalonia-Candidatura de Progrés (UA-PSC-CP)	2,193	45.66	+4.53	5	±0
	Aranese Democratic Convergence-Aranese Nationalist Party (CDA-PNA)	1,972	41.06	–5.32	7	±0
	People's Party (PP)	178	3.71	–2.74	0	±0
	Corròp Quatre Lòcs (CQL)	177	3.69	New	0	±0
	Partit Renovador d'Arties e Garòs (PRAG)	130	2.71	+0.01	1	±0
Blank ballots		153	3.14	-0.13

Total		4,803			13	±0

Valid votes		4,803	98.69	+0.94
Invalid votes		64	1.31	-0.94
Votes cast / turnout		4,867	69.86	-3.36
Abstentions		2,100	30.14	+3.36
Registered voters		6,967

Sources^[5]

Popular vote

UA-PSC-CP			45.66%
CDA-PNA			41.06%
PP			3.71%
CQL			3.69%
PRAG			2.71%
Blank ballots			3.14%

Seats

UA-PSC-CP			38.46%
CDA-PNA			53.84%
PRAG			7.69%

Distribution by constituency

Constituency	UA-PSC-CP		CDA-PNA		PRAG

	%	S	%	S	%	S
Arties e Garòs			55.0	1	34.6	1
Castièro	49.0	2	42.3	2
Lairissa	44.6	—	49.6	1
Marcatosa	43.3	—	51.6	1
Pujòlo	44.7	1	51.4	1
Quate Lòcs	55.7	2	24.7	1
Total	45.7	5	41.0	7	2.7	1

References

^ Ley 16/1990, de 13 de julio, sobre régimen especial del Valle de Arán (PDF) (in Spanish). Boletín Oficial del Estado.
^ ^a ^b DECRETO 46/2015, de 31 de marzo, de convocatoria de elecciones al Consejo General de Arán (PDF) (in Spanish and Occitan). Diari Oficial de la Generalitat de Catalunya.
^ Comunidad Autónoma de Cataluña (4 March 2015), Ley 1/2015, de 5 de febrero, del régimen especial de Arán, pp. 20067–20100, retrieved 9 May 2022
^ Ley Orgánica 5/1985, de 19 de junio, del Régimen Electoral General. Boletín Oficial del Estado (Organic Law 5) (in Spanish). 19 June 1985. Retrieved 28 December 2016.
^ "Edicto de 29 de mayo de 2015, de la Junta Electoral Provincial de Lleida, por el que se hacen públicos los resultados correspondientes a la proclamación de electos del Consejo General de Arán" (PDF). Diari Oficial de la Generalitat de Catalunya (in Spanish and Occitan).

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