2007 Ceuta Assembly election
# 2007 Ceuta Assembly election

The 2007 Ceuta Assembly election was held on Sunday, 27 May 2007, to elect the 4th Assembly of the Autonomous City of Ceuta. 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.

## Electoral system

The Assembly of Ceuta was the top-tier administrative and governing body of the autonomous city of Ceuta. Voting for the Assembly was on the basis of universal suffrage, which comprised all nationals over eighteen, registered and residing in the municipality of Ceuta 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.

The 25 members of the Assembly of Ceuta 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.

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.

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 Ceuta. 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.

## Results

← Summary of the 27 May 2007 Assembly of Ceuta election results → :

| Parties and alliances | Parties and alliances | Popular vote | Popular vote | Popular vote | Seats | Seats |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Parties and alliances | Parties and alliances | Votes | % | ±pp | Total | +/− |
| | People's Party (PP) | 22,484 | 65.18 | +2.63 | 19 | ±0 |
| | Ceutan Democratic Union–United Left of Ceuta $(UDCE–IU)^1$ | 5,659 | 16.41 | +4.71 | 4 | +1 |
| | Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) | 2,985 | 8.65 | –0.05 | 2 | ±0 |
| | Socialist Party of the People of Ceuta (PSPC) | 1,557 | 4.51 | +0.31 | 0 | ±0 |
| | Democratic and Social Party of Ceuta (PDSC) | 1,258 | 3.65 | –1.50 | 0 | –1 |
| | The Greens–Green Group of Ceuta (LV–GV) | 326 | 0.95 | New | 0 | ±0 |
| Blank ballots | Blank ballots | 226 | 0.66 | –0.09 | | |
| Total | Total | 34,495 | | | 25 | ±0 |
| Valid votes | Valid votes | 34,495 | 99.43 | –0.13 | | |
| Invalid votes | Invalid votes | 198 | 0.57 | +0.13 | | |
| Votes cast / turnout | Votes cast / turnout | 34,693 | 60.29 | +1.06 | | |
| Abstentions | Abstentions | 22,847 | 39.71 | –1.06 | | |
| Registered voters | Registered voters | 57,540 | | | | |
| Sources |||||||
| Footnotes: $^1$ Ceutan Democratic Union–United Left of Ceuta results are compared to the combined totals of Ceutan Democratic Union and United Left–Ceuta in the 2003 election. |||||||

Popular vote

PP

65.18%

UDCE–IU

16.41%

PSOE

8.65%

PSPC

4.51%

PDSC

3.65%

LV–GV

0.95%

Blank ballots

0.66% :

Seats

PP

76.00%

UDCE–IU

16.00%

PSOE

8.00% :

