SPAIN
AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY OF LAS CANARIAS
LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS OF 25 MAY 2003
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Elections to the Parlamento de Canarias
Source: My thanks to José María Pérez Medina, Coordinador de Área 
de Asuntos Europeos, Dirección General de Política Autonómica, 
Ministerio de Administraciones Públicas, for supplying these 
figures.

Parties
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* CC - Coalición Canaria (Canaries Coalition)
* FNC - Federación Nacionalista Canaria (Canaries Nationalist 
   Federation
* PP - Partido Popular (People's Party)
* PSOE - Partido Socialista Obrero Español (Spanish Socialist 
   Workers' Party)

SUMMARY OF VOTES AND SEATS
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Votes and seats are compared with those obtained in 1999
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Voters:               1,385,100
Votes cast:             920,226 (66.4%)
Invalid votes:           17,011 (01.8%)
Valid votes:            903,215 (98.2%)
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Party                 Votes      %       Change        Seats
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CC                      298,056  32.6    (-04.4)       22   (-02)
FNC                      44,741  04.9    (+00.0)        3   (+03)
PP                      282,009  30.8    (+03.7)       17   (+03)
PSOE                    233,335  25.5    (+01.6)       18   (-01)
Others                   14,800  01.6                   -   (-02)
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Total                   903,215                        60
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The island of El Hierro elects three members to the Parliament, 
which were won by the FNC. At the 1999 election two were won by the
Agrupación Herreña Independiente and one by the PSOE.