# 1995 Canarian Island Cabildo elections

The 1995 Canarian Island Cabildo elections were held on Sunday, 28 May 1995, to elect the 5th Island Cabildos of El Hierro, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, La Gomera, La Palma, Lanzarote and Tenerife. All 139 seats in the seven Island Cabildos were up for election.

## Overall

← Summary of the 28 May 1995 Island Cabildos 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 | +/− |
| | Canarian Coalition (CC)$^1$ | 263,816 | 33.15 | −0.12 | 42 | +6 |
| | People's Party (PP) | 236,737 | 29.75 | +16.66 | 34 | +20 |
| | Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) | 188,302 | 23.66 | −10.31 | 43 | −8 |
| | Canarian United Left (IUC) | 38,132 | 4.79 | New | 2 | +2 |
| | Party of Gran Canaria (PGC) | 15,234 | 1.91 | New | 0 | ±0 |
| | Lanzarote Independents Party (PIL) | 10,582 | 1.33 | −0.84 | 8 | −4 |
| | Coalition for Gran Canaria (CGC) | 10,532 | 1.32 | New | 0 | ±0 |
| | Democratic and Social Centre–Centrist Union (CDS–UC) | 5,321 | 0.67 | −11.28 | 0 | −18 |
| | Independents of Fuerteventura (IF) | 4,474 | 0.56 | +0.08 | 4 | +1 |
| | Independent Herrenian Group (AHI) | 2,398 | 0.30 | +0.08 | 6 | +2 |
| | Popular Front of the Canary Islands–Awañac (FREPIC–Awañac) | 2,331 | 0.29 | −0.22 | 0 | ±0 |
| | Tenerife Assembly (ATF) | 2,227 | 0.28 | New | 0 | ±0 |
| | National Congress of the Canaries (CNC) | 2,076 | 0.26 | New | 0 | ±0 |
| | Humanist Platform (PH)$^2$ | 1,251 | 0.16 | −0.02 | 0 | ±0 |
| | Green Left of the Canary Islands (Izegzawen) | 1,243 | 0.16 | New | 0 | ±0 |
| | Nationalist Lanzarote Assembly (ACON) | 970 | 0.12 | New | 0 | ±0 |
| | Tenerife Independent Familiar Groups (AFIT) | 662 | 0.08 | New | 0 | ±0 |
| | Party of The People (LG) | 572 | 0.07 | −0.13 | 0 | ±0 |
| | Socialist Canarian Party (PCS) | 325 | 0.04 | New | 0 | ±0 |
| | Canarian Initiative (ICAN)$^3$ | 293 | 0.04 | −0.03 | 0 | −1 |
| Blank ballots | Blank ballots | 8,344 | 1.05 | +0.31 | | |
| Total | Total | 795,822 | | | 139 | ±0 |
| Valid votes | Valid votes | 795,822 | 99.41 | +0.14 | | |
| Invalid votes | Invalid votes | 4,686 | 0.59 | −0.14 | | |
| Votes cast / turnout | Votes cast / turnout | 800,508 | 64.98 | +3.12 | | |
| Abstentions | Abstentions | 431,431 | 35.02 | −3.12 | | |
| Registered voters | Registered voters | 1,231,939 | | | | |
| Sources |||||||
| Footnotes: $^1$ Canarian Coalition results are compared to the combined totals of Tenerife Group of Independents, Canarian Initiative, La Palma Group of Independents, Canarian Nationalist Party and Majorera Assembly in the 1991 elections, not including Canarian Initiative results in El Hierro.$^2$ Humanist Platform results are compared to The Greens Ecologist–Humanist List totals in the 1991 elections.$^3$ Nationalist Canarian Initiative results are compared to Canarian Initiative totals in El Hierro in the 1991 elections. Canarian Coalition and its member parties, except for Nationalist Canarian Initiative, declined to run in El Hierro in order to respect Independent Herrenian Group's list there. |||||||
Popular vote
CC
33.15%
PP
29.75%
PSOE
23.66%
IUC
4.79%
PGC
1.91%
PIL
1.33%
CGC
1.32%
IF
0.56%
AHI
0.30%
Others
2.17%
Blank ballots
1.05% :
Seats
PSOE
30.94%
CC
30.22%
PP
24.46%
PIL
5.76%
AHI
4.32%
IF
2.88%
IUC
1.44% :

## Island Cabildo control

The following table lists party control in the Island Cabildos. Gains for a party are displayed with the cell's background shaded in that party's colour.
| Cabildo | Previous control | New control |
| El Hierro | Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) | Independent Herrenian Group (AHI) |
| Fuerteventura | Canarian Coalition (CC) | Independents of Fuerteventura (IF) |
| Gran Canaria | Canarian Coalition (CC) | People's Party (PP) |
| La Gomera | Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) | Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) |
| La Palma | Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) | Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) (CC in 1996) |
| Lanzarote | Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) | Lanzarote Independents Party (PIL) (PSOE in 1997) |
| Tenerife | Canarian Coalition (CC) | Canarian Coalition (CC) |

## Islands
### El Hierro

← Summary of the 28 May 1995 Island Cabildo of El Hierro 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 | +/− |
| | Independent Herrenian Group (AHI) | 2,398 | 49.31 | +12.79 | 6 | +2 |
| | Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) | 1,162 | 23.89 | −8.14 | 3 | −1 |
| | People's Party (PP) | 936 | 19.25 | −0.76 | 2 | ±0 |
| | Canarian Initiative (ICAN) | 293 | 6.03 | −5.21 | 0 | −1 |
| | Canarian United Left (IUC) | 42 | 0.86 | New | 0 | ±0 |
| | Democratic and Social Centre–Centrist Union (CDS–UC) | 9 | 0.19 | New | 0 | ±0 |
| Blank ballots | Blank ballots | 23 | 0.47 | +0.28 | | |
| Total | Total | 4,863 | | | 11 | ±0 |
| Valid votes | Valid votes | 4,863 | 99.71 | +0.04 | | |
| Invalid votes | Invalid votes | 14 | 0.29 | −0.04 | | |
| Votes cast / turnout | Votes cast / turnout | 4,877 | 81.75 | +6.93 | | |
| Abstentions | Abstentions | 1,089 | 18.25 | −6.93 | | |
| Registered voters | Registered voters | 5,966 | | | | |
| Sources |||||||

### Fuerteventura

← Summary of the 28 May 1995 Island Cabildo of Fuerteventura 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 | +/− |
| | Canarian Coalition (CC)$^1$ | 7,061 | 34.44 | −1.55 | 6 | −1 |
| | Independents of Fuerteventura (IF) | 4,474 | 21.82 | +3.24 | 4 | +1 |
| | People's Party (PP) | 4,136 | 20.17 | +15.37 | 4 | +4 |
| | Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) | 4,124 | 20.12 | −1.39 | 3 | −1 |
| | Canarian United Left (IUC) | 457 | 2.23 | New | 0 | ±0 |
| | Democratic and Social Centre–Centrist Union (CDS–UC) | 81 | 0.40 | −18.09 | 0 | −3 |
| Blank ballots | Blank ballots | 169 | 0.82 | +0.20 | | |
| Total | Total | 20,502 | | | 17 | ±0 |
| Valid votes | Valid votes | 20,502 | 99.38 | ±0.00 | | |
| Invalid votes | Invalid votes | 127 | 0.62 | ±0.00 | | |
| Votes cast / turnout | Votes cast / turnout | 20,629 | 69.11 | −0.51 | | |
| Abstentions | Abstentions | 9,220 | 30.89 | +0.51 | | |
| Registered voters | Registered voters | 29,849 | | | | |
| Sources |||||||
| Footnotes: $^1$ Canarian Coalition results are compared to Majorera Assembly totals in the 1991 election. |||||||

### Gran Canaria

← Summary of the 28 May 1995 Island Cabildo of Gran Canaria 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) | 143,987 | 39.83 | +21.36 | 14 | +8 |
| | Canarian Coalition (CC)$^1$ | 99,017 | 27.39 | +8.50 | 9 | +4 |
| | Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) | 66,992 | 18.53 | −16.95 | 6 | −6 |
| | Canarian United Left (IUC) | 17,382 | 4.81 | New | 0 | ±0 |
| | Party of Gran Canaria (PGC) | 15,234 | 4.21 | New | 0 | ±0 |
| | Coalition for Gran Canaria (CGC) | 10,532 | 2.91 | New | 0 | ±0 |
| | Popular Front of the Canary Islands–Awañac (FREPIC–Awañac) | 2,331 | 0.64 | +0.22 | 0 | ±0 |
| | Democratic and Social Centre–Centrist Union (CDS–UC) | 1,501 | 0.42 | −18.37 | 0 | −6 |
| | Humanist Platform (PH)$^2$ | 786 | 0.22 | −0.17 | 0 | ±0 |
| Blank ballots | Blank ballots | 3,726 | 1.03 | +0.25 | | |
| Total | Total | 361,488 | | | 29 | ±0 |
| Valid votes | Valid votes | 361,488 | 99.41 | +0.19 | | |
| Invalid votes | Invalid votes | 2,144 | 0.59 | −0.19 | | |
| Votes cast / turnout | Votes cast / turnout | 363,632 | 66.65 | +4.02 | | |
| Abstentions | Abstentions | 181,943 | 33.35 | −4.02 | | |
| Registered voters | Registered voters | 545,575 | | | | |
| Sources |||||||
| Footnotes: $^1$ Canarian Coalition results are compared to the combined totals of Canarian Initiative and Canarian Nationalist Party in the 1991 election.$^2$ Humanist Platform results are compared to The Greens Ecologist–Humanist List totals in the 1991 election. |||||||

### La Gomera

← Summary of the 28 May 1995 Island Cabildo of La Gomera 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 | +/− |
| | Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) | 4,993 | 50.18 | −6.95 | 7 | −1 |
| | Canarian Coalition (CC)$^1$ | 3,260 | 32.76 | +26.76 | 4 | +4 |
| | People's Party (PP) | 966 | 9.71 | +6.51 | 1 | +1 |
| | Canarian United Left (IUC) | 679 | 6.82 | New | 1 | +1 |
| | Democratic and Social Centre–Gomera Group of Independents (CDS–AGI) | n/a | n/a | −32.77 | 0 | −5 |
| Blank ballots | Blank ballots | 52 | 0.52 | +0.10 | | |
| Total | Total | 9,950 | | | 13 | ±0 |
| Valid votes | Valid votes | 9,950 | 99.61 | −0.12 | | |
| Invalid votes | Invalid votes | 39 | 0.39 | +0.12 | | |
| Votes cast / turnout | Votes cast / turnout | 9,989 | 76.51 | +5.24 | | |
| Abstentions | Abstentions | 3,067 | 23.49 | −5.24 | | |
| Registered voters | Registered voters | 13,056 | | | | |
| Sources |||||||
| Footnotes: $^1$ Canarian Coalition results are compared to Canarian Initiative totals in the 1991 election. |||||||

### La Palma

← Summary of the 28 May 1995 Island Cabildo of La Palma 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 | +/− |
| | Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) | 16,074 | 38.51 | +5.68 | 9 | +2 |
| | Canarian Coalition (CC)$^1$ | 15,151 | 36.30 | −6.37 | 8 | −1 |
| | People's Party (PP) | 7,653 | 18.33 | −0.55 | 4 | ±0 |
| | Canarian United Left (IUC) | 1,984 | 4.75 | New | 0 | ±0 |
| | Democratic and Social Centre–Centrist Union (CDS–UC) | 528 | 1.26 | −4.05 | 0 | −1 |
| Blank ballots | Blank ballots | 350 | 0.84 | +0.54 | | |
| Total | Total | 41,740 | | | 21 | ±0 |
| Valid votes | Valid votes | 41,740 | 99.47 | +0.02 | | |
| Invalid votes | Invalid votes | 223 | 0.53 | −0.02 | | |
| Votes cast / turnout | Votes cast / turnout | 41,963 | 68.39 | +0.98 | | |
| Abstentions | Abstentions | 19,394 | 31.61 | −0.98 | | |
| Registered voters | Registered voters | 61,357 | | | | |
| Sources |||||||
| Footnotes: $^1$ Canarian Coalition results are compared to the combined totals of La Palma Group of Independents and Canarian Initiative in the 1991 election. |||||||

### Lanzarote

← Summary of the 28 May 1995 Island Cabildo of Lanzarote 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 | +/− |
| | Lanzarote Independents Party (PIL) | 10,582 | 31.81 | −16.98 | 8 | −4 |
| | Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) | 8,973 | 26.98 | −0.29 | 7 | +1 |
| | Canarian Coalition (CC)$^1$ | 4,979 | 14.97 | +10.54 | 3 | +3 |
| | People's Party (PP) | 4,919 | 14.79 | +11.44 | 3 | +3 |
| | Canarian United Left (IUC) | 1,131 | 3.40 | New | 0 | ±0 |
| | Democratic and Social Centre–Centrist Union (CDS–UC) | 971 | 2.92 | −11.78 | 0 | −3 |
| | Nationalist Lanzarote Assembly (ACON) | 970 | 2.92 | New | 0 | ±0 |
| | Socialist Canarian Party (PCS) | 325 | 0.98 | New | 0 | ±0 |
| Blank ballots | Blank ballots | 414 | 1.24 | +0.77 | | |
| Total | Total | 33,264 | | | 21 | ±0 |
| Valid votes | Valid votes | 33,264 | 99.54 | −0.09 | | |
| Invalid votes | Invalid votes | 153 | 0.46 | +0.09 | | |
| Votes cast / turnout | Votes cast / turnout | 33,417 | 61.16 | +2.65 | | |
| Abstentions | Abstentions | 21,218 | 38.84 | −2.65 | | |
| Registered voters | Registered voters | 54,635 | | | | |
| Sources |||||||
| Footnotes: $^1$ Canarian Coalition results are compared to the combined totals of Canarian Initiative and Canarian Nationalist Party in the 1991 election. |||||||

### Tenerife

← Summary of the 28 May 1995 Island Cabildo of Tenerife 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 | +/− |
| | Canarian Coalition–Tenerife Group of Independents (CC–ATI)$^1$ | 134,348 | 41.46 | −11.19 | 12 | −3 |
| | Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) | 85,984 | 26.54 | −6.69 | 8 | −2 |
| | People's Party (PP) | 74,140 | 22.88 | +14.88 | 6 | +4 |
| | Canarian United Left (IUC) | 16,457 | 5.08 | New | 1 | +1 |
| | Democratic and Social Centre–Centrist Union (CDS–UC) | 2,231 | 0.69 | −3.21 | 0 | ±0 |
| | Tenerife Assembly (ATF) | 2,227 | 0.69 | New | 0 | ±0 |
| | National Congress of the Canaries (CNC) | 2,076 | 0.64 | New | 0 | ±0 |
| | Green Left of the Canary Islands (Izegzawen) | 1,243 | 0.38 | New | 0 | ±0 |
| | Tenerife Independent Familiar Groups (AFIT) | 662 | 0.20 | New | 0 | ±0 |
| | Party of The People (LG) | 572 | 0.18 | −0.11 | 0 | ±0 |
| | Humanist Platform (PH) | 465 | 0.14 | New | 0 | ±0 |
| Blank ballots | Blank ballots | 3,610 | 1.11 | +0.29 | | |
| Total | Total | 324,015 | | | 27 | ±0 |
| Valid votes | Valid votes | 324,015 | 99.39 | +0.16 | | |
| Invalid votes | Invalid votes | 1,986 | 0.61 | −0.16 | | |
| Votes cast / turnout | Votes cast / turnout | 326,001 | 62.51 | +2.69 | | |
| Abstentions | Abstentions | 195,500 | 37.49 | –2.69 | | |
| Registered voters | Registered voters | 521,501 | | | | |
| Sources |||||||
| Footnotes: $^1$ Canarian Coalition–Tenerife Group of Independents results are compared to the combined totals of Tenerife Group of Independents, Canarian Initiative and Canarian Nationalist Party in the 1991 election. |||||||