2022 Castilian-Leonese regional election

2022 Castilian-Leonese regional election

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All 81 seats in the Cortes of Castile and León 41 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered	2,094,623 1.0%
Turnout	1,230,599 (58.8%) 7.0 pp
First party Second party Third party   Leader Alfonso Fernández Mañueco Luis Tudanca Juan García-Gallardo Party PP PSOE Vox Leader since 1 April 2017 18 October 2014 7 January 2022 Leader's seat Salamanca Burgos Valladolid Last election 29 seats, 31.5% 35 seats, 34.8% 1 seat, 5.5% Seats won 31 28 13 Seat change 2 7 12 Popular vote 382,157 365,434 214,668 Percentage 31.4% 30.0% 17.6% Swing 0.1 pp 4.9 pp 12.1 pp   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Luis Mariano Santos Ángel Ceña Pablo Fernández Party UPL EV–SY Podemos–IU–AV Leader since 26 March 2015 10 January 2022 14 February 2015 Leader's seat León Soria Valladolid Last election 1 seat, 2.0% Did not contest 2 seats, 7.3%[a] Seats won 3 3 1 Seat change 2 3 1 Popular vote 52,098 39,040 62,138 Percentage 4.3% 3.2% 5.1% Swing 2.3 pp New party 2.2 pp   Seventh party Eighth party   Leader Francisco Igea Pedro Pascual Party Cs XAV Leader since 11 March 2019 9 April 2019 Leader's seat Valladolid Ávila Last election 12 seats, 14.9% 1 seat, 0.7% Seats won 1 1 Seat change 11 0 Popular vote 54,721 13,875 Percentage 4.5% 1.1% Swing 10.4 pp 0.4 pp
Constituency results map for the Cortes of Castile and León
President before election Alfonso Fernández Mañueco PP Elected President Alfonso Fernández Mañueco PP

The 2022 Castilian-Leonese regional election was held on Sunday, 13 February 2022, to elect the 11th Cortes of the autonomous community of Castile and León. All 81 seats in the Cortes were up for election. This marks the first time that a regional premier in Castile and León has made use of the presidential prerogative to call an early election.

The previous election had seen a victory for the opposition Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) for the first time since 1983, but the ruling People's Party (PP) was able to elect its candidate, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco, as new regional president by forming a coalition with the liberal Citizens (Cs). Despite this arrangement, tensions soon began to emerge between the two governing partners over the management of the COVID-19 pandemic in the region. In March 2021, a PSOE-tabled vote of no confidence was defeated, but it indirectly led to the defection of one Cs legislator to the opposition, leaving the PP–Cs government in minority status.^[1] Subsequently, rumours rose on the possibility of Mañueco planning a snap election to be held at some point between the winter of 2021 and the spring of 2022, after having grown tired of the coalition as well as to take advantage of the PP's "honeymoon" in opinion polls following the Madrilenian election in May.^[2][3][4] On 20 December 2021, Mañueco expelled Cs from his government and called the election for 13 February 2022,^[5] catching his coalition partner off-guard, with his (now former) deputy Francisco Igea learning of it during a live interview.^[6]

Results on election night were dubbed by most media as a pyrrhic victory for the PP, which failed to materialize early expectations of a landslide win in a historical stronghold, and instead ended up obtaining its worst result ever in both votes and vote share in the region, as well as a very close result with the PSOE, which was able to secure a stronger-than-expected performance, despite losing ground compared to 2019. The vote share for Cs collapsed and the party was barely able to retain Igea's seat in Valladolid but was successful in its primary goal of preventing a total wipeout. The far-right Vox party secured its best result in an autonomous community election in Spain up until that point, with 17.6% of the vote share and 13 seats. Unidas Podemos underperformed opinion polls, whereas regionalist Leonese People's Union (UPL) and For Ávila (XAV) secured their best results to date. Soria Now (SY)—a social platform aligned to the Empty Spain movement—won in the Soria constituency in a landslide. Together, both PP and Vox commanded a majority of 44 out of 81 seats, and formed a coalition government.

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