Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p The 2011 elections to the Corts of Castile and León were the eighth elections to the unicameral regional legislature of the Spanish autonomous community of Castile and León. The elections were held on 22 May 2011 to elect the 84 members of the Assembly, an increase of one seat on the previous Corts. Voting was in 9 electoral districts, corresponding to the provinces of Castile and León.Voting was on the basis of universal suffrage in a secret ballot. The electoral system used was closed list proportional representation with seats allocated on a provincial basis using the D'Hondt method. Only lists which polled at least 3% of the votes in a particular province (including votes "en blanco" i.e. for "none of the above") were eligible for seats.The elections were won by the People's Party, which had formed the government of the region since the second democratic elections in 1987 and had won a majority of seats since the 1991 elections. Both the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) and Leonese People's Union lost seats, while United Left won their first seat since the 1999 elections.One of the first tasks of the Assembly was to elect the President of Castile and León from among their number, with the incumbent President, Juan Vicente Herrera of the PP, re-elected.. }
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- Castile_and_León_Corts_election,_2011 abstract "The 2011 elections to the Corts of Castile and León were the eighth elections to the unicameral regional legislature of the Spanish autonomous community of Castile and León. The elections were held on 22 May 2011 to elect the 84 members of the Assembly, an increase of one seat on the previous Corts. Voting was in 9 electoral districts, corresponding to the provinces of Castile and León.Voting was on the basis of universal suffrage in a secret ballot. The electoral system used was closed list proportional representation with seats allocated on a provincial basis using the D'Hondt method. Only lists which polled at least 3% of the votes in a particular province (including votes "en blanco" i.e. for "none of the above") were eligible for seats.The elections were won by the People's Party, which had formed the government of the region since the second democratic elections in 1987 and had won a majority of seats since the 1991 elections. Both the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) and Leonese People's Union lost seats, while United Left won their first seat since the 1999 elections.One of the first tasks of the Assembly was to elect the President of Castile and León from among their number, with the incumbent President, Juan Vicente Herrera of the PP, re-elected.".