Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p The Asturian parliamentary election, 2011 was the 8th election to the unicameral regional legislature of the Spanish autonomous community of Asturias. The election was held on 22 May 2011 to elect the 45 members of the Assembly.Voting was on the basis of universal suffrage in a secret ballot. The electoral system used was closed list proportional representation in three electoral districts with seats allocated using the D'Hondt method. Only lists which polled at least 3% of the votes (including votes "en blanco", i.e., for "none of the above") were eligible for seats.With the exception of the 1995 to 1999 legislature, the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) had governed the autonomous community since the first elections in 1983. However a new party, the Asturian Forum (FAC), won the most seats, though the PSOE won most votes. The FAC was established on 19 January 2011 by Francisco Álvarez Cascos, former Deputy Prime Minister of Spain, after he failed to be selected as People's Party (PP) candidate. The FAC gains came at the expense of the PP and the PSOE. The Asturian Bloc (BA) terminated its coalition with United Left (IU) and the Asturian Greens (LVA) in August 2010. BA contested the elections separately, but failed to win any seats while IU and the Greens continued their coalition and retained their existing four seats.One of the first tasks of the new Parliament was to elect a new President of Asturias from among their number. Vicente Álvarez Areces, incumbent since 1999, did not seek re-election. In July 2011, the PSOE and PP announced that they would abstain in the vote for the Presidential candidate, with the result that Francisco Álvarez Cascos became the new President at the head of a minority administration. With the FAC unable to come to an agreement on legislative support to approve its regional budget for 2012 with either the PP or PSOE, the legislature proved short-lived, with fresh elections being held in March 2012.. }
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- Asturian_parliamentary_election,_2011 abstract "The Asturian parliamentary election, 2011 was the 8th election to the unicameral regional legislature of the Spanish autonomous community of Asturias. The election was held on 22 May 2011 to elect the 45 members of the Assembly.Voting was on the basis of universal suffrage in a secret ballot. The electoral system used was closed list proportional representation in three electoral districts with seats allocated using the D'Hondt method. Only lists which polled at least 3% of the votes (including votes "en blanco", i.e., for "none of the above") were eligible for seats.With the exception of the 1995 to 1999 legislature, the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) had governed the autonomous community since the first elections in 1983. However a new party, the Asturian Forum (FAC), won the most seats, though the PSOE won most votes. The FAC was established on 19 January 2011 by Francisco Álvarez Cascos, former Deputy Prime Minister of Spain, after he failed to be selected as People's Party (PP) candidate. The FAC gains came at the expense of the PP and the PSOE. The Asturian Bloc (BA) terminated its coalition with United Left (IU) and the Asturian Greens (LVA) in August 2010. BA contested the elections separately, but failed to win any seats while IU and the Greens continued their coalition and retained their existing four seats.One of the first tasks of the new Parliament was to elect a new President of Asturias from among their number. Vicente Álvarez Areces, incumbent since 1999, did not seek re-election. In July 2011, the PSOE and PP announced that they would abstain in the vote for the Presidential candidate, with the result that Francisco Álvarez Cascos became the new President at the head of a minority administration. With the FAC unable to come to an agreement on legislative support to approve its regional budget for 2012 with either the PP or PSOE, the legislature proved short-lived, with fresh elections being held in March 2012.".