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| Registered | 49,189  3.8% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Turnout | 28,229 (57.4%) 3.0 pp | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 2003 Melilla Assembly election was held on Sunday, 25 May 2003, to elect the 3rd Assembly of the Autonomous City of Melilla. All 25 seats in the Assembly were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with regional elections in thirteen autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain.
The Assembly of Melilla was the top-tier administrative and governing body of the autonomous city of Melilla. Voting for the Assembly was on the basis of universal suffrage, which comprised all nationals over eighteen, registered and residing in the municipality of Melilla and in full enjoyment of their political rights, as well as resident non-national European citizens and those whose country of origin allowed Spanish nationals to vote in their own elections by virtue of a treaty. [1] [2] [3]
The 25 members of the Assembly of Melilla were elected using the D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional representation, with a threshold of 5 percent of valid votes—which included blank ballots—being applied. Parties not reaching the threshold were not taken into consideration for seat distribution. [1] [2] [3]
The Mayor-President was indirectly elected by the plenary assembly. A legal clause required that mayoral candidates earned the vote of an absolute majority of members, or else the candidate of the most-voted party in the assembly was to be automatically appointed to the post. In case of a tie, a toss-up would determine the appointee. [3]
The electoral law provided that parties, federations, coalitions and groupings of electors were allowed to present lists of candidates. However, groupings of electors were required to secure the signature of a determined amount of the electors registered in Melilla. Concurrently, parties and federations intending to enter in coalition to take part jointly at an election were required to inform the relevant Electoral Commission within ten days of the election being called. [1] [2]
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| Parties and alliances | Popular vote | Seats | ||||
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| Votes | % | ±pp | Total | +/− | ||
| People's Party–Melillan People's Union (PP–UPM)1 | 15,440 | 55.00 | +24.89 | 15 | +7 | |
| Coalition for Melilla (CpM) | 7,392 | 26.33 | +5.89 | 7 | +2 | |
| Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) | 3,365 | 11.99 | +2.62 | 3 | +1 | |
| Independent Party of Melilla (PIM) | 739 | 2.63 | –7.67 | 0 | –3 | |
| Democratic and Social Centre (CDS) | 417 | 1.49 | New | 0 | ±0 | |
| The Greens–Green Group of Ceuta (LV–GV) | 165 | 0.59 | New | 0 | ±0 | |
| Republican Left (IR) | 139 | 0.50 | New | 0 | ±0 | |
| Nationalist Party of the Rif of Melilla (PNRIF) | 101 | 0.36 | New | 0 | ±0 | |
| Liberal Independent Group (GIL) | n/a | n/a | –25.93 | 0 | –7 | |
| Blank ballots | 315 | 1.12 | +0.08 | |||
| Total | 28,073 | 25 | ±0 | |||
| Valid votes | 28,073 | 99.45 | –0.22 | |||
| Invalid votes | 156 | 0.55 | +0.22 | |||
| Votes cast / turnout | 28,229 | 57.39 | –3.05 | |||
| Abstentions | 20,960 | 42.61 | +3.05 | |||
| Registered voters | 49,189 | |||||
| Sources [4] [5] [6] | ||||||
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