2025 Extremaduran regional election

2025 Extremaduran regional election

←  2023 21 December 2025
All 65 seats in the Assembly of Extremadura 33 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered	890,967 [1] 0.1%
Leader Miguel Ángel Gallardo María Guardiola Ángel Pelayo Gordillo Party PSOE PP Vox Leader since 23 March 2024 16 July 2022 1 February 2023 Leader's seat Badajoz Cáceres Badajoz Last election 28 seats, 39.9% 28 seats, 38.8% 5 seats, 8.1% Current seats 28 28 5 Seats needed 5 5 28   Leader Irene de Miguel Party Podemos–IU–AV Leader since 27 November 2018 Leader's seat Cáceres Last election 4 seats, 6.0% Current seats 4 Seats needed 29
Incumbent President María Guardiola PP

A regional election will be held in Extremadura on Sunday, 21 December 2025, to elect the 12th Assembly of the autonomous community. All 65 seats in the Assembly will be up for election. This marked the first time that a regional president exercised the legal prerogative to call a snap election.

The 2023 election had seen a coalition between the People's Party (PP) and the far-right Vox party being formed under the presidency of María Guardiola, who during government negotiations had pledged not to let the latter into her cabinet, only to backtrack during the lead up to the 2023 Spanish general election. The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), who was ousted from power only for the second time in history, saw a leadership change from Guillermo Fernández Vara—who died from stomach cancer in October 2025—to the then-president of the provincial deputation of Badajoz, Miguel Ángel Gallardo. The PP–Vox coalition collapsed in July 2024 over a strategic movement from the latter's national leadership, with Guardiola leading a minority government from that point onwards. On 27 October 2025, in an attempt to capitalize both on Gallardo's involvement in a judicial probe on an alleged cronyism case affecting Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez's brother, as well as on the announcement by PSOE and Vox to vote down her 2026 budget, Guardiola called an early election for 21 December.

Background

The 2023 regional election saw a parliamentary majority for the People's Party (PP) and the far-right Vox party, with the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) remaining as the largest overall. ^[2] However, PP candidate María Guardiola's initial rejection to form a coalition government with Vox led to several weeks of public clashing ^{[3] [4]} —seeing Guardiola herself proclaiming that she could not allow "those who deny gender-based violence, who use bold strokes, dehumanize immigrants and display a banner on which they throw the LGTBI flag into a trash can" into her government ^[5] —and in PSOE and United for Extremadura retaining control of the Assembly's bureau as PP and Vox voted for their own candidates. ^[6] Ultimately, Guardiola was forced to U-turn and form a PP–Vox cabinet by her own party's national leadership, ^[7] then embroiled in the 23 July 2023 general election campaign. ^{[8] [9]} This political episode was said to contribute to the PP's expectation failure in the general election by evidencing the party's willingness to allow the far-right into government despite public pledges to the contrary. ^{[10] [11] [12]}

Guillermo Fernández Vara, who had been president of Extremadura between 2007 and 2011 and again from 2015 to 2023, announced his withdrawal from regional politics after failing to secure investiture, ^{[13] [14]} being proposed as senator instead. ^[15] In December 2023, Vara announced that he suffered from stomach cancer, ^[16] which ultimately cost him his life two years later. ^[17] Miguel Ángel Gallardo, president of the provincial deputation of Badajoz and regarded a critic of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez's leadership, was elected in March 2024 as Vara's successor at the helm of the regional PSOE branch. ^{[18] [19]} In May 2025, Gallardo was indicted on charges of perverting the course of justice and influence peddling related to the allegedly illegal hiring in 2017 of Sánchez's brother in the deputation he presided over, ^{[20] [21]} with him seeking parliamentary privilege by becoming an Assembly member in a move that the High Court of Justice of Extremadura deemed as a law evasion; ^{[22] [23] [24]} Gallardo denied any wrongdoing and suggested that he was the target of a lawfare campaign. ^{[25] [26]}

On 11 July 2024, Vox's national leader Santiago Abascal forced the break up of all PP–Vox regional governments over a controversy regarding the nationwide distribution of unaccompanied migrant minors among the autonomous communities. ^{[27] [28] [29]} Vox's single regional minister in Guardiola's cabinet, Ignacio Higuero, quit the party in order to preserve his office, ^{[30] [31]} though his involvement in a resume padding scandal eventually led to his resignation in August 2025. ^{[32] [33]} Budget negotiations in the autumn of 2025 hinted at the possibility of Guardiola calling a snap election for early next year in the event of a parliamentary deadlock. ^{[34] [35]}

Overview

Under the 2011 Statute of Autonomy, the Assembly of Extremadura is the unicameral legislature of the homonymous autonomous community, having legislative power in devolved matters, as well as the ability to vote confidence in or withdraw it from a regional president. ^[36]

Electoral system

Voting for the Assembly is on the basis of universal suffrage, which comprises all nationals over 18 years of age, registered in Extremadura and in full enjoyment of their political rights, provided that they are not sentenced—by a final court ruling—to deprivation of the right to vote. ^{[37] [38] [39]}

The Assembly of Extremadura is entitled to a maximum of 65 seats, with the electoral law setting its size at that number. All members are elected in two multi-member constituencies—corresponding to the provinces of Badajoz and Cáceres, with each being allocated an initial minimum of 20 seats and the remaining 25 being distributed in proportion to their populations—using the D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional voting system, with an electoral threshold of five percent of valid votes (which includes blank ballots) being applied in each constituency. Alternatively, parties failing to reach the threshold in one of the constituencies are also entitled to enter the seat distribution as long as they run candidates in both districts and reach five percent regionally. ^{[37] [40]}

As a result of the aforementioned allocation, each Assembly constituency was entitled the following seats: ^[41]

Seats	Constituencies
36	Badajoz
29	Cáceres

The law does not provide for by-elections to fill vacated seats; instead, any vacancies that occur after the proclamation of candidates and into the legislative term will be covered by the successive candidates in the list and, when required, by the designated substitutes. ^{[42] [43]}

Election date

The term of the Assembly of Extremadura expires four years after the date of its previous election, unless it is dissolved earlier. The election decree shall be issued no later than the twenty-fifth day prior to the date of expiry of parliament and published on the following day in the Official Journal of Extremadura (DOE), with election day taking place on the fifty-fourth day from publication. ^{[36] [44] [45]} The previous election was held on 28 May 2023, which means that the legislature's term will expire on 28 May 2027. The election decree must be published in the DOE no later than 4 May 2027, with the election taking place on the fifty-fourth day from publication, setting the latest possible date for election day on Sunday, 27 June 2027.

The president has the prerogative to dissolve the Assembly of Extremadura and call a snap election, provided that no motion of no confidence is in process and that dissolution does not occur before one year has elapsed since the previous one. ^{[44] [46]} In the event of an investiture process failing to elect a regional president within a two-month period from the first ballot, the Assembly shall be automatically dissolved and a fresh election called. ^[47]

The political deadlock resulting from the 2023 election result, in which no single party secured an absolute majority of seats, was briefly commented as potentially leading to a repeat election as PP's María Guardiola opposed letting the far-right Vox into government. ^[48] Guardiola eventually bowed to political pressure from her party at the national level and signed a coalition agreement with Vox, ^{[7] [8] [9]} being elected as regional president on 14 July 2023 and dashing any prospect of an imminent early election. ^[49] The possibility of an early election call was again floated in late 2024, after Vox's split with her government left Guardiola in a minority and unable to get her 2025 budget passed through parliament, but this attempt ultimately failed to materialize. ^{[50] [51]}

On 29 September 2025, Guardiola threatened opposition parties with a snap election if they blocked her government's 2026 budget. ^[34] Speculation then emerged that the national leadership of the People's Party (PP) was planning to advance the elections in Aragon and Extremadura (and possibly the Balearic Islands) to make them take place near or concurrently with the Castilian-Leonese election scheduled for early 2026, in an electoral "Super Sunday". ^{[52] [53] [54]} While the alleged justification would be the regional governments' failure in getting their 2026 budgets passed through parliament, the true motive was attributed to PP plans—not without risk—to turn the simultaneous election call into a referendum on the national government of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez. ^{[55] [56]} The regional PP ruled out any deliberate plans for a joint election call and defended their president's "full freedom" to make her independent decisions. ^{[57] [58]} On 16 October, the Extremaduran government tabled the budget without having secured support from any other party, with the opposition viewing the move as part of Guardiola's tactic. ^{[35] [59] [60]} Meanwhile, the PP proposed an amendment to the Assembly's Rules of Procedure—which was ultimately voted down in parliament ^[61] —that would bring them into line with statutory provisions guaranteeing a full four-year legislative term in the event of early elections, ^{[62] [63]} while blaming the PSOE for a prospective failure in the budget's approval as relations with Vox remained "difficult". ^{[64] [65] [66]} Vox was reportedly willing to take public blame for forcing early elections in Aragon and Extremadura. ^{[67] [68]} On 23 October, after the PSOE and Vox confirmed that they would vote down Guardiola's budget, ^{[69] [70] [71]} it transpired that she would announce the parliament's dissolution on 28 October, ^{[72] [73]} with the election tentatively scheduled for between 21 December 2025 and 15 March 2026. ^{[74] [75] [76] [77]} On 27 October, PSOE and Vox hinted at being willing to allow the budgetary procedure to continue by rejecting supporting each other's attempts to block it, ^{[78] [79]} but that evening Guardiola announced the calling of a snap election without waiting for the parliamentary vote on the next day. ^{[80] [81]} It was commented that Guardiola chose to advance her decision due to it becoming unclear whether she would lose that vote, thus potentially thwarting her justification for an election. ^[82]

The Assembly of Extremadura was officially dissolved on 28 October 2025 after the publication of the dissolution decree in the DOE, setting the election date for 21 December. ^[41]

Parliamentary composition

The table below shows the composition of the parliamentary groups in the chamber at the time of dissolution. ^{[83] [84]}

Parliamentary composition in October 2025

Groups		Parties		Legislators
				Seats	Total
	Socialist Parliamentary Group		PSOE	28	28
	People's Parliamentary Group		PP	28	28
	Vox Parliamentary Group		Vox	5	5
	United for Extremadura Parliamentary Group		IU	3	4
			Podemos	1

Parties and candidates

The electoral law allows for parties and federations registered in the interior ministry, alliances and groupings of electors to present lists of candidates. Parties and federations intending to form an alliance ahead of an election are required to inform the relevant electoral commission within ten days of the election call, whereas groupings of electors need to secure the signature of at least two percent of the electorate in the constituencies for which they seek election, disallowing electors from signing for more than one list of candidates. ^{[85] [86]} Amendments to the electoral law in 2024 increased requirements for a balanced composition of men and women in the electoral lists through the use of a zipper system. ^[87]

Below is a list of the main parties and electoral alliances which will likely contest the election:

Candidacy		Parties and alliances	Candidate		Ideology	Previous result		Gov.	Ref.
						Vote %	Seats
	PSOE	List Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)		Miguel Ángel Gallardo	Social democracy	39.9%	28		[18] [88] [89]
	PP	List People's Party (PP)		María Guardiola	Conservatism Christian democracy	38.8%	28		[90]
	Vox	List Vox (Vox)		Ángel Pelayo Gordillo	Right-wing populism Ultranationalism National conservatism	8.1%	5		[91]
	Podemos– IU–AV	List We Can (Podemos) United Left (IU) – Communist Party of Extremadura (PCEx) – The Dawn Marxist Organization (La Aurora (OM)) – Republican Left (IR) Green Alliance (AV)		Irene de Miguel	Left-wing populism Direct democracy Democratic socialism	6.0%	4		[90] [92]

Timetable

The key dates are listed below (all times are CET): ^[93]

• 27 October: The election decree is issued with the countersign of the president, after deliberation in the Regional Government. ^[41]
• 28 October: Formal dissolution of parliament and start of prohibition period on the inauguration of public works, services or projects.
• 31 October: Initial constitution of provincial and zone electoral commissions.
• 7 November: Deadline for parties and federations to report on their electoral alliances.
• 17 November: Deadline for parties, federations, alliances, and groupings of electors to present electoral lists.
• 19 November: Publication of submitted electoral lists in the Official Journal of Extremadura (DOE).
• 22 November: Deadline for non-resident citizens (electors residing abroad (CERA) and citizens temporarily absent from Spain) to apply for voting.
• 24 November: Official proclamation of validly submitted electoral lists.
• 25 November: Publication of proclaimed electoral lists in the DOE.
• 5 December: Official start of electoral campaigning. ^[41]
• 11 December: Deadline to apply for postal voting.
• 16 December: Start of legal ban on electoral opinion polling publication; deadline for CERA citizens to vote by mail.
• 17 December: Deadline for postal and temporarily absent voting.
• 19 December: Last day of electoral campaigning; deadline for CERA voting. ^[41]
• 20 December: Official election silence ("reflection day").
• 21 December: Election day (polling stations open at 9 am and close at 8 pm or once voters present in a queue at/outside the polling station at 8 pm have cast their vote); provisional vote counting.
• 24 December: Start of general vote counting, including CERA votes.
• 27 December: Deadline for the general vote counting.
• 5 January: Deadline for the proclamation of elected members.
• 20 January: Deadline for the reconvening of parliament. ^[94]
• 14 February: Deadline for the publication of definitive election results in the DOE.

Opinion polls

The table below lists voting intention estimates in reverse chronological order, showing the most recent first and using the dates when the survey fieldwork was done, as opposed to the date of publication. Where the fieldwork dates are unknown, the date of publication is given instead. The highest percentage figure in each polling survey is displayed with its background shaded in the leading party's colour. If a tie ensues, this is applied to the figures with the highest percentages. The "Lead" column on the right shows the percentage-point difference between the parties with the highest percentages in a poll. When available, seat projections determined by the polling organisations are displayed below (or in place of) the percentages in a smaller font; 33 seats are required for an absolute majority in the Assembly of Extremadura.

Graphical summary

Local regression trend line of poll results from 28 May 2023 to 21 December 2025, with each line corresponding to a political party.

Voting intention estimates

The table below lists weighted voting intention estimates. Refusals are generally excluded from the party vote percentages, while question wording and the treatment of "don't know" responses and those not intending to vote may vary between polling organisations. When available, seat projections determined by the polling organisations are displayed below (or in place of) the percentages in a smaller font; 33 seats are required for an absolute majority in the Assembly of Extremadura.

Polling firm/Commissioner	Fieldwork date	Sample size	Turnout									Lead
EM-Analytics/Electomanía [p 1]	27–29 Oct 2025	802	?	35.2 24	41.6 30	12.2 8	6.0 3	–	0.2 0	[a]	[a]	6.4
EM-Analytics/Electomanía [p 2]	29 Sep–25 Oct 2025	1,295	?	37.9 26	41.0 30	12.7 9	–	–	0.3 0	1.4 0	4.5 0	3.1
NC Report/La Razón [p 3]	16–31 May 2025	350	?	? 26	? 29	? 6	? 4	–	–	[a]	[a]	?
EM-Analytics/Electomanía [p 4]	29 Apr–27 May 2025	1,295	?	40.2 28	42.1 30	10.2 7	–	–	0.3 0	2.0 0	3.2 0	1.9
El Mundo/Sigma Dos [p 5]	9–22 May 2025	1,028	?	36.7 25/26	41.8 29/30	9.3 6	6.6 4	3.1 0	–	[a]	[a]	5.1
NC Report/La Razón [p 6]	18–23 Jul 2024	1,000	72.1	39.4 29	43.5 32	6.8 4	–	–	–	2.4 0	2.9 0	4.1
2024 EP election	9 Jun 2024	—	46.9	36.6 (27)	41.4 (31)	10.0 (7)	–	0.5 (0)	0.5 (0)	2.2 (0)	2.5 (0)	4.8
EM-Analytics/Electomanía [p 7]	25 Nov–23 Dec 2023	1,295	?	42.5 31	36.7 27	9.0 6	–	2.0 0	1.0 0	0.9 0	5.0 1	5.8
2023 general election	23 Jul 2023	—	71.7	39.1 (27)	37.9 (25)	13.6 (9)	–	–	–	[b]	6.9 (4)	1.2
PSOE [p 8]	22 Jun 2023	?	?	? 30	? 28	? 3/4	? 3/4	–	–	[a]	–	?
EM-Analytics/Electomanía [p 9]	28 May–22 Jun 2023	1,000	?	42.2 30	37.0 27	8.5 5	5.2 3	2.7 0	0.9 0	[a]	–	5.2
Data10/Okdiario [p 10]	21 Jun 2023	1,500	65.8	42.9 31	41.1 30	6.6 4	4.6 0	–	–	[a]	–	1.8
2023 regional election	28 May 2023	—	70.4	39.9 28	38.8 28	8.1 5	6.0 4	2.5 0	0.9 0	[a]	–	1.1

Voting preferences

The table below lists raw, unweighted voting preferences.

Polling firm/Commissioner	Fieldwork date	Sample size							SALF	?	N	Lead
CIS [p 11]	7–31 Mar 2025	442	21.6	27.2	8.8	–	1.1	3.1	0.2	27.7	5.0	5.6
2024 EP election	9 Jun 2024	—	17.5	19.8	4.7	–	1.1	1.2	1.6	—	51.7	2.3
2023 general election	23 Jul 2023	—	28.3	27.5	9.9	–	[b]	5.0	–	—	26.3	0.8
2023 regional election	28 May 2023	—	28.2	27.5	5.7	4.2	[a]	–	–	—	27.5	0.7

Preferred President

The table below lists opinion polling on leader preferences to become president of the Regional Government of Extremadura.

Polling firm/Commissioner	Fieldwork date	Sample size						Other/ None/ Not care	?	Lead
			F. Vara PSOE	Gallardo PSOE	Guardiola PP	Gordillo Vox	De Miguel UxE
CIS [c] [p 11]	7–31 Mar 2025	442	1.2	9.7	26.5	3.3	2.5	6.0	50.9	16.8

Results

Overall

← Summary of the 21 December 2025 Assembly of Extremadura election results

Parties and alliances		Popular vote			Seats
		Votes	%	±pp	Total	+/−
	Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)
	People's Party (PP)
	Vox (Vox)
	United for Extremadura We Can–United Left–Green Alliance (Podemos–IU–AV)
	Together for Extremadura (JUEx)
	Citizens–Party of the Citizenry (Cs)
	Raise Extremadura (Levanta)
	Extremennist Party–Extremennists–Party of Extremadurans (PEx–EXT)
	For a Fairer World (PUM+J)
	Animalist Party with the Environment (PACMA)			New
Blank ballots
Total					65	±0
Valid votes
Invalid votes
Votes cast / turnout
Abstentions
Registered voters		890,967
Sources

Distribution by constituency

Constituency	PSOE		PP		Vox		UxE
	%	S	%	S	%	S	%	S
Badajoz
Cáceres
Total
Sources

Notes

1. Within UxE.
2. Within Sumar.
3. Responses denoting a party's generic candidate are aggregated to that party's main candidate/leader at the time of the poll.

References

Opinion poll sources

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2. "ElectoPanel Extremadura (27 oct): Guardiola ganaría, pero sin absoluta". Electomanía (in Spanish). 27 October 2025.
3. "Macroencuesta autonómica (I): corrupción y cloacas arrasan el poder territorial del PSOE". La Razón (in Spanish). 2 June 2025.
4. "ElectoPanel Extremadura (30My): el PSOE pierde fuelle, Guardiola necesita a Vox". Electomanía (in Spanish). 30 May 2025.
5. "El PSOE se hunde en Extremadura con su peor dato histórico en pleno aforamiento exprés de Gallardo". El Mundo (in Spanish). 23 May 2025.
6. "El PP rompe el empate con el PSOE en Extremadura y se queda a un escaño de la mayoría absoluta". La Razón (in Spanish). 2 August 2024.
7. "ElectoPanel Extremadura (26dic): la división en la izquierda beneficia a Guardiola". Electomanía (in Spanish). 26 December 2023.
8. "El PSOE ve la repetición electoral en Extremadura como una baza para "resucitar" tras el 23-J". El Confidencial (in Spanish). 22 June 2023.
9. "ElectoPanel Extremadura (24J): La izquierda ganaría la Junta en una repetición". Electomanía (in Spanish). 24 June 2023.
10. "La repetición de elecciones no cambia nada: Vara volverá a ganar y el PP necesitaría a Vox para gobernar". Okdiario (in Spanish). 22 June 2023.
11. "Tendencias y demandas municipales y autonómicas. Comunidad Autónoma de Extremadura (Estudio nº 3503. Marzo 2025)". CIS (in Spanish). 1 July 2025.

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