The 2003 Andorran local elections were held on 14 December. Voters elected the council members of the seven parishes. [1]
Andorra consists of seven communities known as parishes. Until relatively recently, it had only six parishes; the seventh, Escaldes-Engordany, was created in 1978.
Voters elect the members of the municipal councils (consells de comú in Catalan). The electoral law allows the municipal councils to choose their numbers of seats, which must be an even number between 10 and 16.
Catalan is a Western Romance language derived from Vulgar Latin and named after the medieval Principality of Catalonia, in northeastern modern Spain. It is the only official language of Andorra, and a co-official language of the Spanish autonomous communities of Catalonia, the Balearic Islands and Valencia. It also has semi-official status in the Italian commune of Alghero. It is also spoken in the eastern strip of Aragon, in some villages of Region of Murcia called Carche and in the Pyrénées-Orientales department of France. These territories are often called Països Catalans or "Catalan Countries".
All city council members were elected in single multi-member districts, consisting of the whole parish, using closed lists. Half of the seats were allocated to the party with the most votes. The other half of the seats were allocated using the Hare quota (including the winning party). With this system the winning party obtained an absolute majority.
The Hare quota is a formula used under some forms of the Single Transferable Vote (STV) system and the largest remainder method of party-list proportional representation. In these voting systems the quota is the minimum number of votes required for a party or candidate to capture a seat.
The cònsol major (mayor) and the cònsol menor (deputy mayor) were elected indirectly by the municipal councilliors. [2]
| Party | Votes | % | Seats | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Party of Andorra | 4,466 | 40.8 | 48 | |
| Social Democratic Party | 3,695 | 33.8 | 21 | |
| Liberal Party of Andorra–Andorran Democratic Center | 758 | 6.9 | 3 | |
| Century 21 (political party) | 685 | 6.3 | 3 | |
| Andorran Democratic Center | 439 | 4.0 | 0 | |
| Parochial Democratic Group | 393 | 3.6 | 2 | |
| Parochial Union of Independents Group | 283 | 2.6 | 2 | |
| Union for Canillo | 228 | 2.1 | 3 | |
| Blank votes | 748 | – | – | |
| Invalid votes | 64 | – | – | |
| Total | 11,759 | 100 | 82 | |
| Registered voters/turnout | 15,053 | 78.1 | – | |
The Liberal Party was the most voted party, winning in 5 out of 7 parishes. These results confirmed the establishment of a two-party system. [1]
The Liberal Party of Andorra is a liberal and conservative-liberal political party in Andorra. It is a member of the Liberal International and the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe.
A two-party system is a party system where two major political parties dominate the government. One of the two parties typically holds a majority in the legislature and is usually referred to as the majority or governing party while the other is the minority or opposition party. Around the world, the term has different senses. For example, in the United States, Jamaica, and Malta, the sense of two-party system describes an arrangement in which all or nearly all elected officials belong to one of the only two major parties, and third parties rarely win any seats in the legislature. In such arrangements, two-party systems are thought to result from various factors like winner-takes-all election rules. In such systems, while chances for third-party candidates winning election to major national office are remote, it is possible for groups within the larger parties, or in opposition to one or both of them, to exert influence on the two major parties. In contrast, in the United Kingdom and Australia and in other parliamentary systems and elsewhere, the term two-party system is sometimes used to indicate an arrangement in which two major parties dominate elections but in which there are viable third parties which do win seats in the legislature, and in which the two major parties exert proportionately greater influence than their percentage of votes would suggest.
| Party | Votes | % | Seats | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Party of Andorra | 267 | 53.9 | 11 | |
| Union for Canillo | 228 | 46.1 | 3 | |
| Blank votes | 17 | – | – | |
| Invalid votes | 1 | – | – | |
| Total | 513 | 100 | 14 | |
| Registered voters/turnout | 583 | 88.0 | – | |
| Party | Votes | % | Seats | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Social Democratic Party | 787 | 50.9 | 9 | |
| Liberal Party of Andorra–Andorran Democratic Center | 758 | 49.1 | 3 | |
| Blank votes | 84 | – | – | |
| Invalid votes | 20 | – | – | |
| Total | 1,649 | 100 | 12 | |
| Registered voters/turnout | 2,057 | 80.2 | – | |
| Party | Votes | % | Seats | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Party of Andorra | 377 | 57.1 | 8 | |
| Parochial Union of Independents Group | 283 | 42.9 | 2 | |
| Blank votes | 70 | – | – | |
| Invalid votes | 2 | – | – | |
| Total | 732 | 100 | 10 | |
| Registered voters/turnout | 871 | 84.0 | – | |
| Party | Votes | % | Seats | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Party of Andorra | 562 | 47.4 | 8 | |
| Parochial Democratic Group | 393 | 33.2 | 2 | |
| Social Democratic Party | 230 | 19.4 | 0 | |
| Blank votes | 44 | – | – | |
| Invalid votes | 2 | – | – | |
| Total | 1,231 | 100 | 10 | |
| Registered voters/turnout | 1,427 | 86.3 | – | |
| Party | Votes | % | Seats | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Social Democratic Party | 1,350 | 43.7 | 9 | |
| Liberal Party of Andorra | 1,298 | 42.0 | 3 | |
| Andorran Democratic Center | 439 | 14.2 | 0 | |
| Blank votes | 207 | – | – | |
| Invalid votes | 12 | – | – | |
| Total | 3,306 | 100 | 12 | |
| Registered voters/turnout | 4,555 | 72.6 | – | |
| Party | Votes | % | Seats | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lauredian Union–Liberal Party of Andorra | 809 | 47.9 | 9 | |
| Century 21 | 685 | 40.5 | 3 | |
| Social Democratic Party | 196 | 11.6 | 0 | |
| Blank votes | 94 | – | – | |
| Invalid votes | 4 | – | – | |
| Total | 1,788 | 100 | 12 | |
| Registered voters/turnout | 2,242 | 79.8 | – | |
| Party | Votes | % | Seats | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Party of Andorra | 1,153 | 50.5 | 9 | |
| Social Democratic Party | 1,132 | 49.5 | 3 | |
| Blank votes | 232 | – | – | |
| Invalid votes | 23 | – | – | |
| Total | 2,540 | 100 | 12 | |
| Registered voters/turnout | 3,318 | 76.6 | – | |
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