# 1998 Basque regional election

[Spain](https://electionsarchive.com/es.md) / [País Vasco](https://electionsarchive.com/es/pais-vasco.md), October 25, 1998

Turnout: 1,275,008 of 1,821,608 registered voters (70.0%). +10.3 points since 1994.

## Basque Parliament

EAJ-PNV won 21 of the 75 seats, with 28.0% of the vote.

| Candidate or party | Votes | Share | Seats | Change |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Euzko Alderdi Jeltzalea-Partido Nacionalista Vasco | 350,322 | 28.0% | 21 | −1 |
| Partido Popular | 251,743 | 20.1% | 16 | +5 |
| EUSKAL HERRITARROK | 224,001 | 17.9% | 14 |  |
| Spanish Socialist Workers' Party | 220,052 | 17.6% | 14 | +2 |
| Eusko Alkartasuna | 108,635 | 8.7% | 6 | −2 |
| Plural left | 71,064 | 5.7% | 2 | −4 |
| UNIDAD ALAVESA | 15,738 | 1.3% | 2 | −3 |
| PARTIDO DE LA LEY NATURAL | 4,858 | 0.4% |  |  |
| PARTIDO HUMANISTA | 3,288 | 0.3% |  |  |
| EHB | 864 | 0.1% |  |  |

These results come from Gobierno Vasco.

## Contests

- [Álava](https://electionsarchive.com/es/pv/1998-10-25-general/alava.md)
- [Bizkaia](https://electionsarchive.com/es/pv/1998-10-25-general/bizkaia.md)
- [Gipuzkoa](https://electionsarchive.com/es/pv/1998-10-25-general/gipuzkoa.md)

## Party system indices

[How these indices are computed](https://electionsarchive.com/indices.md)

| Chamber | Effective parties by votes | Effective parties by seats | Gallagher index | Loosemore–Hanby index | Volatility | Nationalization |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Basque Parliament | 5.18 | 4.96 | 2.7 | 4.4 | 24.8 | 0.89 |

- From 1,250,565 votes and 75 seats.
- Compared with [1994 Basque regional election](https://electionsarchive.com/es/pv/1994-10-23-general.md).
- Measured over 3 provinces.
- A large party has no recorded predecessor or successor, so its whole share counts as change.
- Measured over fewer than ten places, so read it loosely.

Also available as HTML at https://electionsarchive.com/es/pv/1998-10-25-general and JSON at https://electionsarchive.com/es/pv/1998-10-25-general.json.