# 2009 Basque regional election

[Spain](https://electionsarchive.com/es.md) / [País Vasco](https://electionsarchive.com/es/pais-vasco.md), March 1, 2009

Turnout: 1,148,697 of 1,776,059 registered voters (64.7%). −3.3 points since 2005.

## Basque Parliament

EAJ-PNV won 30 of the 75 seats, with 38.6% of the vote.

| Candidate or party | Votes | Share | Seats | Change |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Euzko Alderdi Jeltzalea-Partido Nacionalista Vasco | 399,600 | 38.6% | 30 |  |
| Spanish Socialist Workers' Party | 318,112 | 30.7% | 25 | +7 |
| Partido Popular | 146,148 | 14.1% | 13 | −2 |
| ARALAR | 62,514 | 6.0% | 4 | +3 |
| Eusko Alkartasuna | 38,198 | 3.7% | 1 |  |
| EZKER BATUA-BERDEAK | 36,373 | 3.5% | 1 |  |
| Unión Progreso y Democracia | 22,233 | 2.1% | 1 |  |
| LOS VERDES | 5,643 | 0.5% |  |  |
| PUM+J | 3,072 | 0.3% |  | 0 |
| Animalist Party | 1,504 | 0.1% |  |  |
| PARTIDO OBRERO SOCIALISTA INTERNACIONALISTA | 1,178 | 0.1% |  | 0 |
| FAMILIA Y VIDA | 1,052 | 0.1% |  |  |
| PARTIDO HUMANISTA | 418 | <0.1% |  | 0 |
| PARTIDO CARLISTA | 151 | <0.1% |  | 0 |

These results come from Gobierno Vasco.

## Contests

- [Álava](https://electionsarchive.com/es/pv/2009-03-01-general/alava.md)
- [Bizkaia](https://electionsarchive.com/es/pv/2009-03-01-general/bizkaia.md)
- [Gipuzkoa](https://electionsarchive.com/es/pv/2009-03-01-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 | 3.71 | 3.28 | 4.0 | 7.3 | 60.6 | 0.93 |

- From 1,036,196 votes and 75 seats.
- Compared with [2005 Basque regional election](https://electionsarchive.com/es/pv/2005-04-17-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/2009-03-01-general and JSON at https://electionsarchive.com/es/pv/2009-03-01-general.json.