# 2012 Basque regional election

[Spain](https://electionsarchive.com/es.md) / [País Vasco](https://electionsarchive.com/es/pais-vasco.md), October 21, 2012

Turnout: 1,135,568 of 1,775,351 registered voters (64.0%). −0.71 points since 2009.

## Basque Parliament

EAJ-PNV won 27 of the 75 seats, with 34.6% of the vote.

| Candidate or party | Votes | Share | Seats | Change |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Euzko Alderdi Jeltzalea-Partido Nacionalista Vasco | 384,766 | 34.6% | 27 | −3 |
| Euskal Herria Bildu | 277,923 | 25.0% | 21 |  |
| Spanish Socialist Workers' Party | 212,809 | 19.1% | 16 | −9 |
| Partido Popular | 130,584 | 11.7% | 10 | −3 |
| La Izquierda Plural | 30,318 | 2.7% |  |  |
| Unión Progreso y Democracia | 21,539 | 1.9% | 1 | 0 |
| EZKER BATUA-BERDEAK | 17,345 | 1.6% |  | −1 |
| EQUO | 11,625 | 1.0% |  |  |
| EB-AZ | 11,480 | 1.0% |  |  |
| Animalist Party | 4,066 | 0.4% |  | 0 |
| HARTOS.ORG | 2,831 | 0.3% |  |  |
| PUM+J | 2,476 | 0.2% |  | 0 |
| PARTIDO HUMANISTA | 1,113 | 0.1% |  | 0 |
| FAMILIA Y VIDA | 821 | 0.1% |  | 0 |
| PARTIDO OBRERO SOCIALISTA INTERNACIONALISTA | 778 | 0.1% |  | 0 |
| UNIFICACIÓN COMUNISTA DE ESPAÑA | 684 | 0.1% |  |  |
| EK-PCPE | 442 | <0.1% |  |  |
| ONGI ETORRI | 101 | <0.1% |  |  |
| PYC | 59 | <0.1% |  |  |

These results come from Gobierno Vasco.

## Contests

- [Álava](https://electionsarchive.com/es/pv/2012-10-21-general/alava.md)
- [Bizkaia](https://electionsarchive.com/es/pv/2012-10-21-general/bizkaia.md)
- [Gipuzkoa](https://electionsarchive.com/es/pv/2012-10-21-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 | 4.27 | 3.68 | 3.9 | 8.2 | 30.5 | 0.91 |

- From 1,111,760 votes and 75 seats.
- Compared with [2009 Basque regional election](https://electionsarchive.com/es/pv/2009-03-01-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/2012-10-21-general and JSON at https://electionsarchive.com/es/pv/2012-10-21-general.json.