# 2003 La Rioja regional election

[Spain](https://electionsarchive.com/es.md) / [La Rioja](https://electionsarchive.com/es/la-rioja.md), May 25, 2003

Turnout: 175,401 of 233,553 registered voters (75.1%). +6.4 points since 1999.

## [La Rioja](https://electionsarchive.com/es/ri/2003-05-25-general/la-rioja.md)

Partido Popular won 17 of the 33 seats, with 49.5% of the vote.

| Candidate or party | Votes | Share | Seats | Change |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Partido Popular | 84,533 | 49.5% | 17 | −1 |
| Spanish Socialist Workers' Party | 66,410 | 38.9% | 14 | +1 |
| Partido Riojano | 11,842 | 6.9% | 2 | 0 |
| Izquierda Unida de La Rioja | 4,729 | 2.8% |  | 0 |
| Los Verdes de La Rioja | 2,858 | 1.7% |  | 0 |
| Movimiento al Socialismo Humanista | 269 | 0.2% |  | 0 |

These results come from Gobierno de La Rioja.

## Contests

- [La Rioja](https://electionsarchive.com/es/ri/2003-05-25-general/la-rioja.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 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| La Rioja | 2.48 | 2.23 | 3.7 | 5.5 | 4.2 | 0.79 |

- From 170,641 votes and 33 seats.
- Compared with [1999 La Rioja regional election](https://electionsarchive.com/es/ri/1999-06-13-general.md).
- Measured over 174 municipalities.

Also available as HTML at https://electionsarchive.com/es/ri/2003-05-25-general and JSON at https://electionsarchive.com/es/ri/2003-05-25-general.json.