Next Aragonese regional election

Next Aragonese regional election
No later than 10 March 2030
(Tentatively scheduled for 28 June 2026)[1]
All 67 seats in the Cortes of Aragon
34 seats needed for a majority
 
Leader Jorge Azcón Pilar Alegría Alejandro Nolasco
Party PP PSOE Vox
Leader since 19 December 2021 27 January 2025 23 December 2022
Leader's seat Zaragoza Zaragoza Teruel
Last election 26 seats, 34.2% 18 seats, 24.4% 14 seats, 17.8%
Current seats 26 18 14
Seats needed 8 16 20
 
Leader Jorge Pueyo Tomás Guitarte Marta Abengochea
Party CHA Existe IU–MS
Leader since 3 January 2026 28 January 2023 29 November 2025
Leader's seat Zaragoza Teruel Zaragoza
Last election 6 seats, 9.7% 2 seats, 3.5% 1 seat, 3.0%
Current seats 6 2 1
Seats needed 28 32 33
Incumbent President

Jorge Azcón (acting)
PP



A regional election will be held in Aragon no later than on Sunday, 10 March 2030, to elect the 13th Cortes of the autonomous community. All 67 seats in the Cortes will be up for election.

The 2026 snap election saw the People's Party (PP) of incumbent president Jorge Azcón falling well short of an overall majority in parliament, requiring the support of the far-right Vox party to retain power.[2] As a result, Spanish media commented on the possibility of a repeat election in the event of a failure in the government formation process.[3][4] A repeat election is set to take place on 28 June 2026 if no regional president is elected before 3 May.[1]

Overview

Under the 2007 Statute of Autonomy, the Cortes of Aragon are the unicameral legislature of the homonymous autonomous community, having legislative power in devolved matters, as well as the ability to vote confidence in or withdraw it from a regional president.[5]

Electoral system

Voting for the Cortes is on the basis of universal suffrage, which comprises all nationals over 18 years of age, registered in Aragon and in full enjoyment of their political rights, provided that they are not sentenced—by a final court ruling—to deprivation of the right to vote.[6][7][8]

The Cortes of Aragon are entitled to a minimum of 65 and a maximum of 80 seats, with the electoral law setting its size at 67. All members are elected in three multi-member constituencies—corresponding to the provinces of Huesca, Teruel and Zaragoza, with each being allocated an initial minimum of 14 seats and the remaining 25 being distributed in proportion to their populations (provided that the seat-to-population ratio in the most populated province does not exceed three times that of the least populated one)—using the D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional voting system, with an electoral threshold of three percent of valid votes (which includes blank ballots) being applied in each constituency.[9][10] The use of the electoral method may result in a higher effective threshold based on the district magnitude and the distribution of votes among candidacies.[11]

As a result of the aforementioned allocation, each Cortes constituency would be entitled the following seats (as of 11 December 2025):[a]

Seats Constituencies
35 Zaragoza
18 Huesca
14 Teruel

The law does not provide for by-elections to fill vacated seats; instead, any vacancies that occur after the proclamation of candidates and into the legislative term will be covered by the successive candidates in the list and, when required, by the designated substitutes.[13][14]

Election date

The term of the Cortes of Aragon expires four years after the date of their previous election, unless they are dissolved earlier. The election decree shall be issued no later than the twenty-fifth day prior to the scheduled date of expiry of parliament and published on the following day in the Official Gazette of Aragon (BOA), with election day taking place on the fifty-fourth day from publication.[6][15][16] The previous election was held on 8 February 2026, which means that the legislature's term will expire on 8 February 2030. The election decree shall be published in the BOA no later than 15 January 2030, with the election taking place on the fifty-fourth day from publication, setting the latest possible date for election day on Sunday, 10 March 2030.

The regional president has the prerogative to dissolve the Cortes of Aragon at any given time and call a snap election, provided that no motion of no confidence is in process and that dissolution does not occur before one year has elapsed since the previous one.[15][17] In the event of an investiture process failing to elect a regional president within a two-month period from the Cortes's reconvening, the chamber is to be automatically dissolved and a fresh election called.[18]

Current parliament

The table below shows the composition of the parliamentary groups in the chamber at the present time.[19][20]

Current parliamentary composition
Groups Parties Legislators
Seats Total
People's Parliamentary Group in the Cortes of Aragon PP 26 26
Socialist Parliamentary Group PSOE 18 18
Vox Parliamentary Group Vox 14 14
Aragonese Union Parliamentary Group CHA 6 6
Mixed Parliamentary Group TE 2 3
IU 1

Parties and candidates

The electoral law allows for parties and federations registered in the interior ministry, alliances and groupings of electors to present lists of candidates. Parties and federations intending to form an alliance ahead of an election are required to inform the relevant electoral commission within ten days of the election call, whereas groupings of electors need to secure the signature of at least one percent of the electorate in the constituencies for which they seek election, disallowing electors from signing for more than one list of candidates.[21][22] Additionally, a balanced composition of men and women was required in the electoral lists through the use of a zipper system.[23]

Below is a list of the main parties and electoral alliances which will likely contest the election:

Candidacy Parties and
alliances 		Leading candidate Ideology Previous result Gov. Ref.
Vote % Seats
PP
List
 Jorge Azcón Conservatism
Christian democracy 		34.2% 26
PSOE
List
 Pilar Alegría Social democracy 24.4% 18
Vox
List
 Alejandro Nolasco Right-wing populism
Ultranationalism
National conservatism 		17.8% 14
CHA
List
 Jorge Pueyo Aragonese nationalism
Eco-socialism 		9.7% 6
Existe
List
 Tomás Guitarte Localism
Ruralism 		3.5% 2
IU–MS
List
 Marta Abengochea Socialism
Communism
Progressivism 		3.0% 1

Notes

  1. ^ This seat allocation has been manually calculated by applying the electoral rules set out in the law, on the basis of the latest official population figures provided by the Spanish government as of 2026. As such, it should be deemed as a provisional, non-binding estimation. The definitive allocation will be determined by the election decree at the time of the parliament's dissolution.[12]

References

  1. ^ a b "Si el 3 de mayo no hay presidente en Aragón, habrá elecciones el 28 de junio: el reloj ya corre" (in Spanish). Hoy Aragón. 17 March 2026. Retrieved 10 February 2026.
  2. ^ Hedgecoe, Guy (8 February 2026). "Sánchez's Socialists suffer heavy loss in regional Spanish election". Politico. Madrid. Retrieved 17 March 2026.
  3. ^ Fresneda, Diana (8 February 2026). "Vox se dispara hasta los 14 escaños, duplica su resultado y será decisivo para un gobierno del PP" (in Spanish). RTVE. Retrieved 9 February 2026.
  4. ^ García Díaz, Marcos (9 February 2026). "¿Se pueden repetir elecciones en Aragón? ¿Cuándo sería la segunda cita?". Aragón Digital (in Spanish). Retrieved 9 February 2026.
  5. ^ Statute (2007), art. 33.
  6. ^ a b Statute (2007), art. 37.
  7. ^ LEAr (1987), art. 2.
  8. ^ LOREG (1985), arts. 2–3.
  9. ^ Statute (2007), art. 36.
  10. ^ LEAr (1987), arts. 12–14.
  11. ^ Gallagher, Michael (30 July 2012). "Effective threshold in electoral systems". Dublin: Trinity College Dublin. Archived from the original on 30 July 2017. Retrieved 22 July 2017.
  12. ^ Real Decreto 1117/2025, de 3 de diciembre, por el que se declaran oficiales las cifras de población resultantes de la revisión del Padrón municipal referidas al 1 de enero de 2025 (Royal Decree 1117/2025). Official State Gazette (in Spanish). 3 December 2025. Retrieved 12 December 2025.
  13. ^ LEAr (1987), art. 15.
  14. ^ LOREG (1985), arts. 46 & 48.
  15. ^ a b LEAr (1987), art. 11.
  16. ^ LOREG (1985), art. 42.
  17. ^ Statute (2007), art. 52.
  18. ^ Statute (2007), art. 48.
  19. ^ Lozano, Carles. "Elecciones a las Cortes de Aragón (desde 1983)". Historia Electoral.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 24 December 2023.
  20. ^ "Grupos parlamentarios. XII Legislatura" (in Spanish). Cortes of Aragon. Retrieved 17 March 2026.
  21. ^ LEAr (1987), arts. 18–19.
  22. ^ LOREG (1985), art. 44.
  23. ^ LOREG (1985), art. 44 bis.

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