2025 Extremaduran regional election
21 December 2025
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All 65 seats in the Assembly of Extremadura 33 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Registered | 891,038 0.1% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Turnout | 541,726 (60.8%) 9.6 pp | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Constituency results map for the Assembly of Extremadura | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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A regional election was held in Extremadura on Sunday, 21 December 2025, to elect the 12th Assembly of the autonomous community. All 65 seats in the Assembly were up for election. This marked the first time that an Extremaduran president exercised the legal prerogative to call a snap election.
The 2023 election had seen a coalition between the People's Party (PP) and the far-right Vox party being formed under the presidency of María Guardiola, who during government negotiations had pledged not to let the latter into her cabinet, only to backtrack during the lead up to the 2023 Spanish general election. The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), who was ousted from power only for the second time in history, saw a leadership change from Guillermo Fernández Vara—who died from stomach cancer in October 2025—to the then-president of the provincial deputation of Badajoz, Miguel Ángel Gallardo. The PP–Vox coalition collapsed in July 2024 over a strategic movement from the latter's national leadership, with Guardiola leading a minority government from that point onwards. On 27 October 2025, in an attempt to capitalize both on Gallardo's involvement in a judicial probe on an alleged cronyism case affecting the brother of the incumbent prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, as well as on the announcement by PSOE and Vox to vote down her 2026 budget, Guardiola called an early election for 21 December.
The election saw a resounding victory for Guardiola's PP, which nonetheless fell well short of its goal of securing an overall majority. The PSOE vote collapsed with its worst historical showing in the region, in what was attributed both as a punishment to Gallardo and a response to growing discontent with Sánchez's national government. Vox saw a strong performance, doubling its results and retaining its position as kingmaker of any prospective PP government, whereas the left-wing United for Extremadura alliance benefitted from the PSOE's decline. The combined vote for right-wing parties was 60%, which was the highest in history, albeit under the lowest voter turnout since the first regional election in 1983.
Government formation negotiations between PP and Vox failed to deliver a successful investiture in the first attempt in March 2026, with a repeat election remaining a possibility.