2023 Navarrese regional election

2023 Navarrese regional election

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All 50 seats in the Parliament of Navarre 26 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered	518,998 1.6%
Turnout	334,493 (64.4%) 4.1 pp
First party Second party Third party   Leader Javier Esparza María Chivite Laura Aznal Party UPN PSN–PSOE EH Bildu Leader since 30 November 2014 19 October 2014 6 May 2022 Last election 15 seats (NA+)[a] 11 seats, 20.6% 7 seats, 14.5% Seats won 15 11 9 Seat change 0 0 2 Popular vote 92,392 68,247 56,535 Percentage 28.0% 20.7% 17.1% Swing n/a 0.1 pp 2.6 pp   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Uxue Barkos Javier García Begoña Alfaro Party GBai PP Contigo/Zurekin Leader since 3 October 2014 4 December 2022 3 November 2022 Last election 9 seats, 17.3% 2 seats (NA+)[a] 3 seats, 8.2%[b] Seats won 7 3 3 Seat change 2 1 0 Popular vote 43,660 24,019 20,095 Percentage 13.2% 7.3% 6.1% Swing 4.0 pp n/a 2.1 pp
President before election María Chivite PSN–PSOE Elected President María Chivite PSN–PSOE

The 2023 Navarrese regional election was held on Sunday, 28 May 2023, to elect the 11th Parliament of the Chartered Community of Navarre. All 50 seats in the Parliament were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with regional elections in eleven other autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain.

The 2019–2023 term had been dominated by the impact and effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, which had focused most of the efforts of the new government of María Chivite. This period also saw a normalization of the relations between the Socialist Party of Navarre (PSN–PSOE) and the abertzale left, dominated by EH Bildu, with whom the Socialists agreed to pass laws and budgets. On the right, the Navarra Suma alliance between the Navarrese People's Union (UPN), the People's Party of Navarre (PP) and Citizens (Cs) broke up, with the former two engaging in a bitter fight for dominance of their political space as support for the latter collapsed throughout Spain.

The election saw UPN holding out in better shape than anticipated by opinion polls—some of which had predicted a close race with the PSN—but with right-from-centre parties being unable to increase their support from the 2019 election, stagnating at 20 seats. Further, the election saw the entry into parliament for the first time of far-right Vox, with 4.3% and 2 seats. EH Bildu emerged as the third largest political party ahead of Geroa Bai (GBai), whose support collapsed to 13.2% and 7 seats following four years in which it had been a junior coalition partner in government, whereas the alliance of Podemos and the Left (I–E) held out to its 3 seats with 6.1% of the vote.

As a result of the election, President Chivite was able to get re-elected to a second consecutive term in office, the first time a PSN regional president has been able to do so since 1987.
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