Under the
2007 Statute of Autonomy, the
Cortes of Castile and León was the
unicameral legislature of the
homonymous autonomous community, having legislative power in
devolved matters, as well as the ability to grant or withdraw confidence from a
regional president. The electoral and procedural rules were supplemented by
national law provisions.
Date The term of the of Castile and León expired four years after the date of its previous election, unless it was
dissolved earlier. The election
decree was required to be issued no later than 25 days before the scheduled expiration date of parliament and published on the following day in the Official Gazette of Castile and León (BOCYL), with
election day taking place 54 days after the decree's publication. The
previous election was held on 26 May 2019, which meant that the chamber's term would have expired on 26 May 2023. The election decree was required to be published in the BOCYL no later than 2 May 2023, setting the latest possible date for election day on 25 June 2023. The regional president had the prerogative to dissolve the of Castile and León at any given time and call a
snap election, provided that no
motion of no confidence was in process and that dissolution did not occur either during the first
legislative session or before one year after a previous one. In the event of an
investiture process failing to elect a regional president within a two-month period from the first ballot, the were to be automatically dissolved and a fresh election called. By 2021, the relationship between the two ruling coalition partners, the
People's Party (PP) and
Citizens (Cs) had become strained to the point that President
Alfonso Fernández Mañueco was considering to call a snap election for late in the year or early 2022, taking advantage of the momentum gained by the PP in opinion polls as a result of its victory in the
2021 Madrilenian regional election. Mañueco was also wary that the Cs internal crisis, which had seen a number of defections from the party, could see a successful motion of no confidence being mounted on him once the PSOE was able to table a new censure motion in March 2022, one year after a previous, unsuccessful one. In October 2021, it was hinted that Mañueco was considering an election to be held on either 28 November or 12 December, though it later transpired that an election in the spring of 2022 was more likely. Speculation on an
early election in Andalusia,—initially hinted at a possible simultaneous electoral call, but
Andalusian president Juan Manuel Moreno's announcement on 30 November that an election in Andalusia would not be held sooner than June 2022 meant that any prospective Castilian-Leonese snap election would be held earlier. This was finally confirmed on 20 December 2021 when Mañueco announced a snap election for 13 February 2022.
Electoral system Voting for the was based on
universal suffrage, comprising all
Spanish nationals over 18 years of age, registered in Castile and León and with full
political rights, provided that they had not been
deprived of the right to vote by a final
sentence. Additionally,
non-resident citizens were required to
apply for voting, a system known as "begged" voting (). The of Castile and León had three seats per each
multi-member constituency—corresponding to the
provinces of
Ávila,
Burgos,
León,
Palencia,
Salamanca,
Segovia,
Soria,
Valladolid and
Zamora—plus one additional seat per 45,000 inhabitants or fraction above 22,500. All were elected using the
D'Hondt method and
closed-list proportional voting, with a three percent-
threshold of valid votes (including
blank ballots) in each constituency. The use of this electoral method resulted in a higher
effective threshold depending on
district magnitude and vote distribution. As a result of the aforementioned allocation, each constituency was entitled the following seats: The law did not provide for
by-elections to fill
vacant seats; instead, any vacancies arising after the proclamation of candidates and during the legislative term were filled by the next candidates on the
party lists or, when required, by designated
substitutes.
Outgoing parliament The table below shows the composition of the
parliamentary groups in the chamber at the time of dissolution. ==Parties and candidates==