Editing Batasuna (section)

==Electoral results==

Batasuna's support in the elections to the parliament of the [[Basque Autonomous Community]] (under the three brands it has used, i.e., Herri Batasuna, Euskal Herritarrok and EHAK) oscillates around 15% of the total votes, its best result being the 18.33% achieved in 1990 and the lowest the 10.12% of the total votes obtained in 2001.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www9.euskadi.net/q93TodoWar/q93Desplegar.jsp |title=Official results of elections held in the Basque Autonomous Community |publisher=.euskadi.net |access-date=2010-06-18 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100407091254/http://www9.euskadi.net/q93TodoWar/q93Desplegar.jsp |archive-date=2010-04-07 }}</ref>

In [[Navarre]] its results in the elections to the Navarrese [[fuero|Foral]] parliament have been historically slightly less than 15% of the total votes, reaching their highest result in 1999 (15.95% of the total votes) and their lowest in 1995 (9.22% of the total votes).<ref>[http://www.parlamento-navarra.es/datos/elec.doc Official results of elections held in the Foral Community of Navarre] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090325102257/http://www.parlamento-navarra.es/datos/elec.doc |date=March 25, 2009 }}</ref> In this territory other Basque pro-independence left wing parties which reject violence and so remain legal - namely [[Batzarre]] and specifically, [[Aralar Party|Aralar]]- eroded Batasuna's support in a more significant way than in the Basque Autonomous Community.

Batasuna had representatives in the [[European Parliament]] and in the parliaments of Navarre and the provinces of the [[Basque Country (autonomous community)|Basque Autonomous Community]]. It also ruled some 62 local councils,<ref>{{cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2211696.stm | work=BBC News | title=Profile: Batasuna | date=August 27, 2002 | access-date=March 27, 2010| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100421002408/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2211696.stm| archive-date= 21 April 2010 | url-status= live}}</ref> and had members in many more. While it was fairly represented in all Basque and Navarrese Spanish territories, Batasuna counted as its stronghold the province of [[Gipuzkoa]]. After being banned, Batasuna lost all its representatives in the Spanish Parliament, since regaining (under different names) some their seats in elections held after its banning.

While the party has been barred from formally taking part in elections since 2003 (see below), it has coordinated a variety of forms of participation (or "quantifiable non-participation") in recent elections. After the May 2003 provincial and local elections, followers of the local lists protested claiming the council seats corresponding to the invalid votes (127,000, 10% of the total vote in the Basque Country).
For the Basque elections of 2005, Batasuna presented lists of candidates but they were dismissed as illegal. After the new election was held for the Basque regional parliament, Batasuna lost all their remaining elected representatives.

Like those parties, representatives of EHAK refused to explicitly condemn the ETA attacks but, given the fact that elections were to be held in a matter of days, the courts did not have the time to assess EHAK's compliance with the Ley de Partidos. The People's Party requested that the Spanish government conducts investigations to ban EHAK-PCTV too, though the State Legal Service (''Abogacía General del Estado'') and the Attorney General's Office (''Fiscalía General del Estado'') found no evidence to support legal actions against the party. Batasuna asked their supporters to vote for EHAK.

In the Basque elections of 17 April 2005, EHAK obtained 150,188 votes (12.5%), entering the [[Basque Parliament]] with nine seats (all but one being women).

===Spanish Parliament===

Batasuna stood in a number of elections for the [[Spanish Parliament]]. They first stood in [[1979 Spanish general election|1979]] obtaining their best results in the Basque autonomous community where they polled 15% and won three seats.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://electionresources.org/es/congress.php?election=1979&community=14 |title=Elections to the Spanish Congress of Deputies - Results Lookup: March 1st, 1979 General Election Results - País Vasco |website=electionresources.org |access-date=2008-05-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090812080802/http://electionresources.org/es/congress.php?election=1979&community=14 |archive-date=2009-08-12 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In Navarre they polled almost 9% but failed to win a seat.

They lost a seat in the [[1982 Spanish general election|1982 election]]. Their high point came in the [[1986 Spanish general election|1986 election]] where they won 5 seats, including one seat in [[Navarra (Spanish Congress Electoral District)|Navarre]], the only occasion in which they have won a seat there. They lost their Navarre seat in the [[1989 Spanish general election|1989 election]] and lost a further two seats in the [[1996 Spanish general election|1996 election]], which overall proved to be the party's worst performance in terms of vote share. At provincial level, their best results came in [[Guipúzcoa (Spanish Congress Electoral District)|Guipúzcoa]] where the party topped the poll in the 1989 general election.