2023 Extremaduran regional election

The 2023 Extremaduran regional election was held on Sunday, 28 May 2023, to elect the 11th Assembly of the autonomous community of Extremadura. All 65 seats in the Assembly were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with regional elections in eleven other autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain.

The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), which had ruled Extremadura since 2015—and previously from 1982 to 2011—lost its absolute majority, tying with the opposition People's Party (PP) under María Guardiola with 28 seats each. The entry of the far-right Vox party with 5 seats, coupled with the left-wing United for Extremadura (Podemos–IU–AV) alliance remaining stagnant at 4 seats, meant that the right-wing parties commanded a majority in the Assembly, which initially prompted President Guillermo Fernández Vara to concede on election night. However, following Guardiola's initial rejection to form a coalition government with Vox, Vara reneged on his renounce and pledged to attempt to form a government of his own by virtue of leading the most-voted party.

Following several weeks of public fighting—which led to PSOE and Podemos–IU–AV retaining control of the Assembly's bureau and saw Guardiola herself proclaim that she could not allow into her government "those who deny gender-based violence, who use bold strokes, dehumanize immigrants and display a banner on which they throw the LGTBI flag into a trash can", in reference to Vox—Guardiola U-turned and accepted to include Vox in her cabinet in exchange for the latter to elect her as new regional president, thus forming the second PP-led government in the history of the region. This political episode was said as having had an impact in the outcome of the 2023 Spanish general election held on 23 July, as it evidenced the PP's willingness to allow the far-right into government despite initial pledges to the contrary.