2011 South Sudanese independence referendum, Results, Diaspora voting
Southerners living in Darfur were given the opportunity to vote in the referendum from special polling stations as some tribes advocated unity and others supported separation with possible ominous precedence for Darfur itself. Polling stations were also set up in eight countries with large South Sudanese populations, namely Australia, Canada, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, the United Kingdom and the United States. In the United States, where an estimated 25,000 to 50,000 South Sudanese nationals reside, polling booths were opened in eight states: Virginia, Massachusetts, Illinois, Texas, Tennessee, Nebraska, Arizona and Washington. Similar polling booths were set up in the Canadian cities of Calgary and Toronto, to cater to the South Sudanese community there; an estimated 40,000 to 50,000 Sudanese live in Canada, about 2,200 of whom had registered to vote in either of the two cities.


2011 South Sudanese independence referendum, Results, Diaspora voting
Members of the South Sudanese diaspora have been split as to their support for or against separation; members of some tribes advocate unity, while members of other tribes supported separation. Some Canadian Sudanese have called for a boycott of the referendum, accusing the International Organization for Migration, which was tasked with operating the vote in that country, of "being influenced by the government in Khartoum." Calgary-based journalist Mading Ngor of The New Sudan Vision dismissed these claims as "a conspiracy theory," adding "It's a very fragmented community here along tribal lines." Although over 99% of those in the South voted for independence, 42% of those who lived in the north at the time voted for unity.


2011 South Sudanese independence referendum, Results, Security
Several days before voting began, the SPLA/M and a rebel faction led by Lieutenant General George Athor in Jonglei State agreed to a ceasefire agreement after nearly a year of fighting, meaning a halt to military operations, troop movement and recruitment by either side. The agreement was seen as important for a "peaceful voting environment".


2011 South Sudanese independence referendum, Results, Security
The day before voting began, at least six people were killed in clashes between South Sudan security forces and a pro-Khartoum Sudan militia in Unity state. One person was also killed in clashes between the Misseriya tribe and police in Abyei. The SPLA/M said the fighting started a day earlier because of the Misseriya. One day into the vote, on 10 January, a further 6 people were killed in clashes near Abyei, bringing the total to 30 dead in that region.


2011 South Sudanese independence referendum, Results, Reactions
As of 15 January, Radio France Internationale reported that the Sudanese central government in Khartoum had begun to recall ambassadors named by the SPLA as part of the CPA and had stopped shipping material for passports to Juba. Sudan also became the first state to recognize South Sudan.


2011 South Sudanese independence referendum, Results, Reactions
President of the United States Barack Obama said the result of the vote was "inspiring" as voters decided "their own future [and marked] another step forward in Africa's long journey toward justice and democracy". He also said that the United States would recognize South Sudan's independence when it is formalized in July.


2011 South Sudanese independence referendum, Results, Reactions
Salva Kiir met the leaders of the Polisario Front Mohammed Abdel-Aziz at an African Union summit. Abdel-Aziz congratulated Kiir for on a successful referendum process. He lauded "the wisdom and courage" of people of South Sudan people for a peaceful resolution of the conflict and expressed his hope that post-referendum arrangements and agreements could be finishing in the interim period before statehood. He also briefed Kiir of the Western Sahara's process to a similar referendum.


2011 South Sudanese independence referendum, Analysis
The precedence of the vote was seen as important because most African states' borders were decided during colonial times which resulted in a heterogeneous mix of religions, ethnicities, and cultures. The Organisation of African Unity, however, refrained from redrawing boundaries for the fear that wars of secession could be sparked.


2011 South Sudanese independence referendum, Post-electoral issues
New names for an independent country were being suggested, with South Sudan being controversial as it does not offer a break from Sudan. Over 12 names had been suggested, including: Nile Republic, Jubian Republic, Kush Republic and Azania.


2011 South Sudanese independence referendum, Post-electoral issues
The SPLM proposed naming the country South Sudan, with Nile Republic, Jubian Republic, Kush Republic as other possibilities. The country was then officially named the Republic of South Sudan.


2011 South Sudanese independence referendum, Post-electoral issues
Amongst the issues to be handled by a new government are job creation.


2011 South Sudanese independence referendum, Post-electoral issues, Violence
The Minister of Cooperatives and Rural Development Jimmy Lemi Milla was shot dead in his office along with his bodyguard in an apparent personal feud.


2011 South Sydney Rabbitohs season
The 2011 South Sydney Rabbitohs season was the 102nd in South Sydney Rabbitohs's history.


2011 South Sydney Rabbitohs season
They competed in the NRL's 2011 Telstra Premiership coached by John Lang and captained by Roy Asotasi. The Rabbitohs placed 10th on the competition ladder, after losing a sudden death match against the Knights in Round 26.


2011 South Sydney Rabbitohs season
The season was the last in the career of coach John Lang, concluding a coaching career spanning 20 years.


2011 South Sydney Rabbitohs season
Individually, Nathan Merritt received the Dally M Try Scorer of the Year award, finishing equal with the Bulldog's Ben Barba on 23 tries. Chris Sandow received the Dally M Point Scorer of the Year award, after scoring 195 points over the year.


2011 South Sydney Rabbitohs season, Pre season
In the pre-season the Rabbitohs defeated Newtown in the annual Return to Redfern, before losing to St. George Illawarra in the Charity Shield. Their final trial match against the Titans resulted in a loss.


2011 South Sydney Rabbitohs season, Kit and Sponsors, Star City Casino
The Star City Casino is the Rabbitohs major home sponsor for the 2011 Telstra Premiership.


2011 South Sydney Rabbitohs season, Kit and Sponsors, DeLonghi
DeLonghi are again the major away sponsor for the Rabbitohs in the 2011 Telstra Premiership.


2011 South Sydney Rabbitohs season, Kit and Sponsors, V8 Supercars Australia
V8 Supercars are the Rabbitohs major sleeve sponsor for the 2011 Telstra Premiership.


2011 South Sydney Rabbitohs season, Kit and Sponsors, Kenwood
Kenwood are the Rabbitohs major training sponsor for the 2011 Telstra Premiership.


2011 South Sydney Rabbitohs season, Squad
The following list comprises players who are in the Rabbitohs full-time first-grade squad for the 2011 season in the NRL Telstra Premiership.


2011 Southampton City Council election
The 2011 Southampton Council election took place on 6 May 2011 to elect members of Southampton Unitary Council in Hampshire, England. One third of the council (16 seats) was up for election. Labour won a majority of the seats being contested and the Conservatives stayed in overall control of the council.


2011 Southampton City Council election
Southampton Council is elected in thirds, which means the vote share change is compared to the corresponding 2007 Southampton Council election.


2011 Southampton City Council election, Election result
Of the 16 Council seats up for election, Labour won 10 (up from 7 in 2010) the Conservatives won 6 (no change from 2010) and the Liberal Democrats won 0 (down from 3 in 2010).


2011 Southampton City Council election, Election result
Overall turnout in the election was 37.0%, boosted by the AV referendum.


2011 Southampton City Council election, Election result
The night saw the Liberal Democrats lose both of their seats up for election, and their voter share reduced to under 14%. Conversely, the Conservatives saw their share of the vote improve slightly upon the previous year's, and a resurgent Labour gained their highest share of vote since 1999.


2011 Southampton City Council election, Election result
This summary box compares each party vote share with the corresponding elections in 2007.


2011 Southeast Asian Games
The 2011 Southeast Asian Games (Indonesian: Pesta Olahraga Asia Tenggara 2011, SEA Games 2011), officially known as the 26th Southeast Asian Games, was a Southeast Asian multi-sport event held in Jakarta and Palembang, Indonesia. It was Indonesia's fourth time to host the Southeast Asian Games, and its first since 1997. Previously, Indonesia also hosted in 1979 and 1987. The capital city of Jakarta hosted all three of the previous Games prior to this. Palembang became the third SEA Games non-capital host city, after Chiang Mai (1995) and Nakhon Ratchasima (2007), both in Thailand. Around 5,965 athletes from 11 participating nations participated at the games which featured 545 events in 44 sports. The biggest competitor, sports, and events in Southeast Asian Games history.


2011 Southeast Asian Games
The games was held  from 11 to 22 November 2011, although several events had commenced from 3 November 2011. The games was opened by Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, the President of Indonesia at the Gelora Sriwijaya Stadium in Palembang.


2011 Southeast Asian Games
The final medal tally was led by host Indonesia, followed by Thailand and Vietnam, while Timor-Leste won its first ever Southeast Asian Games gold medal. Several Games and national records were broken during the games. Although there were several controversies, the Games were deemed generally successful with its promotion for conservative effort on endangered fauna species namely the komodo dragon through the mascot and with the rising standard of competition amongst the Southeast Asian nations.


2011 Southeast Asian Games
Despite not held in the capital city Jakarta, but the opening ceremony in this edition was dubbed by international media from around the world as the most magnificent, luxurious, and spectacular opening ceremony in Southeast Asian Games history with special showcase of lightning and gigantic fireworks. Washington Post USA and The Guardian UK November edition make this opening ceremony as their newspaper headlines. The 26th SEA Games opening ceremony in Palembang was the first SEA Games to utilise spider camera, large LED screen and large-format projection technology provided by Australian-based Electric Canvas. The mass dance performance featured "The Glory of Srivijaya" as the theme.


2011 Southeast Asian Games, Organisation, Host city
Palembang, the capital city of South Sumatra was the main host of the games, while the nation's capital Jakarta was the co-host. As the main host, Palembang only held 22 of 42 sports, the rest was held by the co-host city. Palembang also hosted the opening and closing ceremonies.


2011 Southeast Asian Games, Organisation, Host city
Initially, the government had named four provinces as candidates to host the SEA Games 2011, namely Jakarta, West Java, Central Java, and South Sumatra. However this idea has been discarded and hosting rights was granted to only two provinces, Jakarta and South Sumatra. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono had suggested that this could simplify hosting and organization while reducing costs.


2011 Southeast Asian Games, Organisation, Development and preparation
The Indonesia, or INASOC, was the organising body for the games. The President of INASOC is Rita Subowo, who is also the President of the Indonesia Olympic Committee, with Rahmat Gobel, an Indonesian entrepreneur and the President of Panasonic Gobel Indonesia became its director-general. Indonesian Government Budget of 2010 gave a total of 350 billion rupiahs (≈US$38.7 million) for the games, while the budget of 2011 gave a total of 2.1 trillion rupiahs (≈US$230 million).


2011 Southeast Asian Games, Organisation, Development and preparation
According to Indonesian Minister of Youth and Sports, Andi Mallarangeng, the government of Indonesia added 1 trillion rupiahs (± US$110 million) from the government budget for the games, including 600 billions from the budget for education sector, and funds from sponsorship. The government of South Sumatra declared its commitment to incorporate eco-policy with the games. All venues during the games are smoking-free area. Palembang as the first city outside Jakarta to host the SEA Games was facing some environmental problems due to development for the games.


2011 Southeast Asian Games, Organisation, Venues
Jakabaring, Palembang which covered the area of more than 45,000 square metres was the athletes village (wisma atlet) during the games. It is located in front of Jakabaring Stadium (Gelora Sriwijaya).


2011 Southeast Asian Games, Organisation, Public transport
To prepare for athletes, officials, and visitors during the games, several significant changes are being done in both host cities. Palembang expands its Sultan Mahmud Badaruddin II Airport more than a hundred percent. Currently the airport is served by only seven airlines and served only three other ASEAN countries, which are Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand. The Inasoc improved the number of flights, especially connecting flights from Jakarta and Singapore to Palembang, and also easiness for charter airflights from other SEA Games participating countries. South Sumatran Office of Transportation, Communication, and Information provided a total of 40 buses, 100 midibuses, 300 minibuses, and 100 motorcycles for the athletes, officials, and journalists. Besides, a bus rapid transit, Trans Musi, served Palembang and surrounding regency of Ogan Ilir and Banyuasin.


2011 Southeast Asian Games, Organisation, Public transport
Jakarta is served by Soekarno–Hatta International Airport. On 31 December 2010, Jakarta's bus rapid transit, TransJakarta opened its newest two corridors, Corridor 9 and 10. KRL Jabotabek is a mass rapid transit system which serves Jakarta and its commuters.


2011 Southeast Asian Games, Organisation, Public transport
Concerning traffic jam in Jakarta, police blocked trucks from the inner city toll road between 5:00 am and 10:00 pm, similar to the ASEAN summit. Only shuttle buses with certain sticker were allowed to enter the 2 main games venues which were Ancol and Gelora Bung Karno stadium and vice versa between them.


2011 Southeast Asian Games, Organisation, Countdown
The official countdown to the games' opening ceremony started since 11 November 2010, marking a year before the games. The countdown clock is located nearby the Ampera Bridge, the landmark of Palembang.


2011 Southeast Asian Games, Organisation, Countdown
Three hundred days before the opening ceremony, a special event showing Indonesian art performances and featuring a number of Indonesian famous celebrity was held at Teater Tanah Airku, Taman Mini Indonesia Indah, Jakarta. During the event, the official logo of the games was launched publicly. On 10 November 2010 in Palembang, Indonesian Minister of Sport and Youth begin a year countdown to SEA Games opening.


2011 Southeast Asian Games, Organisation, Torch relay
A torch relay was held; the flame for SEA Games was taken from Desa Mrapen, Purwodadi in the province of Central Java. The flame from Merapen was also used for 2008 Asian Beach Games and 1997 Southeast Asian Games torch relays. The relay started in Purwodadi and arrived in Palembang on 11 November 2011. It traveled through several Indonesian provinces before it followed the route across 15 South Sumatran regencies. The torch was passed from 6 to 11 November through Borobudur, Yogyakarta, Semarang, Komodo Island and Kupang, Jayapura, Makassar, Balikpapan and Samarinda, Jakarta, and finished in Palembang, South Sumatera. The journey involved 45 torchbearers for every single leg of the relay.


2011 Southeast Asian Games, Marketing, Logo
The official Logo of the 2011 Southeast Asian Games is a Garuda image, which also the national symbol of Indonesia. The logo that depicts the philosophy of "Garuda Flight above Indonesia Nature". Physical appearance of Garuda represents strength, while its wings epitomises glory and splendor. The upper green strokes symbolise the islands, forests, and mountainous terrain of the Indonesian archipelago, while the blue strokes epitomises the vast Nusantara ocean which unifies differences. Land and water or  Tanah Air in Indonesian means homeland. The red strokes represent courage, zeal, and burning passion to give the best for the country. This logo was introduced during SEA Games Preparation Ministerial Meeting in Jakarta, 3 December 2010, and launched to the public in a celebration of 300 days before the opening ceremony, 15 January 2011 at Teater Tanah Airku, Taman Mini Indonesia Indah.


2011 Southeast Asian Games, Marketing, Mascot
The official mascots of the 2011 Southeast Asian Games are a pair of Komodo dragons named  Modo and Modi. Modo is a male Komodo dragon wearing a blue traditional Indonesian costume and a batik sarong, while Modi is a female Komodo dragon wearing a red kebaya with a batik sash and pants. The mascots were adopted from Komodo dragons, an endemic Indonesian fauna native to Komodo, Rinca, and Padar islands in East Nusa Tenggara.


2011 Southeast Asian Games, Marketing, Mascot
The mascots were introduced and launched 200 days before the SEA Games XXVI, on Monday 25 April 2011 in three places: in Jakarta, Tanah Airku Theatre in Taman Mini Indonesia Indah and Selamat Datang Monument in Central Jakarta. "Modo" is a short name for Komodo, while "Modo-Modi" is a modified spelling of Muda-Mudi which means "youth" in Indonesian language, derived from pemuda (male youth) and pemudi (female youth).


2011 Southeast Asian Games, Marketing, Mascot
Previously, the government of Palembang had chosen the Sumatran elephant as the mascot through an open contest, but there was a suggestion from President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and the National Sports Committee of Indonesia to use rajawali instead. The rajawali is an Indonesian hawk. Then both Sumatran elephants and Javan hawk-eagles were discarded in favour of Komodo dragons. The choosing of Komodo dragons for the Games' mascots was in line with an Indonesian effort to promote Komodo National Park as a New7Wonders of Nature candidate.


2011 Southeast Asian Games, Marketing, Songs
The 2011 Southeast Asian Games' first theme song, "Ayo Indonesia Bisa" (Come on, Indonesia, you can) was composed by Yovie Widianto and sung by vocalist Ello featuring Sherina Munaf duet vocalist pop music soloist, was the official theme anthem of the 2011 Southeast Asian Games. The second theme song "Kita Bisa" (We Can) was composed by Yovie Widianto and sung by Dudi Nuno, Dikta Nuno, Ello, Judika, Terry, Astrid and Lala Karmela (credited as Yovie and Friends). A music video of the second theme song, featuring the singers and Indonesian athletes and accompanied by the Victorian Phillaharmonic Orchestra was also released. At the closing ceremony, the song "Kita Bisa" was played just after the torch was extinguished.


2011 Southeast Asian Games, Marketing, Songs
The official theme song of the opening ceremony "Together We Will Shine" composed by Addie MS and Jozef Cleber was performed at the opening ceremony by Agnes Monica from Indonesia, Jaclyn Victor from Malaysia, and KC Concepcion from Philippines.


2011 Southeast Asian Games, The games, Opening ceremony
On 10 November 2011 (a day before opening ceremony) the Sea Games torch flame ceremony was held along Musi River in front of Kuto Besak fort. The opening ceremony officially began at 7:00 pm on 11 November 2011 in Gelora Sriwijaya Stadium. The date was chosen because its unique numbers of the date 11 November 2011 (11.11.11). The main event of opening ceremony with musical and dance performances and also parade of athletes of participating nations, were held in Gelora Sriwijaya Stadium.


2011 Southeast Asian Games, The games, Opening ceremony
The 26th SEA Games opening ceremony in Palembang was the first SEA Games to utilise spider camera, large LED screen and large-format projection technology provided by Australian-based Electric Canvas. The mass dance performance featured "The Glory of Srivijaya" as the theme.


2011 Southeast Asian Games, The games, Opening ceremony
Indra Yudhistira directed and concepted the opening ceremony with assistance by music director, Erwin Gutawa and choreographers such as Ari Tulang, Deddy Pudja, Hartati, and Alex Hassim, as well as percussionist Ade Rudiana. The Games' theme song, Together We'll Shine was sung by three Southeast Asian female singers, dubbed as Southeast Asian divas, Agnes Monica of Indonesia, Jaclyn Victor of Malaysia and KC Concepcion of the Philippines. Numerous other Indonesian singers was also given the spotlight during the ceremony.


2011 Southeast Asian Games, The games, Opening ceremony
Unlike other opening ceremonies of previous games, Palembang presented an artistic vehicle parade and breathtaking theatrics in the lighting of the flame. The artistic vehicles represented the participating nations and featuring famous symbols and landmarks of each nations, such as Komodo and Borobudur float representing Indonesia, Wat Phra Kaew chedi and giant's head representing Thailand, Petronas towers and Putra Mosque representing Malaysia, and Angkor Bayon temple representing Cambodia. The national floats were leading in front of parading athletes of each respected countries. The parading athletes were accompanied by the traditional Indonesian musics from distinct archipelagic regions.


2011 Southeast Asian Games, The games, Opening ceremony
The eternal flame from Mrapen entered the stadium as a continuation of the Palembang torch relay leg from the outside. The Southeast Asian Games torch was relayed around the stadium by 4 athletes, and was finally passed on to Susi Susanti, 1992 Summer Olympics gold medalist in Badminton. Susi Susanti was later suspended by wires, carrying the torch and appeared to run horizontally along the stadium started from the ancient Srivijaya junk to the cauldron and attempted to lit the flame with the torch but failed.


2011 Southeast Asian Games, The games, Opening ceremony
But fortunately though, at the final moment, a spotlight revealed the final resting place of the Southeast Asian Games flame, which had appeared during the torch run. A colossal torch situated at the top of the stadium was lit by a proportionately large Constructor. The 2011 Southeast Asian Games's second official theme song "Kita Bisa", composed by Addie MS, with lyrics by Jozef Cleber, was performed in the opening ceremony by Dudi Oris, Pradikta Wicaksono, Ello, Judika Nalon Abadi Sihotang, Terryana Fatiah, Astrid Sartiasari and Lala Karmela, accompanied by Victorian Philharmonic Orchestra.


2011 Southeast Asian Games, The games, Closing ceremony
The closing ceremony was held on 22 November 2011 at Gelora Sriwijaya Stadium. During the closing ceremony, Indonesia, the hosts and the overall champions of the games, passed the SEA Games Federation flag to Myanmar, the host of the next edition of the games. Lala Karmela performed the Southeast Asian Games song "Kita Bisa" just after the torch was extinguished.


2011 Southeast Asian Games, The games, Sports
The 2011 Southeast Asian Games featured 545 events in 44 sports and disciplines, in which two of them are demonstration sports.


2011 Southeast Asian Games, The games, Sports
During the SEA Games Federation Council Meeting in Hotel Mulia, Jakarta, in May 2010, the SEAGF Sports and Rules Committee proposed three categories of sports to be competed in the games.


2011 Southeast Asian Games, The games, Sports
The meeting also increased the number of sport competed. Indonesia proposed to hold paragliding, wall climbing, roller skating, bridge, futsal and soft tennis. Although the other Southeast Asian countries proposed arnis, muay thai, hockey, netball, pétanque, squash, triathlon, Rugby union and cricket. For the record, hockey and squash were last competed at the 1997 edition in Jakarta.


2011 Southeast Asian Games, The games, Sports
¹ – not an official Olympic Sport² – sport played only in the SEAG³ – not a traditional Olympic nor SEAG Sport and introduced only by the host country. ° – a former official Olympic Sport, not applied in previous host countries and was introduced only by the host country. ʰ- sport not played in the previous edition and was reintroduced by the host country.


2011 Southeast Asian Games, The games, Medal table
A total of 1,807 medals, comprising 554 gold medals, 549 silver medals, and 704 bronze medals were awarded to athletes. The Host Indonesia performance was their best ever yet in Southeast Asian Games history and emerged as overall champions of the games. Timor Leste claimed its first ever gold medal in the Southeast Asian Games in the sport of Shorinji Kempo, while Brunei is the only country this year that failed to capture any gold medal.


2011 Southeast Asian Games, The games, Medal table
Malaysian sprinter Muhamad Yunus Lasaleh was tested positive for doping. Thus his relay team was stripped of the gold medal.


2011 Southeast Asian Games, Concerns and controversies
At SEA Games Federation Meeting in Bali, February 2011, Malaysia appealed for the reinclusion of 60 dropped events, but then the federation rejected the appeal from Olympic Council of Malaysia. Datuk Zolkples Embong, the director-general of the council, said:


2011 Southeast Asian Games, Concerns and controversies
"Why should we [Malaysia] waste time and money to send the elite athletes if it is only for a small gain."


2011 Southeast Asian Games, Concerns and controversies
The gold medal rewarded for Indonesian Dian Kristanto in the Class A Pencak Silat finals has raised criticisms from some countries, namely: Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. Singaporean Pencak Silat referee Jasni Salam and announced Kristanto the winner after he had bitten Anothai Choopeng.


2011 Southeast Asian Games, Concerns and controversies
Vietnam Television at late night gave a comment with quotation from Anothai Choopeng "Except Indonesian here every single body finds who is worth winning. I am truly disappointed with the behaviours from the set of referees. They always do everything to make the host country win."


2011 Southeast Asian floods
The 2011 monsoon season saw one record flood event in Indochina across several countries and a few separate limited flood events parts of the same nations: Thailand, Cambodia and Myanmar and heavy flooding in Vietnam. Meanwhile, Laos also sustained flood damage. By late October 2011, 2.3 million people have been hit by flooding in Thailand, while the flooding in Cambodia has affected close to 1.2 million people, according to estimates by the United Nations.


2011 Southeast Asian floods
Unrelated to the northern floods, Southern Thailand near Malaysia has been lashed with flooding in early November and again in December also affecting as far north as Chumporn. In the November event, Southern Thailand near Hat Yai was hit, North-central Vietnam had their own event in October. Myanmar had reported a series of limited but still deadly and destructive events from June to October.


2011 Southeast Asian floods
The 2011 typhoon season in Philippines overlapped the monsoon season in Indochina, and the country was hit by a series of storms over the course of 4 months: Typhoon Nesat in September, which was followed shortly after by Typhoon Nalgae, and then in December by Tropical Storm Washi, which hit on an unusual track, timing and location.


2011 Southeast Asian floods
All told, well over 2,828 have lost their lives to a series of flooding events of varying origins in Southeast Asia since August 2011 in the above-mentioned nations, worldwide supply-chain disruptions occurred in technology sector, and billion-dollar losses and severe parts shortages rippled to corporations of developed nations, and the assumption of safety from flood waters was put into question in many nations thought or assumed to be prepared.


2011 Southeast Asian floods, Damage and casualties
In Myanmar, the Mandalay, Magwe, Bago, Irrawaddy, Sagaing, Kayin, Mon, Kayah, Chin and Rakhine States and regions are heavily affected.  " there were cases of deaths and loss of homes in Kyauk Hta Yan, Htonebo, Myo Lulin and Tatkone villages in Myothit Township, Magwe Region" in early October. "The local authorities and parties have not provided assistance. These local authorities even harassed us by questioning us and prohibited us to give assistance.”  also has been affecting Shan State. In August, towards the beginning of the monsoon, central Bago city was inundated requiring boats for navigation and some deaths.


2011 Southeast Emmy Award winners
The 2011 Emmy awards were held on June 18, 2011 at the Grand Hyatt Buckhead in Atlanta, Georgia.


2011 Southeast Missouri State Redhawks football team
The 2011 Southeast Missouri State Redhawks football team represented Southeast Missouri State University in the 2011 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Redhawks were led by sixth-year head coach Tony Samuel and played their home games at Houck Stadium. They are a member of the Ohio Valley Conference. They finished the season 3–8, 2–6 in OVC play to finish in a tie for seventh place.


2011 Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament
The 2011 Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament was held at Regions Park in Hoover, AL from May 25 through May 29, 2011.


2011 Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament, Regular Season results
The top eight teams (based on conference results) from the conference earned invites to the tournament.


2011 Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament, Format
The 2011 tournament featured a "flipped bracket". This means that after two days of play the undefeated team from each bracket moved into the other bracket. This reduced the number of rematches teams had to play in order to win the tournament. Additionally, the tournament utilized a "pitch clock," limiting the amount of time that pitchers had to throw the ball to 20 seconds. This rule was not in effect when runners were on base.


2011 Southeastern Conference football season
The 2011 Southeastern Conference football season began on Thursday, September 1, 2011 with Kentucky taking on Western Kentucky on ESPNU. The season concluded on January 9, 2012 as the Alabama Crimson Tide shut out LSU Tigers, 21–0 in the Allstate BCS National Championship Game at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans to claim their 14th national championship in school history. It was also the final season for the SEC before Texas A&M and Missouri joined the conference from the Big 12 the following season.


2011 Southeastern Conference football season, Preseason
Florida head coach Urban Meyer retired in early December citing his health concerns and wanting to be around his family more. Meyer then joined ESPN as an analyst for its college football coverage during the 2011 season. In his place Florida hired Texas defensive coordinator Will Muschamp as the new head coach. Muschamp elected to bring in former Notre Dame head coach Charlie Weis as his offensive coordinator.


2011 Southeastern Conference football season, Preseason
Vanderbilt interim head coach Robbie Caldwell had a tough year in 2010 with injuries and tough schedule, going 2–10. The school decided to search for a new coach to replace former head coach Bobby Johnson, who retired unexpectedly in July 2010. Vanderbilt hired Maryland offensive coordinator James Franklin, and this is Franklin's first head coaching job.


2011 Southeastern Conference football season, Preseason
LSU decided to part ways with offensive coordinator Gary Crowton because of a lack of offensive production the previous seasons. In his place LSU hired former Louisville head coach Steve Kragthorpe.


2011 Southeastern Conference football season, Preseason
Kentucky added new schemes to its defense by adding former Cincinnati head coach Rick Minter as its co-defensive coordinator alongside Steve Brown.


2011 Southeastern Conference football season, Regular season
Rankings reflect that of the AP poll for that week until week eight when the BCS rankings will be used.


2011 Southeastern Conference football season, SEC vs. AQ conference and BCS-buster opponents
NOTE:. Games with a * next to the home team represent a neutral site game


2011 Southeastern Conference football season, Home attendance
Games played at Arkansas' secondary home stadium War Memorial Stadium, capacity: 54,120.


2011 Southeastern Conference football season, Home attendance
Attendance was 84,524 for the Georgia vs. Florida game in Jacksonville


2011 Southeastern Conference football season, Bowl games
Per BCS selection rules, no more than two teams from a conference may be selected, regardless of whether they are automatic qualifiers or at-large selections, unless two non-champions from the same conference are ranked No. 1 and No. 2 in the final BCS Standings. As the SEC champion  Louisiana State was the top-ranked team in the BCS poll, the Sugar Bowl was prohibited from selecting an SEC representative for the 2011–12 season.


2011 Southeastern Conference football season, Post-season awards and honors, All-SEC
The following players were named by the AP All-SEC team:


2011 Southeastern Conference football season, Post-season awards and honors, National award winners
The following SEC players listed below have been named to the national award semifinalist and finalist lists.


2011 Southeastern Louisiana Lions football team
The 2011 Southeastern Louisiana Lions football team represented Southeastern Louisiana University in the 2011 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Lions were led by fifth-year head coach Mike Lucas and played their home games at Strawberry Stadium. They are a member of the Southland Conference. They finished the season 3–8, 1–6 in Southland play to finish in seventh place. At the conclusion of the season Lucas was released from his duties as head coach on November 21, 2011.


2011 Southend-on-Sea Borough Council election
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2011 Southend-on-Sea Borough Council election
The 2011 Southend-on-Sea Council election took place on 5 May 2011 to elect members of Southend-on-Sea Unitary Council in Essex, England. One third of the council was up for election.


2011 Southern Conference Baseball Tournament
The 2011 Southern Conference Baseball Tournament was held at Joseph P. Riley, Jr. Park in Charleston, SC from May 25 through May 29. Fourth seeded Georgia Southern won the tournament and earned the Southern Conference's automatic bid to the 2011 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament. It was Georgia Southern's fifth SoCon tournament win and second in three years.


2011 Southern Conference Baseball Tournament
The tournament used a double-elimination format. Only the top eight teams participate, so Wofford, Davidson, and The Citadel were not in the field.


2011 Southern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2011 Southern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament took place between Friday, March 4 and Monday, March 7 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, at McKenzie Arena. The semifinals were televised by SportSouth, with the Southern Conference Championship Game televised by ESPN2. The championship matched the two teams with the best conference records, College of Charleston and Wofford. Although College of Charleston had won both regular season meetings against Wofford, the Terriers defeated the Cougars in the championship game, 77–67, to secure their bid to the 2011 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, Wofford's second straight appearance.


2011 Southern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Standings
Western Carolina and Chattanooga split their season series. Western Carolina was 2–0 against third-place Appalachian State, while Chattanooga was 1–1.


2011 Southern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Standings
College of Charleston swept the season series with Wofford, 2–0.


2011 Southern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, All-Tournament Team
First TeamAndrew Goudelock, College of CharlestonDonovan Monroe, College of CharlestonJamar Diggs, WoffordCameron Rundles, WoffordNoah Dahlman, WoffordSecond TeamTrent Wiedeman, College of CharlestonJordan Miller, FurmanAmu Saaka, FurmanHarouna Mutombo, Western CarolinaMike Williams, Western Carolina


2011 Southern Conference football season
The 2011 Southern Conference football season began on Thursday, September 1, 2011 with Western Carolina visiting Georgia Southern. The season ended in the semifinals of the NCAA Division I Football Championship, with Georgia Southern losing to North Dakota State.


2011 Southern Conference football season, Preseason, Preseason All-Conference Teams
Offensive Player of the Year: Eric Breitenstein, Jr., FB, WoffordCo-Defensive Players of the Year: Ameet Pall, Sr., DL, Wofford & Brent Russell, Jr., DL, Georgia Southern


2011 Southern Conference football season, Regular season
Rankings reflect that of the Sports Network poll for that week.


2011 Southern District Council election
The 2011 Southern District Council election was held on 6 November 2011 to elect all 17 elected members to the 20-member District Council.


2011 Southern Illinois Salukis football team
The 2011 Southern Illinois Salukis football team represented Southern Illinois University in the 2011 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Salukis were led by 4th year head coach Dale Lennon and played their home games at Saluki Stadium. They are a member of the Missouri Valley Football Conference. They finished the season 4–7, 2–6 in MVFC play to finish in a tie for seventh place.


2011 Southern Jaguars football team
The 2011 Southern Jaguars football team represented Southern University in the 2011 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Jaguars were led by second year head coach Stump Mitchell and played their home games at Ace W. Mumford Stadium. They were a member of the West Division of the Southwestern Athletic Conference and finished with an overall record of 4–7.


2011 Southern Miss Golden Eagles football team
The 2011 Southern Miss Golden Eagles football team represented the University of Southern Mississippi in the 2011 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Golden Eagles were led by fourth-year head coach Larry Fedora and played their home games at M. M. Roberts Stadium. They are a member of the East Division of Conference USA. They finished the season 12–2, 7–2 in C-USA play. They were champions of the East Division and defeated undefeated Houston, 49–28, in the C-USA Championship Game to become conference champions. They were invited to the Hawaii Bowl, where they defeated Nevada, 24–17.


2011 Southern Miss Golden Eagles football team
Fedora resigned at the end of the regular season to become the head coach at North Carolina. He stayed on and coached the Golden Eagles in the Hawaii Bowl and finished at Southern Miss with a four-year record of 34–19. South Carolina assistant head coach Ellis Johnson took over as head coach in 2012.


2011 Southern Miss Golden Eagles football team, Pre-season, Top 25 rankings
During the pre-season, Southern Miss was ranked in several notable top 25 polls. Phil Steele ranked the team as No. 20. Outside the Top 25, Southern Miss was ranked as No. 55 by Sporting News, No. 31 in the AP Poll, and No. 42 in the Coaches' Poll.


2011 Southern Thailand floods
The 2011 Thai floods occurred at the end of March 2011, normally the latter part of the dry season (Thai: ฤดูแล้ง, romanized: reutdu lang or หน้าแล้ง nah lang) in tropical Thailand. Heavy rain fell in the southern region, with over 120 centimetres (47 in) of rain falling in certain areas.


2011 Southern Thailand floods, Impact
At least 53 people have died and almost nine million people have been affected by the floods after localized heavy rains The flooding has affected 50 of Thailand's 76 provinces. Close to 160,000 ha (400,000 acres) of land have been submerged. Around 5,000 households have been evacuated, in addition to hundreds of tourists. Nakhon Si Thammarat Province has been worst-affected, and a state of emergency was declared in several provinces.


2011 Southern Thailand floods, Causes
The floods hit during a typically dry season, and were triggered when a record cold wave moved south from East Asia and produced persistent flooding in combination with near-normal sea surface temperatures, still warm enough to support strong convectional precipitation. However, Thailand's Deputy Chief Negotiator for the UNFCCC stated that the floods were likely caused by climate change, as over 2,200 mm (87 in) of rain had fallen in parts of Southern Thailand for the four months leading up to the beginning of April while the year of 2010 saw a total of 270 cm (110 in).


2011 Southern Utah Thunderbirds football team
The 2011 Southern Utah Thunderbirds football team represented Southern Utah University in the 2011 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Thunderbirds were led by fourth year head coach Ed Lamb and played their home games at Eccles Coliseum. They are a member of the Great West Conference. This was Southern Utah's final year as a member of the Great West as they will become a full member of the Big Sky Conference in 2012.


2011 Southern Utah Thunderbirds football team
They finished the season 6–5, 1–3 in Great West play. One of their wins came against UNLV of the FBS which was Southern Utah's second ever win against a team from the FBS (Arkansas State in 1997 being the other).


2011 Southland Conference Baseball Tournament
The 2011 Southland Conference Baseball Tournament was held from May 25–28. The top eight regular season finishers of the league's twelve teams met in the double-elimination tournament held at Bobcat Ballpark in San Marcos, Texas. The winner of the tournament, Texas State, earned the conference's automatic bid to the 2011 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.


2011 Southland Conference Baseball Tournament, Seeding and format
The top eight finishers from the regular season were seeded one through eight. They played a two bracket, double-elimination tournament, with the winner of each bracket meeting in a single championship final.


2011 Southland Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2011 Southland Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, a part of the 2010–11 NCAA Division I men's basketball season, took place March 9, 10 and 12, 2011 at the Merrell Center in Katy, Texas. In the championship game, the UTSA Roadrunners beat McNeese State to win its third Southland Conference title. UTSA also received receive the Southland Conference's automatic bid to the 2011 NCAA Tournament, where it beat Alabama State in the First Four before losing to Ohio State in the tournament's second round.


2011 Southland Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Format
The top eight teams, regardless of divisional standing, received a berth in the conference tournament. The championship game was broadcast nationally on ESPN2.


2011 Southland Conference Softball Tournament
The 2011 Southland Conference tournament was held at Bearkat Softball Complex on the campus of Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas from May 12 through May 14, 2011. The tournament winner earned the Southland Conference's automatic bid to the 2011 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament. The championship was syndicated regionally via the Southland Conference Television Network, called by Doug Anderson and Chris Mycoskie. The remainder of the tournament was streamed live on SLC NOW.


2011 Southland Conference Softball Tournament, Format
The top 6 teams qualified for the Southland Softball Tournament. The tournament was played in a double-elimination format including a maximum of 11 games.


2011 Southwest blackout
The 2011 Southwest blackout, also known as the Great Blackout of 2011, was a widespread power outage that affected the San Diego–Tijuana area, southern Orange County, the Imperial Valley, Mexicali Valley, and Coachella Valley, and parts of Arizona. It occurred on Thursday, September 8, 2011, beginning at about 3:38 pm PDT. It was the largest power failure in California history.


2011 Southwest blackout, Background
At the time of the 2011 blackout, San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E, a subsidiary of Sempra Energy) was connected to Arizona by the Southwest Power Link, which is a single 500 kV power line (the next year, SDG&E completed a second line, the 500 kV Sunrise Power Link which was under construction during the event but still, it only parallels the Southwest Power Link and connects back to it at Imperial Valley; the remaining section into Arizona is still a single line). There is no other interconnection at the 500 kV level between SDG&E and other adjacent utilities. Rather, SDG&E is interconnected to Southern California Edison (SCE) by Path 44, a set of five separate 230 kV transmission lines which are all supplied through the switch yard of San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS). Imperial Irrigation District (IID) has a 92 kV sub-transmission system connected to both.


2011 Southwest blackout, Events
Due to a mistake by a technician, a 500 kV line between Arizona Public Service's Hassayampa substation near the Palos Verdes Nuclear Generating Station in Tonopah, Arizona and the North Gila substation in Yuma, Arizona was accidentally shut down. This transmission line is part of the Southwest Power Link. With the line shut down, the 500 kV Southwest Power Link went from San Diego to Yuma, AZ but was not supplied by anything else.


2011 Southwest blackout, Events
APS estimated a quick reconnection. However, the line opening had caused a large phase difference in the grid and the line could not be connected until the next day.


2011 Southwest blackout, Events
Most of the power to the San Diego area was then rerouted through Southern California Edison's system through San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station's (SONGS) switchyard. At this point SDG&E's system was taking more power from Southern California Edison than it could supply through SONGS' switchyard, and this would get worse as events progressed.


2011 Southwest blackout, Events
Imperial Irrigation District's sub-transmission system also ended up transferring a portion of the power between Southern California Edison's Palo Verde-Devers 500kv line and San Diego Gas & Electric's 500kv Southwest Power Link. In less than a minute, two transformers at IID's Coachella Valley Substation overloaded and disconnected. This caused severe low voltage on Imperial Irrigation District's system. Several minutes later, another transformer tripped off, causing the bulk of IID's system to be disconnected from Southern California Edison to the north. This caused drastic voltage problems which resulted in a loss of about half of IID's load as well as some generation.


2011 Southwest blackout, Events
Similar transformer overloads caused the Yuma area to be disconnected from WALC's system. The only supply to Yuma was now a backfeed from San Diego and Imperial Valley through the remainder of the 500 kV Southwest Power Link. One more transmission line tripped off, which was the last connection east of SONGS, between WALC's system to the north and SDG&E's system, CFE's system, and the Yuma area to the south.


2011 Southwest blackout, Events
What remained of the IID system had only one connection, the S-line to the remnants of the 500 kV Southwest Power Link at Imperial Valley Substation. This line overloaded as well. Instead of just cutting that line, their scheme commanded two generators in Mexico to go off-line. This was to solve a problem that no longer existed, and actually made the problem worse. Then the line did trip off, and most of IID's remaining load was lost.


2011 Southwest blackout, Events
All the power to the San Diego, Baja California, Mexico, and Yuma, Arizona regions was now being drawn from Southern California Edison through SONGS' switchyard. This draw was very high (around 170%), and a "safety net" system, the SONGS Separation Scheme, operated and disconnected 230 kV lines going into San Diego. SDG&E's system, CFE's Baja California system, and APS's Yuma service area were now completely separated from the Western Interconnection. This island had insufficient generation and rapidly spun down. Load shedding throughout this system operated rapidly, but some generation was still lost. In seconds, San Diego, Mexico, and Yuma, Arizona broke into three islands—all of which then collapsed.


2011 Southwest blackout, Events
Both units at SONGS also shut down, although this had no effect.


2011 Southwest blackout, Effect
Five utilities were affected: SDG&E, serving San Diego County and parts of southern Orange County and Riverside County; Imperial Irrigation District, serving the Imperial Valley; the portion of Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE), Mexico's electric utility, serving Baja California; Arizona Public Service (APS); and the Western Area Power Administration's Lower Colorado system (WALC). The blackout left nearly seven million people without power, including 1.4 million customers in San Diego County and 1.1 million customers in Mexico. The outage was the result of 23 distinct events that occurred on 5 separate power grids in a span of 11 minutes.


2011 Southwest blackout, Effect
Federal, regional and local officials investigated what happened and why the outage cascaded the way it did. APS's North Gila Substation reported power loss at 3:27 pm PDT. Within seconds a portion of a Mexico power plant shut down, but there was no indication that Arizona impacted Mexico. Units 2 and 3 at SONGS automatically tripped offline due to a "grid disturbance" which initiated the plant's Emergency Feed Actuation System (EFAS).


2011 Southwest blackout, Effect
The hardest hit region of the blackout, the San Diego-Tijuana metropolitan area, was essentially brought to a standstill. Surface streets became gridlocked due to the loss of traffic signals, and the San Diego skyline went dark. The San Diego Trolley system was shut down as there was no power to operate trains and related functions. Citizens in Tijuana and in inland areas like the Coachella Valley stayed outdoors late into the night to escape the heat.


2011 Southwest blackout, Effect
Freeways in the Southern California megalopolis experienced extreme clogging, especially on the I-15 and I-5 corridors between southeastern Greater Los Angeles and the San Diego area's North County. One hospital was left without power for two hours when its backup generator failed. Blythe in the Palo Verde Valley was reportedly not affected by the outage.


2011 Southwest blackout, Aftermath
Eleven hours after the outage began, power was restored to 694,000 of the affected customers, and by 4:30 am on September 9 power was restored to all customers, although the system was described as "still fragile". As a precaution, all public schools in San Diego County and the Capistrano Unified School District in southern Orange County were closed on September 9. Most major universities and community colleges, as well as all federal courts in San Diego, closed for the day as well.


2011 Southwest blackout, Aftermath
The outage caused significant losses to restaurants and grocery stores, which were forced to discard quantities of spoiled food; perishable food losses at grocery stores, eating establishments and households were estimated at $12 million to $18 million. The outage also caused some sewage pumping stations to fail, resulting in contaminated beaches and potentially unsafe water supplies in several areas. As a precaution, in some neighborhoods, residents were told to boil their water or use bottled water for several days after the outage. Due to the failure at the sewage pumping stations, diesel generators were installed at five pumping stations.


2011 Southwest blackout, Question of association with terrorism
The outage occurred days before the tenth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, and hours before the United States Department of Homeland Security warned of a potential terrorist attack leading up to the anniversary, so that a first reaction to the blackout was to wonder if it might be the result of an attack. However, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and SDG&E ruled out terrorism early in their investigation, and no subsequent evidence was found to suggest that the outage was anything other than accidental.


2011 Southwest blackout, Analysis
On April 27, 2012, the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the North American Electric Reliability Corporation issued a joint report analyzing the technical details of the blackout and gave 27 findings and recommendations to prevent a recurrence. The report found problems in operations planning and situational awareness.


2011 Southwest blackout, Analysis
The event showed that the system was not in an "N-1" state. Utilities are required to operate the system so that the failure of one component will not cause instability, separation, or cascading failures.


2011 Southwest blackout, Analysis
Next-day plans largely did not match the system at the time. For example, some utilities had plans based on a "heavy summer" scenario. This is the worst case in terms of load, but it does not consider that several generating stations may be out of service for maintenance.


2011 Southwest blackout, Analysis
Components with a voltage of 92 kV, which is a large part of IID's system, were not included in simulations. The simulations included components with a voltage of 100 kV or higher. Typically lower-voltage components (e.g. 69 kV) can be ignored.


2011 Southwest blackout, Analysis
Protection schemes were not considered in their effect on the bulk power system. These are supposed to be reviewed; in fact, some of them were not really considered in terms of their effects. The "S line" scheme was intended to protect one of IID's transformers, but in fact that transformer was not overloaded. The fact that it disconnected generation was not helpful, and without this the blackout would not have occurred. Also, the results of the SONGS separation scheme were not really considered. It was thought to be for an extreme case that was unlikely to really occur.


2011 Southwest blackout, Analysis
The report offers some comments on large phase-angle differences in the power grid and what can be done to detect and deal with such problems. According to their power flow simulations, it would have been difficult to reconnect the transmission line even with a significant shift in generation. In the event there was not sufficient time to fix things this way.


2011 Southwest blackout, Analysis
There is also included some comparison with the 2003 Northeast blackout. Many of the same factors contributed to both events.


2011 Southwest blackout, FERC citations
FERC cited six entities for alleged standards violations, Arizona Public Service, California Independent System Operator, Imperial Irrigation District, Southern California Edison, Western Area Power Administration, and Western Electricity Coordinating Council.


2011 Soweto Open
The 2011 Soweto Open was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the third edition of the tournament which is part of the 2011 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Johannesburg, South Africa between 11 and 17 April 2011. All women's doubles semifinal matches had been cancelled by the supervisor, due to heavy rain and flooding.


2011 Soweto Open, ATP singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2011 Soweto Open, WTA main draw singles entrants, Other Entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2011 Soweto Open, Champions, Singles
Izak van der Merwe def. Rik de Voest, 6–7(2), 7–5, 6–3


2011 Soweto Open, Champions, Doubles
Michael Kohlmann /  Alexander Peya def. Andre Begemann /  Matthew Ebden 6–2, 6–2


2011 Soweto Open – Men's Doubles
Nicolas Mahut and Lovro Zovko were the defending champions but decided not to participate. All semifinal matches had been cancelled by the supervisor, due to heavy rain and flooding. This event was reinstated at players request. Michael Kohlmann and Alexander Peya won the title, defeating Andre Begemann and Matthew Ebden 6–2, 6–2 in the final.


2011 Soweto Open – Men's Singles
Dustin Brown was the defending champion, but lost to Izak van der Merwe in the semifinals. Izak van der Merwe won the title, defeating Rik de Voest 6–7(2), 7–5, 6–3 in the final.


2011 Soweto Open – Women's Doubles
Vitalia Diatchenko and Irini Georgatou were the defending champions but Diatchenko decided not to participate. Georgatou played alongside Oksana Kalashnikova, but lost in the Quarterfinals to Nina Bratchikova and Valeria Savinykh. Unfortunately, all semifinal matches were cancelled by the supervisor, due to heavy rain and flooding.


2011 Soweto Open – Women's Singles
Nina Bratchikova was the defending champion, but lost in the Quarterfinals to Kathrin Wörle. Valeria Savinykh defeated Petra Cetkovská in the final, 6–1, 6–3.


2011 Spa-Francorchamps GP2 Series round
The 2011 Belgian GP2 round was a GP2 Series motor race held on August 27 and 28, 2011 at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium. It was the eighth round of the 2011 GP2 season and the seventh round of the 2011 GP3 season. The race supported the 2011 Belgian Grand Prix.


2011 Spa-Francorchamps GP2 Series round
Romain Grosjean secured the 2011 GP2 Series championship with a third place in the feature race when title rival Giedo van der Garde crashed out.


2011 Spanish Athletics Championships
The 2011 Spanish Athletics Championships was the 91st edition of the national championship in outdoor track and field for Spain. It was held on 6 and 7 August at the Estadio Ciudad de Málaga in Málaga, Andalusia. It served as the selection meeting for the 2011 World Championships in Athletics. A total of 636 athletes (339 men and 297 women) competed at the event.


2011 Spanish Athletics Championships
The club championships in relays and combined track and field events were contested separately from the main competition.


2011 Spanish Figure Skating Championships
The 2011 Spanish Figure Skating Championships (Spanish: Campeonato De España De Patinaje Sobre Hielo 2010-11) took place between 17 and 19 December 2010 at the Pista de Hielo del Futbol Club in Barcelona. Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, and ice dancing on the senior, junior, and novice levels.


2011 Spanish Grand Prix
The 2011 Spanish Grand Prix, formally the Formula 1 Gran Premio de España Santander 2011, was a Formula One motor race that was held on 22 May 2011 at the Circuit de Catalunya in Barcelona, Spain. It was the fifth round of the 2011 Formula One season. The 66-lap race was won by the championship leader, Red Bull Racing's Sebastian Vettel after starting from second on the grid. McLaren's Lewis Hamilton finished in second place, and his teammate Jenson Button completed the podium in third position.


2011 Spanish Grand Prix
As a consequence of the race, Vettel extended his lead in the World Drivers' Championship to 41 points over Hamilton. Mark Webber, who started the race from pole position, finished fourth in the race but he maintained third place in the championship, 10 points behind second-place Hamilton, and six ahead of Button. In the World Constructors' Championship, Red Bull extended their championship lead to 47 points over McLaren, with Ferrari a further 63 points behind in third position, after only Fernando Alonso reached the finish for the team, in fifth position. Sergio Pérez finished 9th and became the first driver from Mexico to score a point since Héctor Rebaque in the 1981 Dutch Grand Prix.


2011 Spanish Grand Prix, Report, Background
Heading into the race, Sebastian Vettel led the Drivers' Championship with 93 points, 35 more than Lewis Hamilton on 58 points, who had 3 more than Mark Webber on 55 points. Other championship rivals throughout the season, Jenson Button and Fernando Alonso were fourth and fifth on 46 and 41 respectively.


2011 Spanish Grand Prix, Report, Background
Tyre supplier Pirelli brought its silver-banded hard compound tyre as the harder "prime" tyre and the yellow-banded soft compound as the softer "option" compound. This was the same tyre selection that Bridgestone had chosen to bring to the Spanish Grand Prix for the past two years.


2011 Spanish Grand Prix, Report, Background
In the Constructors' Championship, Red Bull Racing held an advantage of 43 points over McLaren, with 148 points to McLaren's 105. Ferrari were a further 40 points behind McLaren on 65 points, and were building a gap from Renault – on 42 points - who were now having to fend off Mercedes GP who were on 26 points.


2011 Spanish Grand Prix, Report, Background
Ferrari introduced a new rear wing for the race, which came under scrutiny from the stewards and was subsequently banned.


2011 Spanish Grand Prix, Report, Practice and qualifying
The first practice session saw upgrades by every single team, and took place in sunny conditions. Mark Webber led at the end of the first practice, 1.007 seconds ahead of his teammate Sebastian Vettel, with Nico Rosberg in third place in the Mercedes.


2011 Spanish Grand Prix, Report, Practice and qualifying
In the second practice session, Webber topped the timesheets again, this time with Lewis Hamilton coming second splitting the Red Bulls with Vettel in third.


2011 Spanish Grand Prix, Report, Practice and qualifying
In the third practice session, Vettel topped the timesheets despite electrical problems that limited his running. Nick Heidfeld's car suffered a fire, causing extensive damage to his car that could not be fixed in time for the qualifying session.


2011 Spanish Grand Prix, Report, Practice and qualifying
In qualifying, Mark Webber took his first pole of the season, with his teammate Vettel, who had been unable to use his KERS during the session, behind him in second. In third and fifth places were the McLarens of Hamilton and Button, split by the Ferrari of Fernando Alonso. Further down the grid Team Lotus celebrated their first ever entry to the second qualifying session on a dry track, with Heikki Kovalainen qualifying 15th, ahead of both Force Indias.


2011 Spanish Grand Prix, Report, Practice and qualifying
Heidfeld was unable to set a qualifying time, however, he was allowed to participate in the race due to having set competitive times in practice prior to the accident. This was a similar situation to the previous race in Turkey where Kamui Kobayashi had not posted a qualifying time, but had been allowed entry due to his consistent lap times within the 107% time during practice.


2011 Spanish Grand Prix, Report, Race
Fernando Alonso made a perfect start to the race, overtaking both Red Bulls and Hamilton into the first corner to the cheers of the Spanish fans, and leading the race until lap 18. However, Alonso faded after the first round of pitstops where Sebastian Vettel took the lead, a position which he held to the end of the race in spite of the efforts of Lewis Hamilton, who fought him all the way to the close, finishing only 0.6 seconds behind the winner, with his teammate Button over half a minute behind in third. Button had used a three-stop strategy instead of a four-stop strategy, like most other drivers, to get ahead of Webber and Alonso. On lap 31, Liuzzi's car stopped near the Pirelli tunnel due to a gearbox failure, forcing his retirement.


2011 Spanish Grand Prix, Report, Race
Mark Webber came in fourth, after spending much of the race behind Fernando Alonso, only overtaking him on the 39th lap when the Spaniard pitted. Kovalainen crashed on lap 51, damaging the left side and wheels of his car. On Lap 57, Massa, struggling with his gearbox, beached his car in the Turns 6 and 7 chicane while running tenth, his game was over. Despite starting in the pits, behind all the other cars, Nick Heidfeld had a successful race, bringing his car home in the points with an eighth-place finish.


2011 Spanish Grand Prix, Report, Race
After saving a set of tyres by not setting a Q3 time, Michael Schumacher finished sixth ahead of teammate Rosberg. The race was notable for Ferrari's lack of pace on the prime tyre with Alonso slipping from first to fifth in the pit stops alone. Sergio Pérez scored his first Formula One points with ninth place, after he was disqualified from seventh place at the Australian Grand Prix.


2011 Spanish Indoor Athletics Championships
The 2011 Spanish Indoor Athletics Championships was the 47th edition of the national championship in indoor track and field for Spain. It was held on 19 and 20 February at the Luis Puig Palace in Valencia


2011 Spanish general election
The 2011 Spanish general election was held on Sunday, 20 November 2011, to elect the 10th Cortes Generales of the Kingdom of Spain. All 350 seats in the Congress of Deputies were up for election, as well as 208 of 266 seats in the Senate. An election had not been due until April 2012 at latest, but a call by Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero for a snap election five months ahead of schedule was announced on 29 July 2011. Zapatero would not be seeking a third term in office, and with political pressure mounting, a deteriorating economic situation and his political project exhausted, an early election was perceived as the only way out.


2011 Spanish general election
The election campaign was dominated by the effects of an ongoing financial crisis, high unemployment, a large public deficit and a soaring risk premium. Opinion polls had shown consistent leads for the opposition People's Party (PP) over the ruling Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), whose popularity had plummeted after Zapatero's U-turns in economic policy had forced him to adopt tough spending cuts and austerity measures. Massive anti-austerity protests had taken place in May 2011 under the form of the 15-M Movement, and in the local and regional elections held a few days later popular support for the PSOE fell dramatically. On 21 October, the armed organization ETA announced a permanent cessation of armed activity, turning the 2011 election into the first since the Spanish transition to democracy without ETA attacks.


2011 Spanish general election
The election resulted in the PSOE being swept out from power in the worst defeat for a sitting government since 1982, losing 4.3 million votes and scoring its worst result in a general election ever since the first democratic election in 1977. In contrast, PP's Mariano Rajoy won a record absolute majority in a landslide, being his party's best historic result as well as the second largest majority in democracy.


2011 Spanish general election
Also for the first time in a general election, the PSOE failed to come out on top in both Andalusia and Catalonia, with the nationalist Convergence and Union (CiU) emerging victorious, whereas the abertzale left Amaiur achieved a major breakthrough in both the Basque Country and Navarre.


2011 Spanish general election
United Left (IU) experienced a turnaround of its electoral fortunes and saw its first remarkable increase in 15 years, whereas centrist Union, Progress and Democracy (UPyD) exceeded all expectations with over one million votes, 5 seats and just 0.3% short of the 5% threshold required for being recognized a party parliamentary group in Congress.


2011 Spanish general election
Future PP leader Pablo Casado was first elected deputy at this election.


2011 Spanish general election, Overview, Electoral system
The Spanish Cortes Generales were envisaged as an imperfect bicameral system. The Congress of Deputies had greater legislative power than the Senate, having the ability to vote confidence in or withdraw it from a prime minister and to override Senate vetoes by an absolute majority of votes. Nonetheless, the Senate possessed a few exclusive, yet limited in number functions—such as its role in constitutional amendment—which were not subject to the Congress' override. Voting for the Cortes Generales was on the basis of universal suffrage, which comprised all nationals over eighteen and in full enjoyment of their political rights. Amendments to the electoral law in 2011 required for Spaniards abroad to apply for voting before being permitted to vote, a system known as "begged" or expat vote (Spanish: Voto rogado).


2011 Spanish general election, Overview, Electoral system
For the Congress of Deputies, 348 seats were elected using the D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional representation, with an electoral threshold of three percent of valid votes—which included blank ballots—being applied in each constituency. Seats were allocated to constituencies, corresponding to the provinces of Spain, with each being allocated an initial minimum of two seats and the remaining 248 being distributed in proportion to their populations. Ceuta and Melilla were allocated the two remaining seats, which were elected using plurality voting. The use of the D'Hondt method might result in a higher effective threshold, depending on the district magnitude.


2011 Spanish general election, Overview, Electoral system
For the Senate, 208 seats were elected using an open list partial block voting, with electors voting for individual candidates instead of parties. In constituencies electing four seats, electors could vote for up to three candidates; in those with two or three seats, for up to two candidates; and for one candidate in single-member districts.


2011 Spanish general election, Overview, Electoral system
Each of the 47 peninsular provinces was allocated four seats, whereas for insular provinces, such as the Balearic and Canary Islands, districts were the islands themselves, with the larger—Majorca, Gran Canaria and Tenerife—being allocated three seats each, and the smaller—Menorca, Ibiza–Formentera, Fuerteventura, La Gomera, El Hierro, Lanzarote and La Palma—one each. Ceuta and Melilla elected two seats each. Additionally, autonomous communities could appoint at least one senator each and were entitled to one additional senator per each million inhabitants.


2011 Spanish general election, Overview, Election date
The term of each chamber of the Cortes Generales—the Congress and the Senate—expired four years from the date of their previous election, unless they were dissolved earlier. The election decree was required to be issued no later than the twenty-fifth day prior to the date of expiry of the Cortes in the event that the prime minister did not make use of his prerogative of early dissolution. The decree was to be published on the following day in the Official State Gazette (BOE), with election day taking place on the fifty-fourth day from publication.


2011 Spanish general election, Overview, Election date
The previous election was held on 9 March 2008, which meant that the legislature's term would expire on 9 March 2012. The election decree was required to be published in the BOE no later than 14 February 2012, with the election taking place on the fifty-fourth day from publication, setting the latest possible election date for the Cortes Generales on Sunday, 8 April 2012.


2011 Spanish general election, Overview, Election date
The prime minister had the prerogative to dissolve both chambers at any given time—either jointly or separately—and call a snap election, provided that no motion of no confidence was in process, no state of emergency was in force and that dissolution did not occur before one year had elapsed since the previous one. Additionally, both chambers were to be dissolved and a new election called if an investiture process failed to elect a prime minister within a two-month period from the first ballot. Barred this exception, there was no constitutional requirement for simultaneous elections for the Congress and the Senate. Still, as of 2021 there has been no precedent of separate elections taking place under the 1978 Constitution, with governments having long preferred that elections for the two chambers of the Cortes take place simultaneously.


2011 Spanish general election, Background
The 2008 general election had resulted in a victory for the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, which nonetheless fell 7 seats short of an absolute majority. The Socialists had been re-elected on a full employment platform, despite the Spanish economy showing signs of fatigue and economic slowdown after a decade of growth. As a result, Zapatero was sworn in as prime minister for a second term in office in April 2008. Zapatero's second term would be dominated by the 2008–11 economic and financial crisis.


2011 Spanish general election, Background
The effects of the economic crisis in Spain started to become apparent at the beginning of Zapatero's second term. The first measure adopted by the newly elected government to mitigate the economic slowdown was an injection of €10 billion into the Spanish economy, of which €6 billion were to fulfill a €400 tax reduction as part of the PSOE 2008 election pledges. Over the next months the government was forced to lower its economic growth forecast for 2008 from 3.1% to 2.3%, then to 1.6%.


2011 Spanish general election, Background
The government also had to cope with a transport strike on 9–15 June, motivated by a rapid increase in oil prices. Zapatero initially refused to publicly acknowledge the existence of the economic crisis, to which he referred as "intense temporary slowdown" or "economic weaknesses".


2011 Spanish general election, Background
On 23 June 2008, Zapatero's cabinet adopted an "austerity plan" intended to save €250 million—consisting of a 70% reduction in the public job offer and a salary freeze for senior public servants—as well as financial stimulus measures—injection of €35 billion to SMEs and €2.5 billion annually until 2010 to improve the efficiency in the hotel sector—in order to soften the impact of job losses and rising oil prices, with Zapatero finally acknowledging the crisis during an interview on 8 July. Meanwhile, Martinsa-Fadesa bankruptcy filling in July 2008 as a result of the Spanish property bubble bursting turned into Spain's biggest ever corporate default.


2011 Spanish general election, Background
Job destruction in Spain became increasingly noticeable: by August 2008 2.5 million were already unemployed, the highest figure in 10 years. By December 2008, Spain would become the country with the highest job destruction rate in the world, with unemployment nearing 3 million. In October 2008, the government announced a €100 billion guarantee for bank debts and the creation of a €30 billion worth fund—extendable to €50 billion—to purchase 'healthy' assets from banks and savings banks "to ensure the Spanish market liquidity".


2011 Spanish general election, Background
From November 2008 to January 2009, the government proposed a €50 billion stimulus plan—with €8 billion destined to public investment in municipalities—expected to create 300,000 jobs throughout 2009, which was later criticised for its spending unsustainability and for creating "unproductive" jobs. In Q4 2008 the Spanish economy officially went into recession after a GDP fall of 1.1%—having already fallen by 0.3% on Q3 2008—putting an end to 15 years of uninterrupted economic growth.


2011 Spanish general election, Background
On 28 March 2009, the Spanish government launched a €9 billion bailout to rescue Caja Castilla La Mancha, the first Spanish savings bank to be intervened during the crisis, to be followed by CajaSur in 2010, the nationalization of CAM, Unnim, CatalunyaCaixa and Novagalicia Banco in 2011 and the intervention and nationalization of Banco de Valencia in 2011–12. As part of the bank restructuring, the FROB was created in June 2009 to preside over the mergers and acquisitions of the failing savings banks. In April 2009, Pedro Solbes was replaced as Spain's Economy and Finance minister by the low-profile Elena Salgado as part of a major cabinet reshuffle, in a move seen as Zapatero seeking to take more direct control of economic policy himself.


2011 Spanish general election, Background
By Q2 2009, unemployment had grown to 17.9%—more than 4 million unemployed—and the GDP had fallen by 4.2%. This prompted Zapatero to announce on 28 August 2009 that the 2010 budget would include a "limited and temporary" tax increase worth €16 billion—dubbed by many as the largest tax rise in history—to tackle the revenue fall and spending increase resulting from the crisis. Further measures, such as the suppression of the €400 tax reduction and a VAT increase from 16% to 18%—in its standard rate—and from 7% to 8%—in its reduced rate—were announced in the following weeks.


2011 Spanish general election, Background
The end of 2009 would see unemployment climbing to 18.8%, with public deficit soaring—11.4% of GDP—and forcing the government to approve on 29 January 2010 a €50 billion worth-savings plan for the 2010–13 period, cutting all public spending except for social benefits, welfare state policies and those involving a production model renewal.


2011 Spanish general election, Background
However, despite the government's efforts, the economic situation kept worsening. On 5 February, Spain's risk premium reached the 100 basis point-mark in a black week for Madrid Stock Exchange—with the IBEX 35 falling by 9.3%. By early May 2010, unemployment had reached the 20% mark for the first time since the 1993 economic crisis, while the crisis in Greece, threatening to engulf the remained of the eurozone, caused the risk premium to rise dramatically by 60% to 170 basis points and the Madrid Stock Exchange to fall by 10%.


2011 Spanish general election, Background
As a result, Zapatero announced a €15 billion austerity package on 12 May aimed at preventing the country's default. Among the adopted measures were a cut of 5% in public wages, a pension freezing for 2011, cuts into dependency spending and the removal of the €2,500 birth allowance, among others. Zapatero's U-turn, breaching a previous pledge not to cut social spending, caused his and the PSOE's popularity ratings to plummet in opinion polls.


2011 Spanish general election, Background
On 9 September 2010, the PSOE government approved a labor reform, which included suspension of collective agreements during economic downturns, a lower redundancy pay in cases of wrongful dismissal—from 45 to 33 days per year worked—or cheaper dismissals for companies facing losses, among others. The reform, coupled with the cut in public wages and the pension freeze, provoked the Socialist government to face its first general strike on 29 September.


2011 Spanish general election, Background
In order to tackle dropping poll numbers, a major cabinet reshuffle took place on 20 October, resulting in a number of ministries being disbanded and María Teresa Fernández de la Vega, who had served as Zapatero's deputy for most of his tenure, being replaced by interior minister Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba. The risk premium kept growing and peaked at 270 basis points by the end of November. Zapatero's government announced a new austerity package on 1 December—including the removal of a €426 allowance for long-term unemployed and the privatizations of AENA and the Lotteries—but also a tax cut for SMEs. In the following weeks, Zapatero would also announce an increase of the retirement age from 65 to 67 to be applied "flexibly and progressively" until 2027.


2011 Spanish general election, Parliamentary composition
The Cortes Generales were officially dissolved on 27 September 2011, after the publication of the dissolution decree in the Official State Gazette. The tables below show the composition of the parliamentary groups in both chambers at the time of dissolution.


2011 Spanish general election, Parties and candidates
The electoral law allowed for parties and federations registered in the interior ministry, coalitions and groupings of electors to present lists of candidates. Parties and federations intending to form a coalition ahead of an election were required to inform the relevant Electoral Commission within ten days of the election call, whereas groupings of electors needed to secure the signature of at least one percent of the electorate in the constituencies for which they sought election, disallowing electors from signing for more than one list of candidates. Concurrently, parties, federations or coalitions that had not obtained a mandate in either chamber of the Cortes at the preceding election were required to secure the signature of at least 0.1 percent of electors in the aforementioned constituencies.


2011 Spanish general election, Parties and candidates
Below is a list of the main parties and electoral alliances which contested the election:


2011 Spanish general election, Parties and candidates
The Socialists' Party of Catalonia (PSC), Initiative for Catalonia Greens (ICV) and United and Alternative Left (EUiA) continued their Catalan Senate alliance without ERC, under the Agreement for Catalonia Progress name. Concurrently, the new green Equo party allied itself with PSM–Nationalist Agreement (PSM–EN), Initiative Greens (IV) and Agreement for Majorca (ExM) in the Balearic Islands and with Sí Se Puede (SSP) and Socialists for Tenerife (SxTf) in the Santa Cruz de Tenerife constituency.


2011 Spanish general election, Timetable
The key dates are listed below (all times are CET. Note that the Canary Islands use WET (UTC+0) instead):


2011 Spanish general election, Results, Outcome
With an overall voter turnout of 68.9%—the lowest in a decade—the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) suffered its worst ever defeat in a general election, while also scoring one of the worst electoral performances for a ruling party in Spain since the UCD collapse in the 1982 election. The People's Party (PP) was able to win an historic absolute majority with 186 out of 350 seats—the largest obtained by a party since 1982—after almost eight years in opposition.


2011 Spanish general election, Results, Outcome
The PSOE went on to finish below first place in all but two provinces—Barcelona and Seville—while also losing both Andalusia and Catalonia, which up to that point had been carried by the PSOE in every general election. The 2011 Spanish election marked the continuation of a string of severe government election losses across European countries since the start of the 2007–08 financial crisis, including Iceland, Greece, Hungary, the United Kingdom, Ireland or Portugal.


2011 Spanish general election, Results, Outcome
Minoritary national parties, such as United Left (IU) and Union, Progress and Democracy (UPyD), benefitted greatly from the PSOE collapse, winning 11 and 5 seats respectively—2 and 1 in the previous parliament. This was the first time since the 1989 election than more than one of the smaller nationwide-contesting parties obtained more than 1 million votes in a general election, as well as enough seats to form parliamentary groups on their own right.


2011 Spanish general election, Results, Outcome
The PSOE collapse also resulted in nearly all parties winning parliamentary presence in the Congress of Deputies increasing their vote shares—only Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC) and Geroa Bai (GBai) lost votes compared to 2008. The Basque Nationalist Party (PNV) lost 1 seat despite scoring higher than in 2008, but this came as a result of Amaiur's irruption, with 6 out of its 7 seats being elected in the Basque Country.


2011 Spanish general election, Results, Outcome
Convergence and Union (CiU), the party federation formed by Democratic Convergence of Catalonia (CDC) and Democratic Union of Catalonia (UDC), was elected to an historic general election victory in the region of Catalonia. The Socialists' Party of Catalonia (PSC), PSOE's sister party in the region—which had, up until that point, been the first Catalan political force in every general election held since 1977—scored a poor showing by finishing in second place with 27% of the vote.


2011 Spanish general election, Results, Outcome
The 2011 election would be the last time both parties would dominate the Catalan political landscape in a general election; the next election, held on 20 December 2015, would see the alliance between CDC and UDC broken and the PSC being crushed to third place regionally by both the En Comú Podem alliance and ERC.


2011 Spanish general election, Results, Outcome
In terms of vote share, PSOE's electoral result, with 28.76%, would remain the worst electoral performance for a sitting Spanish government in a nationwide-held election since 1982 until the 2014 European Parliament election held two and a half years later, when the PP obtained 26.09% of the share, and in a general election until 2015—the PP obtaining 28.71%.


2011 Spanish local elections
The 2011 Spanish local elections were held on Sunday, 22 May 2011, to elect all 68,230 councillors in the 8,116 municipalities of Spain and all 1,040 seats in 38 provincial deputations. The elections were held simultaneously with regional elections in thirteen autonomous communities, as well as local elections in the three foral deputations of the Basque Country and the eleven island councils in the Balearic and Canary Islands.


2011 Spanish local elections
The days before the elections were marked by the 2011 Spanish protests which had been held in different cities across Spain since 15 May. The elections resulted in a landslide victory for the opposition People's Party (PP) and other centre-right parties, which won control of all of Spain's largest cities. In Barcelona, held by PSOE-sister party, the Socialists' Party of Catalonia (PSC), since the first local elections in 1979, was won for the first time by the nationalist Convergence and Union (CiU), which also won in Girona. The PSOE only won only in 5 out of Spain's 50 provincial capitals. In the popular vote, it scored its worst result in nationwide-held local elections, with a mere 27.8%, 10 points behind the PP, which obtained 37.5%.


2011 Spanish local elections
Following the election, the PSOE named Deputy Prime Minister Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba as prime ministerial candidate for the next general election, initially scheduled for March 2012, and finally held in November 2011.


2011 Spanish local elections, Electoral system
Municipalities in Spain were local corporations with independent legal personality. They had a governing body, the municipal council or corporation, composed of the mayor, the government council and the elected plenary assembly. Elections to the local councils in Spain were fixed for the fourth Sunday of May every four years.


2011 Spanish local elections, Electoral system
Voting for the local assemblies was on the basis of universal suffrage, which comprised all nationals over eighteen, registered and residing in the corresponding municipality and in full enjoyment of their political rights, as well as resident non-national European citizens and those whose country of origin allowed Spanish nationals to vote in their own elections by virtue of a treaty. Local councillors were elected using the D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional representation, with an electoral threshold of five percent of valid votes—which included blank ballots—being applied in each local council. Parties not reaching the threshold were not taken into consideration for seat distribution. Councillors were allocated to municipal councils based on the following scale:


2011 Spanish local elections, Electoral system
Councillors of municipalities with populations below 250 inhabitants were elected under an open list partial block voting, with electors voting for individual candidates instead of parties: for up to four candidates in municipalities with populations between 100 and 250 inhabitants; and for up to two candidates in municipalities below 100.


2011 Spanish local elections, Electoral system
This did not apply to municipalities which, as a result of their geographical location or the convenience of a better management of municipal interests or other circumstances, made it advisable to be organized through the open council system (Spanish: régimen de concejo abierto), in which voters would directly elect the local major.


2011 Spanish local elections, Electoral system
The mayor was indirectly elected by the plenary assembly. A legal clause required that mayoral candidates earn the vote of an absolute majority of councillors, or else the candidate of the most-voted party in the assembly was to be automatically appointed to the post. In the event of a tie, a toss-up would determine the appointee.


2011 Spanish local elections, Electoral system
The electoral law allowed for parties and federations registered in the interior ministry, coalitions and groupings of electors to present lists of candidates. Parties and federations intending to form a coalition ahead of an election were required to inform the relevant Electoral Commission within ten days of the election call, whereas groupings of electors needed to secure the signature of a determined amount of the electors registered in the municipality for which they sought election:


2011 Spanish local elections, Electoral system
Electors were disallowed from signing for more than one list of candidates.


2011 Spanish local elections, Electoral system
Provincial deputations were the governing bodies of provinces in Spain, having an administration role of municipal activities and composed of a provincial president, an administrative body, and a plenary. Basque provinces had foral deputations instead—called Juntas Generales—, whereas deputations for single-province autonomous communities were abolished: their functions transferred to the corresponding regional parliaments. For insular provinces, such as the Balearic and Canary Islands, deputations were replaced by island councils in each of the islands or group of islands. For Majorca, Menorca, Ibiza and Formentera this figure was referred to in Spanish as consejo insular (Catalan: consell insular), whereas for Gran Canaria, Tenerife, Fuerteventura, La Gomera, El Hierro, Lanzarote and La Palma its name was cabildo insular.


2011 Spanish local elections, Electoral system
Most deputations were indirectly elected by local councillors from municipalities in each judicial district. Seats were allocated to provincial deputations based on the following scale:


2011 Spanish local elections, Electoral system
Island councils and foral deputations were elected directly by electors under their own, specific electoral regulations.


2011 Spanish local elections, Municipal elections, City control
The following table lists party control in provincial capitals, as well as in municipalities above or around 75,000. Gains for a party are highlighted in that party's colour.


2011 Spanish local elections, Provincial deputations, Deputation control
The following table lists party control in provincial deputations. Gains for a party are highlighted in that party's colour.


2011 Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix
The 2011 Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix was the second round of the 2011 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 1–3 April 2011 at the Circuito de Jerez located in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain. This was Nicky Hayden's final MotoGP podium finish before he switched to World Superbikes in 2016 and his death in 2017.


2011 Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix, Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)
Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round two has concluded.


2011 Spanish regional elections
The 2011 Spanish regional elections were held on Sunday, 22 May 2011, to elect the regional parliaments of thirteen of the seventeen autonomous communities—Aragon, Asturias, the Balearic Islands, the Canary Islands, Cantabria, Castile and León, Castilla–La Mancha, Extremadura, La Rioja, Madrid, Murcia, Navarre and the Valencian Community—, not including Andalusia, the Basque Country, Catalonia and Galicia, which had separate electoral cycles. 824 of 1,218 seats in the regional parliaments were up for election, as well as the 50 seats in the regional assemblies of Ceuta and Melilla. The elections were held simultaneously with local elections all throughout Spain.


2011 Spanish regional elections
The week before the elections came dominated under the scope of the 15-M protests which had been held in different cities across Spain. The opposition People's Party (PP) won the elections in a landslide as the ruling Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) lost all regional governments at stake—including Extremadura and Castilla–La Mancha, which it had held since 1983. The PP won outright majorities in eight out of the thirteen communities holding elections, and was able to gain power in a further two either through agreements with other parties.


2011 Spanish regional elections, Election date
Determination of election day varied depending on the autonomous community, with each one having competency to establish its own regulations. Typically, thirteen out of the seventeen autonomous communities—all but Andalusia, the Basque Country, Catalonia and Galicia—had their elections fixed for the fourth Sunday of May every four years, to be held together with nationwide local elections.


2011 Spanish regional elections, Election date
In some cases, regional presidents had the prerogative to dissolve the regional parliament and call for extra elections at a different time, but newly elected assemblies were restricted to serving out what remained of their previous four year-terms without altering the period to their next ordinary election. In other cases—namely, Aragon, the Balearic Islands, Castile and León, Extremadura, Navarre and the Valencian Community—, the law granted presidents the power to call a snap election resulting in a fresh four year-parliamentary term. By the time of the 2011 regional elections, however, this prerogative had not yet been exercised by any of these communities.


2011 Spanish regional elections, Regional governments
The following table lists party control in autonomous communities. Gains for a party are highlighted in that party's colour.


2011 Sparkassen Giro
The women's race of the 2011 Sparkassen Giro Bochum took place on 31 July 2011. It was the 11th women's edition of the Sparkassen Giro Bochum. The race started and ended in Bochum, Germany and spanned 73 km (45.4 mi). The race is a UCI 1.1 category race.


2011 Sparkassen Giro
Ellen van Dijk, who won the race at the 2010 Sparkassen Giro Bochum, did not participate in this edition.


2011 Sparkassen Open
The 2011 Sparkassen Open was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the 18th edition of the tournament which was part of the 2011 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Braunschweig, Germany between June 26 and July 3, 2011.


2011 Sparkassen Open, ATP entrants, Other Entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2011 Sparkassen Open, ATP entrants, Other Entrants
The following players received entry as a special exemption into the singles main draw:


2011 Sparkassen Open, Champions, Doubles
Martin Emmrich /  Andreas Siljeström def. Olivier Charroin /  Stéphane Robert, 0–6, 6–4, [10–7]


2011 Sparkassen Open – Doubles
Leonardo Tavares and Simone Vagnozzi were the defending champions, but only Tavares chose to play this year. As a result, he partnered up with Frederico Gil. They lost to Martin Emmrich and Andreas Siljeström in the semifinals.


2011 Sparkassen Open – Doubles
Emmrich and Siljeström defeated Olivier Charroin and Stéphane Robert 0–6, 6–4, [10–7] in the final.


2011 Sparkassen Open – Singles
Mikhail Kukushkin was the defending champion, but decided not to participate.


2011 Sparkassen Open – Singles
3rd seed Lukáš Rosol defeated qualifier Evgeny Donskoy 7–5, 7–6(7–2) in the final.


2011 Sparta Prague Open
The 2011 Sparta Prague Open was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was part of the 2011 ITF Women's Circuit, offering a total of $100,000 in prize money. It took place at the Tennis Club Sparta Prague in Bubeneč, Prague, Czech Republic, from 9 to 15 May 2011.


2011 Sparta Prague Open, Singles entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2011 Sparta Prague Open, Singles entrants, Other entrants
The following players received entry into the singles main draw as lucky losers:


2011 Sparta Prague Open – Doubles
Ksenia Lykina and Maša Zec Peškirič were the defending champions, having won the event in 2010, but both players chose not to participate in 2011.


2011 Sparta Prague Open – Doubles
Petra Cetkovská and Michaëlla Krajicek won the tournament, defeating Lindsay Lee-Waters and Megan Moulton-Levy in the final, 6–2, 6–1.


2011 Sparta Prague Open – Singles
Lucie Hradecká was the defending champion, but withdrew from the event.


2011 Sparta Prague Open – Singles
Magdaléna Rybáriková won the tournament, defeating Petra Kvitová in the final, 6–3, 6–4.


2011 Special Honours (New Zealand)
The 2011 Special Honours in New Zealand were two Special Honours Lists, published in New Zealand on 20 May and 17 August 2011. Appointments were made to the New Zealand Order of Merit and the Queen's Service Order to recognise the incoming governor-general, Jerry Mateparae, and the outgoing vice-regal consort, Susan, Lady Satyanand.


2011 Special Honours (New Zealand)
In addition, two other Special Honours Lists, published on 2 April and 1 October, promulgated the 2011 New Zealand bravery awards and the 2011 New Zealand gallantry awards.


2011 Special Olympics World Summer Games
The 2011 Special Olympics World Summer Games (Greek: Ειδικοί παγκόσμιοι καλοκαιρινοί αγώνες Ολυμπιακών Αγώνων 2011, Eidikoí pankósmioi kalokairinoí agónes Olympiakón Agónon 2011), was a sporting event held from June, 25th 2011 – July, 4th 2011 in Athens, Greece. The opening ceremony of the games took place on 25 June 2011 at the Panathenaic Stadium and the closing ceremony was held on 4 July 2011.


2011 Special Olympics World Summer Games
"Over 7,500" athletes, from 185 countries,  competed in a total of twenty-two sports.


2011 Special Olympics World Summer Games, Nations
This is a list of countries participating in the 2011 Special Olympics World Summer Games (Greek: Pankósmioi Therinoí Agónes Athína 2011):


2011 Speedway Grand Prix
The 2011 Speedway Grand Prix was the 66th edition of the official World Championship and the 17th season of the Speedway Grand Prix era, deciding the FIM Speedway World Championship. It was the eleventh series under the promotion of Benfield Sports International, an IMG company. The series began on 30 April in Leszno and finished on 8 October in  Gorzów.