Spanish general election 1986
On 22 June 1986 found Spain elections to the Spanish Parliament, the Cortes Generales , which of the two chambers Congreso de los Diputados (House of Representatives) and Senado (Senate) consists instead. The congreso is politically much more important of the two chambers. The third legislative period after the end of the Franco dictatorship began with the elections .
Congreso (House of Representatives)
Against the incumbent Prime Minister Felipe González of the social democratic PSOE , the conservative Coalición Popular sent Manuel Fraga as the top candidate.
The ruling PSOE lost 4 percentage points, but again became the strongest party, received 44% of the vote and achieved a comfortable absolute majority in the House of Representatives with 184 seats.
Results
- Eligible voters: 29,117,613
- Turnout: 70.49% (-9.48% compared to 1982)
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| Political party | be right | % Be right | Diff. | Seats | % Seats | Diff. |
| Partido Socialista Obrero Español (PSOE) | 8,901,718 | 44.06 | -4.05 | 184 | 52.57 | -18 |
| Coalición Popular (CP) (1) | 5,247,677 | 25.97 | -0.39 (1) | 105 | 30.00 | -2 (1) |
| Centro Democrático y Social (CDS) | 1,861,912 | 9.22 | +6.35 | 19th | 5.43 | +17 |
| Convergència i Unió (CiU) | 1,014,258 | 5.02 | +1.35 | 18th | 5.14 | +6 |
| Izquierda Unida (IU) | 935.504 | 4.63 | +0.61 (2) | 7th | 2.00 | +3 (2) |
| Partido Nacionalista Vasco (EAJ-PNV) | 309.610 | 1.53 | -0.35 | 6th | 1.71 | -2 |
| Herri Batasuna (HB) | 231,722 | 1.15 | +0.15 | 5 | 1.43 | +3 |
| Euskadiko Ezkerra (EE) | 107.053 | 0.53 | +0.05 | 2 | 0.57 | +1 |
| Coalición Galega (CG) | 79,972 | 0.40 | New | 1 | 0.29 | +1 |
| Partido Aragonés (PAR) | 73.004 | 0.36 | New | 1 | 0.29 | +1 |
| Agrupaciones Independientes de Canarias (AIC) | 65,664 | 0.33 | New | 1 | 0.29 | +1 |
| Unió Valenciana (UV) | 64,403 | 0.32 | New | 1 | 0.29 | +1 |
| Unión de Centro Democrático (UCD) | n / a (3) | n / a (3) | -6.77 | 0 | 0.00 | –11 |
| Esquerra Repúblicana de Catalunya (ERC) | 84,628 | 0.42 | -0.24 | 0 | 0.00 | -1 |
Senado (Senate)
The Senate is made up of members directly elected by the people and other senators who are determined by the parliaments of the individual regions (Spanish: Comunidades Autónomas ). The direct election takes place at the same time as the elections for the members of the Congress. The number of indirectly elected senators depends on the population of the respective region (one plus another for every 1 million inhabitants).
In the third legislature, the Senate consisted of 254 members: 208 directly elected and 46 delegated by the regional parliaments.
Direct elections take place in constituencies that correspond to the provinces (except for the Balearic and Canary Islands, where constituencies are the individual islands). In each of the provincial constituencies - regardless of the size of the population - four senators are elected, with each voter giving three votes and each party nominating three candidates. The supporter of a party will usually give his votes to the three candidates of "his" party. This usually results in the three candidates in the strongest party in the province getting more votes than the top-ranked candidate in the second strongest party. In the vast majority of cases, therefore, the strongest party will provide three senators and the second strongest party one for the province.
The composition of the senators sent by the regional parliaments can change during the legislature (if new regional parliaments are elected during the legislative period), therefore only the composition of the senate at the beginning of the legislature in July 1986 is given below:
| ← Composition of the Senate, July 1986 → | ||||
| Political party |
Senators total |
Senators direct election |
Senators indirectly |
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| Partido Socialista Obrero Español (PSOE) | 148 | 124 | 24 | |
| Coalición Popular (CP) | 77 | 63 | 14th | |
| Convergència i Unió (CiU) | 11 | 8th | 3 | |
| Partido Nacionalista Vasco (EAJ-PNV) | 9 | 7th | 2 | |
| Centro Democrático y Social (CDS) | 3 | 3 | ||
| Herri Batasuna (HB) | 1 | 1 | ||
| Agrupaciones Independientes de Canarias (AIC) | 1 | 1 | ||
| Asamblea majorera (AM) | 1 | 1 | ||
| Izquierda Unida (IU) | 1 | 1 | ||
| Unió Mallorquina (UM) | 1 | 1 | ||
| Non-party | 1 | 1 | ||
Government formation
According to the Spanish constitution, only the congreso is relevant for the formation of a government: it elects the prime minister (Art. 99), the government is responsible only to him (Art. 108).
Felipe González was elected Prime Minister on July 23, 1986.
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23 July 1986 necessary: absolute majority (176/350) |
Yes | 184 |
184/350 |
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| No | 95 | 18th | 18th | 7th | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
144/350 |
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| abstention | 6th |
6/350 |
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| Absent | 10 | 1 | 5 |
16/350 |
See also
Web links
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