Spanish parliamentary elections 1989
On 29 October 1989 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 4th legislative period after the end of the Franco dictatorship began with the elections .
In the constituency of Melilla , the election was repeated on March 25, 1990 because of irregularities.
Congreso (House of Representatives)
Against the incumbent Prime Minister Felipe González of the social democratic PSOE , the conservative PP sent the Prime Minister of the Autonomous Community of Castile and León José María Aznar into the running as the top candidate.
Due to irregularities, the higher administrative courts ( Tribunales Superiores de Justicia ) of Murcia (judgment of December 1, 1989), Galicia (judgment of December 2, 1989) and Andalusia (judgment of December 4, 1989) initially annulled the elections in the constituencies of Murcia (9th MPs), Pontevedra (eight MPs) and Melilla (one MP).
With judgments of February 15 and 19, 1990, the Constitutional Court canceled the elections for the constituencies of Pontevedra and Murcia, so that a repeat election took place on March 25, 1990 only in the constituency of Melilla.
The ruling PSOE lost 4.5 percentage points, but was again the strongest party and with 175 MPs made up exactly half of the MPs.
Results
- Eligible voters: 29,604,055
- Turnout: 69.74% (-0.75% compared to 1986)
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| Political party | be right | % Be right | Diff. | Seats | % Seats | Diff. |
| Partido Socialista Obrero Español (PSOE) | 8,115,568 | 39.60 | −4.46 | 175 | 50.00 | –9 |
| Partido Popular (PP) | 5,285,972 | 25.79 | -0.18 (1) | 107 | 30.57 | +2 (1) |
| Izquierda Unida (IU) | 1,858,588 | 9.07 | +4.44 | 17th | 4.86 | +10 |
| Centro Democrático y Social (CDS) | 1,617,716 | 7.89 | -1.33 | 14th | 4.00 | -5 |
| Convergència i Unió (CiU) | 1,032,243 | 5.04 | +0.02 | 18th | 5.14 | = |
| Partido Nacionalista Vasco (EAJ-PNV) | 254,681 | 1.24 | -0.29 | 5 | 1.43 | -1 |
| Herri Batasuna (HB) | 217.278 | 1.06 | −0.09 | 4th | 1.14 | -1 |
| Partido Andalucista (PA) | 212,687 | 1.04 | +0.57 | 2 | 0.57 | +2 |
| Unió Valenciana (UV) | 144.924 | 0.48 | +0.16 | 2 | 0.57 | +1 |
| Eusko Alkartasuna (EA) | 136.955 | 0.55 | +0.55 | 2 | 0.57 | +2 |
| Euskadiko Ezkerra (EE) | 105.238 | 0.51 | -0.02 | 2 | 0.57 | = |
| Partido Aragonés (PAR) | 71,733 | 0.35 | -0.01 | 1 | 0.29 | = |
| Agrupaciones Independientes de Canarias (AIC) | 64,767 | 0.32 | -0.01 | 1 | 0.29 | = |
| Coalición Galega | 45,821 | 0.22 | -0.18 | 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 4th 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 November 1989 is given below:
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| Political party |
Senators total |
Senators direct election |
Senators indirectly |
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| Partido Socialista Obrero Español (PSOE) | 128 | 107 | 21st | |
| Partido Popular (PP) | 90 | 78 | 12 | |
| Convergència i Unió (CiU) | 12 | 10 | 2 | |
| Partido Nacionalista Vasco (EAJ-PNV) | 5 | 4th | 1 | |
| Centro Democrático y Social (CDS) | 7th | 1 | 6th | |
| Herri Batasuna (HB) | 3 | 3 | ||
| Izquierda Unida (IU) | 1 | 1 | ||
| Agrupaciones Independientes de Canarias (AIC) | 1 | 1 | ||
| Independientes por Lanzarote (IL) | 1 | 1 | ||
| Asamblea majorera (AM) | 1 | 1 | ||
| Agrupación Herreña Independiente (AHI) | 1 | 1 | ||
| Partido de Acción Socialista (PASOC) | 1 | 1 | ||
| Iniciativa per Catalunya (IpC) | 1 | 1 | ||
| Eusko Alkartasuna (EA) | 1 | 1 | ||
| Partido Aragonés (PAR) | 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).
The election of the Prime Minister by the House of Representatives took place on December 5, 1989. Since the higher administrative courts had canceled the elections in the constituencies of Murcia, Pontevedra and Melilla (which affected a total of 18 seats) on the previous day, the number of MPs was only 332, which means that the majority required in the first ballot was 167 yes-votes which the PSOE candidate Felipe González also reached.
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December 5, 1989 necessary: absolute majority (167/332) |
Yes | 166 | 1 |
167/350 |
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| No | 99 | 18th | 17th | 13 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
155/350 |
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| abstention | 5 | 1 |
6/350 |
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| Absent | 4th |
4/350 |
During the debate on the election of the prime minister, González had already announced that he would ask the vote of confidence again when the final composition of the House of Representatives was determined after possible repeat elections. After the re-election in the Melilla constituency (March 25, 1990), he put the vote of confidence on which was voted on April 5, 1990 and in which he received an absolute majority.
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April 5, 1990 necessary: simple majority |
Yes | 175 | 1 |
176/350 |
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| No | 107 | 16 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
130/350 |
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| abstention | 17th | 14th | 5 | 1 |
37/350 |
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| Absent | 1 | 1 | 4th | 1 |
7/350 |
See also
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- Results of Spanish elections since 1977 Spanish Ministry of the Interior (Spanish)
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