Spanish general election November 2019
(turnout 66.23%)
Elections to the Spanish Parliament , the Cortes Generales , took place on November 10, 2019 . The 350 members of the House of Representatives ( Congreso de los Diputados ) and 208 of the 265 members of the Senate ( Senado ) were elected for the 14th legislative period since the entry into force of the 1978 Constitution. These were early elections, the fourth in four years after The acting Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez was unable to obtain the necessary majority to appoint a new government after the parliamentary elections on April 28, 2019 . As in the April elections, the dominant issue in the election campaign was the Catalonia crisis , which continued to polarize the political blocs and reduce the prospect of a coalition government.
The result was disappointing for the incumbent government - with a lower turnout, the ruling social democratic PSOE suffered the loss of three seats, but remained the strongest party. To the left of the PSOE, Unidas Podemos suffered more significant losses with seven lost seats. On the right-hand side of the party spectrum, there were more pronounced shifts: the right-wing liberal Ciudadanos lost 47 seats; the conservative PP (+22 seats) and above all the right-wing populist party Vox (+28), on the other hand, were able to gain significant votes and mandates. A minority government between a coalition of the PSOE and Podemos under Pedro Sánchez, with the tolerance of separatist or nationalist regional parties, could only be confirmed by parliament in early January 2020.
Electoral system
In the constitution, the House of Representatives is the far more important of the two chambers. Only the House of Representatives elects the Prime Minister and can withdraw confidence in him and thus in the government. The government is only responsible to the House of Representatives. In the legislative process, the Senate can veto or make amendments. Except in the case of constitutional changes, the House of Representatives can overrule a veto by the Senate or reject its amendments.
House of Representatives
According to Article 68 (2) of the Constitution and Article 162 of the Electoral Act, Congress has 350 members elected in 52 constituencies. Constituencies are the 50 provinces and the two autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla . One MP is elected in each of Ceuta and Melilla. Each of the 50 provinces receives two mandates in advance. The remaining 248 MPs are allocated to the provinces according to the ratio of their population according to the Hare-Niemeyer method .
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In 2019 the following numbers of MPs will be elected in the constituencies:
- Madrid Province : 37 MPs
- Barcelona Province : 32 MPs
- Province of Valencia / València: 15 MPs
- Alicante / Alacant provinces , Seville : 12 members each
- Málaga Province : 11 MPs
- Murcia Province : 10 MPs
- Cádiz Province : 9 MPs
- Provinces of Balearic Islands , Bizkaia , A Coruña and Las Palmas : 8 MEPs each
- Provinces of Asturias , Granada , Pontevedra , Santa Cruz de Tenerife and Zaragoza : 7 MPs each
- Provinces of Almería , Badajoz , Córdoba , Guipuzkoa , Girona , Tarragona and Toledo : 6 MPs each
- Provinces of Cantabria , Castellón / Castelló , Ciudad Real , Huelva , Jaén , Navarra and Valladolid : 5 MPs each
- Provinces of Albacete , Araba / Álava , Burgos , Cáceres , León , Lleida , Lugo , Ourense , La Rioja and Salamanca : 4 MPs each
- Provinces of Avila , Cuenca , Guadalajara , Huesca , Palencia , Segovia , Teruel and Zamora : 3 MPs each
- Soria Province : 2 MPs
- Autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla : 1 MP each
Elections are made in the provinces according to closed lists, with the seats being allocated to the lists according to the D'Hondt procedure . In the autonomous cities, the MPs are determined by a relative majority. The allocation of seats takes place solely at the level of the constituencies (provinces), there is no balance of remaining votes at the national level. The nominal threshold clause is only 3% in all constituencies. In most constituencies, however, the actual percentage threshold is significantly higher due to the limited number of mandates to be awarded.
senate
In accordance with Article 69 of the Constitution and Article 165 of the Electoral Act, four senators are appointed to the Senate in each mainland province, three senators each on the islands of Gran Canaria, Mallorca and Tenerife, two senators each in the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla and two senators on the islands or archipelagos Ibiza-Formentera, Menorca, Fuerteventura, Gomera, Hierro, Lanzarote and La Palma each elected a senator. A total of 208 senators are directly elected. It's a choice of people. The voter can vote in the four-man constituencies for up to three, in the three- and two-man constituencies for up to two and in the one-man constituencies for one candidate, even spread over several election proposals ( panaschieren ). The candidates with the highest number of votes are elected.
The other members of the Senate are determined by the parliaments of the autonomous communities, with each parliament appointing a senator for every 1,000,000 or so inhabitants of the respective community.
Starting position
Since 2015, the political situation in Spain has been characterized by unstable government relationships. The election in November 2019 is the fourth election and the third early new election since 2015. After the election on December 20, 2015 , the formation of a government failed, which led to the dissolution of parliament and new elections on June 26, 2016 . Following these elections, Mariano Rajoy ( PP ) was elected Prime Minister on October 29, 2016. However, he was replaced on June 1, 2018 by a constructive vote of no confidence by Pedro Sánchez ( PSOE ). It was the first successful vote of no confidence since the constitution of 1978 came into force. In February 2019, the non-acceptance of the PSOE government's draft budget led to the dissolution of parliament and the new elections on April 28, 2019 . Since after this the election of a prime minister and thus the formation of a government did not succeed, the parliament was dissolved again, which resulted in the new election on November 10, 2019.
This unstable government situation is conditional. a. due to significant changes in the party landscape. With Podemos , Ciudadanos and most recently Vox , three new parties have been able to enter the House of Representatives since 2015. The so-called “imperfect two-party system” (bipartidismo imperfecto) that existed until 2015 : the two large parties PP and PSOE plus the small IU and regional parties has become a five-party system (plus regional parties). In the ten legislative periods before 2015, there was an absolute majority of the strongest party in five legislative periods. In the others, the strongest party only lacked an absolute majority between one mandate (PSOE, 1989) and a maximum of 20 mandates (PP, 1996). In 2015, however, there were 53 seats for the PP, 39 seats for the PP in 2016 and 53 seats for the PSOE after the election on April 28, 2019. The formation of a government is correspondingly more complicated, especially since the Catalan parties (JxCat - formerly CDC or PDeCAT - and ERC ), which before 2015 often served as “majority procurers ” at the national level, have only been eligible for this role to a limited extent because of their separatist course come.
Parties and candidates
Pedro Sánchez
(PSOE)
Orientation: Social Democracy
Pablo Casado
(PP)
Orientation: Conservatism
Albert Rivera
(Ciudadanos)
Orientation: Liberalism
Pablo Iglesias Turrión
(Unidas Podemos)
Orientation: Democratic Socialism
Santiago Abascal
(Vox)
Orientation: Right-wing populism
Íñigo Errejón
(Más país!)
Orientation: progressivism , eco-socialism
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National candidacies
PSOE
As in the three previous elections, the social democratic PSOE is running with the executive Prime Minister Sánchez as the top candidate. The PSOE is running in all autonomous communities except Catalonia , where the Partit dels Socialistes de Catalunya (PSC) is running instead .
PP
As in the April elections, Pablo Casado is the top candidate for the conservative PP. In Asturias there is a joint candidacy with the Foro Asturias (FAC), in Navarra with the Ciudadanos and the conservative Unión del Pueblo Navarro (UPN) as Navarra Suma .
Ciudadanos
The liberal Ciudadanos are running again with Albert Rivera as the top candidate. In Navarre, the Cs are running together with the PP and the UPN under the Navarre Suma list . In addition, Ciudadanos have added some members of the Unión Progreso y Democracia (UPYD) party to their lists, without this being a joint candidacy ( coalición ) of the two parties.
Unidas Podemos
Pablo Iglesias is again the top candidate of the left-wing electoral alliance Unidas Podemos (UP) around the democratic-socialist party Podemos . The joint candidacy also includes Izquierda Unida (IU) and the small parties Batzarre-Asamblea de Izquierdas and Alto Aragón en Común . The green party Equo is no longer a member of the electoral alliance, unlike in the April 2019 elections. In Catalonia there is a joint candidacy between Podemos and the Catalan left-wing party Catalunya en Comú by Ada Colau with the name En Comú Podem-Guanyem el Canvi . In Galicia, the community candidacy consists only of Podemos and IU and runs there under the name En Común-Unidas Podemos .
Vox
As in April, right-wing populist and centralist Vox is running with Santiago Abascal as the top candidate and is foregoing community candidacies.
Más País
Más País is the new name of the left-wing party Más Madrid, originally founded by the former mayor of Madrid Manuela Carmena before the regional and local elections in May 2019 . The Podemos co-founder Íñigo Errejón resigned after internal party disputes also before the local and regional elections to Más Madrid and announced the participation in the elections of November 10th under the name Más País . Más País does not run nationwide, but only in 18, mainly larger constituencies, namely:
- in the constituencies of Barcelona and the Balearic Islands alone
- in a joint candidacy with the green Equo party (which was a member of Unidas Podemos in the April 2019 elections ) under the name of Más País-Equo in the constituencies of Madrid, Murcia, La Coruña, Bizkaia, Asturias, Las Palmas, Pontevedra, Seville, Málaga, Cádiz, Granada and Santa Cruz de Tenerife
- in a joint candidacy with the member parties of the Valencian left-wing alliance Compromís ( Bloc Nacionalista Valencià , Iniciativa del Poble Valenciá , Verds Equo del País Valencià , which stood alone in the April 2019 elections and together with Podemos and IU in the 2016 elections ) under the name Més Compromís in the constituencies of Valencia, Castellón and Alicante
- in a joint candidacy with Equo and Chunta Aragonesista in the constituency of Saragossa under the name of Más País-Chunta Aragonesista-Equo
Regional parties
ERC
Oriol Junqueras was originally intended as the top candidate of the Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya . After his conviction in criminal proceedings as a result of the Catalonia crisis since 2017 (among other things as a punishment for the loss of eligibility), he was replaced as the top candidate by Gabriel Rufián.
Junts
The Catalan electoral alliance Junts per Catalunya (also JxCat or JxP for short) initially named Jordi Sànchez i Picanyol as the top candidate , who, like Junqueras, was sentenced to the penalty of losing eligibility. He was replaced by Laura Borràs as the top candidate.
EJA-PNV
The top candidate of the Basque bourgeois Partido Nacionalista Vasco (PNV-EAJ) is again Aitor Esteban.
EH Bildu
The top candidate of the left-Basque Euskal Herria Bildu is Oskar Matute.
As in the elections in April 2019, the parties Unión del Pueblo Navarro (UPN) , PP and Ciudadanos joined forces in the constituency of Navarra to form the joint candidacy for Navarra Suma . The first two places on the list are the UPN. The 3rd and 5th place are the PP and 4th place is occupied by Ciudadanos .
CCa-NC
For the election, Coalición Canaria and Nueva Canarias have joined together in a joint candidacy. The top candidate is Ana Oramas .
PRC
The Cantabrian regional party Partido Regionalista de Cantabria (PRC) , which made it into the House of Representatives for the first time in the last election, is again running with top candidate José María Mazón as the top candidate.
Gabriel Rufián (ERC)
Laura Borràs (Junts)
Aitor Esteban
(EJA-PNV)
Oskar Matute (EH Bildu)
Ana Oramas
(CCa)
José María Mazón (PRC)
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Survey
Predictions before the election
In the run-up to the elections, the polls showed that the Social Democrats of incumbent Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez were once again seen as the strongest force, but tended to lose a few seats in parliament. Hardly any changes were forecast for the alliance to the left of the PSOE, Unidos Podemos . However, relevant shifts are becoming apparent in the spectrum of right-wing parties. In the opinion of the opinion polls, the right-wing liberal Ciudadanos will be the clear loser of the election with a halving of the votes and losses of up to 45 seats. The conservative Partido Popular , on the other hand, could recover and gain around 25 seats. The right-wing populist party VOX , which duel with the left Podemos for third place, is forecast to double its mandate. The remaining votes will traditionally be divided between regional parties such as the Catalan ERC .
A government coalition with two parties beyond an unwanted PSOE-PP coalition seems to be excluded from the polls, as it was in the April election; a three-party coalition of the right-wing PP-Cs-Vox bloc (150 to 165 seats forecast, 176 needed for a majority) also seems rather unlikely.
Last polls before the election
| Institute | date | PSOE | PP | C's | UP | VOX | Regional parties |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GESOP | 11/09/2019 |
26.7% (116–122 seats) |
19.4% (83-88) |
7.9% (14-18) |
14.3% (39-44) |
14.9% (47-53) |
7.9% (23-27) |
| electopanel | 11/08/2019 |
27.1% (113) |
20.4% (90) |
7.3% (11) |
13.7% (38) |
15.5% (54) |
13.3% (41) |
| Demoscopia Servicios | 07/11/2019 |
26.6% (116) |
20.9% (93) |
7.2% (12) |
13.2% (35) |
15.7% (52) |
13.1% (41) |
| KeyData | 04/11/2019 |
27.4% (121) |
21.1% (96) |
9.5% (20) |
12.7% (34) |
12.5% (39) |
12.4% (40) |
| GI Internacional | 03/11/2019 |
28.5% (122-139) |
21.2% (94-95) |
9.5% (21-26) |
13.2% (35-40) |
9.5% (27-31) |
14.4% (39-48) |
| SocioMétrica | 11/02/2019 |
25.1% (110-119) |
20.6% (93-100) |
8.5% (15-18) |
12.9% (36-40) |
14.3% (42-48) |
13.8% (33-46) |
| Election 2019 | 04/28/2019 | 28.7% (123) |
16.7% (66) |
15.9% (57) |
14.3% (42) |
10.3% (24) |
10.2% (38) |
course
Results
The turnout in this second parliamentary election within six months fell by 5.5 percentage points to 66.23 percent.
The social democratic PSOE lost three seats, but remained by far the strongest party. To the left of the PSOE, Unidas Podemos suffered more significant losses with seven lost seats. The Más País party came to the left in parliament .
There have been more pronounced shifts on the right-hand side of the party spectrum. The right-wing liberal Ciudadanos were the clear loser in the election; the party lost 47 seats and fell behind the Catalan separatist party ERC (13 seats) with just ten seats in parliament . The Christian conservative PP (+22 seats) and the right-wing populist party Vox (+28), on the other hand, were able to gain significant votes and mandates.
Among the Catalan parties, the left ERC lost slightly (-2% in Catalonia), while the bourgeois junta gained slightly (+1.6% in Catalonia). The left-separatist anti-system party CUP , which ran for the first time in all-Spanish elections, received 6.4% and two seats.
In the Basque parties, the bourgeois PNV held its six seats, while the left EH Bildu was able to win one seat in the constituency of Navarre and is now represented by five MPs. Coalición Canaria (this time in joint candidacy with Nueva Canarias ) held its two mandates, just as the Cantabrian PRC held one seat. The left-Galician BNG has been represented in parliament for the first time since 2011 (8% share of the vote in Galicia). ¡Teruel Existe! Is a new member of parliament . who ran as a group of voters only in the Aragonese province of Teruel, but became the strongest force there with 26.7%. She sees herself as a representative of rural España vacía ("empty Spain"), which feels neglected by politics and increasingly dependent on the development of metropolises and centers.
House of Representatives
National result
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| Political party | be right | Seats | ||||
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| number | % | +/- | number | +/- | ||
| Partido Socialista Obrero Español (PSOE) 1 | 6,792,199 | 28.00 | -0.67 | 120 | -3 | |
| Partido Popular (PP) 2 | 5,047,040 | 20.81 | +4.12 | 89 | +22 | |
| VOX | 3,656,979 | 15.08 | +4.82 | 52 | +28 | |
| Unidas Podemos (UP) 3 | 3,119,364 | 12.86 | −1.46 | 35 | -7 | |
| Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (ERC) 4 | 880.734 | 3.63 | -0.28 | 13 | -2 | |
| Ciudadanos (Cs) 5 | 1,650,318 | 6.80 | −9.06 | 10 | -47 | |
| JuntsxCat 6 | 530.225 | 2.19 | +0.28 | 8th | +1 | |
| Eusko Alderdi Jeltzalea (EAJ-PNV) 7 | 379.002 | 1.567 | +0.05 | 6th | ± 0 | |
| EH Bildu | 277,621 | 1.14 | +0.15 | 5 | +1 | |
| Más País 8 | 582.306 | 2.40 | +1.74 | 3 | +2 | |
| Candidatura d'Unitat Popular (CUP) | 246.971 | 1.02 | +1.02 | 2 | +2 | |
| Coalición Canaria - Nueva Canarias 9 | 124.289 | 0.51 | -0.15 | 2 | ± 0 | |
| Navarra Suma ( UPN / Ciudadanos / PP) 10 | 99,078 | 0.41 | ± 0.00 | 2 | ± 0 | |
| Bloque Nacionalista Galego (BNG) | 120,456 | 0.50 | +0.14 | 1 | +1 | |
| Partido Regionalista de Cantabria (PRC) | 68,830 | 0.28 | +0.08 | 1 | ± 0 | |
| ¡Teruel Existe! | 19,761 | 0.08 | +0.08 | 1 | +1 | |
| Partido Animalista (PACMA) | 228.856 | 0.94 | -0.31 | - | - | |
| Recortes Cero-Grupo Verde | 35,042 | 0.14 | −0.04 | - | - | |
| Por Un Mundo Más Justo (PUM + J) | 27,272 | 0.11 | +0.03 | - | - | |
| Others | 155,370 | 0.64 | +0.35 | - | - | |
| blank ballot 11 | 217.227 | 0.90 | +0.14 | - | - | |
| total | 24.258.228 | 100.0 | - | 350 | - | |
| Valid votes | 24.258.228 | 98.98 | +0.03 | |||
| Invalid votes | 249,487 | 1.02 | -0.03 | |||
| voter turnout | 24,507,715 | 66.23 | −5.53 | |||
| Non-voters | 12,493,664 | 33.77 | +5.53 | |||
| Eligible voters | 37.001.379 | |||||
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1result for both elections including Partit dels Socialistes de Catalunya (PSC-PSOE) in Catalonia (constituencies of Barcelona, Girona, Lleida and Tarragona).
2result for both elections including the joint candidacy PP- FAC in Asturias . The result of the community candidacy UPN / PP / Ciudadanos ( Navarra Suma ) in the constituency of Navarre is shown separately for both elections.
3Community candidacy for Unidas Podemos from Podemos , Izquierda Unida (IU) and the small left parties Batzarre-Asamblea de Izquierdas and Alto Aragón en Común in all constituencies except those of the regions of Catalonia and Galicia; Catalonia: Community candidature En Comú Podem (Podemos, Catalunya en Comú ); Galicia: Community candidate for En Común-Unidas Podemos ( Podemos , IU). Comparison with Unidas Podemos ( Podemos , Izquierda Unida (IU), Equo , Batzarre-Asamblea de Izquierdas , Alto Aragón en Común ), En Comú Podem ( Podemos , ICV , EUiA and Barcelona en Comú ; Catalonia) and En Común-Unidas Podemos ( Podemos , IU, Equo , Mareas en Común ; in Galicia) in the April 2019 election.
4thIn both elections in Catalonia ERC joint candidacy with the small party Sobiranistes and in the Valencia region sole candidacy by ERC. Without Veus PROGRESSISTES ( PSM-Entesa , Més per Menorca , Els Verds de Mallorca-Iniciativa Verds , ERC, Guanyem Eivissa ; constituency Balearic Islands; April 2019) or Més Esquerra ( PSM-Entesa , Més per Menorca , Els Verds de Mallorca- Iniciativa Verds , ERC; constituency Balearic Islands; November 2019).
5Result of Ciudadanos; The result of the joint candidacy UPN / PP / Ciudadanos ( Navarra Suma ) in the constituency of Navarre is shown separately for both elections.
6thFormal joint candidacy of PDeCAT with the small party Junts per Catalunya . Comparison with the result of JuntsxCat (joint candidacy of PDeCAT and CDC ) in the April 2019 election.
7thEAJ-PNV result in the Basque Autonomous Community (constituencies of Gipuzkoa, Bizkaia and Araba). In Navarra, EAJ-PNV was part of the Geroa Bai community candidacy in both the April 2019 and November 2019 elections (result shown in the table under "Other").
8thSole candidacy of Más País in the constituencies of Barcelona and Balearic Islands; Joint candidacy of Más País and the green party Equo (which was a member of Unidas Podemos in the April 2019 elections ) in the constituencies of Madrid, Murcia, La Coruña, Bizkaia, Asturias, Las Palmas, Pontevedra, Seville, Málaga, Cádiz, Granada and Santa Cruz de Tenerife; Joint candidacy by Más País , Equo and Chunta Aragonesista in the Zaragoza constituency; Més Compromís joint candidacy by Más País and Bloc Nacionalista Valencià , Iniciativa del Poble Valenciá , Verds Equo del País Valencià in the constituencies of Valencia, Alicante and Castellón; without the sole candidacy of Chunta Aragonesista in the constituency of Huesca. Comparison with the result of the Compromís Community candidacy ( Bloc Nacionalista Valencià , Iniciativa del Poble Valenciá , Verds Equo del País Valencià ) in the April 2019 election.
9Joint candidacy of Coalición Canaria and Nueva Canarias . Comparison with the combined result of both parties in the April 2019 election, for which they had run individually.
10In both elections, UPN, PP and Ciudadanos run jointly in Navarra.
11Empty ballot envelopes or unlabelled ballot papers (Votos en Blanco) are considered valid under Spanish voting law (Art. 96.5 LOREG) and therefore count e.g. B. also when calculating the percentage threshold. The percentages shown refer to the total number of valid votes (including votos en blanco ).
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- Share of votes of the parties according to constituencies
Regional results
The result (votes and seats) in the individual autonomous communities (regions) and the two autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla:
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| Andalusia | 33.37% 25 |
20.54% 15 |
20.39% 12 |
13.06% 6 |
- | 8.09% 3 |
- | - | - | 1.31% 0 |
- | - | - | - | - | - | 61 |
| Aragon | 30.70% 6 |
23.91% 4 |
17.00% 1 |
10.79% 1 |
- | 8.54% 0 |
- | - | - | 3.30% 0 |
- | - | - | - | - | 2.83% 1 |
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| Asturias | 33.24% 3 |
23.24% 2 |
15.90% 1 |
15.96% 1 |
- | 6.66% 0 |
- | - | - | 2.26% 0 |
- | - | - | - | - | - | 7th |
| Balearic Islands | 25.43% 2 |
22.86% 2 |
17.08% 2 |
18.10% 2 |
- | 7.36% 0 |
- | - | - | 2.34% 0 |
- | - | - | - | - | - | 8th |
| Basque Country | 19.19% 4 |
8.82% 1 |
2.43% 0 |
15.41% 3 |
- | 1.11% 0 |
- | 32.07% 6 |
18.70% 4 |
0.72% 0 |
- | - | - | - | - | - | 18th |
| Extremadura | 38.34% 5 |
26.03% 3 |
16.83% 2 |
9.08% 0 |
- | 7.58% 0 |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 10 |
| Galicia | 31.28% 10 |
31.94% 10 |
7.80% 0 |
12.66% 2 |
- | 4.32% 0 |
- | - | - | 1.53% 0 |
- | - | - | 8.13% 1 |
- | - | 23 |
| Canaries | 28.88% 5 |
20.79% 4 |
12.44% 2 |
14.69% 2 |
- | 5.37% 0 |
- | - | - | 1.57% 0 |
- | 13.12% 2 |
- | - | - | - | 15th |
| Cantabria | 23.21% 1 |
25.86% 2 |
14.95% 1 |
8.64% 0 |
- | 4.76% 0 |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 21.10% 1 |
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| Castile-La Mancha | 33.09% 9 |
26.88% 7 |
21.92% 5 |
9.19% 0 |
- | 6.83% 0 |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 21st |
| Castile and Leon | 31.24% 12 |
31.67% 13 |
16.67% 6 |
9.29% 0 |
- | 7.56% 0 |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 31 |
| Catalonia | 20.51% 12 |
7.43% 2 |
6.30% 2 |
14.18% 7 |
22.56% 13 |
5.61% 2 |
13.68% 8 |
- | - | 1.08% 0 |
6.35% 2 |
- | - | - | - | - | 48 |
| La Rioja | 34.88% 2 |
34.28% 2 |
11.45% 0 |
9.83% 0 |
- | 7.06% 0 |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4th |
| Madrid | 26.88% 10 |
24.92% 10 |
18.35% 7 |
13.00% 5 |
- | 9.05% 3 |
- | - | - | 5.64% 2 |
- | - | - | - | - | - | 37 |
| Murcia | 24.76% 3 |
26.51% 3 |
27.99% 3 |
8.83% 1 |
- | 7.43% 0 |
- | - | - | 1.86% 0 |
- | - | - | - | - | - | 10 |
| Navarre | 25.04% 1 |
- | 5.61% 0 |
16.60% 1 |
- | - | - | - | 16.96% 1 |
- | - | - | 29.62% 2 |
- | - | - | 5 |
| Valencia | 27.60% 10 |
23.07% 8 |
18.48% 7 |
13.36% 4 |
- | 7.73% 2 |
- | - | - | 6.93% 1 |
- | - | - | - | - | - | 32 |
| Ceuta | 31.29% 0 |
22.27% 0 |
35.29% 1 |
3.87% 0 |
- | 3.39% 0 |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Melilla | 16.39% 0 |
29.59% 1 |
18.42% 0 |
2.57% 0 |
- | 2.59% 0 |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Spain (total) | 28.00% 120 |
20.82% 89 |
15.09% 52 |
12.84% 35 |
3.61% 13 |
6.79% 10 |
2.19% 8 |
1.57% 6 |
1.15% 5 |
2.40% 3 |
1.01% 2 |
0.51% 2 |
0.41% 2 |
0.50% 1 |
0.28% 1 |
0.08% 1 |
350 |
Factions
The following fractions were formed:
- PSOE (Grupo Parlamentario Socialista) : 120 members
- PP (Grupo Parlamentario Popular) : 88 members
- VOX (Grupo Parlamentario VOX): 52 members
- Unidas Podemos ( Grupo Parlamentario Confederal de Unidas Podemos-En Comú Podem-Galicia en Común) : 35 members
- Grupo Parlamentario Plural : 12 members
- ERC (Grupo Parlamentario Republicano) : 13 members
- Ciudadanos (Grupo Parlamentario Ciudadanos) : 10 members
- EAJ-PNV (Grupo Parlamentario Vasco - EAJ-PNV) : 6 members
- EH Bildu (Grupo Parlamentario Euskal Herria Bildu): 9 members
According to the House of Representatives' rules of procedure, the other members of parliament are grouped together in the Grupo Mixto ("mixed parliamentary group"). So these are MEPs who have not joined a political group or have not been accepted by any political group. This also includes MPs from parties who do not meet the minimum requirements (mandates or share of votes) for forming a parliamentary group.
In the 14th legislative period, the Grupo Mixto would have had 21 members ( JuntsxCat , Más Pais , Compromís , CUP, Coalición Canaria-Nueva Canarias , UPN, BNG, PRC, ¡Teruel Existe! ). In order to avoid such a large Grupo Mixto, the MPs from JuntsxCat , Más Pais , Compromís and BNG joined forces to form the Grupo Parlamentario Plural , which is, however, only a community of convenience.
The Grupo Mixto therefore has only nine MPs (CUP, UPN, Coalición Canaria , Nueva Canarias , ¡Teruel Existe ! , PRC and the MP from Foro Asturias who was elected via the joint list with the PP ).
senate
| Political party | Senators total | Direct dial | Indirectly | |
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| Partido Socialista Obrero Español (PSOE) | 113 | 93 | 20th | |
| Partido Popular (PP) | 96 | 83 | 13 | |
| ERC | 13 | 11 | 2 | |
| EAJ-PNV | 10 | 9 | 1 | |
| Ciudadanos (C's) | 8th | - | 8th | |
| JuntsxCat | 5 | 3 | 2 | |
| VOX | 3 | 2 | 1 | |
| Navarra Suma ( UPN / Ciudadanos / PP) | 3 | 3 | - | |
| Unidas Podemos (Andalucía Adelante / En Comú Podem) | 2 | - | 2 | |
| EH Bildu | 2 | 1 | 1 | |
| ¡Teruel Existe! | 2 | 2 | - | |
| CC - PNC | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Más País | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Més per Mallorca | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Compromis | 1 | - | 1 | |
| PRC | 1 | - | 1 | |
| PAR | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Geroa Bai | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Agrupación Socialista Gomera (ASG) | 1 | 1 | - | |
| total | 265 | 208 | 57 | |
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Factions
The following fractions were formed:
- PSOE ( Grupo Parlamentario Socialista ): 113 members
- PP ( Grupo Parlamentario Popular en el Senado ): 97 members (including a senator elected from the Navarra Suma list )
- ERC-EH Bildu (Grupo Parlamentario Esquerra Republicana-Euskal Herria Bildu): 15 members
- EAJ-PNV (Grupo Parlamentario Vasco en el Senado - EAJ-PNV) : 10 members
- Ciudadanos ( Grupo Parlamentario Ciudadanos ): 9 members (including a senator elected from the Navarra Suma list )
- Adelante Andalucía-Més per Mallorca-Más Madrid-Compromís-Geroa Bai-En Comú Podem ( Grupo Parlamentario Izquierda Confederal ): 6 members
- JuntsxCat-Coalición Canaria ( Grupo Parlamentario Nacionalista en el Senado Junts per Catalunya-Coalición Canaria / Partido Nacionalista Canario ): 6 members
- As in the House of Representatives, senators who do not belong to any other parliamentary group are brought together in Grupo Mixto , which has 9 members (the three senators from VOX, the two senators from ¡Teruel Existe ! , the UPN senator from the community candidacy Navarra Suma , the Senator of the PRC, the Senator of the PAR and the Senator of the ASG).
After the election
On November 11, the day after the election, Albert Rivera resigned as Ciudadanos chairman after the party lost over 80% of its seats in the House of Representatives and a third of its seats in the Senate and did not accept his seat in the House of Representatives.
Immediately after the election, the PSOE ruled out a grand coalition with the PP. On November 12th, PSOE and Unidas Podemos (UP) announced a preliminary agreement on a proposed coalition government. The PSOE and UP together only have 155 of the 176 required seats in Congress. Such an alliance could only get a majority with the support of some regional parties, since both the PP and Ciudadanos have ruled out a toleration of a minority government or an abstention in a second ballot that may be necessary for the election of the Prime Minister.
Parallel to the struggle to shape the government, there were further legal disputes about the immunity of the former Catalan Vice President Junqueras and a sequel to the dispute over the separatist symbols on public buildings in Catalonia: Because of repeated violations by the regional government of a judicial ordinance the Catalan Prime Minister Quim Torra first sentenced by the Catalan Supreme Court to a fine and disqualification from office. Even before the judgment became final, the Spanish central electoral committee decided at the beginning of January 2020 that Torras' mandate in the regional parliament had to be suspended due to disobedience and that he could therefore not continue to exercise his office as prime minister. This led u. a. on rifts among the Catalan separatist parties: while the left-wing ERC indicated that a new government under Sanchez would be tolerated, JxCat around Prime Minister Torra and the former Catalan Prime Minister Puigdemont, who had fled the judiciary, strictly rejected any rapprochement.
On December 11, 2019, the King charged Sanchez with the formation of a government. On January 5, 2020, the first ballot to appoint the new government took place in the House of Representatives; As expected, the PSOE around Pedro Sanchez did not have the required absolute majority (166 for-votes, 165 against-votes and 18 abstentions); the second ballot took place on January 7th, and only a simple (relative) majority of the votes cast was required. The ERC abstained by 13 votes in response to the announcement of a political dialogue on the future of autonomy in Catalonia (as did the nationalist Basque EH Bildu with 5 votes), which made it possible for Sanchez to be reappointed in a coalition government with Podemos (with a total of 167 Yes votes: PSOE, Unidas Podemos , EAJ-PNV, Más País , Compromís , Nueva Canarias , BNG, ¡Teruel Existe!; 165 votes against: PP, VOX, Ciudadanos , JuntsxCat , CUP, Coalición Canaria , Navarra Suma , PRC and 18 abstentions: ERC, EH Bildu ).
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January 5, 2020 required: absolute majority (176/350) |
Yes | 120 | 26th | 6th | 6th | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
166/350 |
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165/350 |
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18/350 |
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January 7, 2020 required: simple majority |
Yes | 120 | 26th | 7th | 6th | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
167/350 |
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| No | 88 | 52 | 10 | 8th | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
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Web links
- Website of the Spanish Ministry of the Interior on the elections
- Website of the Junta Electoral Central (Central Electoral Committee) for the elections on November 10, 2019
Individual evidence
- ^ Junta Electoral Central: Official final result. December 2, 2019, accessed December 3, 2019 (Spanish).
- ↑ GESOP pre-election survey , on sondeos.elperiodic.ad
- ↑ electopanel pre-election survey , on electomania.es
- ↑ Demscopia Servicios area code survey , on esdiario.com
- ↑ KeyData pre-election survey , on publico.es
- ↑ GI Internacional prefix survey on publico.es
- ↑ SocioMétrica pre-election survey , on publico.es
- ^ Junta Electoral Central: Official final result. December 2, 2019, accessed December 3, 2019 (Spanish).
- ↑ a b Resultados Elecciones Generales Noviembre 2019 , on resultados.10noviembre2019.es
- ↑ El Pais: La Junta Electoral acuerda destituir a Quim Torra tras su condena por desobediencia , January 3, 2020 (Spanish)
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