Popular Unity (Spain)

This article is about the 2015–2016 party. For the pro-Catalan independence party, see Popular Unity Candidacy.

Popular Unity (Spanish: Unidad Popular) was a political and electoral alliance in Spain. The alliance was organized in 2015 to contest the 2015 general election. Alberto Garzón was its lead candidate.^[3][4] In the 2015 election, it won two seats in the 350-seat Congress of Deputies.^[5]

Popular Unity Unidad Popular
Abbreviation	IU–UPeC
Candidate	Alberto Garzón
Founded	22 October 2015
Dissolved	9 May 2016
Merger of	IU CHA Batzarre CLI–AS IzCa IAS Segoviemos
Preceded by	Plural Left
Succeeded by	Unidos Podemos
Ideology	Socialism Republicanism Feminism Anti-capitalism[1][2]
Political position	Left-wing
Website
unidadpopular.es
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Composition

Party		Scope
	United Left (IU)	—
	Popular Unity in Common (UPeC)	—
	Aragonese Union (CHA)	Aragon
	Asturian Left (IAS)	Asturias
	Left (I–E)	Navarre
	Building the Left–Socialist Alternative (CLI–AS)	—
	Segoviemos (Segoviemos)	Segovia
	Castilian Left (IzCa)	Valladolid

Electoral performance

Congress of Deputies

Congress of Deputies
Election	Seats	Vote	%	Status	Leader
2015	2 / 350	926,783 (#5)	3.68	Opposition	Alberto Garzón

Senate

Senate
Election	Seats	Leader
2015	0 / 208	Alberto Garzón