November 2019 Spanish general election

The November 2019 Spanish general election was held on Sunday, 10 November 2019, to elect the 14th Cortes Generales of the Kingdom of Spain. All 350 seats in the Congress of Deputies were up for election, as well as 208 of 265 seats in the Senate.

November 2019 Spanish general election

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All 350 seats in the Congress of Deputies and 208 (of 265) seats in the Senate 176 seats needed for a majority in the Congress of Deputies
Opinion polls
Registered	37,001,379 0.3%
Turnout	24,507,715 (66.2%) (5.5 pp)
First party Second party Third party   Leader Pedro Sánchez Pablo Casado Santiago Abascal Party PSOE PP Vox Leader's seat Madrid Madrid Madrid Last election 123 seats, 28.7% 66 seats, 16.7% 24 seats, 10.3% Seats won 120 89 52 Seat change 3 23 28 Popular vote 6,792,199 5,047,040 3,656,979 Percentage 28.0% 20.8% 15.1% Swing 0.7 pp 4.1 pp 4.8 pp   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Pablo Iglesias Gabriel Rufián Albert Rivera Party Unidas Podemos[lower-alpha 1] ERC Cs Leader's seat Madrid Barcelona Madrid Last election 42 seats, 14.3% 15 seats, 3.9% 57 seats, 15.9% Seats won 35 13 10 Seat change 7 2 47 Popular vote 3,119,364 880,734 1,650,318 Percentage 12.9% 3.6% 6.8% Swing 1.4 pp 0.3 pp 9.1 pp
Constituency results map for the Congress of Deputies Autonomous community results map for the Congress of Deputies
Prime Minister before election Pedro Sánchez (acting) PSOE Elected Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez PSOE

Voter turnout was the lowest since 1975. The opposition party People's Party (PP) won a few seats while the far-right Vox party won many seats, taking away from the Citizens (Cs).^[1]

However, the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party won the majority of the seats and popular vote and formed a coalition government with the Unidas Podemos party.^[2][3][4]

Notes

1. Total figures include results for En Comú Podem and En Común.

References

1. "Ciudadanos pierde 47 escaños tras el 10-N y sufre el quinto mayor batacazo electoral de la historia de la democracia: estos son los otros cuatro". Business Insider (in Spanish). 11 November 2019. Retrieved 15 January 2020.
2. "El primer Gobierno de coalición que marcaría un nuevo hito en la historia de España" (in Spanish). RTVE. 12 November 2019. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
3. "Pedro Sánchez se rodea de perfiles técnicos frente al peso político de Unidas Podemos". eldiario.es (in Spanish). 10 January 2020. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
4. Rodon, Toni (2020). "The Spanish electoral cycle of 2019: a tale of two countries". West European Politics. 43 (7): 1490–1512. doi:10.1080/01402382.2020.1761689. ISSN 0140-2382. S2CID 219424822.