Turnout: 46.39%
About this election
Spain's European Parliament election of 9 June 2024 was the first nationwide test of Pedro Sánchez's second government, formed the previous November with the support of the Catalan independence parties and the recently passed amnesty law. The People's Party (PP), led by Alberto Núñez Feijóo, finished first for the first time in a Spanish European election since 2014, but its margin over the PSOE was narrower than the right had hoped, and the headline surprise was the breakthrough of a brand-new anti-establishment list.
As in every European election, Spain voted as a single nationwide constituency under closed-list D'Hondt proportional representation with no threshold, electing 61 members of the European Parliament. The single-constituency rule again allowed small and regional parties to combine their support into joint national lists and let a low-profile newcomer turn a few hundred thousand scattered votes into seats — something impossible under the province-based general-election system.
The campaign was overshadowed by the amnesty law for those involved in the 2017 Catalan independence bid, which the right framed as a corrupt bargain to keep Sánchez in power, and by a brief episode in which Sánchez publicly considered resigning after legal proceedings were opened against his wife. Into this charged atmosphere stepped Alvise Pérez, an agitator who ran a campaign waged almost entirely on social media under the banner "Se Acabó La Fiesta" (The Party's Over).
The PP won 34.21% and 22 seats, ahead of the PSOE on 30.19% and 20 — a clear but not crushing lead. Vox took 9.63% and 6 seats; the pro-independence Ahora Repúblicas list 4.91% and 3; Sumar 4.67% and 3; and Alvise Pérez's Se Acabó La Fiesta 4.58% and 3, a startling debut. Podemos, running separately from Sumar, won 3.30% and 2, Junts 2.52% and 1, and the PNV-led coalition 1.63% and 1. Turnout fell to 46.39%.
The narrow PP win allowed Feijóo to claim momentum against the government without delivering the decisive blow the opposition wanted, and Sánchez's coalition survived intact. The most discussed outcomes were the fragmentation of the left — with Podemos and Sumar now competing — and the arrival of Se Acabó La Fiesta, whose success showed that a purely online, anti-system campaign could win representation, mirroring the rise of hard-right and populist outsiders elsewhere in Europe in the 2024 cycle.
The seats follow the national vote, but the map of first-placed parties showed the PP leading across most of the country — the interior, the north and Madrid — while the PSOE led in parts of the south, and EH Bildu finished first in the Basque Country, overtaking the PNV. Catalonia was led by the Socialists, with the independence vote split between Ahora Repúblicas and Junts.
Official results from the Spanish Ministry of the Interior (infoelectoral.interior.gob.es). Vote shares are of valid votes; the regional map is coloured by the leading party in each autonomous community.
Compiled and reviewed by Bartłomiej Paruzel, Election Data Analyst, from official results. See our data methodology.