Spain General election 2015 — Results

Election day: December 20, 2015

Figures from official electoral authorities · last checked 2 Nov 2026, 17:19 UTC
  • People's Party (PP): 28.71%, 123 seats
  • Socialists (PSOE): 22.00%, 90 seats
  • Podemos (+ confluences): 20.68%, 69 seats
  • Citizens (Cs): 13.94%, 40 seats
  • Republican Left (ERC): 2.40%, 9 seats
  • Democracy & Freedom (DiL): 2.25%, 8 seats
  • Basque Nationalists (PNV): 1.20%, 6 seats
  • United Left (IU): 3.68%, 2 seats

Turnout: 69.67%

About this election

The electoral system

The 350 members of the Congress of Deputies are elected by closed-list proportional representation using the D'Hondt method, with the province as the constituency. Each of the 50 provinces is guaranteed two seats before the remainder are allocated by population (Ceuta and Melilla elect one each), and a 3% threshold applies within every province. Because around half the provinces are small and return only three to six deputies, the system strongly favours the largest parties and parties whose support is geographically concentrated, while a party with evenly spread support — as Citizens and later Vox would discover — wins far fewer seats than its national vote share implies.

Compiled and reviewed from official results by ElectioMap. See our data methodology.

In numbers

  • 6.71 points separated People's Party (PP) from Socialists (PSOE) — 1,691,650 votes.
  • People's Party (PP) converted 28.71% of the vote into 123 of 350 seats (35.14%), 6.43 points more than its vote share.
  • The top two shared 50.71% of the vote between them, and 4 lists cleared 5%.
  • Support for People's Party (PP) ranged from 44.86% in Ceuta to 11.12% in Cataluña — a spread of 33.74 points across 18 regions, and it led in 14 of 19.

Calculated from the official figures on this page and from the other elections of this type in our archive.

Understanding this election

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