Spain General election 2019 — Results
Election day: April 28, 2019
- Socialists (PSOE): 28.67%, 123 seats
- People's Party (PP): 16.69%, 66 seats
- Citizens (Cs): 15.86%, 57 seats
- Unidas Podemos (UP): 14.32%, 42 seats
- Vox: 10.26%, 24 seats
- Republican Left (ERC): 3.91%, 15 seats
- Together for Catalonia (JxCat): 1.91%, 7 seats
- Basque Nationalists (PNV): 1.51%, 6 seats
Turnout: 71.76%
About this election
The electoral system
The 350 deputies were elected by D'Hondt proportional representation across the 50 provinces and Ceuta and Melilla, with a 3% provincial threshold. The fragmentation of the right between three parties — the PP, Citizens and the new Vox — meant that, despite winning a combined plurality of votes, they converted them less efficiently into seats than the more concentrated PSOE, illustrating again how the province-based system rewards a large first party.
Compiled and reviewed from official results by ElectioMap. See our data methodology.
In numbers
- 11.98 points separated Socialists (PSOE) from People's Party (PP) — 3,139,489 votes.
- Socialists (PSOE) converted 28.67% of the vote into 123 of 350 seats (35.14%), 6.47 points more than its vote share.
- The top two shared 45.36% of the vote between them, and 5 lists cleared 5%.
- Socialists (PSOE) moved +6.04 points against the 2016 general election (22.63% → 28.67%).
- Support for Socialists (PSOE) ranged from 38.07% in Extremadura to 19.90% in País Vasco — a spread of 18.17 points across 19 regions, and it led in 15 of 19.
Calculated from the official figures on this page and from the other elections of this type in our archive.
Understanding this election
- Why Turnout Figures Disagree — why two sources publish different turnout for one election
- D’Hondt vs Sainte-Laguë — how a divisor formula turns vote shares into seats
- How Electoral Systems Work Around the World — first-past-the-post, proportional and mixed systems, with real numbers