2004 European Parliament election in Spain

2004 European Parliament election in Spain
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All 54[a] Spanish seats in the European Parliament
Opinion polls
Registered34,706,044 Green arrow up2.6%
Turnout15,666,491 (45.1%)
Red arrow down17.9 pp
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Josep Borrell Jaime Mayor Oreja Ignasi Guardans
Party PSOE PP Galeusca
Alliance PES EPP–ED ELDR (ALDE)
EPP
Leader since 2 May 2004 22 April 2004 18 January 2004
Leader's seat Spain Spain Spain
Last election 24 seats, 35.3% 27 seats, 39.7% 4 seats, 8.0%[b]
Seats won 25 24 2
Seat change Green arrow up1 Red arrow down3 Red arrow down2
Popular vote 6,741,112 6,393,192 798,816
Percentage 43.5% 41.2% 5.1%
Swing Green arrow up8.2 pp Green arrow up1.5 pp Red arrow down2.9 pp
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Willy Meyer Bernat Joan Alejandro Rojas-Marcos
Party IU–ICV–EUiA Europe of the Peoples (2004) CE
Alliance GUE/NGL
Greens/EFA 		Greens/EFA ELDR (ALDE)
Greens/EFA
Leader since 8 May 2004 17 April 1999 2004
Leader's seat Spain Spain Spain
Last election 4 seats, 6.5%[c] 2 seats, 1.1%[d] 2 seats, 3.4%[e]
Seats won 2 1 0
Seat change Red arrow down2 Red arrow down1 Red arrow down2
Popular vote 643,136 380,709 197,231
Percentage 4.1% 2.5% 1.3%
Swing Red arrow down2.4 pp Green arrow up1.4 pp Red arrow down2.1 pp

The 2004 European Parliament election in Spain was held on Sunday, 13 June 2004, as part of the EU-wide election to elect the 6th European Parliament. All 54 seats allocated to Spain as per the Treaty of Nice were up for election.[a]

The election saw a close race between the centre-left Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), which had accessed power earlier in April in the wake of the 11M train bombings leading up to the 14 March general election, and the centre-right People's Party (PP), still reeling from its election defeat. It marked the only time the PSOE emerged as the largest party in a European Parliament election in Spain between 1989 and 2019. It also saw a considerable drop in turnout down to 45.1%, the lowest up until that point—a figure that would be outmatched by the turnout in the two subsequent European Parliament elections, 2009 (44.9%) and 2014 (43.8%).
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