2009 European Parliament election in Spain

2009 European Parliament election in Spain

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All 54[a] Spanish seats in the European Parliament
Opinion polls
Registered	35,492,567 2.3%
Turnout	15,935,147 (44.9%) 0.2 pp
First party Second party Third party   Leader Jaime Mayor Oreja Juan Fernando López Aguilar Ramon Tremosa Party PP PSOE CEU Alliance EPP PES ALDE EPP Leader since 22 April 2004 22 November 2008 24 January 2009 Leader's seat Spain Spain Spain Last election 24 seats, 41.2% 25 seats, 43.5% 2 seats, 5.2%[b] Seats won 24 23 3 Seat change 0 2 1 Popular vote 6,670,377 6,141,784 808,246 Percentage 42.1% 38.8% 5.1% Swing 0.9 pp 4.7 pp 0.1 pp   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Willy Meyer Francisco Sosa Wagner Oriol Junqueras Party IU UPyD Europe of the Peoples–Greens Alliance GUE/NGL Greens/EFA NI Greens/EFA Leader since 8 May 2004 3 September 2008 21 February 2009 Leader's seat Spain Spain Spain Last election 2 seats, 4.1% Did not contest 1 seat, 3.4%[c] Seats won 2 1 1 Seat change 0 1 0 Popular vote 588,248 451,866 394,938 Percentage 3.7% 2.9% 2.5% Swing 0.4 pp New party 0.9 pp
Winner strength by province Winner strength by autonomous community

The 2009 European Parliament election in Spain was held on Sunday, 7 June 2009, as part of the EU-wide election to elect the 7th European Parliament. All 50 seats allocated to Spain as per the Treaty of Nice—54 after the Treaty of Lisbon came into force on 1 December 2011—were up for election.

The election saw the first national victory for the People's Party (PP) since the 2000 Spanish general election, scoring 42.1% of the share in its best showing in a European Parliament election to date, as well as its third best in a national election overall. The ruling Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), on the other hand, fell to second place with 38.8% of the votes after a cycle of electoral victories starting in 2004. As in the previous election, the result was close, as both parties came within three percentage points of each other. The Coalition for Europe (CEU), the alliance of regionalist and peripheral nationalist parties that came to succeed the late Galeusca–Peoples of Europe coalition, remained in third place with 5.1% of the votes, whereas United Left (IU)—which ran under The Left banner—saw its worst showing in a nationwide election up to that point, barely surpassing 3.7% of the share. On the other hand, the new Union, Progress and Democracy (UPyD) party had a strong performance by comfortably doubling its result from the 2008 Spanish general election, being the only national party that saw a net gain of votes compared to that electoral contest. The abertzale left-supported Internationalist Initiative–Solidarity among Peoples (II–SP) candidacy, which had been initially banned from running by the Supreme Court of Spain but later allowed by the Constitutional Court on the grounds that there was not enough evidence of its ties to the ETA terrorist group,^[1][2] scored 1.1% of the votes nationwide but failed to secure any parliamentary representation.

As the 2009 election was held under the provisions of the Treaty of Nice, Spain was allocated 50 MEP seats which, come Election Day, were distributed as follows: PP 23, PSOE 21, CEU 2, IU–ICV 2, UPyD 1 and EdP–V 1. After the Treaty of Lisbon came into force on 1 December 2011, Spain's delegation was increased to 54, granting additional seats to the PSOE (two) and to PP and CEU (one each) according to their June 2009 election results.

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