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
Registered35,492,567 Green arrow up2.3%
Turnout15,935,147 (44.9%)
Red arrow down0.2 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 Blue arrow right0 Red arrow down2 Green arrow up1
Popular vote 6,670,377 6,141,784 808,246
Percentage 42.1% 38.8% 5.1%
Swing Green arrow up0.9 pp Red arrow down4.7 pp Red arrow down0.1 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 Blue arrow right0 Green arrow up1 Blue arrow right0
Popular vote 588,248 451,866 394,938
Percentage 3.7% 2.9% 2.5%
Swing Red arrow down0.4 pp New party Red arrow down0.9 pp

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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  1. ^ "El Supremo anula la lista de Iniciativa Internacionalista para las elecciones del 7-J". El Mundo (in Spanish). Madrid. 16 May 2009. Retrieved 23 January 2019.
  2. ^ "El Constitucional permite presentarse a la lista anulada por el Supremo". El País (in Spanish). Madrid. 21 May 2009. Retrieved 23 January 2019.