2019 European Parliament election in Spain

2019 European Parliament election in Spain
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All 59[a] Spanish seats in the European Parliament
Opinion polls
Registered37,248,888 Green arrow up2.0%
Turnout22,619,984 (60.7%)
Green arrow up16.9 pp
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Josep Borrell Dolors Montserrat Luis Garicano
Party PSOE PP Cs
Alliance S&D EPP ALDE (RE)
Leader since 26 February 2019 1 April 2019 29 December 2018
Last election 14 seats, 23.0% 16 seats, 26.1% 6 seats, 9.7%[b]
Seats won 21 13 8
Seat change Green arrow up7 Red arrow down3 Green arrow up2
Popular vote 7,369,789 4,519,205 2,731,825
Percentage 32.9% 20.2% 12.2%
Swing Green arrow up9.9 pp Red arrow down5.9 pp Green arrow up2.5 pp
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader María Eugenia Rodríguez Palop Jorge Buxadé Oriol Junqueras[d]
Party Podemos–IU Vox Ahora Repúblicas
Alliance GUE/NGL
Greens/EFA 		ECR Greens/EFA
GUE/NGL
Leader since 21 March 2019 21 April 2019 29 September 2018
Last election 11 seats, 18.0%[c] 0 seats, 1.6% 3 seats, 6.1%[e]
Seats won 6 4 3
Seat change Red arrow down5 Green arrow up4 Blue arrow right0
Popular vote 2,258,857 1,393,684 1,252,139
Percentage 10.1% 6.2% 5.6%
Swing Red arrow down7.9 pp Green arrow up4.6 pp Red arrow down0.5 pp

The 2019 European Parliament election in Spain was held on Sunday, 26 May 2019, as part of the EU-wide election to elect the 9th European Parliament. All 54 seats allocated to Spain as per the Treaty of Lisbon—59 after Brexit was formalized on 31 January 2020—were up for election.[2] The election was held simultaneously with regional elections in twelve autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain.

Held one month after the 28 April 2019 general election, the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez scored a landslide victory—as well as the first win for the party in a European Parliament election in 15 years, also with Josep Borrell as its main candidate—by achieving 32.9% of the share and 20 seats, a result which allowed it to become the largest national delegation within the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats. Concurrently, the opposition People's Party (PP) suffered a severe setback and scored its worst result ever in a European Parliament election, but slightly improved on its general election results by achieving 20.2% of the vote and 12 seats. Citizens (Cs), which had integrated Union, Progress and Democracy (UPyD) within its lists ahead of the election, became the third most-voted party of the country, but at 12.2% and 7 seats it only slightly improved on the combined Cs–UPyD results in 2014. Unidas Podemos Cambiar Europa (English: "United We Can Change Europe"), the alliance of Podemos and United Left (IU) suffered a considerable drop from both parties' past results, being reduced to 10.1% and 6 seats. Far-right Vox performed well below expectations after disappointing results for the party in the 2019 general election, scoring 6.2% of the share and 3 seats.[3]

Afterwards, and as a result of the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union coming into effect on 31 January 2020, five additional seats were allocated to Spain's MEP delegation, which were re-distributed by granting one each to PSOE, PP, Cs, Vox and Junts according to their May 2019 election results.

  1. ^ "The European Council establishes the composition of the European Parliament". European Council. 29 June 2018. Retrieved 11 July 2024.
  2. ^ "Real Decreto 206/2019, de 1 de abril, por el que se convocan elecciones de Diputados al Parlamento Europeo" (PDF). Boletín Oficial del Estado (in Spanish) (79): 33948–33950. 2 April 2019. ISSN 0212-033X. Retrieved 11 November 2023.
  3. ^ "El PSOE arrasa en el Parlamento Europeo con una subida de seis escaños". El Mundo (in Spanish). 26 May 2019. Retrieved 29 May 2019.


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