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Election Result, Spain October 24, 2016,
Spain general election 2015 Result Vote share Parliament seat Opinion Exit Poll Schedule, Spain Latest Opinion Poll, Spanish general election Result 2015, 2015 Spanish Congress of Deputies Senate election results
Electoral system
The Spanish legislature, the Cortes Generales (Spanish for General Courts), was composed of two chambers at the time of the 2015 election:
- The lower chamber, the Congress of Deputies.
- The upper chamber, the Senate.
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| Date | Event |
| 26-Oct-15 | The Council of Ministers convenes to approve the decree ordering the Cortes Generales' dissolution and the calling of the general election on the advice of the Prime Minister. Subsequently, the decree is ratified by the King. |
| 27-Oct-15 | The decree enters into force by its publication in the BOE. Parliament is officially dissolved and the general election is called. Official start of the electoral period. |
| 06-Nov-15 | Deadline for parties intending to contest the election in coalition with other parties to communicate it to the appropriate electoral boards. |
| 11–16 November 2015 | Time limit for parties intending to contest the election to submit their candidacies to the Electoral Board. |
| 18-Nov-15 | Submitted candidacies are provisionally published in the BOE. |
| 21-Nov-15 | Deadline for Spanish electors residing abroad to apply for voting. |
| 21–25 November 2015 | Sweepstakes to appoint members of the polling stations. |
| 24-Nov-15 | Candidacies for parties, coalitions and groups of voters standing for election are proclaimed and published in the BOE after a period of notification and amendment of possible irregularities in 20–22 November 2015. |
| 04-Dec-15 | Official start of the electoral campaign at 00:00 CET (UTC+01:00). |
| 10-Dec-15 | Deadline for electors residing in Spain to apply for postal voting. |
| 15–19 December 2015 | Legal ban on opinion polling publication in Spanish territory. |
| 18-Dec-15 | Official end of the electoral campaign at 24:00 CET (UTC+01:00). |
| 19-Dec-15 | Reflection day. |
| 20-Dec-15 | Election Day. Polls open from 09:00 CET to 20:00 CET. Provisional vote count officially starting from 21:00 CET. From this day, the incumbent government assumes caretaker functions until a new government is formed. |
| 13-Jan-16 | The elected Congress and Senate convene. |
| From the Cortes' convening but without a defined term, the King calls for a round of talks with political parties' representatives so that, depending on each other parliamentary representation, nominate a candidate for Prime Minister, which is submitted to Congress for an investiture debate and subsequent vote. | |
| The nominated candidate must muster an absolute majority of votes in the first ballot, or a relative majority in a second ballot to be held 48 hours after the first, in order to be elected. If within two months from the first investiture vote no candidate has obtained the confidence of Congress, the Cortes Generales are dissolved and a new general election called. | |
Opinion polls
7 December debate
| Polling firm/Link |
Sample size |
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| Redondo & Asociados | 600 | 30.7 | 16.4 | 23.9 | 22.0 |
| CIS | 6,242 | 18.3 | 8.9 | 31.3 | 12.0 |
14 December debate
| Polling firm/Link |
Sample size |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Atresmedia | 28.8 | 33.7 | |
| CIS | 6,242 | 26.1 | 26.9 |
Spanish general election Results 2015
| Party | Popular vote | Seats | |||
| Votes | % | ±pp | Won | +/− | |
| People’s Party (PP) | 72,36,965 | 28.71 | –16.33 | 123 | –64 |
| Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) | 55,45,315 | 22 | –6.76 | 90 | –20 |
| 52,12,711 | 20.68 | New | 69 | ||
| Citizens–Party of the Citizenry (C’s) | 35,14,528 | 13.94 | New | 40 | 40 |
| United Left–Popular Unity in Common (IU–UPeC) | 9,26,783 | 3.68 | –1.81 | 2 | –6 |
| Republican Left of Catalonia–Catalonia Yes (ERC–CatSí) | 6,01,782 | 2.39 | 1.33 | 9 | 6 |
| Democracy and Freedom: Convergence–Democrats–Realignment (DL) | 5,67,253 | 2.25 | –0.36 | 8 | –2 |
| Basque Nationalist Party (EAJ/PNV) | 3,02,316 | 1.2 | –0.13 | 6 | 1 |
| Animalist Party Against Mistreatment of Animals (PACMA) | 2,20,369 | 0.87 | 0.45 | 0 | ±0 |
| Basque Country Unite (EH Bildu) | 2,19,125 | 0.87 | –0.50 | 2 | –5 |
| Union, Progress and Democracy (UPyD) | 1,55,153 | 0.62 | –4.08 | 0 | –5 |
| Canarian Coalition–Canarian Nationalist Party (CC–PNC) | 81,917 | 0.32 | –0.27 | 1 | –1 |
| Us–Galician Candidacy (Nós) | 70,863 | 0.28 | –0.48 | 0 | –2 |
| Democratic Union of Catalonia (unio.cat)[d] | 65,388 | 0.26 | –1.30 | 0 | –6 |
| Vox (Vox) | 58,114 | 0.23 | New | 0 | ±0 |
| Zero Cuts–Green Group (Recortes Cero–GV) | 48,675 | 0.19 | New | 0 | ±0 |
| More for Majorca (Més) | 33,877 | 0.13 | ±0.00 | 0 | ±0 |
| Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain (PCPE) | 31,179 | 0.12 | 0.01 | 0 | ±0 |
| Yes to the Future (GBai) | 30,642 | 0.12 | –0.05 | 0 | –1 |
| 1,00,226 | 0.4 | — | 0 | ±0 | |
| Blank ballots | 1,88,132 | 0.75 | –0.62 | ||
| Total | 2,52,11,313 | 100 | 350 | ±0 | |
| Valid votes | 2,52,11,313 | 99.11 | 0.4 | ||
| Invalid votes | 2,27,219 | 0.89 | –0.40 | ||
| Votes cast / turnout | 2,54,38,532 | 69.67 | 0.73 | ||
| Abstentions | 1,10,73,316 | 30.33 | –0.73 | ||
| Registered voters | 3,65,11,848 | ||||
| Vote share | |
| Pary | Votes |
| PP | 28.71% |
| PSOE | 22.00% |
| Podemos | 20.68% |
| C's | 13.94% |
| IU–UPeC | 3.67% |
| ERC–CatSí | 2.39% |
| DL | 2.25% |
| EAJ/PNV | 1.20% |
| EH Bildu | 0.87% |
| CC–PNC | 0.32% |
| Others | 3.22% |
| Blank ballots | 0.75% |
| Parliamentary seats | |
| PP | 35.14% |
| PSOE | 25.71% |
| Podemos | 19.71% |
| C's | 11.43% |
| ERC–CatSí | 2.57% |
| DL | 2.29% |
| EAJ/PNV | 1.71% |
| IU–UPeC | 0.57% |
| EH Bildu | 0.57% |
| CC–PNC | 0.29% |
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