April 2019 Spanish general election
The April 2019 Spanish general election was held on Sunday, 28 April 2019, to elect the 13th Cortes Generales of the Kingdom of Spain. All 350 seats in the Congress of Deputies were up for election, as well as 208 of 266 seats in the Senate.
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| Registered | 36,898,883  1.0% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Turnout | 26,478,140 (71.8%)5.3 pp | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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With a turnout of 71.8%, the controlling party PSOE of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez won a victory—the first for the party in a nationwide election in eleven years—with 28.7% of the vote and 123 seats. In the Senate, the PSOE became the largest party in the chamber for the first time since 1995, winning its first majority of seats in that chamber since the 1989 election.[1]
However, no party won an outright majority and the top three winners of this race had the option for a coalition government. To prevent this, Prime Minister Sánchez ordered a new election to be held seven months later.[2][3]
Notelist
- ↑ Results for Citizens–Party of the Citizenry in the 2016 election, not including Navarre.
- ↑ Results for People's Party in the 2016 election, not including Navarre.
- ↑ Total figures include results for En Comú Podem and En Común.
- ↑ At the time of the election, both Oriol Junqueras and Jordi Sànchez were in preventive detention in Soto del Real (Madrid).
April 2019 Spanish General Election Media
Outgoing prime minister Mariano Rajoy (right) congratulating incoming prime minister Pedro Sánchez (left) upon losing the no confidence vote on 1 June 2018.
Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announcing a snap election for 28 April 2019.
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References
- ↑ (in es) Sánchez gana, se hunde Casado y Rivera se postula como líder de la oposición. 28 April 2019. https://www.elconfidencial.com/elecciones-generales/2019-04-29/sanchez-gana-se-hunde-casado-y-el-gobierno-dependera-de-junqueras-o-rivera_1970690/. Retrieved 30 April 2019.
- ↑ (in es) El PSOE gana las elecciones pero necesitará pactar y el PP sufre una debacle histórica. 28 April 2019. https://elpais.com/politica/2019/04/28/actualidad/1556466636_096682.html. Retrieved 30 April 2019.
- ↑ Spain's socialist PSOE party mulls next move after victory without majority. 29 April 2019. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/29/spain-socialist-psoe-victory-without-majority-podemos-peoples-party-far-right. Retrieved 4 May 2019.
