Elections in Spain - Definition and Overview

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Elections in Spain gives information on election and election results in Spain. An election is a process in which a vote is held to elect candidates to an office. It is the mechanism by which a democracy fills elective offices in the legislature, and sometimes the executive and judiciary, and in which electorates choose local government officials.

See election for a more comprehensive discussion and the List of democracy and elections-related topics for an overview on related topics.

Spain elects on national level a legislature. The General Courts (Las Cortes Generales) have two chambers. The Congress of Deputies (Congreso de los Diputados) has 350 members, elected for a four year term by proportional representation in each province. The Senate (Senado) has 248 leden, 208 members elected for a four year term in four-member constituencies and 40 members designated by the regional legislatures. Spain has a two-party system, which means that there are two dominant political parties , with extreme difficulty for anybody to achieve electoral success under the banner of any other party. Regional parties can be strong in the autonomous comunities like Catalonia and the Basque Country.

Results

• Spanish general election, 1977
• Spanish general election, 1979
• Spanish general election, 1982
• Spanish general election, 1986
• Spanish general election, 1989
• Spanish general election, 1993
• Spanish general election, 1996
• Spanish general election, 2000
• Spanish general election, 2004

See also

• Electoral calendar
• Electoral system

External links

• Electionworld (http://www.electionworld.org/spain.htm)
• Adam Carr's Election Archive (http://psephos.adam-carr.net/countries/s/spain/)
• Parties and elections (http://www.parties-and-elections.de/spain.html)