Spain 1986 general election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Spanish Socialist Workers' Party won 184 of 350 seats with 44.3% of the vote; 70.5% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 9.5 points on 1982.
- Spain
- Held
Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spanish Socialist Workers' Party | 184 | −18 | 44.3 | −4.0 | 8,901,718 |
| People's Partywith Popular Democratic Party and Liberal Party | 105 | −2 | 26.1 | −0.3 | 5,247,677 |
| Democratic and Social Centre | 19 | +17 | 9.3 | +6.4 | 1,861,912 |
| Convergence and Union | 18 | +6 | 5.0 | +1.4 | 1,014,258 |
| Communist Party / United Left | 7 | +3 | 4.7 | +0.6 | 935,504 |
| Basque Nationalist Party | 6 | −2 | 1.5 | −0.3 | 309,610 |
| Batasuna | 5 | +3 | 1.1 | +0.1 | 231,722 |
| Workers' Party of Spain–Communist Unity | 0 | 1.1 | 229,695 | ||
| Euskadiko Ezkerra | 2 | +1 | 0.5 | +0.1 | 107,053 |
| Unnamed party with one seat | 1 | 0.4 | 79,972 | ||
| Aragonese Party | 1 | 0.4 | 73,004 | ||
| Canary Islands Group | 1 | 0.3 | 65,664 | ||
| Valencian Union | 1 | 0.3 | 64,403 |
± is the change against the Spain 1982 general election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Spanish Socialist Workers' Party 8,901,718
- People's Party 5,247,677
- Democratic and Social Centre 1,861,912
- Convergence and Union 1,014,258
- Communist Party / United Left 935,504
- Basque Nationalist Party 309,610
- Batasuna 231,722
- Workers' Party of Spain–Communist Unity 229,695
- Euskadiko Ezkerra 107,053
- Unnamed party with one seat 79,972
- Aragonese Party 73,004
- Canary Islands Group 65,664
- Valencian Union 64,403
ParlGov lists parties with at least 1 percent of the vote or 2 seats, so the rows do not add up to the valid votes. How we read it.
ParlGov counts an alliance's votes and seats under its first party: such a row names the allies it counts.
Share of the vote
Turnout
70.5% of the 29,117,613 registered voters cast a ballot (20,524,858 ballots), down 9.5 points on 1982. 20,081,733 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Spanish Socialist Workers' Party44.3% of votes52.6% of seats
- People's Party26.1% of votes30.0% of seats
- Democratic and Social Centre9.3% of votes5.4% of seats
- Convergence and Union5.0% of votes5.1% of seats
- Communist Party / United Left4.7% of votes2.0% of seats
- Basque Nationalist Party1.5% of votes1.7% of seats
- Batasuna1.1% of votes1.4% of seats
- Euskadiko Ezkerra0.5% of votes0.6% of seats
- Aragonese Party0.4% of votes0.3% of seats
- Canary Islands Group0.3% of votes0.3% of seats
- Valencian Union0.3% of votes0.3% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 7.3 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.6 by votes and 2.7 by seats; Spanish Socialist Workers' Party led People's Party by 18.2 points of the vote. How these are computed.
Sources and licence
Sources and licence
- ParlGov 2024 Release (Döring and Manow), Harvard Dataverse (source). Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal
- Wikidata, party colours (P465) (source). Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal
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