Spain 1993 general election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Spanish Socialist Workers' Party won 159 of 350 seats with 39.1% of the vote; 76.4% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 6.7 points on 1989.
- Spain
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Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spanish Socialist Workers' Party | 159 | −16 | 39.1 | −0.8 | 9,150,083 |
| People's Party | 141 | +34 | 35.0 | +9.1 | 8,201,463 |
| Communist Party / United Left | 18 | +1 | 9.6 | +0.5 | 2,253,722 |
| Convergence and Union | 17 | −1 | 5.0 | −0.1 | 1,165,783 |
| Democratic and Social Centre | 0 | −14 | 1.8 | −6.2 | 414,740 |
| Basque Nationalist Party | 5 | 0 | 1.3 | 0.0 | 291,448 |
| Canarian Coalition | 4 | 0.9 | 207,077 | ||
| Batasuna | 2 | −2 | 0.9 | −0.2 | 206,876 |
| Republican Left of Catalonia | 1 | 0.8 | 189,632 | ||
| Aragonese Party | 1 | 0 | 0.6 | +0.3 | 144,544 |
| Eusko Alkartasuna | 1 | −1 | 0.6 | −0.1 | 129,293 |
| Valencian Union | 1 | −1 | 0.5 | −0.2 | 112,341 |
± is the change against the Spain 1989 general election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Spanish Socialist Workers' Party 9,150,083
- People's Party 8,201,463
- Communist Party / United Left 2,253,722
- Convergence and Union 1,165,783
- Democratic and Social Centre 414,740
- Basque Nationalist Party 291,448
- Canarian Coalition 207,077
- Batasuna 206,876
- Republican Left of Catalonia 189,632
- Aragonese Party 144,544
- Eusko Alkartasuna 129,293
- Valencian Union 112,341
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.
Share of the vote
Turnout
76.4% of the 31,030,511 registered voters cast a ballot (23,718,816 ballots), up 6.7 points on 1989. 23,403,185 of them were valid votes. The highest turnout since 1982 in our data. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Spanish Socialist Workers' Party39.1% of votes45.4% of seats
- People's Party35.0% of votes40.3% of seats
- Communist Party / United Left9.6% of votes5.1% of seats
- Convergence and Union5.0% of votes4.9% of seats
- Basque Nationalist Party1.3% of votes1.4% of seats
- Canarian Coalition0.9% of votes1.1% of seats
- Batasuna0.9% of votes0.6% of seats
- Republican Left of Catalonia0.8% of votes0.3% of seats
- Aragonese Party0.6% of votes0.3% of seats
- Eusko Alkartasuna0.6% of votes0.3% of seats
- Valencian Union0.5% of votes0.3% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 6.8 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.5 by votes and 2.7 by seats; Spanish Socialist Workers' Party led People's Party by 4.1 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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