Spain 1996 general election
Final results from ParlGov, read : People's Party won 156 of 350 seats with 39.2% of the vote; 77.4% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 0.9 points on 1993.
- Spain
- Held
Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| People's Party | 156 | +15 | 39.2 | +4.1 | 9,716,006 |
| Spanish Socialist Workers' Party | 141 | −18 | 38.0 | −1.1 | 9,425,678 |
| Communist Party / United Left | 21 | +3 | 10.6 | +1.0 | 2,639,774 |
| Convergence and Union | 16 | −1 | 4.6 | −0.3 | 1,151,633 |
| Basque Nationalist Party | 5 | 0 | 1.3 | 0.0 | 318,951 |
| Canarian Coalition | 4 | 0 | 0.9 | 0.0 | 220,418 |
| Galician Nationalist Bloc | 2 | 0.9 | 220,147 | ||
| Batasuna | 2 | 0 | 0.7 | −0.1 | 181,304 |
| Republican Left of Catalonia | 1 | 0 | 0.7 | −0.1 | 167,641 |
| Andalusian Party | 0 | 0.5 | 134,800 | ||
| Eusko Alkartasuna | 1 | 0 | 0.5 | −0.1 | 115,861 |
| Valencian Union | 1 | 0 | 0.4 | −0.1 | 91,575 |
± is the change against the Spain 1993 general election, party by party.
Votes by party
- People's Party 9,716,006
- Spanish Socialist Workers' Party 9,425,678
- Communist Party / United Left 2,639,774
- Convergence and Union 1,151,633
- Basque Nationalist Party 318,951
- Canarian Coalition 220,418
- Galician Nationalist Bloc 220,147
- Batasuna 181,304
- Republican Left of Catalonia 167,641
- Andalusian Party 134,800
- Eusko Alkartasuna 115,861
- Valencian Union 91,575
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
77.4% of the 32,531,833 registered voters cast a ballot (25,172,058 ballots), up 0.9 points on 1993. 24,802,931 of them were valid votes. The highest turnout since 1982 in our data. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- People's Party39.2% of votes44.6% of seats
- Spanish Socialist Workers' Party38.0% of votes40.3% of seats
- Communist Party / United Left10.6% of votes6.0% of seats
- Convergence and Union4.6% of votes4.6% of seats
- Basque Nationalist Party1.3% of votes1.4% of seats
- Canarian Coalition0.9% of votes1.1% of seats
- Galician Nationalist Bloc0.9% of votes0.6% of seats
- Batasuna0.7% of votes0.6% of seats
- Republican Left of Catalonia0.7% of votes0.3% of seats
- Eusko Alkartasuna0.5% of votes0.3% of seats
- Valencian Union0.4% of votes0.3% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 5.3 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.2 by votes and 2.7 by seats; People's Party led Spanish Socialist Workers' Party by 1.2 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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