Spain 2000 general election
Final results from ParlGov, read : People's Party won 183 of 350 seats with 45.2% of the vote; 68.7% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 8.7 points on 1996.
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Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| People's Party | 183 | +27 | 45.2 | +6.1 | 10,321,178 |
| Spanish Socialist Workers' Party | 125 | −16 | 34.7 | −3.3 | 7,918,752 |
| Communist Party / United Left | 8 | −13 | 5.5 | −5.1 | 1,263,043 |
| Convergence and Union | 15 | −1 | 4.3 | −0.4 | 970,421 |
| Basque Nationalist Party | 7 | +2 | 1.6 | +0.3 | 353,953 |
| Galician Nationalist Bloc | 3 | +1 | 1.3 | +0.5 | 306,268 |
| Canarian Coalition | 4 | 0 | 1.1 | +0.2 | 248,261 |
| Andalusian Party | 1 | +1 | 0.9 | +0.4 | 206,255 |
| Republican Left of Catalonia | 1 | 0 | 0.8 | +0.2 | 194,715 |
| Initiative for Catalonia Greens | 1 | 0.5 | 119,290 | ||
| Eusko Alkartasuna | 1 | 0 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 100,742 |
| Aragonese Council | 1 | 0.3 | 75,356 | ||
| Largest party without seats | 0 | 0.3 | 72,162 |
± is the change against the Spain 1996 general election, party by party.
Votes by party
- People's Party 10,321,178
- Spanish Socialist Workers' Party 7,918,752
- Communist Party / United Left 1,263,043
- Convergence and Union 970,421
- Basque Nationalist Party 353,953
- Galician Nationalist Bloc 306,268
- Canarian Coalition 248,261
- Andalusian Party 206,255
- Republican Left of Catalonia 194,715
- Initiative for Catalonia Greens 119,290
- Eusko Alkartasuna 100,742
- Aragonese Council 75,356
- Largest party without seats 72,162
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
68.7% of the 33,969,640 registered voters cast a ballot (23,339,490 ballots), down 8.7 points on 1996. 22,814,467 of them were valid votes. The lowest turnout since 1979 in our data. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- People's Party45.2% of votes52.3% of seats
- Spanish Socialist Workers' Party34.7% of votes35.7% of seats
- Convergence and Union4.3% of votes4.3% of seats
- Communist Party / United Left5.5% of votes2.3% of seats
- Basque Nationalist Party1.6% of votes2.0% of seats
- Canarian Coalition1.1% of votes1.1% of seats
- Galician Nationalist Bloc1.3% of votes0.9% of seats
- Andalusian Party0.9% of votes0.3% of seats
- Republican Left of Catalonia0.8% of votes0.3% of seats
- Initiative for Catalonia Greens0.5% of votes0.3% of seats
- Eusko Alkartasuna0.4% of votes0.3% of seats
- Aragonese Council0.3% of votes0.3% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 5.6 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.0 by votes and 2.5 by seats; People's Party led Spanish Socialist Workers' Party by 10.5 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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