Spain 2008 general election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Spanish Socialist Workers' Party won 169 of 350 seats with 44.4% of the vote; 73.8% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 1.8 points on 2004.
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Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spanish Socialist Workers' Party | 169 | +5 | 44.4 | +1.1 | 11,289,335 |
| People's Party | 154 | +6 | 40.1 | +1.8 | 10,278,010 |
| Communist Party / United Leftwith Initiative for Catalonia Greens | 2 | −3 | 3.8 | −1.2 | 969,946 |
| Convergence and Union | 10 | 0 | 3.1 | −0.2 | 779,425 |
| Basque Nationalist Party | 6 | −1 | 1.2 | −0.5 | 306,128 |
| Union, Progress and Democracy | 1 | 1.2 | 306,079 | ||
| Republican Left of Catalonia | 3 | −5 | 1.2 | −1.4 | 298,139 |
| Galician Nationalist Bloc | 2 | 0 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 212,543 |
| Canarian Coalition | 2 | −1 | 0.7 | −0.2 | 174,629 |
| Largest party without seats | 0 | 0.3 | 68,679 | ||
| Nafarroa Bai | 1 | 0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 62,398 |
± is the change against the Spain 2004 general election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Spanish Socialist Workers' Party 11,289,335
- People's Party 10,278,010
- Communist Party / United Left 969,946
- Convergence and Union 779,425
- Basque Nationalist Party 306,128
- Union, Progress and Democracy 306,079
- Republican Left of Catalonia 298,139
- Galician Nationalist Bloc 212,543
- Canarian Coalition 174,629
- Largest party without seats 68,679
- Nafarroa Bai 62,398
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
73.8% of the 35,073,179 registered voters cast a ballot (25,900,439 ballots), down 1.8 points on 2004. 25,448,681 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Spanish Socialist Workers' Party44.4% of votes48.3% of seats
- People's Party40.1% of votes44.0% of seats
- Convergence and Union3.1% of votes2.9% of seats
- Basque Nationalist Party1.2% of votes1.7% of seats
- Republican Left of Catalonia1.2% of votes0.9% of seats
- Communist Party / United Left3.8% of votes0.6% of seats
- Galician Nationalist Bloc0.8% of votes0.6% of seats
- Canarian Coalition0.7% of votes0.6% of seats
- Union, Progress and Democracy1.2% of votes0.3% of seats
- Nafarroa Bai0.3% of votes0.3% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 4.6 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 2.8 by votes and 2.3 by seats; Spanish Socialist Workers' Party led People's Party by 4.3 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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