Spain 2009 European Parliament election
Final results from ParlGov, read : People's Party won 23 of 50 seats with 42.1% of the vote; 44.9% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 0.2 points on 2004.
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European Parliament result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| People's Party | 23 | −1 | 42.1 | +0.9 | 6,670,377 |
| Spanish Socialist Workers' Party | 21 | −4 | 38.8 | −4.7 | 6,141,784 |
| Coalition for the Europe of the Peopleswith Basque Nationalist Party | 2 | 0 | 5.1 | −0.1 | 808,246 |
| Communist Party / United Leftwith Initiative for Catalonia Greens | 2 | 0 | 3.7 | −0.4 | 588,248 |
| Union, Progress and Democracy | 1 | 2.9 | 451,866 | ||
| Europe of the Peoples–Greenswith Galician Nationalist Bloc | 1 | 0 | 2.5 | 0.0 | 394,938 |
| Iniciativa Internacionalista | 0 | 1.1 | 178,121 |
± is the change against the Spain 2004 European Parliament election, party by party.
Votes by party
- People's Party 6,670,377
- Spanish Socialist Workers' Party 6,141,784
- Coalition for the Europe of the Peoples 808,246
- Communist Party / United Left 588,248
- Union, Progress and Democracy 451,866
- Europe of the Peoples–Greens 394,938
- Iniciativa Internacionalista 178,121
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
44.9% of the 35,492,567 registered voters cast a ballot (15,935,147 ballots), down 0.2 points on 2004. 15,615,296 of them were valid votes. The lowest turnout of this kind in our data, which begins in 1987. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- People's Party42.1% of votes46.0% of seats
- Spanish Socialist Workers' Party38.8% of votes42.0% of seats
- Coalition for the Europe of the Peoples5.1% of votes4.0% of seats
- Communist Party / United Left3.7% of votes4.0% of seats
- Union, Progress and Democracy2.9% of votes2.0% of seats
- Europe of the Peoples–Greens2.5% of votes2.0% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 3.8 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.0 by votes and 2.6 by seats; People's Party led Spanish Socialist Workers' Party by 3.3 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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