Spain 2011 general election
Final results from ParlGov, read : People's Party won 186 of 350 seats with 41.9% of the vote; 68.9% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 4.9 points on 2008.
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Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| People's Party | 186 | +32 | 41.9 | +1.8 | 10,866,566 |
| Spanish Socialist Workers' Party | 110 | −59 | 29.2 | −15.2 | 7,003,511 |
| Communist Party / United Leftwith Initiative for Catalonia Greens | 11 | +9 | 7.0 | +3.2 | 1,686,040 |
| Union, Progress and Democracy | 5 | +4 | 4.8 | +3.6 | 1,143,225 |
| Convergence and Union | 16 | +6 | 4.2 | +1.2 | 1,015,691 |
| Eusko Alkartasuna | 7 | 1.4 | 334,498 | ||
| Basque Nationalist Party | 5 | −1 | 1.4 | +0.1 | 324,317 |
| Republican Left of Catalonia | 3 | 0 | 1.1 | −0.1 | 256,985 |
| Greens Equo | 0 | 0.9 | 216,748 | ||
| Galician Nationalist Bloc | 2 | 0 | 0.8 | −0.1 | 184,037 |
| Canarian Coalition | 2 | 0 | 0.6 | −0.1 | 143,881 |
| Nafarroa Bai | 1 | 0 | 0.2 | −0.1 | 42,415 |
| Unnamed party with one seat | 2 |
± is the change against the Spain 2008 general election, party by party.
Votes by party
- People's Party 10,866,566
- Spanish Socialist Workers' Party 7,003,511
- Communist Party / United Left 1,686,040
- Union, Progress and Democracy 1,143,225
- Convergence and Union 1,015,691
- Eusko Alkartasuna 334,498
- Basque Nationalist Party 324,317
- Republican Left of Catalonia 256,985
- Greens Equo 216,748
- Galician Nationalist Bloc 184,037
- Canarian Coalition 143,881
- Nafarroa Bai 42,415
- Unnamed party with one seat
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
68.9% of the 35,779,491 registered voters cast a ballot (24,666,441 ballots), down 4.9 points on 2008. 24,015,425 of them were valid votes. The lowest turnout since 2000 in our data. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- People's Party41.9% of votes53.1% of seats
- Spanish Socialist Workers' Party29.2% of votes31.4% of seats
- Convergence and Union4.2% of votes4.6% of seats
- Communist Party / United Left7.0% of votes3.1% of seats
- Eusko Alkartasuna1.4% of votes2.0% of seats
- Union, Progress and Democracy4.8% of votes1.4% of seats
- Basque Nationalist Party1.4% of votes1.4% of seats
- Republican Left of Catalonia1.1% of votes0.9% of seats
- Galician Nationalist Bloc0.8% of votes0.6% of seats
- Canarian Coalition0.6% of votes0.6% of seats
- Nafarroa Bai0.2% of votes0.3% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 8.9 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.7 by votes and 2.6 by seats; People's Party led Spanish Socialist Workers' Party by 12.7 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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