2000 Spanish general election

2000 Spanish general election
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All 350 seats in the Congress of Deputies and 208 (of 259) seats in the Senate
176 seats needed for a majority in the Congress of Deputies
Opinion polls
Registered33,969,640 Green arrow up4.4%
Turnout23,339,490 (68.7%)
Red arrow down8.7 pp
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader José María Aznar Joaquín Almunia Xavier Trias
Party PP PSOE–p CiU
Leader since 4 September 1989 21 June 1997 20 August 1999
Leader's seat Madrid Madrid Barcelona
Last election 156 seats, 38.8% 141 seats, 37.6% 16 seats, 4.6%
Seats won 183 125 15
Seat change Green arrow up27 Red arrow down16 Red arrow down1
Popular vote 10,321,178 7,918,752 970,421
Percentage 44.5% 34.2% 4.2%
Swing Green arrow up5.7 pp Red arrow down3.4 pp Red arrow down0.4 pp
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Francisco Frutos Iñaki Anasagasti José Carlos Mauricio
Party IU EAJ/PNV CC
Leader since 7 December 1998 1986 1996
Leader's seat Madrid Biscay Las Palmas
Last election 19 seats, 9.4%[a] 5 seats, 1.3% 4 seats, 0.9%
Seats won 8 7 4
Seat change Red arrow down11 Green arrow up2 Blue arrow right0
Popular vote 1,263,043 353,953 248,261
Percentage 5.4% 1.5% 1.1%
Swing Red arrow down3.9 pp Green arrow up0.2 pp Green arrow up0.2 pp
Map of Spain showcasing seat distribution by Congress of Deputies constituency
Map of Spain showcasing winning party's strength by constituency
Map of Spain showcasing winning party's strength by autonomous community
Prime Minister before election

José María Aznar
PP

Prime Minister after election

José María Aznar
PP

The 2000 Spanish general election was held on Sunday, 12 March 2000, to elect the 7th Cortes Generales of the Kingdom of Spain. All 350 seats in the Congress of Deputies were up for election, as well as 208 of 259 seats in the Senate.

The incumbent People's Party (PP) of Prime Minister José María Aznar secured an unpredicted absolute majority in the Congress of Deputies, obtaining 183 out of 350 seats and increasing its margin of victory with the opposition Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) to 2.4 million votes.[1] The PSOE did not profit from a pre-election agreement with United Left (IU) and lost 1.6 million votes and 16 seats, coupled to the 1.4 million votes and 13 seats lost by IU. Such an alliance was said to prompt tactical voting for the PP, which also benefited from economic growth, a moderate stance throughout the legislature and internal struggles within the opposition parties. For the first time since the Spanish transition to democracy, the PP results exceeded the combined totals for PSOE and IU.[2] PSOE leader Joaquín Almunia announced his resignation immediately after results were known.[3]

Regional and peripheral nationalist parties improved their results, except for Convergence and Union (CiU)—which had been in electoral decline for a decade—and Herri Batasuna/Euskal Herritarrok (EH), which urged to boycott the election and called for their supporters to abstain in the Basque Country and Navarre.[4][5] The Basque Nationalist Party (PNV) benefitted from EH's absence and gained two seats, whereas both Canarian Coalition (CC) and the Galician Nationalist Bloc (BNG) had strong showings in their respective regions. Initiative for Catalonia (IC), which had split from IU in 1997, clinged on to parliamentary representation but suffered from the electoral competition with United and Alternative Left (EUiA), IU's newly-founded regional branch in Catalonia which failed to secure any seat. This would be the first and only general election in which both parties would contest each other.

This election featured some notable feats: this was the first absolute majority the PP obtained in a general election, with its best result in both popular vote share and seats up until then, a result only exceeded in 2011. In contrast, the PSOE got its worst election result in 21 years. This was also the second time a party received more than 10 million votes, the last time being in 1982, when 10.1 million voters voted for Felipe González's PSOE. The voters' turnout registered was one of the lowest in democratic Spain for Spanish election standards, with only 68.7% of the electorate casting a vote.

Overview

Electoral system

The Spanish Cortes Generales were envisaged as an imperfect bicameral system. The Congress of Deputies had greater legislative power than the Senate, having the ability to vote confidence in or withdraw it from a prime minister and to override Senate vetoes by an absolute majority of votes. Nonetheless, the Senate possessed a few exclusive (yet limited in number) functions—such as its role in constitutional amendment—which were not subject to the Congress' override.[6][7] Voting for the Cortes Generales was on the basis of universal suffrage, which comprised all nationals over 18 years of age and in full enjoyment of their political rights.[8][9]

For the Congress of Deputies, 348 seats were elected using the D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional representation, with an electoral threshold of three percent of valid votes—which included blank ballots—being applied in each constituency. Seats were allocated to constituencies, corresponding to the provinces of Spain, with each being allocated an initial minimum of two seats and the remaining 248 being distributed in proportion to their populations. Ceuta and Melilla were allocated the two remaining seats, which were elected using plurality voting.[10][11] The use of the electoral method resulted in an effective threshold based on the district magnitude and the distribution of votes among candidacies.[12]

As a result of the aforementioned allocation, each Congress multi-member constituency was entitled the following seats:[13]

Seats Constituencies
34 Madrid
31 Barcelona
16 Valencia
13 Seville
11 Alicante
10 Málaga
9 A Coruña, Asturias, Biscay, Cádiz, Murcia
8 Pontevedra
7 Balearic Islands, Córdoba, Granada, Las Palmas, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Zaragoza
6 Badajoz, Guipúzcoa, Jaén, Tarragona
5 Almería, Cáceres, Cantabria, Castellón, Ciudad Real, Girona, Huelva, León, Navarre, Toledo, Valladolid
4 Álava, Albacete, Burgos, La Rioja, Lleida, Lugo, Ourense, Salamanca
3 Ávila, Cuenca, Guadalajara, Huesca, Palencia, Segovia, Soria, Teruel, Zamora

For the Senate, 208 seats were elected using an open list partial block voting system, with electors voting for individual candidates instead of parties. In constituencies electing four seats, electors could vote for up to three candidates; in those with two or three seats, for up to two candidates; and for one candidate in single-member districts. Each of the 47 peninsular provinces was allocated four seats, whereas for insular provinces, such as the Balearic and Canary Islands, districts were the islands themselves, with the larger—Majorca, Gran Canaria and Tenerife—being allocated three seats each, and the smaller—Menorca, Ibiza–Formentera, Fuerteventura, La Gomera, El Hierro, Lanzarote and La Palma—one each. Ceuta and Melilla elected two seats each. Additionally, autonomous communities could appoint at least one senator each and were entitled to one additional senator per each million inhabitants.[14][15]

Election date

The term of each chamber of the Cortes Generales—the Congress and the Senate—expired four years from the date of their previous election, unless they were dissolved earlier. The election decree was required to be issued no later than the twenty-fifth day prior to the date of expiry of parliament and published on the following day in the Official State Gazette (BOE), with election day taking place on the fifty-fourth day from publication.[16] The previous election was held on 3 March 1996, which meant that the legislature's term would expire on 3 March 2000. The election decree was required to be published in the BOE no later than 8 February 2000, with the election taking place on the fifty-fourth day from publication, setting the latest possible election date for the Cortes Generales on Sunday, 2 April 2000.[17][18]

The prime minister had the prerogative to dissolve both chambers at any given time—either jointly or separately—and call a snap election, provided that no motion of no confidence was in process, no state of emergency was in force and that dissolution did not occur before one year had elapsed since the previous one. Additionally, both chambers were to be dissolved and a new election called if an investiture process failed to elect a prime minister within a two-month period from the first ballot.[19] Barred this exception, there was no constitutional requirement for simultaneous elections for the Congress and the Senate. Still, as of 2024 there has been no precedent of separate elections taking place under the 1978 Constitution.

It was suggested that Aznar would be tempted to call a snap election after the introduction of the euro was effective at 1 January 1999.[20] Speculation arose among PP ranks and government members that an election would be called in the spring of 1999 or in June, to coincide with the scheduled local, regional and European Parliament elections.[21][22] This possibility was fueled by some remarks from the Catalan president and Convergence and Union (CiU) leader Jordi Pujol, Aznar's main parliamentary ally, that a general election would be held in 1999—a remark that he was forced to rectify later on—[23][24][25] coinciding with a critical point in the PP–CiU relationship.[26][27] In the summer of 1999, a new round of speculation emerged that Aznar was considering holding an early election throughout the autumn,[28] but this was ended by Aznar re-assuring that it was his wish to exhaust the legislature and for the election to be held when due, in March 2000.[29] On 23 December 1999, it was confirmed that the general election would be held in March,[30] together with the 2000 Andalusian regional election,[31][32] with the dissolution of the Cortes Generales being arranged on 17 January.[33][34]

The Cortes Generales were officially dissolved on 18 January 2000 after the publication of the dissolution decree in the BOE, setting the election date for 12 March and scheduling for both chambers to reconvene on 5 April.[13]

Background

On 5 May 1996, José María Aznar from the People's Party (PP) was able to form the first centre-right government in Spain since 1982 through confidence and supply agreements with Convergence and Union (CiU), the Basque Nationalist Party (PNV) and Canarian Coalition (CC).[35][36][37][38] In the 34th congress of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) held in June 1997, Felipe González, who had been prime minister from 1982 to 1996 and PSOE Secretary General since 1974, announced his intention to leave the party's leadership.[39] The party, divided at the time between González's supporters—renovadores, Spanish for "renovators"—and those following the discipline of former deputy prime minister and PSOE vice secretary general Alfonso Guerra—guerristas—, elected Joaquín Almunia, a "renovator" and former Minister of Labour and Social Security (1982–1986) and Minister for Public Administrations (1986–1991), as new Secretary General.[40][41][42] While it was suggested that González could remain as the party's candidate for prime minister in the next general election, he discarded himself out in January 1998.[43][44]

A primary election to elect the prime ministerial candidate, held among PSOE members on 24 April 1998,[45][46][47] saw Almunia, supported by González and prominent party "renovators",[48][49][50] facing Josep Borrell, the former Minister of Public Works (1991–1996) who received the backing of the guerrista faction.[51][52] Borrell defeated Almunia,[53][54] but the latter remained as the party's Secretary General in order to prevent an extraordinary congress,[55][56] a situation prompting a 'bicephaly' which would see both Borrell and Almunia clashing for months on party direction and strategy issues,[57][58][59] as the extent of each one's competences on the party's political leadership remained unclear.[60] Borrell renounced as candidate in May 1999 after it was unveiled that two of his former employees were involved in a judicial investigation for tax fraud,[61][62] leaving a vacancy that resulted in Almunia being proclaimed as candidate without opposition.[63][64]

United Left (IU) underwent a severe internal crisis throughout 1997 over Julio Anguita's confrontational attitude with the PSOE—to the point of siding with the PP in a number of votes in the Congress of Deputies—as well as with a perceived lack of democracy within IU. Anguita sought to prevent an electoral alliance between United Left–Galician Left (EU–EG) and the Socialists' Party of Galicia (PSdeG–PSOE) ahead of the 1997 Galician regional election,[65] a move which received criticism from Initiative for Catalonia (IC),[66][67] IU's sister party in Catalonia, with which disagreements over the coalition's political direction had been on the rise since the 1996 general election.[68] The Democratic Party of the New Left (PDNI), constituted as an internal current within IU which had been critical of Anguita's leadership,[69] was expelled from the alliance's governing bodies in June 1997, after party discipline in the Congress was broken on the issue of labour reform.[70][71] The IU crisis came to a peak in September 1997, which saw NI's expulsion from IU as a whole, the dissolution of the NI-controlled regional leaderships in Cantabria and Castilla–La Mancha and the break up of relations with EU–EG and IC.[72][73][74][75] The PDNI then sought electoral alliances with the PSOE,[76][77] which materialized ahead of the 1999 local, regional and European Parliament elections.[78][79][80]

The PP government relied on confidence and supply support from CiU, PNV and CC. The PNV withdrew its support from the government in June 1999,[81][82] with relations strained after the signing of the Estella Agreement between the PNV and HB in September 1998.[83] The Aragonese Party (PAR), which had been allied with the PP since the 1996 election, broke away from the PP parliamentary group in October 1999 and joined the Mixed Group.[84]

Parliamentary composition

The tables below show the composition of the parliamentary groups in both chambers at the time of dissolution.[85][86]

Parties and candidates

The electoral law allowed for parties and federations registered in the interior ministry, coalitions and groupings of electors to present lists of candidates. Parties and federations intending to form a coalition ahead of an election were required to inform the relevant Electoral Commission within ten days of the election call, whereas groupings of electors needed to secure the signature of at least one percent of the electorate in the constituencies for which they sought election, disallowing electors from signing for more than one list of candidates.[89]

Below is a list of the main parties and electoral alliances which contested the election:

Candidacy Parties and
alliances 		Leading candidate Ideology Previous result Gov. Ref.
Votes (%) Con. Sen.
PP
List
 José María Aznar Conservatism
Christian democracy 		38.79% 156 112 checkY [90]
PSOE–p
List
 Joaquín Almunia Social democracy 37.63% 141 73[b] ☒N [91]
[92]
IU
List
 Francisco Frutos Socialism
Communism 		9.35%[a] 19 0 ☒N [93]
[94]
CiU
List
 Xavier Trias Catalan nationalism
Centrism 		4.60% 16 8 ☒N [95]
[96]
EAJ/PNV
List
 Iñaki Anasagasti Basque nationalism
Christian democracy
Conservative liberalism 		1.27% 5 4 ☒N
CC
List
 José Carlos Mauricio Regionalism
Canarian nationalism
Centrism 		0.88% 4 0 ☒N
IC–V
List
 Joan Saura Regionalism
Eco-socialism
Green politics 		1.19%[c] 2 —[d] ☒N
BNG
List
 Francisco Rodríguez Galician nationalism
Left-wing nationalism
Socialism 		0.88% 2 0 ☒N
ERC
List
 Joan Puigcercós Catalan independence
Left-wing nationalism
Social democracy 		0.67% 1 —[d] ☒N [97]
EA
List
 Begoña Lasagabaster Basque nationalism
Social democracy 		0.46% 1 0 ☒N
UV
List
 José María Chiquillo Blaverism
Conservatism 		0.37% 1 0 ☒N [98]
PA
List
 José Núñez Andalusian nationalism
Social democracy 		0.54% 0 0 ☒N [99]
CHA
List
 José Antonio Labordeta Aragonese nationalism
Eco-socialism 		0.20% 0 0 ☒N
PSC–
ERC–ICV
List
 Mercedes Aroz Catalanism
Social democracy
Eco-socialism 		Senate 8[e] ☒N [100]
[101]
[102]
Pacte
List
 Fanny Tur Progressivism Senate 1 ☒N
PIL
List
 Dimas Martín Insularism
Canarian nationalism 		Senate 1 ☒N
PAR
List
 Antonio Serrano Regionalism
Centrism 		New[f] ☒N [84]

The election was marked by the exploration of joint candidacies between the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) and other parties in the left of the political spectrum. One such example was in Catalonia, where a left-wing alliance came to fruition between the Socialists' Party of Catalonia (PSC), Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC) and Initiative for Catalonia–Greens (IC–V) under the Catalan Agreement of Progress label,[100][101][102][103] aiming to mirror the success of a similar alliance between the PSC and IC–V in the 1999 Catalan regional election.[104][105] Ahead of the Senate election in Ibiza and Formentera, PSOE, United Left of the Balearic Islands (EUIB), The Greens (LV), Nationalist and Ecologist Agreement (ENE) and ERC formed the Pact for Ibiza and Formentera.[106][107][108]

Various attempts at forming a joint left-wing candidacy for the Senate in the Valencian Community were unsuccessful,[109][110][111] primarily due to disagreement over the label and format of such an alliance.[112][113][114][115] Nationwide, an agreement was reached between the national leaderships of PSOE and United Left, under which both parties agreed to cooperate in the Senate elections for 27 constituencies: in those districts, and taking consideration of the Senate electoral system allowing up to three votes to each voter, the PSOE would field two candidates to one from IU, with the parties urging voters to cast their votes as if it were a joint list of three.[116][117] The PSOE also offered IU a similar agreement for the Congress of Deputies, wherein IU would not run in 34 constituencies where it would unlikely win a seat on its own,[118] with a later offer reducing the number to 14.[119] These offers were both rejected.[120][121]

Basque Citizens (EH), the Basque electoral coalition including Herri Batasuna, called for election boycott and urged its supporters to abstain.[122][123][124]

Campaign period

Party slogans

Party or alliance Original slogan English translation Ref.
PP « Vamos a más » "We are going for more" [125]
PSOE–p « Lo próximo » "What comes" [126]
IU « Somos necesarios » "We are necessary" [127]
CiU « La força positiva » "The positive force" [128][129]
BNG « Galiza, coa capacidade de decidir » "Galiza, with the ability to decide" [130]

Opinion polls

Main article: Opinion polling for the 2000 Spanish general election
Local regression trend line of poll results from 3 March 1996 to 12 March 2000, with each line corresponding to a political party.


Results

Congress of Deputies

For results by autonomous community/constituency, see Results breakdown of the 2000 Spanish general election (Congress).
← Summary of the 12 March 2000 Congress of Deputies election results →
Parties and alliances Popular vote Seats
Votes % ±pp Total +/−
People's Party (PP) 10,321,178 44.52 +5.73 183 +27
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party–Progressives (PSOE–p) 7,918,752 34.16 –3.47 125 –16
United Left (IU)1 1,263,043 5.45 –3.90 8 –11
Convergence and Union (CiU) 970,421 4.19 –0.41 15 –1
Basque Nationalist Party (EAJ/PNV) 353,953 1.53 +0.26 7 +2
Galician Nationalist Bloc (BNG) 306,268 1.32 +0.44 3 +1
Canarian Coalition (CC) 248,261 1.07 +0.19 4 ±0
Andalusian Party (PA) 206,255 0.89 +0.35 1 +1
Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC) 194,715 0.84 +0.17 1 ±0
Initiative for Catalonia–Greens (IC–V)2 119,290 0.51 –0.68 1 –1
Basque Solidarity (EA) 100,742 0.43 –0.03 1 ±0
Aragonese Union (CHA) 75,356 0.33 +0.13 1 +1
Liberal Independent Group (GIL) 72,162 0.31 New 0 ±0
The Greens (Verdes)3 70,906 0.31 +0.15 0 ±0
Valencian Nationalist Bloc–The Greens–Valencians for Change (BNV–EV)4 58,551 0.25 +0.06 0 ±0
Valencian Union (UV) 57,830 0.25 –0.12 0 –1
Leonese People's Union (UPL) 41,690 0.18 +0.13 0 ±0
Aragonese Party (PAR) 38,883 0.17 New 0 ±0
Centrist Union–Democratic and Social Centre (UC–CDS) 23,576 0.10 –0.08 0 ±0
PSM–Nationalist Agreement (PSM–EN) 23,482 0.10 ±0.00 0 ±0
The Eco-pacifist Greens (LVEP) 22,220 0.10 New 0 ±0
The Greens of the Community of Madrid (LVCM) 21,087 0.09 +0.06 0 ±0
The Greens–Green Group (LV–GV) 20,618 0.09 +0.02 0 ±0
Humanist Party (PH) 19,683 0.08 +0.03 0 ±0
Commoners' Land–Castilian Nationalist Party (TC–PNC) 18,290 0.08 +0.06 0 ±0
Natural Law Party (PLN) 17,372 0.07 New 0 ±0
The Phalanx (FE) 14,431 0.06 New 0 ±0
Asturian Renewal Union (URAS) 13,360 0.06 New 0 ±0
Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain (PCPE) 12,898 0.06 ±0.00 0 ±0
Internationalist Socialist Workers' Party (POSI)5 12,208 0.05 +0.04 0 ±0
The Greens–Green Alternative (EV–AV) 11,579 0.05 New 0 ±0
Lanzarote Independents Party (PIL) 10,323 0.04 New 0 ±0
Spain 2000 Platform (ES2000) 9,562 0.04 New 0 ±0
Spanish Democratic Party (PADE) 9,136 0.04 New 0 ±0
Convergence of Democrats of Navarre (CDN) 8,646 0.04 –0.03 0 ±0
Majorcan Union–Independents of Menorca (UM–INME) 8,372 0.04 +0.01 0 ±0
Andalusian Left (IA) 8,175 0.04 New 0 ±0
Independent Spanish Phalanx–Phalanx 2000 (FEI–FE 2000) 6,621 0.03 +0.02 0 ±0
Localist Bloc of Melilla (BLM) 6,514 0.03 New 0 ±0
Riojan Party (PR) 6,155 0.03 +0.01 0 ±0
Asturianist Party (PAS) 5,876 0.03 –0.02 0 ±0
Regionalist Unity of Castile and León (URCL) 5,683 0.02 ±0.00 0 ±0
United Extremadura (EU) 4,771 0.02 New 0 ±0
Party of Self-employed and Professionals (AUTONOMO) 4,218 0.02 New 0 ±0
Independent Candidacy–The Party of Castile and León (CI–PCL) 4,184 0.02 New 0 ±0
Catalan State (EC) 3,356 0.01 New 0 ±0
Andalusian Nation (NA) 3,262 0.01 ±0.00 0 ±0
Galician Democracy (DG) 2,958 0.01 New 0 ±0
Republican Action (AR) 2,858 0.01 +0.01 0 ±0
Party of the Democratic Karma (PKD) 2,759 0.01 New 0 ±0
Andalusia Assembly (A) 2,727 0.01 New 0 ±0
Party of Self-employed, Retirees and Independents (EL–PAPI) 2,713 0.01 New 0 ±0
Extremaduran Coalition (PREx–CREx) 2,371 0.01 –0.02 0 ±0
Galician Coalition (CG) 2,361 0.01 New 0 ±0
Zamoran People's Union (UPZ) 2,347 0.01 New 0 ±0
Galician People's Front (FPG) 2,252 0.01 ±0.00 0 ±0
Carlist Party (PC) 2,131 0.01 New 0 ±0
Salamanca–Zamora–León–PREPAL (PREPAL) 2,118 0.01 ±0.00 0 ±0
Cantabrian Nationalist Council (CNC) 2,103 0.01 New 0 ±0
Andecha Astur (AA) 2,036 0.01 New 0 ±0
Self-employed Spanish Party (PEDA) 1,904 0.01 New 0 ±0
Internationalist Struggle (LI (LIT–CI)) 1,716 0.01 New 0 ±0
Party Association of Widows and Legal Wives (PAVIEL) 1,690 0.01 New 0 ±0
Republican Left–Left Republican Party (IR–PRE) 1,541 0.01 New 0 ±0
Party of Self-employed, Retirees and Widows (PAE) 1,462 0.01 +0.01 0 ±0
Independent Salamancan Union (USI) 1,416 0.01 New 0 ±0
Independent Socialists of Extremadura (SIEx) 1,412 0.01 ±0.00 0 ±0
Madrilenian Independent Regional Party (PRIM) 1,363 0.01 ±0.00 0 ±0
Caló Nationalist Party (PNCA) 1,331 0.01 New 0 ±0
Party of El Bierzo (PB) 1,191 0.01 +0.01 0 ±0
Asturian Left Bloc (BIA) 1,085 0.00 New 0 ±0
Aragonese Initiative (INAR) 1,057 0.00 New 0 ±0
Progressives of Canaries Unity (UP–CAN) 980 0.00 New 0 ±0
Valencian Nationalist Left (ENV) 920 0.00 ±0.00 0 ±0
Almerian Regionalist Union (URAL) 838 0.00 New 0 ±0
Socialist Party of the People of Ceuta (PSPC) 788 0.00 –0.01 0 ±0
European Nation State (N) 710 0.00 ±0.00 0 ±0
Liberal and Social Democratic Coalition (CSD–L) 650 0.00 New 0 ±0
Citizens' Convergence of the South-East (CCSE) 645 0.00 New 0 ±0
Federal Progressives (PF) 609 0.00 New 0 ±0
New Region (NR) 598 0.00 –0.01 0 ±0
Christian Positivist Party (PPCr) 546 0.00 New 0 ±0
Balearic People's Union (UPB) 524 0.00 New 0 ±0
Voice of the Andalusian People (VDPA) 493 0.00 ±0.00 0 ±0
Independent Initiative (II) 425 0.00 New 0 ±0
Regionalist Party of Guadalajara (PRGU) 400 0.00 ±0.00 0 ±0
Iberian Union (UNIB) 388 0.00 New 0 ±0
New Force (FN) 343 0.00 New 0 ±0
Social and Autonomist Liberal Group (ALAS) 339 0.00 ±0.00 0 ±0
Balearic Islands Renewal Party (PRIB) 334 0.00 New 0 ±0
Pensionist Assembly of the Canaries (TPC) 319 0.00 New 0 ±0
National Union (UN) 314 0.00 New 0 ±0
Cives (Cives) 206 0.00 New 0 ±0
Movement for Humanist Socialism (MASH) 121 0.00 New 0 ±0
Democratic Party of the People (PDEP) 85 0.00 New 0 ±0
Nationalist Aprome (Aprome) 60 0.00 New 0 ±0
Basque Citizens (EH)6 0 0.00 –0.72 0 –2
Blank ballots 366,823 1.58 +0.61
Total 23,181,290 350 ±0
Valid votes 23,181,290 99.32 –0.18
Invalid votes 158,200 0.68 +0.18
Votes cast / turnout 23,339,490 68.71 –8.67
Abstentions 10,630,150 31.29 +8.67
Registered voters 33,969,640
Sources[131][132]
Footnotes:
Popular vote
PP
 
 44.52%
PSOE–p
 
 34.16%
IU
 
 5.45%
CiU
 
 4.19%
EAJ/PNV
 
 1.53%
BNG
 
 1.32%
CC
 
 1.07%
PA
 
 0.89%
ERC
 
 0.84%
IC–V
 
 0.51%
EA
 
 0.43%
CHA
 
 0.33%
Others
 
 3.18%
Blank ballots
 
 1.58%
Seats
PP
 
 52.29%
PSOE–p
 
 35.71%
CiU
 
 4.29%
IU
 
 2.29%
EAJ/PNV
 
 2.00%
CC
 
 1.14%
BNG
 
 0.89%
PA
 
 0.29%
ERC
 
 0.29%
IC–V
 
 0.29%
EA
 
 0.29%
CHA
 
 0.29%

Senate

← Summary of the 12 March 2000 Senate of Spain election results →
Parties and alliances Popular vote Seats
Votes % ±pp Total +/−
People's Party (PP) 28,097,204 45.35 +6.31 127 +15
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party–Progressives (PSOE–p)1 16,323,744 26.35 –5.35 53 –20
United Left (IU) 4,752,113 7.67 –2.32 0 ±0
Catalan Agreement of Progress (PSC–ERC–IC–V)2 3,718,949 6.00 –1.88 8 ±0
Convergence and Union (CiU) 2,809,367 4.53 –0.34 8 ±0
Basque Nationalist Party (EAJ/PNV) 1,022,057 1.65 +0.31 6 +2
Galician Nationalist Bloc (BNG) 887,326 1.43 +0.45 0 ±0
Andalusian Party (PA) 577,849 0.93 +0.32 0 ±0
Canarian Coalition (CC) 438,149 0.71 +0.14 5 +4
Basque Solidarity (EA) 294,145 0.47 –0.02 0 ±0
Liberal Independent Group (GIL) 215,285 0.35 New 0 ±0
Aragonese Union (CHA) 186,411 0.30 +0.10 0 ±0
The Greens (Verdes)3 181,453 0.29 +0.15 0 ±0
Valencian Union (UV) 174,419 0.28 –0.13 0 ±0
Leonese People's Union (UPL) 126,859 0.20 +0.13 0 ±0
Aragonese Party (PAR) 123,176 0.20 New 0 ±0
Valencian Nationalist Bloc–The Greens–Valencians for Change (BNV–EV)4 83,006 0.13 –0.06 0 ±0
Commoners' Land–Castilian Nationalist Party (TC–PNC) 70,979 0.11 +0.07 0 ±0
Humanist Party (PH) 67,228 0.11 +0.07 0 ±0
Centrist Union–Democratic and Social Centre (UC–CDS) 65,024 0.10 –0.09 0 ±0
The Greens of the Community of Madrid (LVCM) 55,357 0.09 +0.07 0 ±0
Internationalist Socialist Workers' Party (POSI)5 51,185 0.08 +0.06 0 ±0
Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain (PCPE) 50,326 0.08 +0.03 0 ±0
The Greens–Green Alternative (EV–AV) 49,799 0.08 New 0 ±0
The Eco-pacifist Greens (LVEP) 49,326 0.08 New 0 ±0
The Greens–Green Group (LV–GV) 45,248 0.07 –0.03 0 ±0
PSM–Nationalist Agreement (PSM–EN) 44,953 0.07 ±0.00 0 ±0
Asturian Renewal Union (URAS) 41,829 0.07 New 0 ±0
The Phalanx (FE) 35,655 0.06 New 0 ±0
The Greens–Green Option (EV–OV) 34,601 0.06 New 0 ±0
Carlist Traditionalist Communion (CTC) 32,066 0.05 New 0 ±0
Progressive Pact (Pacte–PPM)6 30,619 0.05 +0.02 0 –1
Majorcan Union (UM) 26,275 0.04 +0.01 0 ±0
Independent Spanish Phalanx–Phalanx 2000 (FEI–FE 2000) 24,964 0.04 +0.02 0 ±0
Andalusian Left (IA) 23,688 0.04 New 0 ±0
Convergence of Democrats of Navarre (CDN) 22,952 0.04 New 0 ±0
Asturianist Party (PAS) 20,005 0.03 –0.03 0 ±0
Riojan Party (PR) 19,667 0.03 ±0.00 0 ±0
United Extremadura (EU) 18,937 0.03 New 0 ±0
Regionalist Unity of Castile and León (URCL) 18,387 0.03 +0.01 0 ±0
Catalan State (EC) 17,825 0.03 New 0 ±0
Spanish Democratic Party (PADE) 17,400 0.03 New 0 ±0
New Force (FN) 15,452 0.02 New 0 ±0
Alliance for Development and Nature (ADN) 15,378 0.02 New 0 ±0
Party of Self-employed, Retirees and Independents (EL–PAPI) 15,340 0.02 New 0 ±0
Bounced Public Workers (TPR) 15,094 0.02 New 0 ±0
Natural Law Party (PLN) 14,211 0.02 New 0 ±0
Galician Democracy (DG) 13,693 0.02 New 0 ±0
Lanzarote Independents Party (PIL) 13,528 0.02 ±0.00 1 ±0
Localist Bloc of Melilla (BLM) 13,060 0.02 New 0 ±0
Republican Action (AR) 12,531 0.02 +0.01 0 ±0
Independent Candidacy–The Party of Castile and León (CI–PCL) 12,215 0.02 New 0 ±0
Republican Left–Left Republican Party (IR–PRE) 12,207 0.02 New 0 ±0
Castilian Left (IzCa) 11,921 0.02 New 0 ±0
Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC)7 11,828 0.02 +0.01 0 ±0
Andalusia Assembly (A) 10,988 0.02 New 0 ±0
Party of Self-employed and Professionals (AUTONOMO) 10,863 0.02 New 0 ±0
Party Association of Widows and Legal Wives (PAVIEL) 9,240 0.01 New 0 ±0
Andecha Astur (AA) 8,925 0.01 New 0 ±0
Salamanca–Zamora–León–PREPAL (PREPAL) 8,691 0.01 –0.01 0 ±0
Party of the Democratic Karma (PKD) 8,433 0.01 New 0 ±0
Zamoran People's Union (UPZ) 7,928 0.01 New 0 ±0
Andalusian Nation (NA) 7,821 0.01 –0.01 0 ±0
Galician People's Front (FPG) 7,748 0.01 ±0.00 0 ±0
Spain 2000 Platform (ES2000) 7,258 0.01 New 0 ±0
Iberian Union (UNIB) 6,760 0.01 New 0 ±0
Carlist Party (PC) 6,421 0.01 New 0 ±0
Self-employed Spanish Party (PEDA) 5,985 0.01 New 0 ±0
Valencian Nationalist Left (ENV) 5,837 0.01 +0.01 0 ±0
Iberian Unity (UI) 5,767 0.01 New 0 ±0
Asturian Left Bloc (BIA) 5,550 0.01 New 0 ±0
Independent Salamancan Union (USI) 5,018 0.01 New 0 ±0
Internationalist Struggle (LI (LIT–CI)) 4,624 0.01 New 0 ±0
Aragonese Initiative (INAR) 4,244 0.01 New 0 ±0
Madrilenian Independent Regional Party (PRIM) 4,204 0.01 ±0.00 0 ±0
Natural Culture (CN) 4,010 0.01 ±0.00 0 ±0
Almerian Regionalist Union (URAL) 3,951 0.01 New 0 ±0
Cantabrian Nationalist Council (CNC) 3,929 0.01 New 0 ±0
Galician Coalition (CG) 3,153 0.01 New 0 ±0
Party of El Bierzo (PB) 2,409 0.00 –0.01 0 ±0
Immigrants with the Right to Equality and Obligations (INDIO) 2,272 0.00 New 0 ±0
Pensionist Assembly of the Canaries (TPC) 1,972 0.00 New 0 ±0
Christian Positivist Party (PPCr) 1,911 0.00 New 0 ±0
Spanish New Republicans (NURP) 1,878 0.00 New 0 ±0
Progressives of Canaries Unity (UP–CAN) 1,847 0.00 New 0 ±0
Federal Progressives (PF) 1,787 0.00 New 0 ±0
Liberal and Social Democratic Coalition (CSD–L) 1,741 0.00 New 0 ±0
Regionalist Party of Guadalajara (PRGU) 1,630 0.00 ±0.00 0 ±0
European Nation State (N) 1,601 0.00 ±0.00 0 ±0
European Green Group (GVE) 1,532 0.00 New 0 ±0
Socialist Party of the People of Ceuta (PSPC) 1,511 0.00 –0.01 0 ±0
Balearic People's Union (UPB) 1,413 0.00 New 0 ±0
Independent Initiative (II) 1,374 0.00 New 0 ±0
Party of Self-employed, Retirees and Widows (PAE) 1,087 0.00 ±0.00 0 ±0
Voice of the Andalusian People (VDPA) 1,007 0.00 ±0.00 0 ±0
Social and Autonomist Liberal Group (ALAS) 895 0.00 ±0.00 0 ±0
Cives (Cives) 889 0.00 New 0 ±0
New Region (NR) 874 0.00 –0.01 0 ±0
Movement for Humanist Socialism (MASH) 869 0.00 New 0 ±0
Spanish Action (AE) 817 0.00 ±0.00 0 ±0
Citizens' Convergence of the South-East (CCSE) 699 0.00 New 0 ±0
Balearic Islands Renewal Party (PRIB) 687 0.00 New 0 ±0
National Union (UN) 491 0.00 New 0 ±0
Nationalist Aprome (Aprome) 154 0.00 New 0 ±0
Clean Hands Project (PML) 0 0.00 ±0.00 0 ±0
Blank ballots[g] 642,682 2.82 +0.85
Total 61,955,642 208 ±0
Valid votes 22,799,475 97.51 +0.10
Invalid votes 583,192 2.49 –0.10
Votes cast / turnout 23,382,667 68.83 –8.50
Abstentions 10,586,973 31.17 +8.50
Registered voters 33,969,640
Sources[86][131][132][133]
Footnotes:
Popular vote
PP
 
 45.35%
PSOE–p
 
 26.35%
IU
 
 7.67%
ECdP
 
 6.00%
CiU
 
 4.53%
EAJ/PNV
 
 1.65%
BNG
 
 1.43%
CC
 
 0.71%
PIL
 
 0.02%
Others
 
 5.25%
Blank ballots
 
 2.82%
Seats
PP
 
 61.06%
PSOE–p
 
 25.48%
ECdP
 
 3.85%
CiU
 
 3.85%
EAJ/PNV
 
 2.88%
CC
 
 2.40%
PIL
 
 0.48%

Aftermath

Further information: Second government of José María Aznar
Investiture
José María Aznar (PP)
Ballot → 26 April 2000
Required majority → 176 out of 350 checkY
Yes
  • • PP (183)
  • • CiU (15)
  • • CC (4)
202 / 350
No
148 / 350
Abstentions
0 / 350
Absentees
0 / 350
Sources[134]

Notes

  1. ^ a b Results for IU in the 1996 election, not including IC–EV.
  2. ^ Not including PSC–PSOE results in the 1996 Senate election.
  3. ^ Results for IC–EV in the 1996 election.
  4. ^ a b IC–V and ERC contested the 2000 Senate election within the Entesa alliance.
  5. ^ Results for PSC–PSOE (8 senators), IC–EV (0 senators) and ERC (0 senators) in the 1996 Senate election.
  6. ^ The PAR (1 deputy and 3 senators) contested the 1996 election in alliance with the PP.
  7. ^ The percentage of blank ballots is calculated over the official number of valid votes cast, irrespective of the total number of votes shown as a result of adding up the individual results for each party.

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