Madrid (Spanish Congress Electoral District)

Madrid is one of the 52 electoral districts (circunscripciones) used for the Spanish Congress of Deputies - the lower chamber of the Spanish Parliament, the Cortes Generales

Cortes Generales

The Cortes Generales is the legislature of Spain. It is a bicameral parliament, composed of the Congress of Deputies and the Senate . The Cortes has power to enact any law and to amend the constitution...

. It has the largest electorate of all the 52 districts. Madrid

Madrid

Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...

is the largest city. Other municipalities with an electorate over 100,000 are (in descending order) Móstoles

Móstoles

Móstoles is the second-largest city in population belonging to the autonomous community of Madrid. It is located 18 kilometres southwest from central Madrid. Móstoles was for a long time only a small village, but expanded rapidly in the twentieth century....

, Leganés

Leganés

Leganés is a city in central Spain. Part of the greater Madrid conurbation - mainly a satellite-city with a population of 186,066 it is located about 11 km southwest of the city centre....

, Alcalá de Henares

Alcalá de Henares

Alcalá de Henares , meaning Citadel on the river Henares, is a Spanish city, whose historical centre is one of UNESCO's World Heritage Sites, and one of the first bishoprics founded in Spain...

, Fuenlabrada

Fuenlabrada

Fuenlabrada is a city and municipality located in the Madrid Metropolitan Area, Community of Madrid, Spain. It is located to the southwest of the community, 22,5 km far from the capital, and had a population of 197,836 in 2009. Is the fourth biggest town of Madrid after the capital, Móstoles...

, Alcorcón

Alcorcón

Alcorcón is a city in the metropolitan area of Madrid, Spain; , it had a population of 168,229. It is located 13 km to the south-west of Madrid....

and Getafe

Getafe

Getafe is a city in the southern zone of the Madrid metropolitan area, Spain, and one of the most populated and industrialized cities in the municipality. The city is home to one of the oldest Spanish military air bases, as well as the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid...

.

Traditionally the two main parties candidates for Prime Minister are the heads of the Madrid list for their respective parties.

Boundaries and electoral system

Under Article 68 of the Spanish constitution
the boundaries must be the same as the province of Madrid

Madrid (autonomous community)

The Community of Madrid is one of the seventeen autonomous communities of Spain. It is located at the center of the country, the Iberian Peninsula, and the Castilian Central Plateau . The community is also conterminous with the province of Madrid and contains the capital of Spain, which is also...

and under Article 140 this can only be altered with the approval of congress. Voting is on the basis of universal suffrage

Universal suffrage

Universal suffrage consists of the extension of the right to vote to adult citizens as a whole, though it may also mean extending said right to minors and non-citizens...

in a secret ballot

Secret ballot

The secret ballot is a voting method in which a voter's choices in an election or a referendum are anonymous. The key aim is to ensure the voter records a sincere choice by forestalling attempts to influence the voter by intimidation or bribery. The system is one means of achieving the goal of...

. The electoral system used is closed list

Closed list

Closed list describes the variant of party-list proportional representation where voters can only vote for political parties as a whole and thus have no influence on the party-supplied order in which party candidates are elected...

proportional representation

Proportional representation

Proportional representation is a concept in voting systems used to elect an assembly or council. PR means that the number of seats won by a party or group of candidates is proportionate to the number of votes received. For example, under a PR voting system if 30% of voters support a particular...

with seats allocated using the D'Hondt method

D'Hondt method

The d'Hondt method is a highest averages method for allocating seats in party-list proportional representation. The method described is named after Belgian mathematician Victor D'Hondt who described it in 1878...

. Only lists which poll 3% or more of all valid votes cast, including votes "en blanco" i.e. for "none of the above" can be considered for seats. Under article 12 of the constitution, the minimum voting age is 18.

Eligibility

Article 67.3 of the Spanish Constitution prohibits dual membership of the Cortes and regional assemblies, meaning that candidates must resign from Regional Assemblies if elected. Article 70 also makes active judges, magistrates, public defenders, serving military personnel, active police officers and members of constitutional and electoral tribunals ineligible.

Number of members

In the general elections of 1977, 1979 and 1982 Madrid returned 32 members. That figure was increased to 33 members for the 1986 General Election, to 34 members for the 1993 election and then to its current figure of 35 from the 2004 General Election.

Under Spanish electoral law, all provinces are entitled to a minimum of 2 seats with a remaining 248 seats apportioned according to population. These laws are laid out in detail in the 1985 electoral law. (Ley Orgánica del Régimen Electoral General) The practical effect of this law has been to overrepresent smaller provinces at the expense of larger provinces like Madrid.

In 2004 for example Spain had 34,571,831 voters giving an average of 98,777 voters per deputy. In Madrid however the number of voters per deputy was 127,377 the second largest ratio after Barcelona. In contrast the ratio was 38,714 and 26,177 respectively in the smallest provinces of Teruel and Soria.

Party strength by municipality

Generally certain patterns have emerged in recent elections. The Popular Party (PP) normally polls best in the City of Madrid, with the PSOE polling best in the smaller municipalities, particularly those in the 'sur metropolitano' (South Metropolitan region) area which consists of the satellite towns to the immediate south and of Madrid.

Within the Madrid autonomous community, PP generally polled best in the municipalities in the north and west of the community, while PSOE does best in the south and east of the community. IU normally failed to break the 10% barrier, but did do relatively well in many of the smaller municipalities and in one of them, Berzosa del Lozoya, in the north of the autonomous community, outpolled the other parties, albeit by just one vote out of 106 cast.

Exactly the same pattern was evident in 2004 within Madrid city itself with PP polling best in the districts in the north western half of the city and PSOE doing best in the south eastern half. PP polled best in the districts of Chamartín (67.9%), Salamanca

Salamanca (Madrid)

Salamanca is one of the 21 districts that form the city of Madrid, Spain. Salamanca is located to the northeast of the historical center of Madrid.-Overview:...

(67.7%) and Chamberí

Chamberí (Madrid)

Chamberí is one of the 21 districs of Madrid, Spain.-Overview:* Holidays in the District: 16 of July * Area: 469.22 Hectares* President: Angel Garrido...

(64.9%) while PSOE's best vote shares came in the Vallecas

Vallecas

Vallecas is a neighborhood of Madrid composed of two districts: Puente de Vallecas and Villa de Vallecas...

districts where they polled 61.4% in Puente de Vallecas and 56.9% in Villa de Vallecas. IU's best result was in Centro

Centro (Madrid)

Centro is the central district of the city of Madrid, Spain. It is approximately 5,23 km² in size. It has a population of 148,714 and a population density of 28434,8/km².-Subdivision:The district is administratively divided into 6 wards :...

where they polled 10.4%.

Party strength in largest municipalities in 2004

Municipality	PP	PSOE	IU
Madrid Autonomous Community	46.0	45.0	6.6
Madrid Madrid Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...	48.7	42.7	6.4
Móstoles Móstoles Móstoles is the second-largest city in population belonging to the autonomous community of Madrid. It is located 18 kilometres southwest from central Madrid. Móstoles was for a long time only a small village, but expanded rapidly in the twentieth century....	39.0	51.7	6.5
Leganés Leganés Leganés is a city in central Spain. Part of the greater Madrid conurbation - mainly a satellite-city with a population of 186,066 it is located about 11 km southwest of the city centre....	33.8	54.9	8.4
Alcalá de Henares Alcalá de Henares Alcalá de Henares , meaning Citadel on the river Henares, is a Spanish city, whose historical centre is one of UNESCO's World Heritage Sites, and one of the first bishoprics founded in Spain...	40.9	48.9	7.1
Fuenlabrada Fuenlabrada Fuenlabrada is a city and municipality located in the Madrid Metropolitan Area, Community of Madrid, Spain. It is located to the southwest of the community, 22,5 km far from the capital, and had a population of 197,836 in 2009. Is the fourth biggest town of Madrid after the capital, Móstoles...	31.5	59.0	6.5
Alcorcón Alcorcón Alcorcón is a city in the metropolitan area of Madrid, Spain; , it had a population of 168,229. It is located 13 km to the south-west of Madrid....	39.0	51.7	6.5
Getafe Getafe Getafe is a city in the southern zone of the Madrid metropolitan area, Spain, and one of the most populated and industrialized cities in the municipality. The city is home to one of the oldest Spanish military air bases, as well as the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid...	33.8	53.7	9.8
Torrejón de Ardoz Torrejón de Ardoz Torrejón de Ardoz is a town in the urban area of Madrid, Spain that has about 110,000 inhabitants.It is a town 20 km east of Madrid on the NII highway . It is essentially a dormitory town, mostly consisting of apartments. It can be reached by bus from Av...	38.0	50.1	7.0
Alcobendas Alcobendas Alcobendas is a city located in the Community of Madrid, central Spain. It is located roughly 13 km north of Madrid and 7 km from the Barajas International Airport. It includes a central urban zone, a recently built district known as Valdelasfuentes, La Moraleja and El Soto de la...	46.1	44.0	4.9
Coslada Coslada Coslada is a city in the autonomous community of Madrid. , the mayor of Coslada is Raul Lopez Vaquero .The Dry Port of the Community of Madrid is located in Coslada, which turns the city into a strategic point. The majority of the companies which transport important commodities that operate in...	32.9	52.1	9.8
Parla Parla Parla is a municipality of the Madrid Metropolitan Area, Spain. It is located in the southern part of the autonomous community, approximately 20 km from the capital, Madrid. , it has a population of 120,182.- History :- Origins :...	26.5	62.3	7.0
Pozuelo de Alarcón Pozuelo de Alarcón Pozuelo de Alarcón is a suburb of over 85,000 inhabitants near the city of Madrid, capital of Spain. It is surrounded by large Mediterranean pine-tree forests: la Casa de Campo, el Monte del Pardo and el Monte del Pilar...	62.8	29.3	3.2

Only municipalities with more than 50,000 voters shown.

Source:

Summary of seats won 1977-2008

	1977	1979	1982	1986	1989	1993	1996	2000	2004	2008
Seats	32	32	32	33	33	34	34	34	35	35
Democratic Centre Union (UCD)	11	12	1
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party Spanish Socialist Workers' Party The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party is a social-democratic political party in Spain. Its political position is Centre-left. The PSOE is the former ruling party of Spain, until beaten in the elections of November 2011 and the second oldest, exceeded only by the Partido Carlista, founded in... (PSOE)	11	12	18	15	12	13	11	12	16	15
United Left United Left (Spain) The United Left is a political coalition that was organized in 1986 bringing together several political organisations opposed to Spain joining NATO. It was formed by a number of groups of leftists, greens, left-wing socialists and republicans, but was dominated by the Communist Party of Spain... (IU)	4	4	1	2	5	5	6	3	2	1
People's Party People's Party (Spain) The People's Party is a conservative political party in Spain.The People's Party was a re-foundation in 1989 of the People's Alliance , a party led and founded by Manuel Fraga Iribarne, a former Minister of Tourism during Francisco Franco's dictatorship... (PP)	3	3	11	11	12	16	17	19	17	18
Popular Socialist Party Popular Socialist Party (Spain) The People's Socialist Party was a Spanish political party.The origins of the party dated back to 1954 when the University professor, Enrique Tierno Galván published various academic studies of a Marxist character. In 1965, working together with Raúl Morodo, he formed the Castillian Socialist... (PSP)	3
National Union National Union (Spain) The National Union was a right-wing electoral coalition which contested the 1979 election. It linked Blas Piñar's Fuerza Nueva francoist party with the Carlists.... (UN)		1
Democratic and Social Centre (CDS)			1	5	4
Union, Progress and Democracy Union, Progress and Democracy Union, Progress and Democracy is a Spanish political party founded in September 2007.It is a progressivist party, between social democracy and social liberalism. One of its goals is to build a federal system for Spain and European Union, with clear responsibilities distributed among local... (UPyD)										1

Seats shown for the People's Party include seats won by their predecessors, the Popular Alliance and the Popular Coalition before 1989. Seats shown for United Left include seats won by the Communist Party of Spain before 1986.

Vote share summary 1977-2004

	1977	1979	1982	1986	1989	1993	1996	2000	2004	2008
Democratic Centre Union (UCD)	32.0	33.1	3.4
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party Spanish Socialist Workers' Party The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party is a social-democratic political party in Spain. Its political position is Centre-left. The PSOE is the former ruling party of Spain, until beaten in the elections of November 2011 and the second oldest, exceeded only by the Partido Carlista, founded in... (PSOE)	31.7	33.3	52.1	40.8	33.5	34.5	31.4	33.1	44.1	39.7
United Left United Left (Spain) The United Left is a political coalition that was organized in 1986 bringing together several political organisations opposed to Spain joining NATO. It was formed by a number of groups of leftists, greens, left-wing socialists and republicans, but was dominated by the Communist Party of Spain... (IU)	10.7	13.5	5.0	6.0	15.4	14.6	16.4	9.1	6.4	4.7
People's Party People's Party (Spain) The People's Party is a conservative political party in Spain.The People's Party was a re-foundation in 1989 of the People's Alliance , a party led and founded by Manuel Fraga Iribarne, a former Minister of Tourism during Francisco Franco's dictatorship... (PP)	10.5	8.6	32.3	32.0	34.2	43.9	49.3	52.5	45.0	49.2
Popular Socialist Party Popular Socialist Party (Spain) The People's Socialist Party was a Spanish political party.The origins of the party dated back to 1954 when the University professor, Enrique Tierno Galván published various academic studies of a Marxist character. In 1965, working together with Raúl Morodo, he formed the Castillian Socialist... (PSP)	9.2
National Union National Union (Spain) The National Union was a right-wing electoral coalition which contested the 1979 election. It linked Blas Piñar's Fuerza Nueva francoist party with the Carlists.... (UN)		4.8	0.8
Democratic and Social Centre (CDS)			4.1	13.9	11.0	3.0	0.4	0.1	0.2
Union, Progress and Democracy Union, Progress and Democracy Union, Progress and Democracy is a Spanish political party founded in September 2007.It is a progressivist party, between social democracy and social liberalism. One of its goals is to build a federal system for Spain and European Union, with clear responsibilities distributed among local... (UPD)										3.7

2008 Election
Spanish general election, 2008
Legislative elections for the Spanish Cortes Generales were held on March 9, 2008. The elections were for 350 seats in the Congress of Deputies, and the 208 directly elected seats in the upper house, the Senate, determining the Prime Minister of Spain...

As traditionally the prime ministerial candidate of each party is the leader of the Madrid list, PSOE's, PP's and IU's lists were led by José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero

José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero

José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero is a member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party . He was elected for two terms as Prime Minister of Spain, in the 2004 and 2008 general elections. On 2 April 2011 he announced he will not stand for re-election in 2012...

, Mariano Rajoy

Mariano Rajoy

Mariano Rajoy Brey is a Spanish People's Party politician and is the Prime Minister-elect since 20 November 2011. He will be sworn into office in mid-December 2011....

and Gaspar Llamazares

Gaspar Llamazares

Gaspar Llamazares Trigo is a Spanish politician. He was the leader of the leftist coalition Izquierda Unida from 2001 to 2008, in the post of General Coordinator. He is a member of Communist Party of Spain ....

respectively. In many political parties it is usually the number two on these lists who are considered the leader and left for discussion within the regional party branches. The current Second Vice-President Pedro Solbes

Pedro Solbes

Pedro Solbes Mira is a Spanish economist. While independent in the sense of not affiliated to any party, his various ministerial roles in Spain have always been within Socialist Workers' Party cabinets...

was offered this position with confederal environment Secretary of the Workers' Commissions

Workers' Commissions

The Workers' Commissions since the 1970s has become the largest trade union in Spain. It has more than one million members and is the most successful union in labor elections, competing with the socialist Unión General de Trabajadores , with the syndicalist Confederación General del Trabajo ...

trade union, Joaquin Nieto being offered that position for IU Manuel Pizzarro, former Chairman of ENDESA

Endesa (Chile)

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, was chosen to run as number two in the Madrid list of the Peoples' Party, his draft was announced at the time that current Mayor Madrid Alberto Ruiz Gallardón was rejected for taking part in the party list.

2008 General Election
Spanish general election, 2008
Legislative elections for the Spanish Cortes Generales were held on March 9, 2008. The elections were for 350 seats in the Congress of Deputies, and the 208 directly elected seats in the upper house, the Senate, determining the Prime Minister of Spain...

The 2008 election saw both parties of the left, the PSOE and IU, lose a seat. The PP and the UPD, a new party formed by ex-PSOE Euro MP, Rosa Diez, gain a seat.

In the wake of the 2008 election result, the Prime Minister, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero

José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero

, highlighted Madrid as one of five areas where the PSOE needed to improve its results.

Summary of the 11 March 2008 Congress of Deputies election results in Madrid.
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|align=left|People's Party

People's Party (Spain)

The People's Party is a conservative political party in Spain.The People's Party was a re-foundation in 1989 of the People's Alliance , a party led and founded by Manuel Fraga Iribarne, a former Minister of Tourism during Francisco Franco's dictatorship...

Mariano Rajoy

Mariano Rajoy Brey is a Spanish People's Party politician and is the Prime Minister-elect since 20 November 2011. He will be sworn into office in mid-December 2011....

, Manuel Pizarro, Ana Mato, Eduardo Zaplana

Eduardo Zaplana

Eduardo Andrés Julio Zaplana Hernández-Soro is a Spanish politician who served as the Partido Popular spokesman in the Spanish Congress of Deputies from 2004 to 2008.-Biography:...

, Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría, Cristóbal Montoro, Gabriel Elorriaga Pisarik, Miguel Arias Cañete

Miguel Arias Cañete

Miguel Arias Cañete is a Spanish politician. He is a member of the Partido Popular.Born in Madrid, he studied at the in the Jesuit college in the Chamartín district of Madrid. Cañete received a Bachelor of Law degree from the Universidad Complutense in Madrid and subsequently worked for the State...

, Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo Peralta Ramos, Beatriz Rodríguez-Salmones, Juan Carlos Vera Pro, Carlos Aragonés Mendiguchía, Teófilo de Luis Rodríguez, Eva Durán Ramos, María Teresa de Lara Carbó, Francisco José Villar García Moreno, María del Carmen Álvarez-Arenas Cisneros, Mario Mingo Zapatero
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|align=left|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party

Spanish Socialist Workers' Party

The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party is a social-democratic political party in Spain. Its political position is Centre-left. The PSOE is the former ruling party of Spain, until beaten in the elections of November 2011 and the second oldest, exceeded only by the Partido Carlista, founded in...

José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero

, María Fernández

María Teresa Fernández de la Vega

María Teresa Fernández de la Vega Sanz, LLD is a Spanish Valencian Socialist politician. From 18 April 2004 to 20 October 2010, she was the First Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of the Presidency and Cabinet Spokesperson in the government of Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero...

, Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba

Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba

Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba is a Spanish politician and a leading figure in the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party . He served in the government of Spain as Minister of Education from 1992 to 1993 and as Minister of the Interior from 2006 to 2011; in addition, he was First Deputy Prime Minister from...

, Mercedes Cabrera

Mercedes Cabrera

Mercedes Cabrera Calvo-Sotelo is a Spanish politician, political scientist, historian, and minister. She is also niece of Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo Bustelo, Former Prime Minister and of Former Foreign Minister Fernando Morán Lopez and grandniece of the physicist Blas Cabrera Felipe.-Biography:She...

, Cristina Narbona

Cristina Narbona

Cristina Narbona, born 29 July 1951, is a Spanish Socialist Workers' Party politician. Since 18 April 2004, she has been the Minister of Environment in the government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. She is a trustee of the , Spain's Socialist Party's think tank.-Biography:Narbona was born in Madrid...

, José Acosta Cubero, Elviro Aranda, Juan Antonio Barrios Rosa Blanco, Lucila Corral, Juan Julián Eloa, Luis Fernández, Dolores Garcia-Hierro, Antonio Gutierrez, Antonio Hernando, Joaquín Leguina, Diego López Garrido

Diego López Garrido

Diego López Garrido is a Spanish politician, university professor and Secretary of State for the European Union in the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, He was also Minister of the Spanish government.-Biography:...

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|align=left|United Left

United Left (Spain)

The United Left is a political coalition that was organized in 1986 bringing together several political organisations opposed to Spain joining NATO. It was formed by a number of groups of leftists, greens, left-wing socialists and republicans, but was dominated by the Communist Party of Spain...

Gaspar Llamazares

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|align=left| Union, Progress and Democracy

Union, Progress and Democracy

Union, Progress and Democracy is a Spanish political party founded in September 2007.It is a progressivist party, between social democracy and social liberalism. One of its goals is to build a federal system for Spain and European Union, with clear responsibilities distributed among local...

(UPD)
|align="right" |132,095
|align="right" |3.74
|align="right" |1
|align="left" | Rosa Diez

Rosa Díez

Rosa Díez González is a Spanish politician. She is a former Member of the European Parliament for the PSOE , integrated in the Party of European Socialists.In 2007 she gave up her seat and left the PSOE due to strong disagreement on what she perceived to be the...

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|align=left|Los Verdes

Confederation of The Greens

The Confederation of the Greens is a green political party in Spain....

|align="right" valign=top|10,785
|align="right" valign=top|0.31
|align="right" valign=top|0
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|align=left|Others
|align="right" |51,894
|align="right" |1.50
|align="right" |0
|align="right" |
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2004 General Election

PSOE had their best result in Madrid since 1982 although the PP still narrowly retained the top position. IU lost a seat and had their biggest drop in percentage terms in any of the 52 districts.

Summary of the 14 March 2004 Congress of Deputies election results

Spanish legislative election, 2004

Legislative elections were held in Spain on 14 March 2004. At stake were all 350 seats in the lower house of the Cortes Generales, the Congress of Deputies, and 208 seats in upper house, the Senate. The governing People's Party was led into the campaign by Mariano Rajoy, successor to outgoing...

People's Party (Spain)

Mariano Rajoy

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, Rodrigo Rato

Rodrigo Rato

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(Resigned), Carlos Aragonés

Carlos Aragonés

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, Rogelio Baón, Ismael Bardisa, Gabriel Elgorriaga, Elena Garcia-Alcañiz, Fernando López-Amór, Jesús López-Medel, Mario Mingo, Eugenio Nassare, Beatriz Rodríguez Salmones, Soraya Sáenz de Santamaria, Julio Sanchez Fierro, Roberto Soravilla, Juan Carlos Vera, Francisco José Villar
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|align=left|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party

Spanish Socialist Workers' Party

José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero

, María Fernández

María Teresa Fernández de la Vega

, Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba

Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba

, Mercedes Cabrera

Mercedes Cabrera

, Cristina Narbona

Cristina Narbona

Diego López Garrido

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|align=left|United Left

United Left (Spain)

Gaspar Llamazares

, Ángel Pérez

Ángel Pérez Martínez

Ángel Pérez Martínez is a Spanish United Left politician. He is currently the organisation's spokesman on Madrid City Council, after having developed different positions inside the organisation. He is also a member of the Communist Party of Spain....

(Resigned), Montserrat Muñoz
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|align=left|Los Verdes

Confederation of The Greens

The Confederation of the Greens is a green political party in Spain....

|align="right" valign=top|19,600
|align="right" valign=top|0.56
|align="right" valign=top|0
|align="left" |
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|align=left|Others
|align="right" |63,719
|align="right" |3.88
|align="right" |0
|align="right" |
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2000 General Election
Spanish general election, 2000
Legislative elections were held in Spain on 12 March 2000. The incumbent People's Party of Prime Minister José María Aznar was elected to a second term in office, converting its plurality of seats in the Congress of Deputies into a majority, and increasing its lead over the opposition Spanish...

People's Party (Spain)

José María Aznar

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, Rafael Arias-Salgado

Rafael Arias-Salgado

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|align=left|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party

Spanish Socialist Workers' Party

Joaquín Almunia

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, Cristina Alberdi

Cristina Alberdi

Cristina Alberdi is a Spanish politician and lawyer.Graduating in Law, from 1970 she was a lawyer of the Colegio de Abogados , and in 1975 organized a feminist legal group...

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|align=left|United Left

United Left (Spain)

Francisco Frutos

Francisco Frutos Gras is a Spanish politician who was since 1998 until 2009, the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Spain ....

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|align=left|Others
|align="right" |106,130
|align="right" |3.40
|align="right" |0
|align="right" |
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1996 General Election
Spanish general election, 1996
General elections were held in Spain on March 3, 1996. The Prime Minister Felipe González of Spanish Socialist Workers' Party lost the elections to Partido Popular and their leader José María Aznar....

People's Party (Spain)

José María Aznar

José María Alfredo Aznar López served as the Prime Minister of Spain from 1996 to 2004. He is on the board of directors of News Corporation.-Early life:...

, Rafael Arias-Salgado

Rafael Arias-Salgado

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|align=left|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party

Spanish Socialist Workers' Party

Felipe González

Felipe González Márquez is a Spanish socialist politician. He was the General Secretary of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party from 1974 to 1997. To date, he remains the longest-serving Prime Minister of Spain, after having served four successive mandates from 1982 to 1996.-Early life:Felipe was...

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|align=left|United Left

United Left (Spain)

Julio Anguita

Julio Anguita González is a Spanish communist politician. He was Mayor of Córdoba, Spain from 1979 to 1986 and coordinator of United Left between 1989 and 1999 and General Secretary of the Communist Party of Spain from 1988 to 1998.-Biography:A member of a military family, he broke with familiar...

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|align=left|Others
|align="right" |52,825
|align="right" |1.60
|align="right" |0
|align="right" |
|-
|}

1993 General Election
Spanish general election, 1993
-Results:-External links:*...

This election saw the CDS fall just short of the 3% threshold needed to secure representation and as a result they failed to win the seat that they would have won had there been no threshold. To date this was the only election where the threshold has cost a party representation.

Summary of the 6 June 1993 Congress of Deputies election results in Madrid.
|-
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=left valign=top|Parties and alliances
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|Votes
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|%
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|Seats
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|Members elected
|-
|align=left|People's Party

People's Party (Spain)

José María Aznar

José María Alfredo Aznar López served as the Prime Minister of Spain from 1996 to 2004. He is on the board of directors of News Corporation.-Early life:...

, Rafael Arias-Salgado

Rafael Arias-Salgado

|-
|align=left|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party

Spanish Socialist Workers' Party

Felipe González

|-
|align=left|United Left

United Left (Spain)

Julio Anguita

|-
|align=left|Democratic and Social Centre
|align="right" |93,347
|align="right" |2.99
|align="right" |0
|align="right" |
|-
|align=left|Others
|align="right" |80,507
|align="right" |2.60
|align="right" |0
|align="right" |
|-
|}

1989 General Election
Spanish general election, 1989
-Results:-External links:**...

People's Party (Spain)

José María Aznar

José María Alfredo Aznar López served as the Prime Minister of Spain from 1996 to 2004. He is on the board of directors of News Corporation.-Early life:...

|-
|align=left|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party

Spanish Socialist Workers' Party

Felipe González

|-
|align=left|United Left

United Left (Spain)

Julio Anguita

Adolfo Suárez

Adolfo Suárez y González, 1st Duke of Suárez, Grandee of Spain, KOGF is a Spanish lawyer and politician. Suárez was Spain's first democratically elected prime minister after the dictatorship of Francisco Franco, and the key figure in the country's transition to democracy.-Parents:He is a son of...

|-
|align=left|Others
|align="right" |130,751
|align="right" |4.90
|align="right" |0
|align="right" |
|-
|}

1986 General Election
Spanish general election, 1986
General elections were held in Spain on 23 June 1986. In this election, the Communist Party of Spain merged with other minor left parties to form the coalition Izquierda Unida; in Catalonia they ran as the Catalan Left Union. Similarly, the People's Alliance merged with two other conservative...

Spanish Socialist Workers' Party

Felipe González

|-
|align=left|People's Party

People's Party (Spain)

Adolfo Suárez

|-
|align=left|United Left

United Left (Spain)

|align="right" |155,932
|align="right" |6.03
|align="right" |5
|align="left" |Gerardo Iglesias
|-
|align=left|Others
|align="right" |162,634
|align="right" |6.30
|align="right" |0
|align="right" |
|-
|}

1982 General Election
Spanish general election, 1982
General elections were held in Spain on 28 October 1982.PSOE and PSC presented two different lists of candidates: with the PSOE contesting most of Spain and the PSC only standing in Catalonia...

Summary of the 28 October 1982 Congress of Deputies election results in Madrid.
|-
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=left valign=top|Parties and alliances
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|Votes
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|%
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|Seats
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|Members elected
|-
|align=left|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party

Spanish Socialist Workers' Party

Felipe González

|-
|align=left|Popular Alliance

Popular Alliance (Spain)

The People's Alliance was a electoral coalition, and later a political party, founded in 1976 by Manuel Fraga along with six other former Francoist ministers.- History :...

Santiago Carrillo

Santiago Carrillo Solares is a Spanish politician who served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of Spain from 1960 to 1982.- Childhood and early youth :...

Adolfo Suárez

|-
|align=left|Union of the Democratic Centre (Unión de Centro Democrático)
|align="right" |92,508
|align="right" |3.35
|align="right" |1
|align="right" |Landelino Lavilla
|-
|align=left|New Force (Fuerza Nueva)
|align="right" |22,602
|align="right" |0.82
|align="right" |0
|align="right" |
|-
|align=left|Others
|align="right" |54,735
|align="right" |2.00
|align="right" |0
|align="right" |
|-
|}

1979 General Election
Spanish general election, 1979
General elections were held in Spain on 1 March 1979.-References:* *...

Spanish Socialist Workers' Party

Felipe González

Adolfo Suárez

Santiago Carrillo

Santiago Carrillo Solares is a Spanish politician who served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of Spain from 1960 to 1982.- Childhood and early youth :...

|-
|align=left|Democratic Coalition

Popular Alliance (Spain)

The People's Alliance was a electoral coalition, and later a political party, founded in 1976 by Manuel Fraga along with six other former Francoist ministers.- History :...

José María de Areilza

Don José María de Areilza y Martínez-Rodas, 3rd Count of Rodas, jure uxoris Count of Motrico was a Spanish politician engineer and diplomat....

Blas Piñar

Blas Piñar is a Spanish politician. He has had connections with Catholic organizations; directed the Institute of Spanish Culture and served as deputy in the Cortes and a councillor of the Movimiento Nacional.In the 1960s, Blas Piñar was in charge of the Institute of Spanish Culture that was...

|-
|align=left|Others
|align="right" |145,224
|align="right" |6.30
|align="right" |0
|align="right" |
|-
|}

1977 General Election
Spanish general election, 1977
The Spanish general election of 1977 took place on 15 June 1977. It was the first election since the death of Francisco Franco.Voting was on the basis of universal suffrage in a secret ballot. The elections were held using closed list proportional representation in 52 electoral districts...

Adolfo Suárez

|-
|align=left|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party

Spanish Socialist Workers' Party

Felipe González

|-
|align=left|Communist Party of Spain

Communist Party of Spain

The Communist Party of Spain is the third largest national political party in Spain. It is the largest member organization of the United Left electoral coalition and has influence in the largest trade union in Spain, Workers' Commissions ....

Santiago Carrillo

Santiago Carrillo Solares is a Spanish politician who served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of Spain from 1960 to 1982.- Childhood and early youth :...

|-
|align=left|Popular Alliance (Spain)

Popular Alliance (Spain)

The People's Alliance was a electoral coalition, and later a political party, founded in 1976 by Manuel Fraga along with six other former Francoist ministers.- History :...

Popular Socialist Party (Spain)

The People's Socialist Party was a Spanish political party.The origins of the party dated back to 1954 when the University professor, Enrique Tierno Galván published various academic studies of a Marxist character. In 1965, working together with Raúl Morodo, he formed the Castillian Socialist...

(Partido Socialista Popular)
|align="right" |211,440
|align="right" |9.16
|align="right" |3
|align="right" |Enrique Tierno Glavan
|-
|align=left|Others
|align="right" |133,171
|align="right" |5.80
|align="right" |0
|align="right" |
|-
|}

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2008 Election
Spanish general election, 2008
Legislative elections for the Spanish Cortes Generales were held on March 9, 2008. The elections were for 350 seats in the Congress of Deputies, and the 208 directly elected seats in the upper house, the Senate, determining the Prime Minister of Spain...

1996 General Election
Spanish general election, 1996
General elections were held in Spain on March 3, 1996. The Prime Minister Felipe González of Spanish Socialist Workers' Party lost the elections to Partido Popular and their leader José María Aznar....

1993 General Election
Spanish general election, 1993
-Results:-External links:*...

1989 General Election
Spanish general election, 1989
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1982 General Election
Spanish general election, 1982
General elections were held in Spain on 28 October 1982.PSOE and PSC presented two different lists of candidates: with the PSOE contesting most of Spain and the PSC only standing in Catalonia...

1979 General Election
Spanish general election, 1979
General elections were held in Spain on 1 March 1979.-References:* *...