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General elections in Spain

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185: 434: 293: 378: 246:. According to Spanish electoral law, the number of seats in each consituency can change in each election and it is specified when writs of election are issued. Each constituency is guaranteed a minimum allocation of two seats, and one seat each for Ceuta and Melilla for a total of 102 seats. The remaining 248 seats are allocated proportionally according to population using the 329:
The median number of seats per constituency is one of the lowest in Europe. This is due to the use of Spain's provinces as electoral constituencies, which leads to a large number of constituencies. As a consequence, the number of wasted votes is quite high. That is to say, there are a large number of
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The system also tends to favor the large political parties. Despite the use of a proportional representation system, which in general facilitates the emergence of many small parties rather than a few large parties, the electoral system for the Congress of Deputies in practice favors the creation of a
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The electoral threshold of 3% only affects provinces that elect more than 30 deputies, i.e. Madrid and Barcelona. In the other constituencies, where fewer seats are distributed, the real barrier to entry into the Congress is significantly greater. For example, the effective barrier in provinces with
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The system of distribution of Congress of Deputies seats to the provinces leads to less populous provinces being overrepresented, because they are assigned more seats than they would receive if seats were distributed strictly in proportion to the population of each province. In the same way, highly
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can vote in general elections, whether residing in Spain or abroad. Spaniards permanently residing abroad must be registered on the Electoral Census of Absent Residents (CERA) and make a request to be able to vote, a system known as requested vote. CERA registrees vote in consulates, by mail, or in
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Following the general-election law reform of 2011, parties without representation in the Congress or Senate must collect signatures of voters endorsing their candidacies in order to run in the general election, in addition to other requirements. The political parties need 0.1% of the signatures of
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There are 59 electoral constituencies for the Senate, which correspond to the 46 Spanish peninsular provinces, plus 10 corresponding to islands and two for the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla. Four senators are allocated to each peninsular province, three to each of the major islands (Gran
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of 3%, i.e. a party must obtain at least 3% of the valid vote total in the constituency in order to select a share of the seats. Regardless, this threshold only has real-life application in constituencies of great size, such as Madrid or Barcelona. In the entire democratic period, this exclusion
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Convicted criminals whose final judicial sentence includes deprivation of suffrage rights cannot vote in elections. Until 2018, those declared incompetent by virtue of a final judicial sentence, and those confined to a psychiatric hospital by judicial authority, also could not vote. In 2018, the
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As of the general-election law reform of 2007, candidate campaigns must present gender-balanced electoral lists, so that each gender, male and female, comprises at least 40% of the list. This reform was appealed by the Popular Parliamentary Group of the Congress of Deputies before the
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person. Spaniards residing in Spain who are temporarily out of the country must be registered as Temporarily Absent Resident Spaniards (ERTA) and also must request the vote. ERTA registrees vote in their usual district in Spain by mail.
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Due to the great population disparity between the provinces, and despite the fact that small provinces are overrepresented, the number of deputies assigned to each of them is small, and their seats tend to go to one of the two major
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in 1978. Voter participation and the majority party in elections to the Congress of Deputies and the Senate are shown. There have been 15 general elections held since 1978. The elections with the greatest participation were in
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All Spaniards who have attained the age of majority are eligible to be candidates in a general election, provided that they are qualified to vote and do not meet any of the criteria for ineligibility: members of the
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The selection of appointed senators is verified with respect to a criterion of attenuated majority representation, which gives primacies to the parties and coalitions with the most votes.
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in each electoral constituency. The Constitution fixes the number of senators in each constituency, resulting in a total of 208 total senators chosen by direct election .
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votes that cannot affect the result, because they have been cast for some small party that does not achieve representation in the constituency where those votes were cast.
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can dissolve the legislature and call for early elections at any time, provided that at least one year has passed since the prior election and a
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election law was changed to eliminate this restriction, permitting 100,000 individuals with intellectual disabilities to vote in elections.
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that represent the Spanish people. They are held every four years, unless a repeat or early election is called. Since the adoption of the
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in each electoral constituency. The Constitution specifies that the Congress of Deputies must have a minimum of 300 and a maximum of 400
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is not in progress. The formal convocation of elections is effected by a proposal from the prime minister, after deliberation by the
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After the holding of a general election, seats are assigned to the electoral lists in each constituency. For that distribution, the
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Real Decreto 184/2016, de 3 de mayo, de disolución del Congreso de los Diputados y del Senado y de convocatoria de elecciones
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The D'Hondt method used to distribute seats slightly favors larger parties, compared to other electoral methods, such as the
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The size of the Congress of Deputies is relatively small, which can lead to disproportionality and favor large parties.
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of the Senate determines the number of senators to be appointed in the new legislature. In the
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Canaria, Mallorca and Tenerife), one to each of the minor islands or island groups (
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requires that directly elected senators be elected by free, equal, direct, secret,
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were held in July of 2023. Members of the Congress of Deputies are elected via a
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be composed of a variable number of senators, elected by a mixed system. In the
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Underrepresented (in red) and overrepresented (in blue) constituencies in the
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need at least 1% of signatures. Each citizen may only sign for one candidacy.
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The results of the general elections held in Spain since the passage of the
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during a "day of reflection" is imposed on the day before the elections.
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Blank votes are considered valid votes; null votes are not.
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is used in each constituency separately. Also, there is an
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electoral constituencies for the Congress of Deputies
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in which the citizens of Spain choose members of the
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