2014 European Parliament election in Spain information
2014 European Parliament election in Spain
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All 54 Spanish seats in the European Parliament
Opinion polls
Registered
36,514,084 2.9%
Turnout
15,998,141 (43.8%) 1.1 pp
First party
Second party
Third party
Leader
Miguel Arias Cañete
Elena Valenciano
Willy Meyer
Party
PP
PSOE
IP
Alliance
EPP
S&D
GUE/NGL Greens/EFA
Leader since
9 April 2014
10 February 2014
8 May 2004
Leader's seat
Spain
Spain
Spain
Last election
24 seats, 42.1%
23 seats, 38.8%
2 seats, 3.7%
Seats won
16
14
6
Seat change
8
9
4
Popular vote
4,098,339
3,614,232
1,575,308
Percentage
26.1%
23.0%
10.0%
Swing
16.0 pp
15.8 pp
6.3 pp
Fourth party
Fifth party
Sixth party
Leader
Pablo Iglesias
Francisco Sosa Wagner
Ramon Tremosa
Party
Podemos
UPyD
CEU
Alliance
GUE/NGL
ALDE
ALDE EPP
Leader since
3 April 2014
3 September 2008
24 January 2009
Leader's seat
Spain
Spain
Spain
Last election
Did not contest
1 seat, 2.9%
3 seats, 4.8%[a]
Seats won
5
4
3
Seat change
5
3
0
Popular vote
1,253,837
1,022,232
851,971
Percentage
8.0%
6.5%
5.4%
Swing
New party
3.6 pp
0.6 pp
Winner strength by province
Winner strength by autonomous community
The 2014 European Parliament election in Spain was held on Sunday, 25 May 2014, as part of the EU-wide election to elect the 8th European Parliament. All 54 seats allocated to Spain as per the Treaty of Lisbon were up for election.
The People's Party (PP) emerged as the largest party overall, albeit with its worst nationwide election result in 25 years with a mere 26.1% of the share and 16 seats, losing 2.6 million votes and 8 seats from its 2009 result. The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) lost 9 seats and 2.5 million votes, obtaining just 23% of the total party vote and 14 seats. This would represent the party's worst election result in recent history until the 2015 general election, in which it scored a new low. Up to 8 additional political forces obtained representation. Pablo Iglesias' newly formed Podemos party (Spanish for "We can") turned into the election night surprise by winning 5 seats and 1,253,837 votes (7.98% of the share), an unprecedented result for a party only 4 months old and contesting an election for the first time. Podemos's surge and the extent of PP and PSOE collapse were not foreseen by opinion polls during the campaign, which had predicted higher support for the two dominant parties and a weaker performance of Podemos.
United Left's Plural Left coalition and Union, Progress and Democracy (UPyD) obtained some of their best historical results, with 10.0% and 6.5% of the vote and 6 and 4 seats, respectively. However, this was far from the major election breakthrough that polls had predicted throughout 2013 and in early 2014. From this point onwards both parties would lose support in opinion polls and in successive regional and local elections. The Citizens (C's) party of Albert Rivera, then marginalised as a Catalonia-only party and after several failed attempts to jump into national politics, managed to obtain 3.16% of the share and 2 seats. Just as Podemos, it would grow in support in the run up to the next general election and become a major political actor by 2015.
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