The Spanish Socialist Workers Party was the formation with the most votes in the general elections of November 10, 2019. The PSOE achieved the position of the most supported party and its leader, Pedro Sánchez, was appointed President of the Government thanks to the support of Unidas Podemos, En Comú Podem, PNV, Más País, Galicia in Común, Nueva Canarias, Compromís, the Bloque Nacionalista Galego and Teruel Existe, who voted yes to the investiture, while ERC and Bildu abstained. The PP, Vox, Ciudadanos, Junts per Catalunya, the CUP, the Canary Islands Coalition, UPN and the Cantabrian Regionalist Party voted against.
The Socialists had explosively improved their results in the April elections, obtaining 38% more votes (7,513,142 compared to 5,443,846 in 2016) and up to 123 seats, and they aspired to consolidate that improvement in the November convocation. Although the right managed to gather more support in the second elections of the year, due in large part to citizen weariness after the left’s inability to form a government after the April votes, and the socialists left 3 seats along the way, finally the accounts They left and Pedro Sánchez was sworn in as president. Despite this, the bleeding of votes was especially harsh in the Senate, where the PSOE lost 30 senators in a few months, going from 123 in April to 93 in November.
He PSOE obtained a total of 6,752,983 votes, 28% of the total, and thanks to this he managed 120 seats31 more than the next most supported party, the Popular Party, which stayed at 89 after achieving 5,019,869 votes.
By provinces, Madrid was the one that contributed the most deputies to the Socialists, with 10. Barcelona gave it 8, Seville added 5 and Valencia, Alicante and Málaga, 4. Murcia, Cádiz, A Coruña, Las Palmas, Asturias, Granada, Pontevedra, Zaragoza, Badajoz, Huelva and Jaén contributed 3, while Vizcaya, the Balearic Islands, Tenerife, Almería, Córdoba, Tarragona, Toledo, Castellón, Ciudad Real, Valladolid, Albacete, Burgos, Cáceres, La Rioja, León, Lugo, Ourense, Cuenca and Huesca chose 2 socialist deputies. In all the others, the PSOE got 1, except in Ceuta and Melilla, in which its only seat went to Vox and PP, respectively.
The result supposed a turnaround after the 2016 debaclein which the party had barely obtained 85 deputies and only 22.63% of the votes, in what had been the worst result for the Socialists since the return to democracy.
Regarding the results for the Senate in 2019, the Socialists were also the ones who obtained the most senators. The PSOE got 93 after receiving 19,481,846 votes. They were 30 less than in his great result in April, but they were enough to take control of the Upper House together with his allies on the left.
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