With all in-person and mail-in votes counted, no political party or likely coalition has won enough seats in the Congress of Deputies to declare victory. Both PSOE, the mainstream social-democratic party of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, and their conservative opponents PP, fell short of the 176 seats needed for a majority, even when combined with parties likely to ally with them.
Seats needed for a majority
Major left parties
Major right parties
Party
Votes
Percent
Pct.%
Seats
Chart of the number of seats
8,091,840
33.05%
136
7,760,970
31.70%
122
3,033,744
12.39%
33
3,014,006
12.31%
31
1,783,470
7.26%
28
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Many voters in the Basque region voted for nationalist Basque parties Bildu and PNV.
PSOE increased its support in Catalonia, but pro-independence parties Junts and ERC will be key to forming a new government.
Voters in Madrid shifted to the right. Conservative PP won a strong 40% of the vote, 15 percentage points more than in 2019.
Far-right Vox fell to third place in Murcia, the only province where they won the most votes in the last general election.
Ballots from Spanish citizens living abroad have not yet been counted and may change the outcome in a few competitive seats. They will be tallied at the end of July.
The inconclusive result may lead to weeks of negotiation between the parties, or even a new vote later this year.
Vox, a far-right anti-immigration party expected to form a coalition with PP, lost 19 seats, failing to deliver the votes needed to achieve a right-wing bloc.
Sumar, a progressive coalition expected to support PSOE, finished a close fourth. Their leader, the second deputy prime minister and labor minister Yolanda Díaz, was boosted by a strong debate performance in the final days of the campaign, where she challenged the anti-feminist policies of Vox leader Santiago Abascal.
Possible coalitions
176 seats required for majority
Major right parties
PP
+ Vox
=
0
seats
Major right parties plus smaller parties
PP
+ Vox
+ PNV
+ CC
+ UPN
=
0
seats
Major left parties
PSOE + Add = 0 seats
Major left parties plus smaller parties
PSOE + Sumar + PNV + BNG + Bildu + ERC = 0 seats
Major left parties plus smaller and all Catalan parties
PSOE + Sumar + PNV + BNG + Bildu + ERC + Together = 0 seats
Both the progressive and conservative blocs will need to gain the support of smaller regional parties if they want to reach a majority of seats.
PP and Vox will need the vote of PNV, a Basque nationalist party that supported a government led by Mr. Sánchez in 2019 and is unlikely to support a right-wing coalition. They will also need the support of two smaller parties with one seat each, Coalición Canaria (CC), a nationalist party from Canary Islands that recently formed a regional government with the vote of PP, and Unión del Pueblo Navarro (UPN), a historical partner of PP in Navarra.
PSOE and Sumar will have to revalidate the support of the parties that voted for Mr. Sánchez in 2019 and will have to seek the backing of Junts, a Catalan nationalist party.
Míriam Nogueras, at Junts candidate in Barcelona, said“We will not support Mr. Sánchez in return for nothing… Our priority is Catalonia, not the governability of the country.”
Results by Province
Places where PSOE led in the May local election
Places where PSOE led in the May local election
Seats
Province
Margin
PSOE+
Summer PP+
Vox Others % In Barcelona — 0 0 0 0% Seville — 0 0 0 0% Asturias — 0 0 0 0% Badajoz — 0 0 0 0% Granada — 0 0 0 0% Toledo — 0 0 0 0% Jaén — 0 0 0 0% Santa Cruz de Tenerife — 0 0 0 0% Las Palmas — 0 0 0 0% Ciudad Real — 0 0 0 0% Cáceres — 0 0 0 0% León — 0 0 0 0% Albacete — 0 0 0 0% Guadalajara — 0 0 0 0% Tarragona — 0 0 0 0% Cuenca — 0 0 0 0% Girona — 0 0 0 0% Soria — 0 0 0 0%
…where other parties were ahead
…where other parties were ahead
Seats
Province
Margin
PSOE+
Summer PP+
Vox Others % In Biscay — 0 0 0 0% Guipúzcoa — 0 0 0 0% Navarre — 0 0 0 0% Alava — 0 0 0 0% Lleida — 0 0 0 0%
…where PP was ahead
…where PP was ahead
Seats
Province
Margin
PSOE+
Summer PP+
Vox Others % In Madrid — 0 0 0 0% Valencia — 0 0 0 0% Alicante — 0 0 0 0% Málaga — 0 0 0 0% Murcia — 0 0 0 0% A Coruña — 0 0 0 0% Pontevedra — 0 0 0 0% Zaragoza — 0 0 0 0% Cádiz — 0 0 0 0% Córdoba — 0 0 0 0% Balearic Islands — 0 0 0 0% Almería — 0 0 0 0% Castellón — 0 0 0 0% Valladolid — 0 0 0 0% Huelva — 0 0 0 0% Lugo — 0 0 0 0% Salamanca — 0 0 0 0% Cantabria — 0 0 0 0% La Rioja — 0 0 0 0% Ourense — 0 0 0 0% Burgos — 0 0 0 0% Zamora — 0 0 0 0% Huesca — 0 0 0 0% Ávila — 0 0 0 0% Segovia — 0 0 0 0% Palencia — 0 0 0 0% Teruel — 0 0 0 0% Melilla — 0 0 0 0% Ceuta — 0 0 0 0%
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