1977 Spanish general election
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A general election was held in Spain on 15 June 1977 to elect the members of the Spanish Cortes. All 350 seats in the Congress of Deputies were up for election, as well as all 207 seats in the Senate.
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15 June 1977
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It was the first free election held in Spain since 1936, prior to the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. It was called by Prime Minister Adolfo Suárez as part of the political reform of the Francoist regime, ongoing since shortly after Francisco Franco's death in 1975 and promoted by his successor, King Juan Carlos I. Its aim was to elect a Constituent Cortes that was to draft a new constitution, which would ultimately lead to the repealing of the Fundamental Laws of the Realm and the culmination of the country's transition to democracy.
The Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD), the electoral alliance created to serve as Suárez's political platform in government, emerged as the largest political force overall, albeit 11 seats short of an absolute majority. The election surprise was the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) of Felipe González, which—supported by the German SPD and running a campaign intended to highlight González's youth and charisma—won 118 seats and became the main left-of-centre party by a wide margin. The Communist Party of Spain (PCE), which had been the main opposition force to the dictatorship, and the right-wing People's Alliance (AP) of former Francoist minister Manuel Fraga, performed below expectations. Turnout was high at 78.8%, the second highest for any nationwide election held ever since.[1][2]
Background
The death of Francisco Franco in 1975 paved the way for Spain's transition from an autocratic, one-party dictatorship into a democratic, constitutional monarchy. As per the 1947 Succession Law, the Spanish monarchy was restored under the figure of Juan Carlos I, who quickly became the promoter of a peaceful democratic reform of state institutions. This move was supported by western countries, an important sector of Spanish and international capitalism, a majority of the opposition to Francoism—organized into the Democratic Convergence Platform and the Democratic Junta, which in 1976 would both merge into the Democratic Coordination—and a growing part of the Franco regime itself, weary of popular mobilization after the outcome of the Carnation Revolution in neighbouring Portugal in 1974.[3] However, the incumbent prime minister, Carlos Arias Navarro, rejected any major transformation of the Spanish political system and rather supported the preservation of Francoist laws, resulting in his dismissal by the King in July 1976, who appointed Adolfo Suárez for the post.
Suárez's plans for political reform involved the transformation of Spanish institutions in accordance to the Francoist legal system through the approval of a "political reform bill" as a Fundamental Law of the Realm. This was meant as a step beyond Arias Navarro's plans to update—but preserve—the Francoist regime, with Suárez intending to implement democracy "from law to law through law"—in the words of Torcuato Fernández-Miranda—without the outright liquidation of the Francoist system as called for by opposition parties.[4][5] Thus, on 18 November 1976, the Political Reform Law was passed by the Francoist Cortes, later ratified in a referendum on 15 December with overwhelming popular support. As set out in Suárez's scheme, the Law called for an electoral process to elect new Cortes that were to be responsible for drafting a democratic constitution.
Overview
Under the 1977 Political Reform Law, the Spanish Cortes were conceived as a provisional assembly tasked with drafting a new constitution to replace the Fundamental Laws of the Realm. The initiative for constitutional amendment belonged to the Congress of Deputies and the national government, and constitutional bills had to be passed by an absolute majority in both the Congress and the Senate. If the Senate rejected a bill approved by Congress, the disagreement was to be examined by a mixed commission and, if the deadlock continued, both chambers would meet in a joint sitting as a single legislative body to decide the issue by absolute majority.[6]
Date
The term of the previous Spanish Cortes expired on 30 June 1977, after their term had been extended twice since their scheduled expiration date in November 1975.[7]
The election to the Spanish Cortes was officially called on 15 April 1977 with the publication of the corresponding decree in the Official State Gazette (BOE), setting election day for 15 June.[8] Both chambers were scheduled to reconvene on 13 July.[9]
Electoral system
Voting for each chamber of the Spanish Cortes was based on universal suffrage, comprising all Spanish nationals over 21 years of age with full civil and political rights.[10][11]
The Congress of Deputies had 350 seats in its first election. Of these, 348 were elected in 50 multi-member constituencies corresponding to the provinces of Spain—each of which was assigned an initial minimum of two seats and the remaining 248 distributed in proportion to population, roughly one seat per 144,500 inhabitants or fraction above 70,000—using the D'Hondt method and closed-list proportional voting, with a three percent-threshold of valid votes (including blank ballots) in each constituency. The remaining two seats were allocated to Ceuta and Melilla as single-member districts elected by plurality voting.[12] The use of this electoral method resulted in a higher effective threshold depending on district magnitude and vote distribution.[13]
As a result of the aforementioned allocation, each Congress multi-member constituency was entitled the following seats:[14]
| Seats | Constituencies |
|---|---|
| 33 | Barcelona |
| 32 | Madrid |
| 15 | Valencia |
| 12 | Seville |
| 10 | Biscay, Oviedo |
| 9 | Alicante, La Coruña |
| 8 | Cádiz, Málaga, Murcia, Pontevedra, Zaragoza |
| 7 | Badajoz, Córdoba, Granada, Guipúzcoa, Jaén, Santa Cruz de Tenerife |
| 6 | Balearics, Las Palmas, León |
| 5 | Almería, Cáceres, Castellón, Ciudad Real, Gerona, Huelva, Lugo, Navarre, Orense, Santander, Tarragona, Toledo, Valladolid |
| 4 | Álava, Albacete, Burgos, Cuenca, Lérida, Logroño, Salamanca, Zamora |
| 3 | Ávila, Guadalajara, Huesca, Palencia, Segovia, Soria, Teruel |
207 Senate seats were elected using open-list partial block voting: voters in constituencies electing four seats could choose up to three candidates; in those with two or three seats, up to two; and in single-member districts, one. Each of the 47 peninsular provinces was allocated four seats, while in insular provinces—such as the Balearic and Canary Islands—the districts were the islands themselves, with the larger ones (Mallorca, Gran Canaria and Tenerife) being allocated three seats each, and the smaller ones (Menorca, Ibiza–Formentera, Fuerteventura, La Gomera–El Hierro, Lanzarote and La Palma) one each. Ceuta and Melilla elected two seats each. Additionally, the monarch could directly appoint a number of senators not higher than one-fifth of the elected seats.[15][16]
The law provided for by-elections to fill vacant seats in the Congress only when results in a constituency were annulled by a final sentence following an electoral petition; otherwise, vacancies arising after the proclamation of candidates and during the legislative term were filled by the next candidates on the party lists or, when required, by designated substitutes. Additionally for the Senate, by-elections were required to fill any seat vacated within the first two years of the legislative term.[17]
Candidates
Nomination rules
Spanish citizens with the right to vote could run for election. Causes of ineligibility applied to the following officials:[18][19]
- Holders of a number of senior public or institutional post, including government ministers (but not the prime minister);[20] the heads of higher courts and state institutions;[b] high-ranking officials of government departments and other state agencies; civil governors-general and governors, as well as government delegates in the islands and the cities of Ceuta and Melilla; members of electoral commissions; and the chairs of national trade unions;
- Judges and public prosecutors in active service;
- Members of the Armed Forces and law enforcement bodies in active service, as well as senior police officials.
Other ineligibility provisions also applied to a number of territorial officials in these categories within their areas of jurisdiction.[18]
Incompatibility rules included those of ineligibility (except for government ministers, high-ranking officials of government departments, and chairs of national trade unions), and also barred combining legislative roles (deputy and senator).[18]
Parties and lists
The electoral law allowed for parties and federations registered in the interior ministry, alliances and groupings of electors to present lists of candidates. Parties and federations intending to form an alliance were required to inform the relevant electoral commission within 15 days of the election call, whereas groupings of electors needed to secure the signature of at least one permille—and, in any case, 500 signatures—of the electorate in the constituencies for which they sought election, disallowing electors from signing for more than one list.[21]
Below is a list of the main parties and alliances which contested the election:
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Campaign
Opinion polls
Results
Congress of Deputies
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| Parties and alliances | Popular vote | Seats | ||||
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| Votes | % | ±pp | Total | +/− | ||
| Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD) | 6,310,391 | 34.44 | n/a | 165 | n/a | |
| Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) | 5,371,866 | 29.32 | n/a | 118 | n/a | |
| Communist Party of Spain (PCE) | 1,709,890 | 9.33 | n/a | 20 | n/a | |
| People's Alliance (AP) | 1,526,671 | 8.33 | n/a | 16 | n/a | |
| Navarrese Foral Alliance (AFN) | 21,900 | 0.12 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| People's Socialist Party–Socialist Unity (PSP–US) | 828,461 | 4.52 | n/a | 6 | n/a | |
| Centre-Left of Albacete (CIA) | 11,879 | 0.06 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Democratic Pact for Catalonia (PDC) | 514,647 | 2.81 | n/a | 11 | n/a | |
| Christian Democratic Team of the Spanish State (EDCEE) | 417,678 | 2.28 | n/a | 2 | n/a | |
| Democratic Union of the Balearic Islands (UDIB) | 2,946 | 0.02 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Basque Nationalist Party (EAJ/PNV) | 296,193 | 1.62 | n/a | 8 | n/a | |
| Left of Catalonia–Democratic Electoral Front (EC–FED) | 143,954 | 0.79 | n/a | 1 | n/a | |
| Democratic Socialist Alliance (PSOEh–PSDE) | 126,944 | 0.69 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Spanish Democratic Socialist Party (PSDE) | 3,786 | 0.02 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Democratic Left Front (FDI) | 122,608 | 0.67 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| National Alliance July 18 (AN18) | 97,894 | 0.53 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| New Force (FN) | 5,541 | 0.03 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Basque Country Left–Navarrese Left Union (EE–UNAI) | 85,906 | 0.47 | n/a | 1 | n/a | |
| Navarrese Left Union (UNAI) | 24,489 | 0.13 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Workers' Electoral Group (AET) | 77,575 | 0.42 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Spanish Social Reform (RSE) | 64,241 | 0.35 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Spanish Phalanx of the CNSO (Authentic) (FE–JONS(A)) | 46,548 | 0.25 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Front for Workers' Unity (FUT) | 41,208 | 0.22 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Centre Independent Aragonese Candidacy (CAIC) | 37,183 | 0.20 | n/a | 1 | n/a | |
| Basque Socialist Party (ESB/PSV) | 36,002 | 0.20 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Communist Movement (MC)1 | 34,588 | 0.19 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Left Andalusian Bloc (BAI) | 226 | 0.00 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Socialist Party of the Valencian Country (PSPV) | 31,138 | 0.17 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Centre Independent Candidacy (CIC) | 29,834 | 0.16 | n/a | 1 | n/a | |
| Galician Socialist Party (PSG) | 27,197 | 0.15 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Galician National-Popular Bloc (BNPG) | 22,771 | 0.12 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Andalusian Regional Unity (URA) | 21,350 | 0.12 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| League of Catalonia–Catalan Liberal Party (LC–PLC) | 20,109 | 0.11 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| National Association for the Study of Current Problems (ANEPA–CP) | 18,113 | 0.10 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Navarrese Autonomist Union (PNV–ANV–ESB) | 18,079 | 0.10 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| United Canarian People (PCU) | 17,717 | 0.10 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Basque Independent Democrats (DIV) | 15,505 | 0.08 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Balearic Autonomist Union (UAB) | 11,914 | 0.07 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Independent Navarrese Front (FNI) | 10,606 | 0.06 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Canarian People's Party (PPCan) | 9,650 | 0.05 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Social Christian Democracy of Catalonia (DSCC) | 9,157 | 0.05 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Socialist Movement (MS) | 8,741 | 0.05 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Montejurra–Federalism–Self-Management (MFA) | 8,461 | 0.05 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Agrarian Social Action (ASA) | 8,439 | 0.05 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| José Antonio Circles (CJA) | 8,184 | 0.04 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Independent Candidacy (INDEP) | 6,472 | 0.04 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Basque Nationalist Action (EAE/ANV) | 6,435 | 0.04 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Congress Independent Candidacy for Girona (CICPG) | 6,411 | 0.03 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Independent (INDEP) | 6,158 | 0.03 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Aragonese Christian Democracy (DCAR) | 6,014 | 0.03 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Riojan Independent Candidacy (CIR) | 5,682 | 0.03 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Socialist Party of Canaries (PSCan) | 5,110 | 0.03 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Independent Party of Madrid (PIM) | 4,814 | 0.03 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Proverist Party (PPr) | 4,590 | 0.03 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Independent (INDEP) | 4,530 | 0.02 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| United Canarian Left (ICU) | 4,118 | 0.02 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Galician Democratic Party (PDG) | 3,196 | 0.02 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Independent Candidacy (INDEP) | 2,737 | 0.01 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Labour Federation (FL) | 2,631 | 0.01 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Independent (INDEP) | 2,622 | 0.01 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Riojan Independent Group (GIR) | 2,399 | 0.01 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Independent (INDEP) | 2,347 | 0.01 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Valencia Socialist Radical Party (PRSV) | 2,345 | 0.01 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Carlist Electors of the Valencian Country (ECPV) | 2,252 | 0.01 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Independent Candidacy (INDEP) | 1,684 | 0.01 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| City and Country Independent Electoral Group (AEICC) | 1,623 | 0.01 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Small Business Independent Candidates (CIPYE) | 1,480 | 0.01 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Association of Ceuta Electors (ADEC) | 1,099 | 0.01 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Group of Carlist Electors (ADC) | 938 | 0.01 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Independent Spanish Phalanx (FEI) | 855 | 0.00 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Spanish Agrarian Party (PAE) | 833 | 0.00 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Independent Liberal Party (PLI) | 805 | 0.00 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Independent (INDEP) | 492 | 0.00 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Left Andalusian Candidacy (CAI) | 0 | 0.00 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Blank ballots | 46,248 | 0.25 | n/a | |||
| Total | 18,324,333 | 350 | n/a | |||
| Valid votes | 18,324,333 | 98.57 | n/a | |||
| Invalid votes | 265,797 | 1.43 | n/a | |||
| Votes cast / turnout | 18,590,130 | 78.83 | n/a | |||
| Abstentions | 4,993,632 | 21.17 | n/a | |||
| Registered voters | 23,583,762 | |||||
| Sources[51][52] | ||||||
Footnotes:
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Senate
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| Parties and alliances | Popular vote | Seats | ||||
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| Votes | % | ±pp | Total | +/− | ||
| Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD) | 15,472,170 | 29.88 | n/a | 106 | n/a | |
| Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) | 5,714,036 | 11.04 | n/a | 35 | n/a | |
| Democratic Senate (SD) | 5,444,924 | 10.52 | n/a | 16 | n/a | |
| Democratic Union for the Senate (UDS) | 127,163 | 0.25 | n/a | 1 | n/a | |
| People's Alliance (AP) | 4,749,232 | 9.17 | n/a | 2 | n/a | |
| Navarrese Foral Alliance (AFN) | 60,752 | 0.12 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Agreement of the Catalans (Entesa) | 4,701,586 | 9.08 | n/a | 12 | n/a | |
| People's Socialist Party–Socialist Unity (PSP–US) | 2,616,458 | 5.05 | n/a | 2 | n/a | |
| Autonomous Front (FA) | 1,711,591 | 3.31 | n/a | 10 | n/a | |
| Independent Progressives and Socialists (PSI) | 1,594,509 | 3.08 | n/a | 8 | n/a | |
| Democratic Riojan Association (ARD) | 132,958 | 0.26 | n/a | 1 | n/a | |
| Democracy and Catalonia (DiC) | 1,322,341 | 2.55 | n/a | 2 | n/a | |
| Communist Party of Spain (PCE) | 1,014,272 | 1.96 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Christian Democratic Team of the Spanish State (EDCEE) | 811,519 | 1.57 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Democratic Union of the Balearic Islands (UDIB) | 14,346 | 0.03 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Democratic Socialist Alliance (PSOEh–PSDE) | 609,633 | 1.18 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Spanish Democratic Socialist Party (PSDE) | 25,455 | 0.05 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Galician Democratic Candidacy (CDG) | 602,260 | 1.16 | n/a | 3 | n/a | |
| Xirinacs Electoral Group (AE Xirinacs) | 550,678 | 1.06 | n/a | 1 | n/a | |
| Aragonese Candidacy of Democratic Unity (CAUD) | 538,538 | 1.04 | n/a | 3 | n/a | |
| National Alliance July 18 (AN18) | 486,786 | 0.94 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| New Force (FN) | 14,236 | 0.03 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Independent (INDEP) | 355,479 | 0.69 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Centre Independent Aragonese Candidacy (CAIC) | 311,429 | 0.60 | n/a | 1 | n/a | |
| Spanish Social Reform (RSE) | 254,805 | 0.49 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Basque Country Left–Navarrese Left Union (EE–UNAI) | 225,324 | 0.44 | n/a | 1 | n/a | |
| Navarrese Left Union (UNAI) | 101,120 | 0.20 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Workers' Electoral Group (AET) | 215,968 | 0.42 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Socialist Party of the Valencian Country (PSPV) | 189,440 | 0.37 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Galician National-Popular Bloc (BNPG) | 167,385 | 0.32 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Democratic Left Front (FDI) | 129,855 | 0.25 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Aragonese Christian Democracy (DCAR) | 125,353 | 0.24 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| League of Catalonia–Catalan Liberal Party (LC–PLC) | 118,454 | 0.23 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Socialist Movement (MS) | 103,373 | 0.20 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Democratic Group of Albacete (ADA) | 78,510 | 0.15 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Andalusian Regional Unity (URA) | 77,593 | 0.15 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Independents of Soria (IDS) | 75,080 | 0.15 | n/a | 4 | n/a | |
| Centre Independent Candidacy (CIC) | 74,202 | 0.14 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| José Antonio Circles (CJA) | 69,625 | 0.13 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| National Association for the Study of Current Problems (ANEPA–CP) | 69,578 | 0.13 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Liberal Alliance (AL) | 68,463 | 0.13 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Basque Socialist Party (ESB/PSV) | 66,757 | 0.13 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Independent Party of Madrid (PIM) | 64,546 | 0.12 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Independent Navarrese Front (FNI) | 51,296 | 0.10 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Regionalist Unity (UR) | 50,698 | 0.10 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Independent (INDEP) | 50,275 | 0.10 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Independents (INDEP) | 47,206 | 0.09 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Spanish Ecologist Party (PEE) | 41,901 | 0.08 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Independent (INDEP) | 41,731 | 0.08 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Montejurra–Federalism–Self-Management (MFA) | 36,219 | 0.07 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Independents (INDEP) | 32,919 | 0.06 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Navarre People's Group (APN) | 32,861 | 0.06 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Basque Nationalist Action (EAE/ANV) | 31,534 | 0.06 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Independents (INDEP) | 30,119 | 0.06 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Galician Democratic Party (PDG) | 28,073 | 0.05 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Labour Federation (FL) | 26,680 | 0.05 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Independent (INDEP) | 26,516 | 0.05 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Independent (INDEP) | 24,935 | 0.05 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Canarian Independent Democracy (DIC) | 24,864 | 0.05 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Basque Independent Democrats (DIV) | 23,735 | 0.05 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Independent (INDEP) | 23,509 | 0.05 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Traditionalist Communion (CT) | 21,641 | 0.04 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Lleidan Union (UL) | 21,199 | 0.04 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Group of Electors (AE) | 21,042 | 0.04 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Canarian People's Party (PPCan) | 21,022 | 0.04 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Independent (INDEP) | 21,009 | 0.04 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Independents (INDEP) | 19,701 | 0.04 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Independent (INDEP) | 18,966 | 0.04 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Regionalist Socialist Party (PSR) | 18,812 | 0.04 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| United Canarian People (PCU) | 18,427 | 0.04 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Social Democratic Andalusian Party (PASD) | 17,500 | 0.03 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Riojan Independent Candidacy (CIR) | 16,540 | 0.03 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Independent (INDEP) | 16,130 | 0.03 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Balearic Autonomist Union (UAB) | 14,402 | 0.03 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Independent Electoral Group of Countryside and Town (AEICYU) | 13,973 | 0.03 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Independents (INDEP) | 12,343 | 0.02 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Independent (INDEP) | 11,815 | 0.02 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Group of Electors (AE) | 10,696 | 0.02 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Independent (INDEP) | 9,141 | 0.02 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Independent Democratic Candidacy (CDI) | 9,104 | 0.02 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Independent Liberal Party (PLI) | 8,425 | 0.02 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Independent (INDEP) | 8,152 | 0.02 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Spanish Agrarian Party (PAE) | 7,879 | 0.02 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Confederation of Conservative Parties (CPC) | 7,093 | 0.01 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Autonomist Bloc (BA) | 6,540 | 0.01 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Independents (INDEP) | 5,742 | 0.01 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Independent (INDEP) | 4,530 | 0.01 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Majorera Assembly (AM) | 3,182 | 0.01 | n/a | 1 | n/a | |
| Spanish Phalanx of the CNSO (Authentic) (FE–JONS(A)) | 2,473 | 0.00 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Autonomous Movement (MAP) | 1,880 | 0.00 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Independent (INDEP) | 1,725 | 0.00 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Menorca Island and Regional Problems (MPIA) | 1,354 | 0.00 | n/a | 0 | n/a | |
| Blank ballots[e] | n/a | |||||
| Total | 51,779,261 | 207 | n/a | |||
| Valid votes | n/a | |||||
| Invalid votes | n/a | |||||
| Votes cast / turnout | n/a | |||||
| Abstentions | n/a | |||||
| Registered voters | 23,583,762 | |||||
| Sources[51][52][53][54][55] | ||||||
Maps
Election results by constituency (Congress).
Vote winner strength by constituency (Congress).
Vote winner strength by autonomous community (Congress).[a]
Notes
- This territorial division is based on the autonomic system established under the Spanish Constitution of 1978, as opposed to the regional division established in 1833. Most autonomous communities would be constituted by the time of the 1982 election, with the rest being established in early 1983. The autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla would not be constituted as independent administrative entities until 1995.
- These comprised the Supreme Court, the Council of State, the Court of Auditors and the Council of National Economy.
- Denotes a main invitee attending the event.
- Denotes a main invitee not attending the event, sending a surrogate in their place.
- The percentage of blank ballots is calculated over the official number of valid votes cast, irrespective of the total number of votes shown as a result of adding up the individual results for each party.