General elections of Spain of 2004

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General elections 2004
General courts for the viii legislature

Date

Sunday, 14 March 2004

Type

General elections

See list

Proportional Multininal scrutiny through d'Hondt system with closed lists to the Congress of Deputies
Partial plurinominal majority scrutiny with lists open to the Senate

Charges to choose

350 deputies
208 senators

Electoral demography

Population

42,717,064

Registered

34,571.831

Voters

Congress: & fake fake fake fake fake blouse 026 155 436, fake fake blouse26 155 436
Senate: & fake fake fake fake fake birth026 187 162, fake fake fake fake dream026 187 162

Participation

77.2 %

8.5 %

Valid votes

Congress: & fake fake fake fake fake blouse 025 891 299, fake fake fake blouse25 891 299
Senate: & fake fake fake fake fake blouse 025 426 107, fake fake blouse25 426 107

White votes

Congress: ' s fake fake fake fake fake blouse 0 407 795, fake fake blouse407 795
Senate: & fake fake fake fake fake fake brainstorms0 679 816, fake brainstorm brainstorm679 816

Null vote

Congress: & fake fake fake fake fake fake brainstorm 264 137, fake fake brainstorm264 137
Senate: & fake fake fake fake fake bouts0 761 055, fake fake blouse761 055

Results

PSOE

Votes

11,026,163

39.3 %

Deputies obtained

164

42.59 %

Votes

9,763,144

5.4 %

Deputies obtained

148

37.71 %

IU+ICV

Votes

1,284,081

1.7 %

Deputies obtained

4.96 %

CiU

Votes

835,471

13.9 %

Deputies obtained

3.23 %

Other games

Votes

1,753,287

Deputies obtained

6.78 %

Most voted party by province

Most voted party by Autonomous Community

Distribution of seats in Congress of Deputies

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Distribution of seats in the Senate

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President of the Government

Owner
José María Aznar

Elect
J. L. Rodríguez Zapatero

Notes

↑ In the constituencies of Ceuta and Melilla, uninominal districts, scrutiny is in the majority practice
↑ That in turn elect the President of the Government.
↑ About a total of 264.

On Sunday, March 14, 2004, general elections were held in Spain. The Spaniards were called to the polls for the ninth time since the Transition to renew the Cortes Generales. Participation rose to 77.2%. They took place three days after the attacks on the Madrid suburban network, the largest terrorist act in the country's history, in which 193 people died, an event that marked the electoral results.

The PSOE led by José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero won with a 4.9% advantage over the PP led by Mariano Rajoy, thus relieving them of the government led by José María Aznar in his previous legislature in Spain.

The elections had been brought forward by four weeks by the outgoing president José María Aznar, since they should have been held on April 11. This was done with the objective that the electoral campaign did not overlap with Holy Week (in a similar way to what happened in the year 2000).

Candidates

The main candidates for the presidency of the Government:

José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, secretary general of the Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE).
Mariano Rajoy, leader of the Popular Party (PP) and successor to the then President of the Government José María Aznar.

Both were running for the first time as candidates for the presidency of the government.

Other candidates with parliamentary representation:

Gaspar Llamazares, general coordinator of Izquierda Unida (IU)
Josep Antoni Duran i Lleida, by Convergència i Unió (CiU), is Chairman of the Committee of Government of Unió Democràtica de Catalunya (UDC).
Josep Lluís Carod-Rovira, president of Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (ERC); he never served as a deputy in Madrid. In the end it was Joan Puigcercós, secretary general of the party.
Josu Erkoreka for the Basque Nationalist Party (PNV).
Paulino Rivero by Coalition Canaria (CC).
Francisco Rodríguez for the Nationalist Block Galego (BNG)
José Antonio Labordeta por la Chunta Aragonesista (CHA).
Begoña Lasagabaster by Eusko Alkartasuna (EA).
Uxue Barkos by Nafarroa Bai (NaBai).

Electoral campaign and polls

People's Party

The President of the Government, José María Aznar, had announced in his investiture debate in 2000 that he would not stand as a candidate for a third term. On September 1, 2003, Aznar chose Mariano Rajoy as his successor at the head of the party, ruling out Rodrigo Rato and Jaime Mayor Oreja, his other two options. The following day, Aznar's decision was ratified by the National Board of Directors of the PP. As in the previous elections, the program of the Popular Party was one of continuity: the same policies and the same protagonists would be maintained, except for Aznar. The electoral campaign had an impact on the employment created during the Aznar governments, as well as the tax cuts and aid for entrepreneurs. In his first attempt to reach La Moncloa, Rajoy promised to place Spain among the most prosperous countries in Europe.

The Popular Party hoped to remain in power for four more years, in view of the good economic results —unemployment fell to 11.5%— and convergence with Europe, as well as progress in international relations between Spain. Rajoy, at that time, also highlighted the absence of cases of corruption in the Government during the mandates of the Popular Party, but years later the opposite was demonstrated.

Spanish Socialist Workers Party

The PSOE, which had suffered a poor result in the previous elections, elected deputy José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero at its congress in 2000, who narrowly prevailed over the president of Castilla-La Mancha, José Bono. The party aspired to return to government with a hitherto unknown candidate, with a young and innovative profile, opening a new era and turning the page on the era of Felipe González. Zapatero's campaign axes were an international policy different from that of Aznar, increasing the quality of employment and taking advantage of economic growth to improve public services, such as education, health, justice and pensions. His main promises were two: immediately withdraw the Spanish troops from the Iraq war and raise the minimum wage to 600 euros (100,000 pesetas) per month.

The PSOE hoped that the population's weariness with Aznar would serve to force political change in Spain. The 2000-2004 period was full of episodes that wore down the Aznar government: rounding off prices due to the entry of the euro, the sharp rise in housing prices, the "decree" (which led to a general strike), the Prestige disaster, the educational reform (LOCE), Spain's participation in the Iraq war, the Yak-42 accident... were some of the mishaps that undermined the popularity of the Government of the PP in its last years. Many of them provoked massive demonstrations. The Socialists won the 2003 municipal elections, held on May 25, by four tenths.

Polls

During a large part of the 2000-2004 Legislature, the polls gave victory to the Popular Party (except between the end of 2002 and mid-2003, when the PSOE prevailed over the PP in the polls).

Campaign

A week before the 11-M attacks, polls gave the PP a slight advantage in the elections, although it was considered unlikely that it would repeat its absolute majority of 2000, where it won 183 seats.

Throughout the electoral campaign, the PSOE had been closing the distance with the PP, according to the polls that were carried out. Even so, the polls gave a majority for the PP without reaching the absolute majority of the year 2000 but with a majority of between 15 and 20 seats. A week before the elections, due to the electoral law that prohibits it, they stopped publishing electoral polls; at that time, with a high percentage of respondents who declared themselves "undecided" (around 40%), some spoke of a technical draw.

The campaign was marked by the tripartite government pact in Catalonia, and by the meeting between Josep-Lluís Carod-Rovira and ETA leaders in Perpignan at the beginning of 2004. José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero promised not to form a government unless his party was the most voted for. Mariano Rajoy asked for a comfortable majority, so as not to have to depend on pacts.

	Outcome 2000	IPSOS-ECO	SIGMA-DOS	Instituto Opina	Demoscopia	Outcome 2004
Popular Party	183	150-154	153-161	161-166	169	148
Socialist Workers Party	125	154-158	152-159	140-145	141	164
Convergència i Unió	15	10-12	10-11	10-11	11	10
Republic of Catalonia	1	7-8	6	7-8	6	8
Basque Nationalist Party	7	6-7	7	7-8	7	7
United Left	8	9-11	6-7	11-12	9	5
Coalition Canaria	4	3-4	3	3-4	3	3
Galego Nationalist Block	3	2	3	3	2	2
Chunta Aragonesista	1	1	1	-	1	1
Eusko Alkartasuna	1	0-1	1	-	0-1	1

Ipsos-Eco Consulting (TVE), Sigma Dos (Antena 3), * Opina Institute (SER) (March 7, 2004) [1], Demoscopia (Telecinco)

M-11: attacks in Madrid

Main articles: Attacks of 11 March 2004 and Political reactions to the attacks of 11 March 2004.

On March 11, three days before the elections, the biggest terrorist attack in the history of Spain took place. As a consequence, the political parties suspended their electoral acts.

The shadow of the attacks was present and perhaps it was a relevant factor for each party to obtain the votes of the previously undecided or abstentionists. Some experts in this area conclude that without the 11-M attacks, the PP would have won the elections with the majority given by the polls a week before the elections. At the headquarters of the PP, the night before the opening of the polling stations, thousands of people gathered to show their discontent with the information policy of the Ministry of the Interior on the authorship of the attacks, in which the ministry pointed out as the main suspect to ETA, despite the fact that there was another line of investigation open that was gaining more strength pointing to Islamic terrorism and that all the international press considered more probable. This controversy about the authorship of the attacks gave rise to the Conspiracy Theories of the 11 M.

On the afternoon of the 13th, a day of reflection, due to the development of unauthorized demonstrations that the Government described as tending to alter the electoral result, the Government considered requesting the holding of an extraordinary and urgent session of the Congress of the Deputies who, where appropriate, authorize the Government to declare a state of emergency, which would have meant the immediate postponement of the elections. Finally, late in the morning from the 13th to Sunday the 14th (election day), President José María Aznar ruled out this possibility, due to the difficulty for the Congress of Deputies to conclude the pertinent debate before the start of the voting on 9:00 a.m., and to avoid aggravation of the riots of the previous day.^{[citation required]}

Election slogans

Popular Party: Together we go more. Practically the same campaign slogan as the one used in the 2000 general elections (Let's go more). It is the party that most officially invested in the campaign, with 11,42 million euros.
Socialist Workers Party English: We deserve better Spain and ZP, Zapatero President. ZP's motto was directed mainly to young people, and it ended up covering so many media support Zapatero as ZP. His campaign budget was 10.5 million euros.
United Left: With your vote, it's possible. Word. He bet on the young vote. It spent about €5.7 million for the campaign.
Convergència i Unió: Josep Antoni Duran i Lleida. Duran for Catalonia. Common sense. (Josep Antoni Duran i Lleida. Duran per Catalunya. Sentit comú.)
Galego Nationalist Block: 2 times useful: Useful for Galiza, useful for you
Republic of Catalonia: Parlant the gent s'entén (Speaking people understand).
Basque Nationalist Party: Yes, I want more (Bai, gehiago nahi dut)
Chunta Aragonesista: Labordeta, People like you

Results

History of the number of seats of PSOE, PP, IU and UCD in democracy (1977-2008).

The exit polls carried out on election day, which surveyed voters who had already cast their ballots, already showed significant differences with those published a week earlier by the respective sources. Most of these polls gave the Socialist Party the winner by a slight advantage.

The recount gave victory to the PSOE, which obtained 42.63% of the votes, clearly surpassing the Popular Party, which received 37.64%. The PSOE thus became the majority party in Congress, although 12 seats away from the absolute majority. The PP was the majority party in the Senate, but lost its previous absolute majority. Izquierda Unida was the third force with the most votes, although with fewer seats than Convergència i Unió, the Basque Nationalist Party and Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya, which experienced the rise predicted by the polls. In the Andalusian regional elections held that same day, the PSOE maintained an absolute majority for the fifth consecutive time, with 50.24 percent of the votes.

Hundreds of militants and socialist sympathizers celebrated the victory of their party on Ferraz street in Madrid. Zapatero honored the memory of those who died in the attacks and, before an audience in which the presence of young people stood out, he made a commitment to them by saying the words "I will not fail you". Mariano Rajoy congratulated Zapatero on his victory, and stated that the Popular Party said goodbye to power "with the peace of mind of a job well done", and "with clear accounts"..

Congress of Deputies

Results by province.

Electorate: 34.571.831
- 33,458,077 residents in Spain
- 1,113,754 foreign residents
Voters: 26,155,436 (75.66%)
- 25,850,751 (77.26%) residents of Spain
- 304,685 (27.36%) resident abroad
Abstaining: 8,416,395 (24.34%)
Valid votes: 25,891,299 (98.99%)
Null vote: 264.137 (1.01%)
Applications: 25,483,504 (98.42%)
White vote: 407.795 (1.58%)

Party	List head	Votes	%	Scalls	+/-
← General elections of Spain, 14 March 2004 →
Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE) ^a	José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero	11.026.163	42,59	164 ^b	+39
Popular Party (PP) ^c	Mariano Rajoy	9.763.144	37,71	148 ^d	- 35
United Left (IU) ^e	Gaspar Llamazares	1,284.081	4.96	5 ^f	-4 ^g
Convergència i Unió (CiU)	Josep Antoni Durán i Lleida	835.471	3,23	10 ^h	-5
Republic of Catalonia (ERC)	Josep-Lluís Carod-Rovira	652.196	2.52	8	+7
Basque Nationalist Party (EAJ-PNV)	Josu Erkoreka	420.980	1.63	7	=
Coalition Canaria (CC) ⁱ	Paulino Rivero	235.221	0.91	3 ^j	-1
Galego Nationalist Block (BNG)	Francisco Rodríguez Sánchez	208.688	0.81	2	-1
Chunta Aragonesista (CHA)	José Antonio Labordeta	94.252	0.36	1	=
Eusko Alkartasuna (EA)	Begoña Lasagabaster	80.905	0.31	1	=
Nafarroa Bai (NaBai)	Uxue Barkos	61.045	0.24	1	+1
Andalusian Party (PA)	José Antonio González	181.868	0.70	0	-1
Bloc Nacionalista Valencià-Esquerra Verda (BLOC-EV)	Enric Morera	40.759	0.16	-	=
Progressistes per les Illes Balears (PSM-EN-EU-EV-ERC)	Fernanda Ramón	40.289	0.16	-	=
Citizens in White (CENB)	Felix Díaz Rubio	40.208	0.16	-	=
Aralar-Zutik	Xabier Sarasua	38.560	0.15	-	=
Green Ecopacifists (LVE)	Montserrat Moreno	37.499	0.14	-	=
Aragonese Party (PAR)	Manuel Lorenzo Blasco	36.540	0.14	-	=
Democratic and Social Centre (CDS)	Teresa Gómez-Limón	34.101	0.13	-	=
Els Verds - L'Alternativa Ecologista (EV-AV)		30.528	0.12	-	=
Socialist Party of Andalusia (PSA)	Carmen García	24.127	0.09	-	=
Humanist Party (PH)		21.758	0.08	-	=
The Greens of the Community of Madrid (LV-CM)		19.600	0.08	-	=
Republican Left (IR)		16.993	0.07	-	=
Cannabis Party for Legalization and Standardization (P.CANNABIS)		16.918	0.07	-	=
Family and Life Party (PFyV)		16,699	0.06	-	=
National Democracy (DN)		15.180	0.06	-	=
Union of the Leon People (UPL)		14.160	0.05	-	=
Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain (PCPE)		12.979	0.05	-	=
Green Group (LV-GV)		12.749	0.05	-	=
Spanish Falange of the JONS (FE-JONS)	Diego Márquez Horrillo	12.266	0.05	-	=
Unió Mallorquina (UM)		10.558	0.04	-	=
La Falange (FE)		10.311	0.04	-	=
Land Comunera-Partido Nacionalista Castellano (TC-PNC)		8.866	0.03	-	=
Internationalist Socialist Workers Party (POSI)		8.003	0.03	-	=
Greens (LVRM)		7.074	0.03	-	=
Republican Social Movement (MSR)		6.768	0.03	-	=
Spanish Democratic Party (PADE)		5.677	0.02	-	=
Convergence of Navarre Democrats (CDN)		5.573	0.02	-	=
The Greens of Asturias (VERDES)		5.013	0.02	-	=
Falange Authentic (FA)		4.589	0.02	-	=
Partíu Asturianista (PAS)		4.292	0.02	-	=
Spain 2000 (ES2000)		4.231	0.02	-	=
Canario Nationalist Party (PNC)		4.092	0.02	-	=
United Extremadura (EU)		3.916	0.02	-	=
The Greens of Extremadura (LV)		3.133	0.01	-	=
Party of Autonomists and Professionals (AUTONOMOS)		3.124	0.01	-	=
Soria Development Initiative (IDES)		2.934	0.01	-	=
Assembly of Andalusia (A)		2.930	0.01	-	=
Alternative Popular Canaria (APCa)		2.715	0.01	-	=
European Green Group (GVE)		2.662	0.01	-	=
Independent Candidature-El Partido de Castilla y León (CI)		2.421	0.01	-	=
Insubmissive-Alternative Cons (Ei)		2.332	0.01	-	=
Democratic Karma Party (PKD)		2.300	0.01	-	=
Popular Front Galega (FPG)		2.257	0.01	-	=
Galega Coalition (GC)		2.235	0.01	-	=
Partnership for Development and Nature (DNA)		2.215	0.01	-	=
Workers' Party in Precario (PTPRE)		2.115	0.01	-	=
Identity of the Kingdom of Valencia (IRV)		2.111	0.01	-	=
Autonomous, Jubilee and Widow Party (PAE)		2.082	0.31	-	=
Andecha Astur (AA)		1.970	0.01	-	=
Union of the Salmantino People (UPSa)		1.871	0.01	-	=
Els Verds-Alternativa Verda (EV-AV)		1,836	0.01	-	=
Carlist Party (PC)		1.813	0.01	-	=
Party of the Mutual Romantic Support (PMAR)		1.561	0.01	-	=
Conceju Nacionaliegu Cántabru (CNC)		1.431	0.01	-	=
Salamanca, Zamora, León PREPAL (PREPAL)		1.322	0.01	-	=
Another Democracy is Possible (OtherDem)		1.302	0.01	-	=
Independent Social Group (ASI)		1.237	0.0	-	=
Independent Social Democratic Party of the Valencian Community (PSICV)		1.096	0.0	-	=
Republican Party (PRF)		1.051	0.0	-	=
Alternative for Gran Canaria (AxGC)		957	0.0	-	=
Alliance for National Unity (AUN)		923	0.0	-	=
Assembly of Left-Initiatives by Andalusia (A-IZ)		901	0.0	-	=
Christian Positivist Party (PPCr)		892	0.0	-	=
Asturian Left (IAS)		854	0.0	-	=
Socialist Party of the People of Ceuta (PSPC)		807	0.0	-	=
Unión Centrista Liberal (UCL)		798	0.0	-	=
Caló Nationalist Party (PNC)		757	0.0	-	=
Zamora Unida (ZU)		754	0.0	-	=
Unió Centristes de Menorca (UCM)		751	0.0	-	=
Internationalist struggle (LI-CI)		668	0.0	-	=
Spanish Democratic Front (FDE)		619	0.0	-	=
Castellana Unit (UdCa)		601	0.0	-	=
Social-Democratic Andaluz (PSDA)		583	0.0	-	=
Alternative Nationalist Maga (AMAGA)		468	0.0	-	=
Union of the Balearic People (UPB)		411	0.0	-	=
European National State		410	0.0	-	=
Coalició Treballadors per la Democràcia (TD)		407	0.0	-	=
National Workers' Party (PNT)		379	0.0	-	=
People's Party (LG)		378	0.0	-	=
Regionalist Party of Guadalajara (PRGU)		330	0.0	-	=
National Union (UN)		318	0.0	-	=
South-Eastern Citizen Convergence (CCSE)		308	0.0	-	=
Spanish National Democratic Party (PDN)		232	0.0	-	=
Spanish Absolute Honesty Political Group (GPHAE)		52	0.0	-	=

^a Includes the Confederation of Los Verdes (LV) and Coalición Extremadura (PREx-CREx), and the support of Unión Demócrata Ceuti (UDC).
^b Of these, 47 from the PSC, 1 from LV and, since November 2006, 1 from EV-OV.
^c Includes the Union of the Navarro People (UPN), the Union of the Melillense People (UPM), the Valencian Union (UV) and the Fuerteventura Independents.
^d Of them, 2 from UPN.
^e Includes Iniciativa per Catalunya-Verds (ICV), Esquerra Unida i Alternativa (EUiA), Los Verdes de Aragón, Los Verdes de Canarias, Alternativa Ciudadana 25 de Mayo, Els Verds del País Valencià (EVPV), Socialistas Independientes de Extremadura (SIEX), Bloque por Asturies (BA), Izquierda Republicana (IR) in the Valencian Community, the Revolutionary Party of Workers-Revolutionary Left (PRT), the Partido Obrero Revolucionario (POR), Corriente Roja and Espacio Alternative, and the support of Green Network.
^f Of them 2 from the PCE, 2 from ICV and 1 independent.
^g Regarding the results of UI and ICV in 2000.
^h Of them 6 from the CDC and 4 from the UDC.
ⁱ Includes the Nationalist Party of Lanzarote (PNL).
^j Of them 2 from AIC and 1 from ICAN.

Results by districts

Community or autonomous city	Circumscription	Party	Votes	%	Scalls	+ / -
ANDALUCIA	Almería 5 deputies	PSOE	145.868	47.69%	3 (Francisco Contreras, María Consuelo Rumi and Carmen Ortiz)	+1
	Almería 5 deputies	P	135.434	44.28%	2 (Rafael Hernando and Juan José Matari)	-1
	Cadiz 9 deputies	PSOE	326.152	50.67%	6 (Alfonso Perales, Mamen Sánchez Díaz, Rafael Román, Salvador de la Encina, Encarnación Niño y María Isabel Fuentes)	+2
		P	216.416	33.62%	3 (Miguel Arias Cañete, Pedro Antonio Sánchez and Jesús Mancha)	-1
		PA	33.592	5.22%	-...	-1
	Córdoba 7 deputies	PSOE	246.324	49.86%	4 (Carmen Calvo, Miguel Ángel Moratinos, Juan Luis Rascón and Rosa Lucía Polonio)	+1
		P	166.665	33.74%	3 (Rafael Merino, María Teresa de Lara and Amelia Caracuel)	=
		IULV-CA	47.908	9.7%	-...	-1
	Grenada 7 deputies	PSOE	268.870	51.47%	4 (Javier Torres Vela, María José Sánchez Rubio, Rafael Estrella and María Escuredo)	=
	Grenada 7 deputies	P	193.484	37.04%	3 (Pilar del Castillo, Blanca Fernández Capel and Juan María Santaella)	=
	Huelva 5 deputies	PSOE	154.579	56.19%	3 (Javier Barrero, María del Rosario Fátima Aburto Baselga and José Oria)	=
	Huelva 5 deputies	P	84.173	30.59%	2 (Fátima Báñez and Francisco Luis Marquínez)	=
	Jaén 6 deputies	PSOE	228.611	54.41%	4 Micaela Navarro, José Pliego, Dolores Pérez Anguita and Sebastián Quirós)	+1
	Jaén 6 deputies	P	143.288	34.11%	2 (Christobal Montoro and Gabino Puche)	-1
	Malaga 10 deputies	PSOE	367.758	49.77%	6 (Magdalena Álvarez, Miguel Ángel Heredia, Ana Fuentes, José Andrés Torres, Luis Juan Tomás and María Remedios Martel)	+2
		P	269.063	36.41%	4 (Celia Villalobos, Manuel Atance, María Ángeles Muñoz and Federico Souvirón)	-1
		IULV-CA	47.182	6.38%	-...	-1
	Sevilla 12 deputies (one less than in the 2000 elections)	PSOE	639.293	58.27%	8 (Alfonso Guerra, Carmen Hermosín, María Isabel Pozuelo, Antonio Cuevas, Emilio Amuedo, Luis Ángel Hierro, Susana Díaz Pacheco and Francisco Antonio Garrido)	+1
		P	306.464	27.93%	4 (Javier Arenas, Soledad Becerril, Juan Manuel Albendea, Manuel Seco and María Dolores Rodríguez)	-1
		IULV-CA	73.344	6.68%	-...	-1
ARAGÓN	Huesca 3 deputies	PSOE	61.500	45.66%	2 (Victor Morlan and Teresa Villagrasa)	+1
	Huesca 3 deputies	P	50.493	37.49%	1 (Angel Painted)	-1
	Teruel 3 deputies	PSOE	36.152	41.09%	2 (Gerardo Torres Sahuquillo and Yolanda Casaus)	+1
	Teruel 3 deputies	P	35.920	40.83%	1 (Santiago Lanzuela)	-1
	Zaragoza 7 deputies	PSOE	224.776	40.26%	3 (Jesus Membrado, Alfredo Arola and Eva Sánez Royo)	+1
		P	198.480	35.55%	3 (Luisa Fernanda Rudi, Gabriel Cisneros and Ramón Moreno Bustos)	-1
		CHA	81.160	14.54%	1 (José Antonio Labordeta)	=
ASTURIAS	Asturias 8 deputies (one less than in the 2000 elections)	P	307.977	43.77%	4 (Alicia Castro, Isidro Fernández Rozada, Leopoldo Bertrand and José Avelino Sánchez)	-1
		PSOE	305.240	43.38%	4 (Álvaro Narciso Cuesta, María Luisa Carcedo, Celestino Suárez and María Virtudes Monteserín)	+1
		IU	59.253	8.42%	-...	-1
BALERES	Balearic Islands 8 deputies (one more than in the 2000 elections)	P	215.737	45.89%	4 (María Salom, Enrique Fajarnes, Juan Salord and Miguel Ángel Martín Soledad)	-1
BALERES		PSOE	185.623	39.48%	4 (Francesc Antich, María García Muñoz, José Ramón Mateos and Isabel Maria Oliver Sagreras)	+2
CANARIAS	Las Palmas 8 deputies (one more than in the 2000 elections)	P	208.995	42.21%	4 (María Mercedes Roldós, María del Carmen Castellano, Pilar González and Cándido Reguera)	=
		PSOE	167.926	33.92%	3 (John Fernando López Aguilar, Pilar Grande and Olivia Cedres)	+2
		CC	89.420	18.06%	1 (Román Rodríguez)	-1
	Santa Cruz de Tenerife 7 deputies	PSOE	165.158	35.01%	3 (José Segura, María Elena Rivera and María de las Mercedes Coello)	+1
		CC	145.801	30.91%	2 (Paulino Rivero and Luis Mardones)	=
		P	133.677	28.34%	2 (Pablo Matos Mascareño y Carlos Javier Cabrera)	-1
CANTABRIA	Cantabria 5 deputies	P	190.383	51,90%	3 (José Joaquín Martínez-Sieso, Ana María Madrazo and José María Lassalle)	=
CANTABRIA	Cantabria 5 deputies	PSOE	149.906	40.87%	2 (Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba and María Gloria Gómez)	=
CASTILLA-LA MANCHA	Albacete 4 deputies	P	110.338	46.95%	2 (Incarnation Naharro and Héctor Esteve)	=
	Albacete 4 deputies	PSOE	108.715	46.26%	2 (Siro Torres García and María Pilar López Rodríguez)	=
	Ciudad Real 5 deputies	PSOE	147.271	48.12%	3 (Celestina Díez de Baldeón, Manuel Marín and Sebastián Fuentes)	+1
	Ciudad Real 5 deputies	P	142.508	46.57%	2 (Gustavo de Aristegui y Carmen Quintanilla)	-1
	Cuenca 3 deputies	P	66.515	49.73%	2 (José Madero and Francisco Utrera)	=
	Cuenca 3 deputies	PSOE	60.697	45.38%	1 (Máximo Díaz Cano)	=
	Guadalajara 3 deputies	P	57.078	47.58%	2 (Luis de Grandes y José Ignacio Echániz)	=
	Guadalajara 3 deputies	PSOE	52.915	44.11%	1 (Javier García Breva)	=
	Toledo 5 deputies	P	171.325	47.47%	3 (Ana Palacio, Alejandro Ballestero and Francisco Vañó)	=
	Toledo 5 deputies	PSOE	167.807	46.5 per cent	2 (Alejandro Alonso Núñez y Raquel de la Cruz)	=
CASTILLA AND LEÓN	Avila 3 deputies	P	67.622	59.54%	2 (Angel Acebes and Feliciano Blázquez)	=
	Avila 3 deputies	PSOE	38.640	34.02%	1 (Pedro José Muñoz)	=
	Burgos 4 deputies	P	122.415	51.96%	2 (César Antonio Rico and María Sandra Moneo)	-1
	Burgos 4 deputies	PSOE	91.727	38.93%	2 (Julián Simón de la Torre and María del Mar Arnáiz)	+1
	León 5 deputies	PSOE	156.786	46.78%	3 (José Antonio Alonso, María Amparo Valcárcel and Rosario Velasco)	+1
	León 5 deputies	P	150.688	44.96%	2 (John Morano and Baudilio Tomé)	-1
	Palencia 3 deputies	P	60.449	50.25%	2 (María Jesús Sánchez and Juan Carlos Guerra Zunzunegui)	=
	Palencia 3 deputies	PSOE	51.824	43.08%	1 (Julio Villarubia)	=
	Salamanca 4 deputies	P	128.932	54.25%	2 (Gonzalo Robles Orozco and José Antonio Bermúdez de Castro)	-1
	Salamanca 4 deputies	PSOE	94.655	39.83%	2 (Jesus Caldera and Francisco Javier Iglesias)	+1
	Segovia 3 deputies	P	52,500	52.45%	2 (Jesus Merino Delgado and Javier Gómez Darmendrail)	=
	Segovia 3 deputies	PSOE	39.976	39.94%	1 (Oscar López Águeda)	=
	Soria 3 deputies	P	29.187	50.8 per cent	2 (Jesus Posada and Elijah Up)	=
	Soria 3 deputies	PSOE	22.287	38.79%	1 (María Eloisa Álvarez Oteo)	=
	Valladolid 5 deputies	P	163.009	46.79%	3 (Miguel Angel Cortés, Tomás Burgos and Ana María Torme)	=
	Valladolid 5 deputies	PSOE	155.401	44.60%	2 (Soraya Rodríguez Ramos and Mario Badera)	=
	Zamora 3 deputies	P	71.821	53.35%	2 (Jesus Folgado and Elvira Velasco)	=
	Zamora 3 deputies	PSOE	53.757	39.93%	1 (Jesus Square)	=
CATALUÑA	Barcelona 31 deputies	PSC-PSOE	1.268.028	41.66%	14 (José Montilla, Carmen Chacón Piqueras, Elisenda Malaret García, Manuel Mas Estela, Lourdes Muñoz, Montserrat Colldeforns Sol, Isabel López Chamosa, Daniel Fernández González, Meritxell Ballet, Jordi Pedret Grenzner, Jordi Marsal, Esperança Esteve Ortega, Juan Carlos Corcuera Plaza y María Dolores Puig Gasol)	+2
		CiU	586.854	19.28%	6 (Josep Antoni Durán i Lleida, Jordi Vilajoana, María Mercè Pigem, Carles Campuzano, Josep Sánchez Llibre and Jordi Jané)	-3
		P	485.504	15.95%	5 (Dolors Nadal, Jorge Fernández Díaz, Julia García-Valdecasas, Alicia Sánchez-Camacho and Jorge Moragas)	-3
		ERC	428.986	14.09%	4 (Josep Lluís Carod-Rovira, Joan Puigcercós, Joan Tardà and Rosa María Bonàs)	+3
		IU-ICV	198.116	6.51%	2 (Joan Herrera and María Carme García)	+1
	Gerona 6 deputies (one more than in the 2000 elections)	PSC-PSOE	113.089	31.62%	2 (Montserrat Palma y Álex Sáez Jubero)	=
		CiU	96.928	27.10%	2 (Jordi Xuclà and Josep María Guinart)	=
		ERC	83.482	23.34%	2 (Francesc Canet and Joan Puig)	+2
		P	40.959	11.45%	-...	-1
	Lérida 4 deputies	PSC-PSOE	68.971	29.57%	2 (Teresa Cunillera y Esperança Farrera)	+1
		CiU	68.735	29.46%	1 (Pere Grau)	-1
		ERC	50.104	21.48 per cent	1 (Jordi Ramón)	+1
		P	34.116	14.62 per cent	-...	-1
	Tarragona 6 deputies	PSC-PSOE	136.660	35.49%	3 (Francesc Vallès, María LLuïsa Lizárraga and Ernest Benito)	+1
		CiU	82.954	21.5%	1 (Josep Maldonado)	-1
		ERC	76.330	19.83%	1 (Josep Andreu Sunday)	+1
		P	65.528	17.02%	1 (Frances Ricomà)	-1
CEUTA	Ceuta 1 deputy	P	21.142	59.24%	1 (Francisco Antonio González Pérez)	=
_	Alicante 11 deputies	P	434.812	48.88%	6 (Federico Trillo-Figueroa, Macarena Montesinos de Miguel, Francisco Vicente Murcia, María Enriqueta Seller Roca de Togores, Íñigo Herrera and Miguel Campoy)	-1
	Alicante 11 deputies	PSOE	374.631	42.12%	5 (Leire Pajín, Carlos González Serna, Juana Serna, Agustín Jiménez and Herick Campos)	+1
	Castellón 5 deputies	P	142.462	45.64%	3 (Juan Costa, Fernando Castelló and Miguel Barrachina)	=
	Castellón 5 deputies	PSOE	139.236	44.6 per cent	2 (Jordi Sevilla and Antonia García Valls)	=
	Valencia 16 deputies	P	665.526	45.75%	8 (Eduardo Zaplana, José María Michavila, Maria Àngels Ramón-Llin Martínez, Ignacio Gil Lázaro, Vicente Martínez-Pujalte, Susana Camarero, Asunción Oltra and Joaquín Calomarde)	-1
		PSOE	613.833	42.19%	7 (Carmen Alborch, Ricard Torres, Carmen Montón, Ciprià Ciscar, María Antònia Armengol, Josep Antoni Santamaría and Margarita Pin)	+1
		IU	78.515	5.4 per cent	1 (Isaura Navarro)	=
EXTREMAD	Badajoz 6 deputies	PSOE	219.172	51.66%	3 (José Luis Galache, Francisco Fernández Marugán and Soledad Pérez)	=
	Badajoz 6 deputies	P	176.699	41.65%	3 (María Pía Sánchez, Germán López Iglesias and Carmen Matador)	=
	Cáceres 4 deputies (one less than in the 2000 elections)	PSOE	137.654	50.53%	2 (Victorino Mayoral and Manuela Holgado)	=
		P	118.627	43.54%	2 (Amador Alvarez and Concepción González)	-1
GALICIA	The Coruña 9 deputies	P	329.389	44,59%	4 (Antonio Eiras, María Jesús Sáinz, Antonio Fernández de Mesa and José Domingo Oreiro)	-1
		PSOE	287.324	38.9 per cent	4 (Carmen Marón, Manuel Ceferino Díaz Díaz, Francisco Xavier Carro and María Esther Couto)	+2
		BNG	86.459	11.7%	1 (Francisco Rodríguez Sánchez)	-1
	Lugo 4 deputies	P	123.986	49.71%	2 (Julio Padilla and Joaquín García Díez)	-1
	Lugo 4 deputies	PSOE	92.708	37.17%	2 (José Blanco López and Isabel Salazar)	+1
	Orense 4 deputies	P	132.631	55.27%	3 (Celso Luis Delgado, Ana Belén Vázquez and Armando González)	=
	Orense 4 deputies	PSOE	74.636	31.1 per cent	1 (Alberto Fidalgo)	=
	Pontevedra 7 deputies (one less than in the 2000 elections)	P	279.454	45.99%	3 (Ana Pastor Julián, Carlos Mantilla and María Dolores Pan)	-2
		PSOE	228.016	37.53%	3 (Antón Louro, María José Poteiro and Domingo Tabuyo)	+1
		BNG	70.763	11.65%	1 (María Olaia Fernández Dávila)	=
LAW RIOJA	La Rioja 4 deputies	P	92.441	49.94%	2 (José Luis Bermejo and José Félix Vadillo)	-1
LAW RIOJA	La Rioja 4 deputies	PSOE	81.390	43.97%	2 (Angel Martínez Sanjuán and Remedios Elías)	+1
MADRID	Madrid 35 deputies (one more than in the 2000 elections)	P	1,576.636	45,02%	17 (Mariano Rajoy, Rodrigo Rato, Ana Mato, Gabriel Elorriaga, Juan Carlos Vera, Carlos Aragonés, Eugenio Nasarre, Mercedes de la Merced, Beatriz Rodríguez-Salmones, Javier Fernández-Lasquetty, Teófilo de Luis, Francisco Javier Villar, Rogelio Baón, María Mingo, José María López-Medel, Fernando López-Amor and Luis Gámir)	-2
		PSOE	1.544.676	44.11%	16 (José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Mercedes Cabrera, Joaquín Almunia, María Teresa Fernández de la Vega, Antonio Gutiérrez, Cristina Narbona, Diego López Garrido, Joaquín Leguina, Rosa Delia Blanco, José Acosta Cubero, Jaime Lissavetzky, Dolores García Hierro, Elviro Aranda, Juan Antonio Barrio, Lucía Corral and Juan Elola)	+4
		IU	225.109	6.43%	2 (Gaspar Llamazares and Angel Pérez)	-1
MELILLA	Melilla 1 deputy	P	14.856	54.6 per cent	1 (Antonio Gutiérrez Molina)	=
MURCIA REGION	Murcia 9 deputies	P	413.	57.42%	6 (Elvira Rodríguez, Andrés Ayala, Lourdes Méndez, Alberto Garre, Adolfo Fernández Aguilar and Pío Pérez Laserna)	=
MURCIA REGION	Murcia 9 deputies	PSOE	252.246	35,00%	3 (Pedro Saura, Raimundo Benzal and María Rosario Juaneda)	=
NAVARRA	Navarra 5 deputies	UPN-P	127.653	37.6 per cent	2 (Jaime Ignacio del Burgo and Carlos Salvador)	-1
		PSOE	113.906	33.55%	2 (Vicente Ripa and Carolina Castillejo)	=
		NaBai	61.045	17.98 per cent	1 (Uxue Barkos)	+1
_	Álava 4 deputies	PSOE	56.137	30.79%	2 (Ramon Jáuregui and Pilar Unzalu)	+1
		P	48.992	26.87%	1 (Jaime Mayor Oreja)	-1
		EAJ-PNV	47.090	25.83%	1 (Emilio Olabarria)	=
	Guipuzcoa 6 deputies	EAJ-PNV	115.402	30.96%	2 (José Ramón Beloki and Iñaki Txueka)	=
		PSOE	98.100	26.31%	2 (Manuel Huertas Vicente y Elvira Cortajarena Iturrioz)	+1
		P	56.904	15.26%	1 (José Eugenio Azpiroz)	-1
		EA	42.971	11.5%	1 (Begoña Lasagabaster)	=
	Vizcaya 9 deputies	EAJ-PNV	258.488	37.29%	4 (Pedro Azpiazu, Josu Erkoreka, Margarita Uria and Aitor Esteban)	=
		PSOE	185.514	26.76%	3 (Arantza Mendizábal, José María Benegas and Eduardo Madina)	+1
		P	129.889	18.74%	2 (Ignacio Astarloa and Marisa Arrúe)	-1

Senate

The Popular Party lost 25 senators, although it achieved a relative majority in the Senate, on the verge of an absolute majority. For its part, the Spanish Socialist Workers Party increased its representation by 28 senators. The total results were these:

Participation	Candidature	Scalls	+/-	Notes
← General elections of Spain, 14 March 2004 Elected Senators →
Census: 34.571.831 Voters: 26,187,162 (75.75%) Applications: 24,746,291 (97.33%) Valid votes: 25,426,107 (97.09%) Abstaining: 8,384,669 (24.25 per cent) Null vote: 761.055 (2.91%) White votes: 679.816 (2.67%)	Popular Party (PP)	102. ^a	-25	^a Of these, 97 PP, 3 UPN, 1 UPM and 1 UV.
	Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE)	81	+28
	Entesa Catalana de Progrés	12 ^b	+4	^b Of them, 8 PSC, 3 ERC and 1 ICV. .
	Convergència i Unió (CiU)	4 ^c	-4	^c Of them, 4 CDC.
	Basque Nationalist Party (EAJ-PNV)	6	=
	Coalition Canaria (CC)	3 ^d	-2	^d Of them, 2 AIC and 1 AHI.
	Lanzarote Independence Party (PIL)	0	-1

Investment Vote

Main article: VIII Spanish Legislature#

On April 16, 2004, PSOE candidate José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero was sworn in as President of the Government in the first ballot, with 183 votes. Six parliamentary forces gave their support to the socialist candidate, the highest number to date. This was also the only investiture vote in which only one party, in this case the PP, voted against the elected candidate.