2000 Spanish general election
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{{Infobox election
| election_name = 2000 Spanish general election
| country = Spain
| type = parliamentary
| ongoing = no
| previous_election = 1996 Spanish general election
| previous_year = 1996
| next_election = 2004 Spanish general election
| next_year = 2004
| outgoing_members =
| elected_members =
| seats_for_election = All 350 seats in the Congress of Deputies and 208 (of 259) seats in the Senate
176 seats needed for a majority in the Congress of Deputies
| opinion_polls = Opinion polling for the 2000 Spanish general election
| registered = 33,969,640 File:Green Arrow Up Darker.svg4.4%
| turnout = 23,339,490 (68.7%)
File:Red Arrow Down.svg8.7 pp
| election_date = 12 March 2000
| image1 = 170x170px
| leader1 = José María Aznar
| party1 = People's Party (Spain)
| leader_since1 = 4 September 1989
| leaders_seat1 = Madrid
| last_election1 = 156 seats, 38.8%
| seats1 = 183
| seat_change1 = File:Green Arrow Up Darker.svg27
| popular_vote1 = 10,321,178
| percentage1 = 44.5%
| swing1 = File:Green Arrow Up Darker.svg5.7 pp
| image2 = 170x170px
| leader2 = Joaquín Almunia
| colour2 = EF1C27
| leader_since2 = 21 June 1997
| leaders_seat2 = Madrid
| last_election2 = 141 seats, 37.6%
| seats2 = 125
| seat_change2 = File:Red Arrow Down.svg16
| popular_vote2 = 7,918,752
| percentage2 = 34.2%
| swing2 = File:Red Arrow Down.svg3.4 pp
| image3 = 170x170px
| leader3 = Xavier Trias
| party3 = Convergence and Union
| leader_since3 = 20 August 1999
| leaders_seat3 = Barcelona
| last_election3 = 16 seats, 4.6%
| seats3 = 15
| seat_change3 = File:Red Arrow Down.svg1
| popular_vote3 = 970,421
| percentage3 = 4.2%
| swing3 = File:Red Arrow Down.svg0.4 pp
| image4 = 170x170px
| leader4 = Francisco Frutos
| party4 = United Left (Spain)
| leader_since4 = 7 December 1998
| leaders_seat4 = Madrid
| last_election4 = 19 seats, 9.4%{{efn|name="IU"|Results for IU in the 1996 election, not including IC–EV.}}
| seats4 = 8
| seat_change4 = File:Red Arrow Down.svg11
| popular_vote4 = 1,263,043
| percentage4 = 5.4%
| swing4 = File:Red Arrow Down.svg3.9 pp
| image5 = 170x170px
| leader5 = Iñaki Anasagasti
| party5 = Basque Nationalist Party
| leader_since5 = 1986
| leaders_seat5 = Biscay
| last_election5 = 5 seats, 1.3%
| seats5 = 7
| seat_change5 = File:Green Arrow Up Darker.svg2
| popular_vote5 = 353,953
| percentage5 = 1.5%
| swing5 = File:Green Arrow Up Darker.svg0.2 pp
| image6 = 170x170px
| leader6 = José Carlos Mauricio
| party6 = Canarian Coalition
| leader_since6 = 1996
| leaders_seat6 = Las Palmas
| last_election6 = 4 seats, 0.9%
| seats6 = 4
| seat_change6 = File:Arrow Blue Right 001.svg0
| popular_vote6 = 248,261
| percentage6 = 1.1%
| swing6 = File:Green Arrow Up Darker.svg0.2 pp
| map = {{Switcher
| File:2000 Spanish election - Results.svg
| Vote winner strength by constituency (Congress)
| File:2000 Spanish election - AC results.svg
| Vote winner strength by autonomous community (Congress)
| File:2000 Spanish general election map.svg
| Election results by constituency (Congress)
}}
| title = Prime Minister
| posttitle = Prime Minister after election
| before_election = José María Aznar
| before_party = People's Party (Spain)
| after_election = José María Aznar
| after_party = People's Party (Spain)
}}
A general election was held in Spain on Sunday, 12 March 2000, to elect the members of the 7th {{lang|es|Cortes Generales|italic=no}}. All 350 seats in the Congress of Deputies were up for election, as well as 208 of 259 seats in the Senate. At four years since the previous election, the 2000 general election ended the longest legislative period up to that point since the Spanish transition to democracy.{{cite news |last=Rodríguez Aizpeolea |first=Luis |date=17 January 2000 |url=https://elpais.com/diario/2000/01/17/espana/948063607_850215.html |title=Aznar fija hoy la fecha de los comicios y cierra la legislatura más larga de la democracia |language=es |newspaper=El País |location=Madrid |access-date=19 March 2025}}
The incumbent People's Party (PP) of Prime Minister José María Aznar secured an unexpected absolute majority in the Congress of Deputies, obtaining 183 out of 350 seats and increasing its margin of victory with the opposition Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) to 2.4 million votes.{{cite news |date=13 March 2000 |url=https://elpais.com/diario/2000/03/13/espana/952902015_850215.html |title=El PP saca 2,4 millones de votos de ventaja a un PSOE en fuerte retroceso |language=es |newspaper=El País |location=Madrid |access-date=20 March 2025}} The PSOE did not benefit from a pre-election agreement with United Left (IU) and lost 1.6 million votes and 16 seats, coupled to the 1.4 million votes and 13 seats lost by IU. Such an alliance was said to prompt tactical voting for the PP, which also benefited from economic growth, a moderate stance during its tenure and internal struggles within the opposition parties. For the first time since the Spanish transition to democracy, the PP results exceeded the combined totals for PSOE and IU.{{cite news |last=Prieto |first=Joaquín |date=13 March 2000 |url=https://elpais.com/diario/2000/03/13/espana/952902014_850215.html |title=Aznar consigue una histórica mayoría absoluta |language=es |newspaper=El País |location=Madrid |access-date=20 March 2025}} PSOE leader Joaquín Almunia announced his resignation immediately after results were known.{{cite news |last=Díez |first=Anabel |date=13 March 2000 |url=https://elpais.com/diario/2000/03/13/espana/952902020_850215.html |title=Joaquín Almunia asume la derrota y dimite |language=es |newspaper=El País |location=Madrid |access-date=20 March 2025}}
Regional and peripheral nationalist parties improved their results, except for Convergence and Union (CiU)—which had been in electoral decline for a decade following its support of Spanish governments—and Herri Batasuna/Euskal Herritarrok (EH), which urged to boycott the election and called for their supporters to abstain in the Basque Country and Navarre.{{cite news |last1=Ormazabal |first1=Mikel |last2=Martínez |first2=Isabel Cristina |date=18 October 1999 |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1999/10/18/espana/940197626_850215.html |title=HB promueve la abstención en las generales para frenar "el intrusismo español" |language=es |newspaper=El País |location=Vitoria / San Sebastián |access-date=20 March 2025}}{{cite news |date=1 November 1999 |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1999/11/01/espana/941410803_850215.html |title=Críticas unánimes a la decisión de HB de abstenerse en las elecciones |language=es |newspaper=El País |location=San Sebastián |access-date=20 March 2025}} The Basque Nationalist Party (PNV) benefitted from EH's absence and gained two seats, whereas both Canarian Coalition (CC) and the Galician Nationalist Bloc (BNG) had strong showings in their respective regions. Initiative for Catalonia (IC), which had split from IU in 1997, clinged on to parliamentary representation but suffered from the electoral competition with United and Alternative Left (EUiA), IU's newly-founded regional branch in Catalonia which failed to secure any seat. This would be the first and only general election in which both parties would contest each other.
This election featured some notable feats: this was the first absolute majority the PP obtained in a general election, with its best result in both popular vote share and seats up until then (only exceeded in 2011). In contrast, the PSOE got its worst election result in 21 years. This was also the second time a party received more than 10 million votes, the last time being in 1982, when 10.1 million voters voted for Felipe González's PSOE. Voter turnout was one of the lowest for Spanish election standards, with only 68.7% of the electorate casting a vote.
Background
On 5 May 1996, José María Aznar from the People's Party (PP) was able to form the first centre-right government in Spain since 1982 through confidence and supply agreements with Convergence and Union (CiU),{{cite news |date=27 April 1996 |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1996/04/27/portada/830556004_850215.html |title=PP y CiU cierran el pacto para que Aznar sea investido como jefe del Gobierno |language=es |newspaper=El País |access-date=19 March 2025}} the Basque Nationalist Party (PNV),{{cite news |date=30 April 1996 |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1996/04/30/portada/830815201_850215.html |title=Aznar pacta con el PNV y logra el apoyo de todo el centro derecha a su investidura |language=es |newspaper=El País |access-date=19 March 2025}} and Canarian Coalition (CC),{{cite news |last=Rodríguez Aizpeolea |first=Luis |date=2 April 1996 |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1996/04/02/espana/828396004_850215.html |title=Aznar se asegura los cuatro votos de Coalición Canaria a cambio de concesiones autonómicas |language=es |newspaper=El País |location=Madrid |access-date=19 March 2025}} in what came to be coined as the Majestic Pact.{{cite news |date=5 May 1996 |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1996/05/05/espana/831247229_850215.html |title=Aznar, investido presidente, lleva al Gobierno al PP |language=es |newspaper=El País |access-date=19 March 2025}}
On the economy, Aznar's government focused its efforts on reducing inflation, public debt and fiscal deficit—which was achieved in part through privatization of state-owned companies such as Telefónica, Tabacalera, Endesa and Repsol—and reactivating the private sector through orthodox economics, in order to meet the convergence criteria established by Maastricht.{{cite news |last=García Reche |first=Andrés |date=13 November 2024 |url=https://agendapublica.es/noticia/19456/debate-nunca-tuvimos-se-privatizaron-empresas-estrat-gicas-espana |title=El debate que nunca tuvimos: ¿cómo se privatizaron las empresas estratégicas en España? |language=es |publisher=Agenda Pública |access-date=19 March 2025}}{{cite web |url=https://humanidades.com/espana-democratica/ |title=España democrática. Los gobiernos de Felipe González (1982-1996) |language=es |publisher=Enciclopedia Humanidades |access-date=18 March 2025 |quote="Aznar centró sus esfuerzos en implementar una política económica ortodoxa que redujera el déficit público y reactivara la actividad económica privada. El gran objetivo era cumplir los criterios de convergencia establecidos en el Tratado de Maastricht de 1992 (límites a la tasa de inflación, la deuda pública y el déficit fiscal) que, una vez alcanzados, permitirían a España unirse a la nueva moneda europea: el euro."}} As a result, in 1999 Spain was able to join the new European currency, the euro.{{cite news |date=2 January 1999 |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1999/01/02/portada/915231601_850215.html |title=España se incorpora al euro con el reto de igualar la renta media de la UE |language=es |newspaper=El País |access-date=19 March 2025}} The unemployment rate saw a stark decrease while the Madrid Stock Exchange and the IBEX 35 saw record historical highs.{{cite news |last=Parra |first=Carmen |date=13 January 1999 |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1999/01/13/economia/916182001_850215.html |title=El paro se redujo en 289.967 personas en 1998 y en 818.367 en los cuatro últimos años |language=es |newspaper=El País |location=Madrid |access-date=19 March 2025}}{{cite news |agency=EFE |date=26 November 1999 |url=https://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/1999/noviembre/26/economia/bolsa.html |title=La Bolsa de Madrid y el Ibex-35 registran sendos máximos históricos |language=es |newspaper=El Mundo |location=Madrid |access-date=19 March 2025}} The buoyancy of this period was dubbed an "economic miracle" and served as a platform for Aznar to coin the slogan España va bien (Spanish for "Spain is doing well").{{cite news |date=7 March 2019 |url=https://www.lasexta.com/programas/donde-estabas-entonces/mejores-momentos/espana-va-bien-asi-defendia-aznar-en-espana-y-el-resto-del-mundo-el-milagro-economico-de-rodrigo-rato-video_201903075c819b7e0cf2ca0a0426f453.html |title="España va bien": así defendía Aznar en España y el resto del mundo el milagro económico de Rodrigo Rato |language=es |newspaper=laSexta |access-date=19 March 2025}}
The general election had seen the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) being forced into opposition for the first time since 1982. In the party congress held in June 1997, Felipe González, who had been prime minister for over 13 years until 1996 and PSOE secretary-general since 1974, announced his intention to leave the party's leadership.{{cite news |last=Díez |first=Anabel |date=21 June 1997 |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1997/06/21/espana/866844002_850215.html |title=Felipe González abandona la secretaría general para forzar a renovacion del partido |language=es |newspaper=El País |location=Madrid |access-date=19 March 2025}} The party, divided at the time between González's supporters (renovadores, Spanish for "renovators") and those following the discipline of former deputy prime minister and PSOE deputy secretary-general Alfonso Guerra (guerristas),{{cite news |last=Díez |first=Anabel |date=2 May 1997 |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1997/05/02/espana/862524004_850215.html |title=Los renovadores del PSOE cuentan con un 80% de delegados para el congreso de junio |language=es |newspaper=El País |location=Madrid |access-date=19 March 2025}} elected Joaquín Almunia, a "renovator" and former labour and public administrations minister, as new party leader.{{cite news |last=Díez |first=Anabel |date=22 June 1997 |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1997/06/22/espana/866930401_850215.html |title=Los 'barones' colocan a Almunia en la secretaría general tras garantizarse que entran en la ejecutiva |language=es |newspaper=El País |location=Madrid |access-date=19 March 2025}}{{cite news |last=Díez |first=Anabel |date=23 June 1997 |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1997/06/23/espana/867016802_850215.html |title=Los 'barones' ocupan en dos días el vacio de González |language=es |newspaper=El País |location=Madrid |access-date=19 March 2025}} While it was suggested that González could remain as the party's candidate for prime minister in the next general election, he ruled himself out.{{cite news |date=10 October 1997 |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1997/10/10/espana/876434410_850215.html |title=Almunia tacha de "imprudente" el anuncio de González de no ser candidato |language=es |newspaper=El País |location=Madrid |access-date=19 March 2025}}{{cite news |last=Díez |first=Anabel |date=30 January 1998 |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1998/01/30/espana/886114801_850215.html |title=González descarta ser candidato del PSOE y dice que Almunia es "lo mejor" frente a Aznar |language=es |newspaper=El País |location=Madrid |access-date=19 March 2025}}
File:Borrell Portrait 2004.jpg (pictured in 2004) was elected as PSOE nominee for prime minister in April 1998, but a power struggle with party leader Joaquín Almunia and a scandal affecting two former aides led to his withdrawal one year later.]]
A primary election to elect the prime ministerial nominee,{{cite news |last=Ferrandis |first=Joaquín |date=29 November 1997 |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1997/11/29/espana/880758007_850215.html |title=Almunia afirma que el candidato socialista se elegirá en elecciones primarias el primer semestre de 1998 |language=es |newspaper=El País |location=Valencia |access-date=19 March 2025}} held among PSOE members on 24 April 1998,{{cite news |last=Díez |first=Anabel |date=22 March 1998 |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1998/03/22/espana/890521210_850215.html |title=Aprobados el reglamento y el calendario de las elecciones primarias |language=es |newspaper=El País |location=Madrid |access-date=19 March 2025}}{{cite news |last=Díez |first=Anabel |date=24 April 1998 |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1998/04/24/espana/893368823_850215.html |title=El ganador y el perdedor de las primarias serán desde hoy los principales dirigentes del PSOE |language=es |newspaper=El País |location=Madrid |access-date=19 March 2025}} saw Almunia, supported by González and prominent party "renovators",{{cite news |last=Díez |first=Anabel |date=23 January 1998 |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1998/01/23/espana/885510008_850215.html |title=Chaves se suma a los que proponen a Almunia como candidato a la presidencia |language=es |newspaper=El País |location=Seville |access-date=19 March 2025}}{{cite news |last=Díez |first=Anabel |date=29 January 1998 |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1998/01/29/espana/886028413_850215.html |title=El respaldo de Ibarra a González provoca apoyos a favor de Almunia como candidato |language=es |newspaper=El País |location=Madrid |access-date=19 March 2025}}{{cite news |last=Frechoso |first=Francisco |date=29 January 1998 |url=https://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/1998/enero/29/nacional/cadidatopsoe.html |title=Los "barones" y el "aparato" del PSOE apoyan a Almunia como candidato a las generales |language=es |newspaper=El Mundo |location=Toledo |access-date=19 March 2025}} facing Josep Borrell, former public works minister who received the backing of the guerrista faction.{{cite news |last=Díez |first=Anabel |date=22 March 1998 |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1998/03/22/espana/890521205_850215.html |title=Borrell anuncia que disputará a Almunia la candidatura a la presidencia del Gobierno |language=es |newspaper=El País |location=Madrid |access-date=19 March 2025}}{{cite news |last=Frechoso |first=Francisco |date=22 March 1998 |url=https://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/1998/marzo/22/nacional/22N0004.html |title=Borrell disputará a Almunia el liderazgo electoral del PSOE |language=es |newspaper=El Mundo |location=Madrid |access-date=19 March 2025}} Borrell defeated Almunia,{{cite news |last=Díez |first=Anabel |date=25 April 1998 |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1998/04/25/espana/893455228_850215.html |title=Borrell gana y trastoca la situación del PSOE |language=es |newspaper=El País |location=Madrid |access-date=19 March 2025}}{{cite news |date=7 May 1998 |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1998/05/07/espana/894492018_850215.html |title=Borrell gana por 21.394 votos a Almunia en las primarias |language=es |newspaper=El País |location=Madrid |access-date=19 March 2025}} but the latter remained as the party's secretary-general in order to prevent an extraordinary congress,{{cite news |last=Díez |first=Anabel |date=26 April 1998 |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1998/04/26/espana/893541601_850215.html |title=El PSOE intenta parar la dimisión de Almunia |language=es |newspaper=El País |location=Madrid |access-date=19 March 2025}}{{cite news |last=Díez |first=Anabel |date=1 May 1998 |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1998/05/01/espana/893973601_850215.html |title=El PSOE concede a Borrell el papel de líder de la oposición y evita el congreso extraordinario |language=es |newspaper=El País |location=Madrid |access-date=19 March 2025}} a situation prompting a "bicephaly" ( duumvirate) which would see both Borrell and Almunia clashing for months on party direction and strategy issues,{{cite news |agency=OTR Press |date=17 November 1998 |title=Almunia deja en manos del Comité Federal el reparto de papeles mientras Borrell reitera que es el líder |url=https://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/1998/noviembre/17/nacional/almunia.html |language=es |newspaper=El Mundo |location=Madrid |access-date=19 March 2025}}{{cite news |agency=EFE |date=21 November 1998 |title=Cronología de una crisis |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1998/11/21/espana/911602809_850215.html |language=es |newspaper=El País |location=Madrid |access-date=19 March 2025}}{{cite news |last=Díez |first=Anabel |date=22 November 1998 |title=Borrell y Almunia ceden para evitar un congreso |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1998/11/22/espana/911689215_850215.html |language=es |newspaper=El País |location=Madrid |access-date=19 March 2025}} as the extent of each one's competences on the party's political leadership remained unclear.{{cite news |last1=González Ibáñez |first1=Juan |last2=Díez |first2=Anabel |date=19 November 1998 |title=Almunia se plantea dimitir si Borrell le arrebata la dirección política del partido |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1998/11/19/espana/911430001_850215.html |language=es |newspaper=El País |location=Madrid |access-date=19 March 2025}} Borrell renounced as candidate in May 1999 after it was unveiled that two former aides were involved in a judicial investigation for tax fraud,{{cite news |last=Díez |first=Anabel |date=15 May 1999 |title=Borrell renuncia como candidato por el escándalo de sus ex colaboradores |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1999/05/15/espana/926719201_850215.html |language=es |newspaper=El País |location=Madrid |access-date=19 March 2025}}{{cite news |last=Díez |first=Anabel |date=15 May 1999 |title=González insta a Almunia a que "ponga orden" y lidere el proceso para ganar las elecciones |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1999/05/17/espana/926892001_850215.html |language=es |newspaper=El País |location=Toledo |access-date=19 March 2025}} leaving a vacancy that resulted in Almunia being proclaimed as candidate without opposition.{{cite news |agency=Agencias |date=24 July 1999 |title=El Comité Federal respalda la candidatura de Almunia |url=https://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/1999/julio/24/nacional/psoe.html |language=es |newspaper=El Mundo |location=Madrid |access-date=19 March 2025}}{{cite news |last=Díez |first=Anabel |date=25 July 1999 |title=Almunia roza la unanimidad |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1999/07/25/espana/932853617_850215.html |language=es |newspaper=El País |location=Madrid |access-date=19 March 2025}}
Disappointment with the 1996 election results led United Left (IU) to undergo an internal crisis,{{cite news |last1=López |first1=Rosa |last2=Serrano |first2=Rodolfo |date=4 March 1996 |title=Anguita admite el estancamiento, de IU y deja al PSOE que hable de futuros acuerdos |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1996/03/04/espana/825894052_850215.html |language=es |newspaper=El País |location=Madrid |access-date=19 March 2025}}{{cite news |last=Serrano |first=Rodolfo |date=24 March 1996 |title=Los críticos de Izquierda Unida cuestionan por primera vez el liderazgo de Anguita |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1996/03/24/espana/827622017_850215.html |language=es |newspaper=El País |location=Madrid |access-date=19 March 2025}} which worsened over Julio Anguita's confrontational attitude with the PSOE—to the point of siding with the PP in a number of parliamentary votes—and a perceived lack of democracy within IU.{{cite web |date=October 1997 |title=La crisis de izquierda unida y la unidad de la izquierda |url=https://www.union-communiste.org/es/1997-10/la-crisis-de-izquierda-unida-y-la-unidad-de-la-izquierda-1264 |language=es |publisher=Internationalist Communist Union |access-date=20 March 2025}} Anguita sought to prevent an electoral alliance between United Left–Galician Left (EU–EG) and the Socialists' Party of Galicia (PSdeG–PSOE) ahead of the 1997 Galician regional election,{{cite news |last=Hermida |first=Xosé |date=23 May 1997 |title=Esquerda Unida desoye a Anguita y cierra su pacto con el PSOE en Galicia |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1997/05/23/espana/864338411_850215.html |language=es |newspaper=El País |location=Santiago de Compostela |access-date=19 March 2025}} a move which received criticism from Initiative for Catalonia (IC),{{cite news |author=Company, Enric |date=23 August 1997 |title=IC exige a Anguita que respete el pluralismo y abandone las prácticas del comunismo ortodoxo |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1997/08/23/espana/872287215_850215.html |language=es |newspaper=El País |location=Barcelona |access-date=19 March 2025}}{{cite news |last=Hermida |first=Xosé |date=11 September 1997 |title=Ribó proclama que Iniciativa per Catalunya estará "siempre" con Esquerda Galega |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1997/09/11/espana/873928802_850215.html |language=es |newspaper=El País |location=Santiago de Compostela |access-date=19 March 2025}} IU's sister party in Catalonia, with which disagreements over the coalition's political direction had been on the rise since the 1996 general election.{{cite news |last=Arroyo |first=Francesc |date=8 March 1996 |title=Ribó amenaza con actuar en el Congreso al margen de IU si no cambia |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1996/03/08/espana/826239623_850215.html |language=es |newspaper=El País |access-date=19 March 2025}}{{cite news |date=30 June 1997 |title=IU elimina de sus estatutos toda referencia a sus socios catalanes |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1997/06/30/portada/867621603_850215.html |language=es |newspaper=El País |access-date=19 March 2025}} The Democratic Party of the New Left (PDNI), constituted as an internal current within IU which had been critical of Anguita's leadership,{{cite news |last=Serrano |first=Rodolfo |date=21 March 1996 |title=Nueva Izquierda se constituye como partido entre recelos de la coalición |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1996/03/21/espana/827362818_850215.html |language=es |newspaper=El País |location=Madrid |access-date=19 March 2025}}{{cite news |last=Casqueiro |first=Javier |date=2 November 1996 |title=Nueva Izquierda nace para ser nexo entre PSOE e IU, según López Garrido |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1996/11/02/espana/846889211_850215.html |language=es |newspaper=El País |location=Madrid |access-date=19 March 2025}} was expelled from the alliance's governing bodies after it broke party discipline in Congress over the issue of labour reform in June 1997.{{cite news |last=Serrano |first=Rodolfo |date=17 June 1997 |title=IU expulsa de su ejecutiva a Nueva Izquierda y reclama las actas a sus tres diputados |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1997/06/17/espana/866498401_850215.html |language=es |newspaper=El País |location=Madrid |access-date=19 March 2025}}{{cite news |last=Serrano |first=Rodolfo |date=29 June 1997 |title=Anguita agudiza la crisis de IU con la expulsión de Nueva Izquierda de los órganos de dirección |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1997/06/29/espana/867535204_850215.html |language=es |newspaper=El País |location=Madrid |access-date=19 March 2025}} The crisis came to a peak in September 1997, which saw NI's expulsion from IU as a whole, the dissolution of the NI-controlled regional leaderships in Cantabria and Castilla–La Mancha and the break up of relations with EU–EG and IC.{{cite news |last=Serrano |first=Rodolfo |date=6 September 1997 |title=Izquierda Unida registra nombres similares a los de las federaciones críticas |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1997/09/06/espana/873496820_850215.html |language=es |newspaper=El País |location=Madrid |access-date=19 March 2025}}{{cite news |last=Serrano |first=Rodolfo |date=11 September 1997 |title=Anguita expulsa a Nueva Izquierda, rompe con Ribó y repudia a Esquerda Galega |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1997/09/11/espana/873928801_850215.html |language=es |newspaper=El País |location=Madrid |access-date=19 March 2025}}{{cite news |last=Serrano |first=Rodolfo |date=28 September 1997 |title=IU expulsó ayer a los críticos y rompió lazos con sus socios catalanes y gallegos |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1997/09/28/espana/875397601_850215.html |language=es |newspaper=El País |location=Madrid |access-date=19 March 2025}}{{cite news |last=Serrano |first=Rodolfo |date=28 September 1997 |title=Nueva Izquierda se pasa al Grupo Mixto |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1997/09/28/espana/875397602_850215.html |language=es |newspaper=El País |location=Madrid |access-date=19 March 2025}} The PDNI then sought electoral alliances with the PSOE,{{cite news |last=Serrano |first=Rodolfo |date=17 January 1998 |title=Nueva Izquierda y sus socios se constituyen en plataforma electoral |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1998/01/17/espana/884991620_850215.html |language=es |newspaper=El País |location=Madrid |access-date=19 March 2025}}{{cite news |agency=EFE |date=22 March 1998 |title=López Garrido propondrá una alianza electoral de fuerzas de izquierda |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1998/03/22/espana/890521211_850215.html |language=es |newspaper=El País |location=Santander |access-date=19 March 2025}} which materialized ahead of the 1999 local, regional and European Parliament elections.{{cite news |last=Díez |first=Anabel |date=15 May 1998 |title=El PSOE presentará a Cristina Almeida como candidata contra Ruiz-Gallardón |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1998/05/15/madrid/895231455_850215.html |language=es |newspaper=El País |location=Madrid |access-date=19 March 2025}}{{cite news |last1=Díez |first1=Anabel |last2=Serrano |first2=Rodolfo |date=16 May 1998 |title=PSOE y Nueva Izquierda quieren extender el pacto electoral de Madrid a toda España |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1998/05/16/espana/895269601_850215.html |language=es |newspaper=El País |location=Madrid |access-date=19 March 2025}}{{cite news |last=Serrano |first=Rodolfo |date=2 November 1998 |title=La dirección de Nueva Izquierda propone que sus candidatos se integren en las listas del PSOE |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1998/11/02/espana/909961211_850215.html |language=es |newspaper=El País |location=Madrid |access-date=19 March 2025}}
ETA continued with its terrorist activity during these years, with its most relevant action being the kidnapping and assassination of PP Ermua councillor Miguel Ángel Blanco in July 1997.{{cite news |last=Marín Yarza |first=Maribel |date=13 July 1997 |title=ETA abandona a Blanco con dos tiros en la cabeza tras desoír el clamor de los ciudadanos |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1997/07/13/espana/868744825_850215.html |language=es |newspaper=El País |location=San Sebastián |access-date=19 March 2025}} Blanco's killing had a deep social impact throughout Spain, with more than six million people across the country taking to the streets over four days to demand an end to ETA violence—a spontaneous civic response dubbed as the "Ermua spirit"—and even some of the group's supporters publicly condemned it.{{cite news |date=July 1997 |title=Outrage at ETA Killing |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/special/politics97/news/07/0713/eta.shtml |language=en |publisher=BBC |access-date=19 March 2025}}{{cite news |date=12 July 2006 |title=El Espíritu de Ermua continúa vivo en el noveno aniversario del asesinato de Miguel Ángel Blanco |url=https://www.20minutos.es/noticia/132393/0/asesinato/ermua/blanco/ |language=es |newspaper=20 minutos |access-date=19 March 2025}}{{cite news |date=8 April 2017 |title=What is Eta? |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11183574 |language=en |publisher=BBC News |access-date=19 March 2025}} The signing of the Declaration of Estella between the PNV and Herri Batasuna in September 1998 led ETA to announce an "indefinite ceasefire" four days later.{{cite news |date=2006 |title=Las treguas de ETA |url=https://www.abc.es/informacion/eta_altofuego/treguas.asp |language=es |newspaper=ABC |access-date=19 March 2025}} Aznar authorized talks between his government and ETA, but a single meeting in Zurich found the group no more willing to compromise on its core demands than it had been in the past; negotiations failed and ETA ended the truce in late 1999.{{cite web |last=Whitfield |first=Teresa |date=December 2015 |title=Special Report 384. The Basque Conflict and ETA. The Difficulties of an Ending |url=https://www.files.ethz.ch/isn/195389/SR384-The-Basque-Conflict-and-ETA-The-Difficulties-of-An-Ending.pdf |language=en |publisher=United States Institute of Peace |access-date=19 March 2025}}{{cite news |last=Quílez |first=Raquel |date=2009 |title=Aznar y los intentos de pactar en Zúrich |url=https://www.elmundo.es/eta/negociaciones/aznar.html |language=es |newspaper=El Mundo |access-date=19 March 2025}} In December 1999, the Civil Guard foiled a plot by ETA to bring 1,700 kg of explosives to Madrid, intended for its use in blowing up the Torre Picasso (in what was dubbed as "the convoy of death").{{cite news |last=P. Villatoro |first=Manuel |date=17 May 2023 |title='Caravana de la muerte': así evitó la Guardia Civil que ETA volase el rascacielos más icónico de Madrid |url=https://www.abc.es/historia/plan-oculto-caravana-muerte-eta-vuela-rascacielos-20230517150215-nt.html |language=es |newspaper=ABC |access-date=19 March 2025}}
The PNV withdrew its confidence and supply support from the government in 1999,{{cite news |last=Gómez Damborenea |first=Pedro |date=22 March 1999 |title=Arzalluz asegura que el tiempo de pactar con el Gobierno de Madrid se ha terminado |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1999/03/22/espana/922057206_850215.html |language=es |newspaper=El País |location=Bilbao |access-date=16 March 2025}}{{cite news |agency=OTR Press |date=9 December 1999 |title=El PNV rompe con el Gobierno y anuncia su voto contrario a los Presupuestos |url=https://www.ultimahora.es/noticias/nacional/1999/12/09/936077/el-pnv-rompe-con-el-gobierno-y-anuncia-su-voto-contrario-a-los-presupuestos.html |language=es |newspaper=Última Hora |location=Madrid |access-date=16 March 2025}} with relations strained following the Estella declaration.{{cite news |last=González Ibáñez |first=Juan |date=14 September 1998 |title=El Gobierno descalifica el pacto de Estella por ser "complaciente" con los intereses de ETA |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1998/09/14/espana/905724001_850215.html |language=es |newspaper=El País |location=Madrid |access-date=19 March 2025}} The Aragonese Party (PAR), which had been allied with the PP since the 1996 election, broke away from the PP parliamentary group in October 1999.{{cite news |last=Casqueiro |first=Javier |date=26 October 1999 |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1999/10/26/espana/940888804_850215.html |title=El Par rompe con el PP y le disputará tres escaños en Aragón |language=es |newspaper=El País |location=Madrid |access-date=19 March 2025}}
Overview
=Electoral system=
The Spanish {{lang|es|Cortes Generales|italic=no}} were envisaged as an imperfect bicameral system. The Congress of Deputies had greater legislative power than the Senate, having the ability to vote confidence in or withdraw it from a prime minister and to override Senate vetoes by an absolute majority of votes. Nonetheless, the Senate possessed a few exclusive (yet limited in number) functions—such as its role in constitutional amendment—which were not subject to the Congress' override.{{harvp|Const. Esp.|1978|loc=tit. III, ch. I, art. 66}}.{{cite web |url=https://app.congreso.es/consti/constitucion/indice/sinopsis/sinopsis.jsp?art=66&tipo=2 |title=Sinopsis artículo 66 |language=es |publisher=Congress of Deputies |access-date=12 September 2020 |postscript=,}} summarizing {{harvp|Const. Esp.|1978|loc=tit. III, ch. I, art. 66}}. Voting for the {{lang|es|Cortes Generales|italic=no}} was on the basis of universal suffrage, which comprised all nationals over 18 years of age and in full enjoyment of their political rights.{{harvp|LOREG|1985|loc=tit. I, ch. I, art. 2}}.{{sfn|Carreras de Odriozola|Tafunell Sambola|2005|p=1077}}
For the Congress of Deputies, 348 seats were elected using the D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional representation, with an electoral threshold of three percent of valid votes—which included blank ballots—being applied in each constituency. Seats were allocated to constituencies, corresponding to the provinces of Spain, with each being allocated an initial minimum of two seats and the remaining 248 being distributed in proportion to their populations. Ceuta and Melilla were allocated the two remaining seats, which were elected using plurality voting.{{harvp|Const. Esp.|1978|loc=tit. III, ch. I, art. 68}}.{{harvp|LOREG|1985|loc=tit. II, ch. III, art. 162–164}}. The use of the electoral method resulted in an effective threshold based on the district magnitude and the distribution of votes among candidacies.{{cite web |last=Gallagher |first=Michael |date=30 July 2012 |url=http://www.tcd.ie/Political_Science/staff/michael_gallagher/ElSystems/Docts/effthresh.php |title=Effective threshold in electoral systems |publisher=Trinity College, Dublin |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170730092518/http://www.tcd.ie/Political_Science/staff/michael_gallagher/ElSystems/Docts/effthresh.php |access-date=22 July 2017 |archive-date=30 July 2017}}
As a result of the aforementioned allocation, each Congress multi-member constituency was entitled the following seats:{{cite journal |journal=Boletín Oficial del Estado |issue=15 |date=18 January 2000 |pages=2034–2035 |issn=0212-033X |title=Real Decreto 64/2000, de 17 de enero, de disolución del Congreso de los Diputados y del Senado y de convocatoria de elecciones |url=https://www.boe.es/boe/dias/2000/01/18/pdfs/A02034-02035.pdf |language=es}}
| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left;" |
| width="50"| Seats
! width="600"| Constituencies |
|---|
| align="center"| 34
| Madrid |
| align="center"| 31 |
| align="center"| 16
| Valencia |
| align="center"| 13
| Seville |
| align="center"| 11
| Alicante |
| align="center"| 10
| Málaga |
| align="center"| 9 |
| align="center"| 8 |
| align="center"| 7
| Balearic Islands, Córdoba, Granada, Las Palmas, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Zaragoza |
| align="center"| 6 |
| align="center"| 5
| Almería, Cáceres, Cantabria, Castellón, Ciudad Real, Girona, Huelva, León, Navarre, Toledo, Valladolid |
| align="center"| 4
| Álava, Albacete, Burgos, La Rioja, Lleida, Lugo, Ourense, Salamanca |
| align="center"| 3
| Ávila, Cuenca, Guadalajara, Huesca, Palencia, Segovia, Soria, Teruel, Zamora |
For the Senate, 208 seats were elected using an open list partial block voting system, with electors voting for individual candidates instead of parties. In constituencies electing four seats, electors could vote for up to three candidates; in those with two or three seats, for up to two candidates; and for one candidate in single-member districts. Each of the 47 peninsular provinces was allocated four seats, whereas for insular provinces, such as the Balearic and Canary Islands, districts were the islands themselves, with the larger—Majorca, Gran Canaria and Tenerife—being allocated three seats each, and the smaller—Menorca, Ibiza–Formentera, Fuerteventura, La Gomera, El Hierro, Lanzarote and La Palma—one each. Ceuta and Melilla elected two seats each. Additionally, autonomous communities could appoint at least one senator each and were entitled to one additional senator per each million inhabitants.{{harvp|Const. Esp.|1978|loc=tit. III, ch. I, art. 69}}.{{harvp|LOREG|1985|loc=tit. II, ch. III, art. 162 & 165–166}}.
The law did not provide for by-elections to fill vacated seats; instead, any vacancies that occurred after the proclamation of candidates and into the legislature's term were to be covered by the successive candidates in the list and, when needed, by the designated substitutes, of which the list was required to include three.{{harvp|LOREG|1985|loc=tit. I, ch. VI, art. 46 & 48}}.
=Election date=
The term of each chamber of the {{lang|es|Cortes Generales|italic=no}}—the Congress and the Senate—expired four years from the date of their previous election, unless they were dissolved earlier. The election decree was required to be issued no later than the twenty-fifth day prior to the date of expiry of parliament and published on the following day in the Official State Gazette (BOE), with election day taking place on the fifty-fourth day from publication.{{harvp|LOREG|1985|loc=tit. I, ch. V, art. 42}}. The previous election was held on 3 March 1996, which meant that the legislature's term would expire on 3 March 2000. The election decree was required to be published in the BOE no later than 8 February 2000, with the election taking place on the fifty-fourth day from publication, setting the latest possible election date for the {{lang|es|Cortes Generales|italic=no}} on Sunday, 2 April 2000.{{cite news |date=23 August 1999 |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1999/08/23/portada/935359201_850215.html |title=PP y PSOE preparan una campaña electoral larga y muy agria |language=es |newspaper=El País |access-date=19 March 2025}}{{cite news |date=8 September 1999 |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1999/09/08/espana/936741612_850215.html |title=Las generales se celebrarán entre el 27 de febrero y el 26 de marzo |language=es |newspaper=El País |access-date=19 March 2025}}
The prime minister had the prerogative to propose the monarch to dissolve both chambers at any given time—either jointly or separately—and call a snap election, provided that no motion of no confidence was in process, no state of emergency was in force and that dissolution did not occur before one year had elapsed since the previous one.{{harvp|Const. Esp.|1978|loc=tit. IV, art. 115–116}}. Additionally, both chambers were to be dissolved and a new election called if an investiture process failed to elect a prime minister within a two-month period from the first ballot.{{harvp|Const. Esp.|1978|loc=tit. IV, art. 99}}. Barred this exception, there was no constitutional requirement for simultaneous elections to the Congress and the Senate. Still, as of {{Currentyear}}, there has been no precedent of separate elections taking place under the 1978 Constitution.
It was suggested that Aznar would be tempted to call a snap election after the introduction of the euro was effective at 1 January 1999,{{cite news |last=Oppenheimer |first=Walter |date=27 April 1997 |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1997/04/27/espana/862092009_850215.html |title=González augura elecciones anticipadas si los sondeos son favorables a Aznar |language=es |newspaper=El País |location=The Hague |access-date=19 March 2025}} while speculation among PP ranks and government members was that an election would be called in the spring of 1999 or in June, to coincide with the scheduled local, regional and European Parliament elections.{{cite news |last=Rodríguez Aizpeolea |first=Luis |date=19 November 1998 |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1998/11/19/espana/911430009_850215.html |title=Los ministros más cercanos a Aznar se inclinan por adelantar las elecciones a junio |language=es |newspaper=El País |location=Madrid |access-date=19 March 2025}} This possibility was fueled by some remarks from the Catalan president and CiU leader, Jordi Pujol, that a general election would be held in 1999—a remark that he was forced to rectify later on{{cite news |last=Garriga |first=Josep |date=23 November 1998 |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1998/11/23/espana/911775613_850215.html |title=Pujol asegura que las elecciones generales se celebrarán el próximo año |language=es |newspaper=El País |location=Tarragona |access-date=19 March 2025}}{{cite news |date=24 November 1998 |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1998/11/24/espana/911862002_850215.html |title=El presidente rectifica: "Las elecciones generales serán en el 2000" |language=es |newspaper=El País |location=Barcelona |access-date=19 March 2025}}—coinciding with a critical point in the PP–CiU relationship.{{cite news |last=Rodríguez Aizpeolea |first=Luis |date=29 November 1998 |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1998/11/29/espana/912294006_850215.html |title=El choque entre Aznar y Pujol presagia un adelanto electoral |language=es |newspaper=El País |location=Madrid |access-date=19 March 2025}}{{cite news |last1=Larraya |first1=José Miguel |last2=Mauri |first2=Luis |date=15 December 1998 |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1998/12/15/espana/913676401_850215.html |title=Aznar asegura que ha pactado con Pujol el calendario electoral y el líder de CiU lo niega |language=es |newspaper=El País |location=Prague / Barcelona |access-date=19 March 2025}} Aznar himself repeteadly rejected all these claims.{{cite news |last=Casqueiro |first=Javier |date=25 June 1998 |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1998/06/25/espana/898725609_850215.html |title=Aznar zanja especulaciones y reitera que las elecciones serán en el año 2000 |language=es |newspaper=El País |location=Madrid |access-date=19 March 2025}}{{cite news |last=Casqueiro |first=Javier |date=25 November 1998 |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1998/11/25/espana/911948407_850215.html |title=Aznar insta a sus diputados y senadores a trabajar y dejar de "especular" sobre un adelanto electoral |language=es |newspaper=El País |access-date=19 March 2025}}{{cite news |last=Mencia |first=Sonia |date=3 January 1999 |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1999/01/03/espana/915318011_850215.html |title=Aznar afirma que agotará la legislatura y no anticipará las elecciones |language=es |newspaper=El País |location=Viella |access-date=19 March 2025}}
In the summer of 1999, a new round of speculation emerged that Aznar was considering holding an early election in the autumn,{{cite news |last=Casqueiro |first=Javier |date=2 August 1999 |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1999/08/02/espana/933544804_850215.html |title=Aznar sopesa este verano las últimas presiones de su entorno para adelantar las elecciones |language=es |newspaper=El País |location=Madrid |access-date=19 March 2025}} but this was ended by Aznar re-assuring that it was his wish to exhaust the legislature and for the election to be held when due, in March 2000.{{cite news |last=Díez |first=Anabel |date=22 August 1999 |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1999/08/22/espana/935272801_850215.html |title=Aznar asegura que agotará la legislatura y celebrará elecciones en el 2000 |language=es |newspaper=El País |location=Alcora |access-date=19 March 2025}} On 23 December 1999, it was confirmed that the general election would be held in March,{{cite news |last=Díez |first=Anabel |date=24 December 1999 |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1999/12/24/espana/945990008_850215.html |title=El Gobierno adelanta que Aznar convocará las elecciones generales para el 12 de marzo |language=es |newspaper=El País |location=Madrid |access-date=19 March 2025}} together with the 2000 Andalusian regional election.{{cite news |last=Pedrote |first=Isabel |date=21 December 1999 |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1999/12/21/espana/945730808_850215.html |title=Chaves sugiere el 20 de febrero o el 12 de marzo para las elecciones andaluzas |language=es |newspaper=El País |location=Seville |access-date=19 March 2025}}{{cite news |last=Pedrote |first=Isabel |date=24 December 1999 |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1999/12/24/espana/945990009_850215.html |title=La Junta andaluza, "satisfecha" con la coincidencia sobre la fecha electoral |language=es |newspaper=El País |location=Seville |access-date=19 March 2025}} The dissolution of the {{lang|es|Cortes Generales|italic=no}} being arranged on 17 January,{{cite news |last=Rodríguez Aizpeolea |first=Luis |date=18 January 2000 |url=https://elpais.com/diario/2000/01/18/espana/948150021_850215.html |title=Aznar convoca elecciones con duros ataques al PSOE y PNV y una advertencia a CiU |language=es |newspaper=El País |location=Madrid |access-date=19 March 2025}} thus ending the longest parliamentary term in Spanish democracy up until that point.
The {{lang|es|Cortes Generales|italic=no}} were officially dissolved on 18 January 2000 after the publication of the dissolution decree in the BOE, setting the election date for 12 March and scheduling for both chambers to reconvene on 5 April.
Parliamentary composition
The tables below show the composition of the parliamentary groups in both chambers at the time of dissolution.{{cite web |url=https://www.historiaelectoral.com/grups.html |title=Grupos Parlamentarios en el Congreso de los Diputados y el Senado |language=es |website=Historia Electoral.com |access-date=29 October 2022}}{{cite web |url=https://www.historiaelectoral.com/senado7.html |title=Composición del Senado 1977-{{year}} |language=es |website=Historia Electoral.com |access-date=29 October 2022}}
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| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left;"
|+ Parliamentary composition in January 2000{{cite web |url=https://www.congreso.es/web/guest/grupos/composicion-en-la-legislatura |title=Grupos parlamentarios |language=es |website=Congress of Deputies |access-date=7 December 2020}} |
| colspan="6"| Congress of Deputies |
|---|
| rowspan="2" colspan="2"| Groups
! rowspan="2" colspan="2"| Parties ! colspan="2"| Deputies |
| Seats
! Total |
| width="1" rowspan="2" bgcolor="{{party color|People's Party (Spain)}}"|
| rowspan="2"| People's Parliamentary Group in the Congress | width="1" style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|People's Party (Spain)}}"| | PP | 153 | rowspan="2"| 155 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Navarrese People's Union}}"|
| UPN | 2 |
| rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party}}"|
| rowspan="2"| Socialist Group of the Congress | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party}}"| | PSOE | 122 | rowspan="2"| 141 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Socialists' Party of Catalonia}}"|
| PSC | 19 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|United Left (Spain)}}"|
| United Left's Federal Parliamentary Group | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|United Left (Spain)}}"| | IU | 16 | 16 |
| rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Convergence and Union}}"|
| rowspan="2"| Catalan Parliamentary Group | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Democratic Convergence of Catalonia}}"| | CDC | 10 | rowspan="2"| 16 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Democratic Union of Catalonia}}"|
| UDC | 6 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Basque Nationalist Party}}"|
| Basque Parliamentary Group (EAJ/PNV) | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Basque Nationalist Party}}"| | EAJ/PNV | 5 | 5 |
| rowspan="3" style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Canarian Coalition}}"|
| rowspan="3"| Canarian Coalition's Parliamentary Group | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Canarian Independent Groups}}"| | AIC | 2 | rowspan="3"| 4 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Nationalist Canarian Initiative}}"|
| ICAN | 1 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Nationalist Canarian Centre}}"|
| CCN | 1 |
| rowspan="7" bgcolor="gray"|
| rowspan="7"| Mixed Parliamentary Group | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Democratic Party of the New Left}}"| | PDNI | 3 | rowspan="7"| 11 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Galician Nationalist Bloc}}"|
| BNG | 2 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Initiative for Catalonia Greens}}"|
| IC–V | 2 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Eusko Alkartasuna}}"|
| EA | 1 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Valencian Union}}"|
| UV | 1 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Aragonese Party}}"|
| PAR | 1 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Partit per la Independència}}"|
| PI | 1 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Non-Inscrits}}"|
| Non-Inscrits | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Herri Batasuna}}"| | HB | 2 | 2 |
{{col-break|gap=1em}}
| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left;"
|+ Parliamentary composition in January 2000{{cite web |url=https://www.senado.es/web/composicionorganizacion/gruposparlamentarios/gruposparlamentariosdesde1977/index.html |title=Grupos Parlamentarios desde 1977 |language=es |website=Senate of Spain |access-date=8 July 2020}} |
| colspan="6"| Senate |
|---|
| rowspan="2" colspan="2"| Groups
! rowspan="2" colspan="2"| Parties ! colspan="2"| Senators |
| Seats
! Total |
| width="1" rowspan="2" bgcolor="{{party color|People's Party (Spain)}}"|
| rowspan="2"| People's Parliamentary Group in the Senate | width="1" style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|People's Party (Spain)}}"| | PP | 129 | rowspan="2"| 132 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Navarrese People's Union}}"|
| UPN | 3 |
| rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party}}"|
| rowspan="2"| Socialist Parliamentary Group | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party}}"| | PSOE | 90 | rowspan="2"| 100 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Socialists' Party of Catalonia}}"|
| PSC | 10 |
| rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Convergence and Union}}"|
| rowspan="2"| Convergence and Union's | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Democratic Convergence of Catalonia}}"| | CDC | 8 | rowspan="2"| 11 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Democratic Union of Catalonia}}"|
| UDC | 3 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Basque Nationalist Party}}"|
| Basque Nationalist Senators' Parliamentary Group | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Basque Nationalist Party}}"| | EAJ/PNV | 6 | 6 |
| rowspan="7" bgcolor="gray"|
| rowspan="7"| Mixed Parliamentary Group | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Aragonese Party}}"| | PAR | 3 | rowspan="7"| 10 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|United Left (Spain)}}"|
| IU | 2 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Canarian Independent Groups}}"|
| AIC | 1 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Independent Herrenian Group}}"|
| AHI | 1 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Republican Left of Catalonia}}"|
| ERC | 1 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Pacte Progressista}}"|
| Pacte | 1 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Lanzarote Independents Party}}"|
| PIL | 1 |
{{col-end}}
Parties and candidates
=Eligibility requirements=
Spanish citizens of age and with the legal capacity to vote could run for election, provided that they were not sentenced to imprisonment by a final court's decision nor convicted by a judgement, even if not yet final, which imposed a penalty of forfeiture of eligibility or of specific disqualification or suspension from public office under specific offences: rebellion and terrorism when involving crimes against life, physical integrity or freedom of persons. Other general causes of ineligibility were imposed on members of the Spanish royal family; the president and members of the Constitutional Court, the General Council of the Judiciary, the Supreme Court, the Council of State, the Court of Auditors and the Economic and Social Council; the Ombudsman; the State's Attorney General; high-ranking members—undersecretaries, secretaries-general, directors-general and chiefs of staff—of Spanish government departments, the Prime Minister's Office, government delegations, the Social Security and other government agencies; heads of diplomatic missions in foreign states or international organizations; judges and public prosecutors in active service; Armed Forces and police corps personnel in active service; members of electoral commissions; the chair of RTVE; the director of the Electoral Register Office; the governor and deputy governor of the Bank of Spain; the chairs of the Official Credit Institute and other official credit institutions; and members of the Nuclear Safety Council; as well as a number of territorial-level officers in the aforementioned government bodies and institutions being barred from running, during their tenure of office, in constituencies within the whole or part of their respective area of jurisdiction.{{harvp|Const. Esp.|1978|loc=tit. III, ch. I, art. 70}}.{{harvp|LOREG|1985|loc=tit. I, ch. II, art. 6}}. Disqualification provisions for the Cortes Generales extended to any employee of a foreign state and to members of regional governments, as well as the impossibility of running simultaneously as candidate for both the Congress and Senate.{{harvp|LOREG|1985|loc=tit. II, ch. I, art. 154}}.
The electoral law allowed for parties and federations registered in the interior ministry, coalitions and groupings of electors to present lists of candidates. Parties and federations intending to form a coalition ahead of an election were required to inform the relevant Electoral Commission within ten days of the election call, whereas groupings of electors needed to secure the signature of at least one percent of the electorate in the constituencies for which they sought election, disallowing electors from signing for more than one list of candidates.{{harvp|LOREG|1985|loc=tit. I, ch. VI, art. 44 & tit. II, ch. V, art. 169}}.
=Main competing lists=
Below is a list of the main parties and electoral alliances which contested the election:
| class="wikitable" style="line-height:1.35em; text-align:left;" |
| colspan="2" rowspan="2"| Candidacy
! rowspan="2"| Parties and ! colspan="2" rowspan="2"| Leading candidate ! rowspan="2"| Ideology ! colspan="3"| Previous result ! rowspan="2"| {{abbr|Gov.|Government}} ! rowspan="2"| {{abbr|Ref.|References}} |
|---|
| Votes (%)
! {{abbr|Con.|Congress}} ! {{abbr|Sen.|Senate}} |
| width="1" style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|People's Party (Spain)}}"|
| align="center"| PP | {{Collapsible list | title = List | bullets = on | People's Party (PP) | Navarrese People's Union (UPN) | Melillan People's Union (UPM) }} | 50px | Conservatism | align="center"| 38.79% | {{big|156}} | {{big|112}} | {{tick|15}} |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party}}"|
| {{Collapsible list | title = List | bullets = on | Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) | Socialists' Party of Catalonia (PSC) | Democratic Party of the New Left (PDNI) }} | 50px | align="center"| 37.63% | {{big|141}} | {{big|73}}{{efn|Not including PSC–PSOE results in the 1996 Senate election.}} | {{xmark|15}} | {{cite news |date=25 July 1999 |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1999/07/25/espana/932853602_850215.html |title=El candidato pide a los socialistas en su primer discurso que recuperen el 'espíritu del 82' |language=es |newspaper=El País |access-date=27 January 2019}} |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|United Left (Spain)}}"|
| align="center"| IU | {{Collapsible list | title = List | bullets = on | United Left (IU) | United and Alternative Left (EUiA) }} | 50px | align="center"| 9.35%{{efn|name="IU"}} | {{big|19}} | {{big|0}} | {{xmark|15}} | {{cite news |date=18 December 1999 |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1999/12/18/espana/945471601_850215.html |title=La dirección de IU decide que Frutos sustituya a Anguita, pero sólo para las elecciones |language=es |newspaper=El País |access-date=27 January 2019}} |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Convergence and Union}}"|
| align="center"| CiU | {{Collapsible list | title = List | bullets = on | Democratic Convergence of Catalonia (CDC) | Democratic Union of Catalonia (UDC) }} | 50px | align="center"| 4.60% | {{big|16}} | {{big|8}} | {{xmark|15}} | {{cite news |date=20 August 1999 |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1999/08/20/espana/935100008_850215.html |title=Pujol confirma a Trias como cabeza de lista de CiU en las generales |language=es |newspaper=El País |access-date=27 January 2019}} |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Basque Nationalist Party}}"|
| align="center"| EAJ/PNV | {{Collapsible list | title = List | bullets = on | Basque Nationalist Party (EAJ/PNV) }} | 50px | Basque nationalism | align="center"| 1.27% | {{big|5}} | {{big|4}} | {{xmark|15}} | |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Canarian Coalition}}"|
| align="center"| CC | {{Collapsible list | title = List | bullets = on | Canarian Independent Groups (AIC) | Nationalist Canarian Initiative (ICAN) | Nationalist Canarian Centre (CCN) | Canarian Nationalist Party (PNC) | Independent Herrenian Group (AHI) | Majorera Assembly (AM) }} | 50px | José Carlos Mauricio | Regionalism | align="center"| 0.88% | {{big|4}} | {{big|0}} | {{xmark|15}} | |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Initiative for Catalonia Greens}}"|
| align="center"| IC–V | {{Collapsible list | title = List | bullets = on | Initiative for Catalonia–Greens (IC–V) }} | 50px | Regionalism | align="center"| 1.19%{{efn|Results for IC–EV in the 1996 election.}} | {{big|2}} | —{{efn|name="Entesa"|IC–V and ERC contested the 2000 Senate election within the Entesa alliance.}} | {{xmark|15}} | |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Galician Nationalist Bloc}}"|
| align="center"| BNG | {{Collapsible list | title = List | bullets = on | Galician Nationalist Bloc (BNG) }} | 50px | Francisco Rodríguez | Galician nationalism | align="center"| 0.88% | {{big|2}} | {{big|0}} | {{xmark|15}} | |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Republican Left of Catalonia}}"|
| align="center"| ERC | {{Collapsible list | title = List | bullets = on | Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC) }} | 50px | Catalan independence | align="center"| 0.67% | {{big|1}} | —{{efn|name="Entesa"}} | {{xmark|15}} |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Eusko Alkartasuna}}"|
| align="center"| EA | {{Collapsible list | title = List | bullets = on | Basque Solidarity (EA) }} | 50px | Begoña Lasagabaster | Basque nationalism | align="center"| 0.46% | {{big|1}} | {{big|0}} | {{xmark|15}} | |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Valencian Union}}"|
| align="center"| UV | {{Collapsible list | title = List | bullets = on | Valencian Union (UV) }} | 50px | José María Chiquillo | align="center"| 0.37% | {{big|1}} | {{big|0}} | {{xmark|15}} |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Andalusian Party}}"|
| align="center"| PA | {{Collapsible list | title = List | bullets = on | Andalusian Party (PA) }} | 50px | José Núñez | Andalusian nationalism | align="center"| 0.54% | {{big|0}} | {{big|0}} | {{xmark|15}} |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Chunta Aragonesista}}"|
| align="center"| CHA | {{Collapsible list | title = List | bullets = on | Aragonese Union (CHA) }} | 50px | Aragonese nationalism | align="center"| 0.20% | {{big|0}} | {{big|0}} | {{xmark|15}} | |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Catalan Agreement of Progress}}"|
| align="center"| PSC– | {{Collapsible list | title = List | bullets = on | Socialists' Party of Catalonia (PSC) | Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC) | Initiative for Catalonia Greens (ICV) }} | 50px | Mercedes Aroz | Catalanism | colspan="2" {{n/a|Senate}} | {{big|8}}{{efn|Results for PSC–PSOE (8 senators), IC–EV (0 senators) and ERC (0 senators) in the 1996 Senate election.}} | {{xmark|15}} | {{cite news |date=12 January 2000 |url=https://elpais.com/diario/2000/01/12/catalunya/947642845_850215.html |title=La izquierda catalana se presentará unida al Senado y formará grupo al margen del PSOE |language=es |newspaper=El País |access-date=27 January 2019}} |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Pacte Progressista}}"|
| align="center"| Pacte | {{Collapsible list | title = List | bullets = on | Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) | United Left (EU) | Nationalist and Ecologist Agreement (ENE) | Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC) | The Greens of Ibiza (EV–Eiv) }} | 50px | Fanny Tur | colspan="2" {{n/a|Senate}} | {{big|1}} | {{xmark|15}} | |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Lanzarote Independents Party}}"|
| align="center"| PIL | {{Collapsible list | title = List | bullets = on | Lanzarote Independents Party (PIL) }} | 50px | Dimas Martín | Insularism | colspan="2" {{n/a|Senate}} | {{big|1}} | {{xmark|15}} | |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Aragonese Party}}"|
| align="center"| PAR | {{Collapsible list | title = List | bullets = on | Aragonese Party (PAR) }} | 50px | Antonio Serrano | colspan="3" {{n/a|New}}{{efn|The PAR (1 deputy and 3 senators) contested the 1996 election in alliance with the PP.}} | {{xmark|15}} |
The election was marked by the exploration of joint candidacies between the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) and other parties in the left of the political spectrum. One such example was in Catalonia, where a left-wing alliance came to fruition between the Socialists' Party of Catalonia (PSC), Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC) and Initiative for Catalonia–Greens (IC–V) under the Catalan Agreement of Progress label,{{cite news |date=11 December 1999 |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1999/12/11/catalunya/944878045_850215.html |title=Los socialistas rechazan ir con Ciutadans pel Canvi a las elecciones legislativas |language=es |newspaper=El País |access-date=27 January 2019}} aiming to mirror the success of a similar alliance between the PSC and IC–V in the 1999 Catalan regional election.{{cite news |date=4 September 1999 |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1999/09/04/catalunya/936407244_850215.html |title=Maragall ve el pacto con IC-V como un paso hacia la creación de partidos amplios |language=es |newspaper=El País |access-date=17 March 2019}}{{cite news |date=21 November 1999 |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1999/11/21/catalunya/943150039_850215.html |title=El PSC e IC-V estudian repetir la coalición en las generales |language=es |newspaper=El País |access-date=17 March 2019}} Ahead of the Senate election in Ibiza and Formentera, PSOE, United Left of the Balearic Islands (EUIB), The Greens (LV), Nationalist and Ecologist Agreement (ENE) and ERC formed the Pact for Ibiza and Formentera.{{cite news |date=20 January 2000 |url=https://www.periodicodeibiza.es/pitiusas/local/2000/01/20/930813/el-pp-elige-esta-semana-candidatos-sin-que-el-pacte-haya-cerrado-aun-un-acuerdo.html |title=El PP elige esta semana candidatos sin que el Pacte haya cerrado aún un acuerdo |language=es |newspaper=Periódico de Ibiza |access-date=19 March 2019}}{{cite news |date=30 January 2000 |url=https://www.periodicodeibiza.es/pitiusas/local/2000/01/30/929189/els-verds-de-eivissa-se-integran-en-la-candidatura-unitaria-al-senado.html |title=Els Verds de Eivissa se integran en la candidatura unitaria al Senado |language=es |newspaper=Periódico de Ibiza |access-date=19 March 2019}}{{cite news |date=25 February 2000 |url=https://www.periodicodeibiza.es/pitiusas/local/2000/02/25/925089/pacte-y-pp-convencidos-de-ganar-el-disputado-escano-del-senado.html |title=Pacte y PP, convencidos de ganar el disputado escaño del Senado |language=es |newspaper=Periódico de Ibiza |access-date=19 March 2019}}
Various attempts at forming a joint left-wing candidacy for the Senate in the Valencian Community were unsuccessful,{{cite news |date=14 November 1999 |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1999/11/14/cvalenciana/942610691_850215.html |title=Principio de acuerdo de la izquierda para la candidatura única al Senado |language=es |newspaper=El País |access-date=17 March 2019}}{{cite news |date=4 December 1999 |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1999/12/04/cvalenciana/944338685_850215.html |title=El PSPV enfría las posibilidades de lograr un acuerdo al Senado con el resto de partidos |language=es |newspaper=El País |access-date=17 March 2019}}{{cite news |date=10 December 1999 |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1999/12/10/cvalenciana/944857091_850215.html |title=La izquierda se muestra incapaz de pactar una lista única para el Senado |language=es |newspaper=El País |access-date=17 March 2019}} primarily due to disagreement over the label and format of such an alliance.{{cite news |date=18 November 1999 |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1999/11/18/cvalenciana/942956287_850215.html |title=El PSPV sólo aceptará una lista al Senado con EU bajo sus siglas |language=es |newspaper=El País |access-date=17 March 2019}}{{cite news |date=28 November 1999 |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1999/11/28/cvalenciana/943820283_850215.html |title=El Consell Nacional de EU aprueba la "entesa" de la izquierda para el Senado bajo siglas unitarias |language=es |newspaper=El País |access-date=17 March 2019}}{{cite news |date=27 January 2000 |url=https://elpais.com/diario/2000/01/27/cvalenciana/949004285_850215.html |title=EU y Bloc, dispuestos a reabrir la negociación sobre la 'Entesa' al Senado con los socialistas |language=es |newspaper=El País |access-date=19 March 2019}}{{cite news |date=29 January 2000 |url=https://elpais.com/diario/2000/01/29/cvalenciana/949177082_850215.html |title=La ausencia de acuerdo entre PSOE e IU en Madrid frustra la posible 'Entesa' al Senado |language=es |newspaper=El País |access-date=19 March 2019}} Nationwide, an agreement was reached between the national leaderships of PSOE and United Left, under which both parties agreed to cooperate in the Senate elections for 27 constituencies: in those districts, and taking consideration of the Senate electoral system allowing up to three votes to each voter, the PSOE would field two candidates to one from IU, with the parties urging voters to cast their votes as if it were a joint list of three.{{cite news |date=2 February 2000 |url=https://elpais.com/diario/2000/02/02/espana/949446003_850215.html |title=PSOE e IU cierran un pacto para el Senado y descartan presentarse juntos al Congreso |language=es |newspaper=El País |access-date=27 January 2019}}{{cite news |date=7 February 2000 |url=https://elpais.com/diario/2000/02/07/espana/949878003_850215.html |title=PSOE e IU cerraron anoche el pacto para el Senado en 27 provincias |language=es |newspaper=El País |access-date=27 January 2019}} The PSOE also offered IU a similar agreement for the Congress of Deputies, wherein IU would not run in 34 constituencies where it would unlikely win a seat on its own,{{cite news |date=25 January 2000 |url=https://elpais.com/diario/2000/01/25/espana/948754821_850215.html |title=Almunia ofrece a IU un pacto de gobierno |language=es |newspaper=El País |access-date=19 March 2019}} with a later offer reducing the number to 14.{{cite news |date=29 January 2000 |url=https://elpais.com/diario/2000/01/29/espana/949100419_850215.html |title=El PSOE rebaja de 34 a 14 las provincias en las que pide a IU que retire sus listas |language=es |newspaper=El País |access-date=19 March 2019}} These offers were both rejected.{{cite news |date=29 January 2000 |url=https://elpais.com/diario/2000/01/28/espana/949014008_850215.html |title=PSOE e IU descartan la coalición pero acercan posiciones para un programa común |language=es |newspaper=El País |access-date=19 March 2019}}{{cite news |date=29 January 2000 |url=https://elpais.com/diario/2000/01/29/espana/949100403_850215.html |title=IU centró su estrategia en forzar una coalición en algunas provincias |language=es |newspaper=El País |access-date=19 March 2019}}
Basque Citizens (EH), the Basque electoral coalition including Herri Batasuna, called for election boycott and urged its supporters to abstain.{{cite news |date=30 January 2000 |url=https://elpais.com/diario/2000/01/30/espana/949186806_850215.html |title=EH presentará listas para usar los espacios electorales |language=es |newspaper=El País |access-date=27 January 2019}}{{cite news |date=9 February 2000 |url=https://elpais.com/diario/2000/02/09/espana/950050822_850215.html |title=HB despliega una candidatura de presos y dirigentes de su Mesa Nacional para propugnar la abstención |language=es |newspaper=El País |access-date=27 January 2019}}{{cite news |date=27 February 2000 |url=https://elpais.com/diario/2000/02/27/espana/951606009_850215.html |title=Batzarre deja EH porque ETA ha puesto Lizarra "patas arriba" |language=es |newspaper=El País |access-date=27 January 2019}}
Campaign
=Party slogans=
| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" colspan="2"| Party or alliance
! Original slogan ! English translation ! {{abbr|Ref.|References}} |
|---|
| width="1" style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|People's Party (Spain)}}"|
| PP | « Vamos a más » | "We are going for more" |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party}}"|
| « Lo próximo » | "What comes" |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|United Left (Spain)}}"|
| IU | « Somos necesarios » | "We are necessary" |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Convergence and Union}}"|
| CiU | « La força positiva » | "The positive force" | {{cite news |date=3 December 2015 |url=https://www.elconfidencial.com/multimedia/album/elecciones-generales/2015-12-03/de-1977-a-2015-los-carteles-electorales-de-la-democracia_1112217 |title=De 1977 a 2015, los carteles electorales de la democracia |language=es |newspaper=El Confidencial |access-date=27 January 2019}}{{cite news |date=17 December 2015 |url=https://www.elperiodico.com/es/politica/20151217/carteles-electorales-convergencia-unio-elecciones-generales-4743975 |title=Los carteles de Convergència y de Unió para las elecciones generales desde 1982 |language=es |newspaper=El Periódico de Catalunya |access-date=19 February 2019}} |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Galician Nationalist Bloc}}"|
| BNG | « Galiza, coa capacidade de decidir » | "Galiza, with the ability to decide" |
Opinion polls
{{Main|Opinion polling for the 2000 Spanish general election}}
{{Opinion polling for the 2000 Spanish general election (Graphical summary)}}
Results
=Congress of Deputies=
{{For|results by autonomous community/constituency|Results breakdown of the 2000 Spanish general election (Congress)}}
| class="wikitable" style="text-align:right;"
|+ ← Summary of the 12 March 2000 Congress of Deputies election results → | |||
| colspan="7"| File:SpainCongressDiagram2000.svg | |||
| style="text-align:left;" rowspan="2" colspan="2" width="525"| Parties and alliances
! colspan="3"| Popular vote ! colspan="2"| Seats | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| width="75"| Votes
! width="45"| % ! width="45"| ±pp ! width="35"| Total ! width="35"| +/− | |||
| width="1" style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|People's Party (Spain)}}"|
| align="left"| People's Party (PP) | 10,321,178 | 44.52 | style="color:green;"| +5.73
| 183 | style="color:green;"| +27 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party}}"|
| align="left"| Spanish Socialist Workers' Party–Progressives (PSOE–p) | 7,918,752 | 34.16 | style="color:red;"| –3.47
| 125 | style="color:red;"| –16 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|United Left (Spain)}}"|
| align="left"| United Left (IU)1 | 1,263,043 | 5.45 | style="color:red;"| –3.90
| 8 | style="color:red;"| –11 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Convergence and Union}}"|
| align="left"| Convergence and Union (CiU) | 970,421 | 4.19 | style="color:red;"| –0.41
| 15 | style="color:red;"| –1 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Basque Nationalist Party}}"|
| align="left"| Basque Nationalist Party (EAJ/PNV) | 353,953 | 1.53 | style="color:green;"| +0.26
| 7 | style="color:green;"| +2 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Galician Nationalist Bloc}}"|
| align="left"| Galician Nationalist Bloc (BNG) | 306,268 | 1.32 | style="color:green;"| +0.44
| 3 | style="color:green;"| +1 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Canarian Coalition}}"|
| align="left"| Canarian Coalition (CC) | 248,261 | 1.07 | style="color:green;"| +0.19
| 4 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Andalusian Party}}"|
| align="left"| Andalusian Party (PA) | 206,255 | 0.89 | style="color:green;"| +0.35
| 1 | style="color:green;"| +1 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Republican Left of Catalonia}}"|
| align="left"| Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC) | 194,715 | 0.84 | style="color:green;"| +0.17
| 1 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Initiative for Catalonia Greens}}"|
| align="left"| Initiative for Catalonia–Greens (IC–V)2 | 119,290 | 0.51 | style="color:red;"| –0.68
| 1 | style="color:red;"| –1 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Eusko Alkartasuna}}"|
| align="left"| Basque Solidarity (EA) | 100,742 | 0.43 | style="color:red;"| –0.03
| 1 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Chunta Aragonesista}}"|
| align="left"| Aragonese Union (CHA) | 75,356 | 0.33 | style="color:green;"| +0.13
| 1 | style="color:green;"| +1 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Liberal Independent Group}}"|
| align="left"| Liberal Independent Group (GIL) | 72,162 | 0.31 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Confederation of the Greens}}"|
| align="left"| The Greens (Verdes)3 | 70,906 | 0.31 | style="color:green;"| +0.15
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Valencian Nationalist Bloc}}"|
| align="left"| Valencian Nationalist Bloc–The Greens–Valencians for Change (BNV–EV)4 | 58,551 | 0.25 | style="color:green;"| +0.06
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Valencian Union}}"|
| align="left"| Valencian Union (UV) | 57,830 | 0.25 | style="color:red;"| –0.12
| 0 | style="color:red;"| –1 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Leonese People's Union}}"|
| align="left"| Leonese People's Union (UPL) | 41,690 | 0.18 | style="color:green;"| +0.13
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Aragonese Party}}"|
| align="left"| Aragonese Party (PAR) | 38,883 | 0.17 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Democratic and Social Centre (Spain)}}"|
| align="left"| Centrist Union–Democratic and Social Centre (UC–CDS) | 23,576 | 0.10 | style="color:red;"| –0.08
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|PSM–Nationalist Agreement}}"|
| align="left"| PSM–Nationalist Agreement (PSM–EN) | 23,482 | 0.10 | ±0.00
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|The Eco-pacifist Greens}}"|
| align="left"| The Eco-pacifist Greens (LVEP) | 22,220 | 0.10 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|The Greens of the Community of Madrid}}"|
| align="left"| The Greens of the Community of Madrid (LVCM) | 21,087 | 0.09 | style="color:green;"| +0.06
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|The Greens–Green Group}}"|
| align="left"| The Greens–Green Group (LV–GV) | 20,618 | 0.09 | style="color:green;"| +0.02
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Humanist Party (Spain)}}"|
| align="left"| Humanist Party (PH) | 19,683 | 0.08 | style="color:green;"| +0.03
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Commoners' Land}}"|
| align="left"| Commoners' Land–Castilian Nationalist Party (TC–PNC) | 18,290 | 0.08 | style="color:green;"| +0.06
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Natural Law Party (Spain)}}"|
| align="left"| Natural Law Party (PLN) | 17,372 | 0.07 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|La Falange (1999)}}"|
| align="left"| The Phalanx (FE) | 14,431 | 0.06 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Asturian Renewal Union}}"|
| align="left"| Asturian Renewal Union (URAS) | 13,360 | 0.06 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain}}"|
| align="left"| Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain (PCPE) | 12,898 | 0.06 | ±0.00
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Internationalist Socialist Workers' Party}}"|
| align="left"| Internationalist Socialist Workers' Party (POSI)5 | 12,208 | 0.05 | style="color:green;"| +0.04
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|The Greens–Green Alternative}}"|
| align="left"| The Greens–Green Alternative (EV–AV) | 11,579 | 0.05 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Lanzarote Independents Party}}"|
| align="left"| Lanzarote Independents Party (PIL) | 10,323 | 0.04 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Spain 2000}}"|
| align="left"| Spain 2000 Platform (ES2000) | 9,562 | 0.04 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Spanish Democratic Party}}"|
| align="left"| Spanish Democratic Party (PADE) | 9,136 | 0.04 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Convergence of Democrats of Navarre}}"|
| align="left"| Convergence of Democrats of Navarre (CDN) | 8,646 | 0.04 | style="color:red;"| –0.03
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Majorcan Union}}"|
| align="left"| Majorcan Union–Independents of Menorca (UM–INME) | 8,372 | 0.04 | style="color:green;"| +0.01
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Andalusian Left}}"|
| align="left"| Andalusian Left (IA) | 8,175 | 0.04 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Falange Española Independiente}}"|
| align="left"| Independent Spanish Phalanx–Phalanx 2000 (FEI–FE 2000) | 6,621 | 0.03 | style="color:green;"| +0.02
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Localist Bloc of Melilla}}"|
| align="left"| Localist Bloc of Melilla (BLM) | 6,514 | 0.03 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Riojan Party}}"|
| align="left"| Riojan Party (PR) | 6,155 | 0.03 | style="color:green;"| +0.01
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Partíu Asturianista}}"|
| align="left"| Asturianist Party (PAS) | 5,876 | 0.03 | style="color:red;"| –0.02
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Regionalist Unity of Castile and León}}"|
| align="left"| Regionalist Unity of Castile and León (URCL) | 5,683 | 0.02 | ±0.00
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|United Extremadura}}"|
| align="left"| United Extremadura (EU) | 4,771 | 0.02 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Party of Self-employed and Professionals}}"|
| align="left"| Party of Self-employed and Professionals (AUTONOMO) | 4,218 | 0.02 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Independent Candidacy (Castile and León)}}"|
| align="left"| Independent Candidacy–The Party of Castile and León (CI–PCL) | 4,184 | 0.02 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Estat Català}}"|
| align="left"| Catalan State (EC) | 3,356 | 0.01 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Andalusian Nation}}"|
| align="left"| Andalusian Nation (NA) | 3,262 | 0.01 | ±0.00
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Galician Democracy}}"|
| align="left"| Galician Democracy (DG) | 2,958 | 0.01 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Spanish Democratic Republican Action}}"|
| align="left"| Republican Action (AR) | 2,858 | 0.01 | style="color:green;"| +0.01
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Party of the Democratic Karma}}"|
| align="left"| Party of the Democratic Karma (PKD) | 2,759 | 0.01 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Andalusia Assembly}}"|
| align="left"| Andalusia Assembly (A) | 2,727 | 0.01 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| bgcolor="white"|
| align="left"| Party of Self-employed, Retirees and Independents (EL–PAPI) | 2,713 | 0.01 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Extremaduran Coalition}}"|
| align="left"| Extremaduran Coalition (PREx–CREx) | 2,371 | 0.01 | style="color:red;"| –0.02
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Galician Coalition}}"|
| align="left"| Galician Coalition (CG) | 2,361 | 0.01 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Zamoran People's Union}}"|
| align="left"| Zamoran People's Union (UPZ) | 2,347 | 0.01 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Galician People's Front}}"|
| align="left"| Galician People's Front (FPG) | 2,252 | 0.01 | ±0.00
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Carlist Party (1970)}}"|
| align="left"| Carlist Party (PC) | 2,131 | 0.01 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Regionalist Party of the Leonese Country}}"|
| align="left"| Salamanca–Zamora–León–PREPAL (PREPAL) | 2,118 | 0.01 | ±0.00
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Cantabrian Nationalist Council}}"|
| align="left"| Cantabrian Nationalist Council (CNC) | 2,103 | 0.01 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Andecha Astur}}"|
| align="left"| Andecha Astur (AA) | 2,036 | 0.01 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Self-employed Spanish Party}}"|
| align="left"| Self-employed Spanish Party (PEDA) | 1,904 | 0.01 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Internationalist Struggle}}"|
| align="left"| Internationalist Struggle (LI (LIT–CI)) | 1,716 | 0.01 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Party Association of Widows and Legal Wives}}"|
| align="left"| Party Association of Widows and Legal Wives (PAVIEL) | 1,690 | 0.01 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Republican Left (Spain, 1977)}}"|
| align="left"| Republican Left–Left Republican Party (IR–PRE) | 1,541 | 0.01 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Party of Self-employed, Retirees and Widows}}"|
| align="left"| Party of Self-employed, Retirees and Widows (PAE) | 1,462 | 0.01 | style="color:green;"| +0.01
| 0 | ±0 |
| bgcolor="white"|
| align="left"| Independent Salamancan Union (USI) | 1,416 | 0.01 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Independent Socialists of Extremadura}}"|
| align="left"| Independent Socialists of Extremadura (SIEx) | 1,412 | 0.01 | ±0.00
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Madrilenian Independent Regional Party}}"|
| align="left"| Madrilenian Independent Regional Party (PRIM) | 1,363 | 0.01 | ±0.00
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Caló Nationalist Party}}"|
| align="left"| Caló Nationalist Party (PNCA) | 1,331 | 0.01 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Party of El Bierzo}}"|
| align="left"| Party of El Bierzo (PB) | 1,191 | 0.01 | style="color:green;"| +0.01
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Asturian Left}}"|
| align="left"| Asturian Left Bloc (BIA) | 1,085 | 0.00 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Aragonese Initiative}}"|
| align="left"| Aragonese Initiative (INAR) | 1,057 | 0.00 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| bgcolor="white"|
| align="left"| Progressives of Canaries Unity (UP–CAN) | 980 | 0.00 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Valencian Nationalist Left}}"|
| align="left"| Valencian Nationalist Left (ENV) | 920 | 0.00 | ±0.00
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Almerian Regionalist Union}}"|
| align="left"| Almerian Regionalist Union (URAL) | 838 | 0.00 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Socialist Party of the People of Ceuta}}"|
| align="left"| Socialist Party of the People of Ceuta (PSPC) | 788 | 0.00 | style="color:red;"| –0.01
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|European Nation State}}"|
| align="left"| European Nation State (N) | 710 | 0.00 | ±0.00
| 0 | ±0 |
| bgcolor="white"|
| align="left"| Liberal and Social Democratic Coalition (CSD–L) | 650 | 0.00 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Citizens' Convergence of the South-East}}"|
| align="left"| Citizens' Convergence of the South-East (CCSE) | 645 | 0.00 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Federal Progressives (Spain)}}"|
| align="left"| Federal Progressives (PF) | 609 | 0.00 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|New Region}}"|
| align="left"| New Region (NR) | 598 | 0.00 | style="color:red;"| –0.01
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Christian Positivist Party (Spain)}}"|
| align="left"| Christian Positivist Party (PPCr) | 546 | 0.00 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Balearic People's Union}}"|
| align="left"| Balearic People's Union (UPB) | 524 | 0.00 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Voice of the Andalusian People}}"|
| align="left"| Voice of the Andalusian People (VDPA) | 493 | 0.00 | ±0.00
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Independent Initiative (Spain)}}"|
| align="left"| Independent Initiative (II) | 425 | 0.00 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Regionalist Party of Guadalajara}}"|
| align="left"| Regionalist Party of Guadalajara (PRGU) | 400 | 0.00 | ±0.00
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Iberian Union}}"|
| align="left"| Iberian Union (UNIB) | 388 | 0.00 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| bgcolor="white"|
| align="left"| New Force (FN) | 343 | 0.00 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| bgcolor="white"|
| align="left"| Social and Autonomist Liberal Group (ALAS) | 339 | 0.00 | ±0.00
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Balearic Islands Renewal Party}}"|
| align="left"| Balearic Islands Renewal Party (PRIB) | 334 | 0.00 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Pensionist Assembly of the Canaries}}"|
| align="left"| Pensionist Assembly of the Canaries (TPC) | 319 | 0.00 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| bgcolor="white"|
| align="left"| National Union (UN) | 314 | 0.00 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Cives}}"|
| align="left"| Cives (Cives) | 206 | 0.00 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Movement for Humanist Socialism}}"|
| align="left"| Movement for Humanist Socialism (MASH) | 121 | 0.00 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| bgcolor="white"|
| align="left"| Democratic Party of the People (PDEP) | 85 | 0.00 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Spanish Nationalist Party of Melilla}}"|
| align="left"| Nationalist Aprome (Aprome) | 60 | 0.00 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Euskal Herritarrok}}"|
| align="left"| Basque Citizens (EH)6 | 0 | 0.00 | style="color:red;"| –0.72
| 0 | style="color:red;"| –2 |
| align="left" colspan="2"| Blank ballots
| 366,823 | 1.58 | style="color:green;"| +0.61
| bgcolor="#E9E9E9" colspan="2"| | |
| colspan="7" bgcolor="#E9E9E9"| | |||
| style="font-weight:bold;"
| align="left" colspan="2"| Total | 23,181,290 | bgcolor="#E9E9E9" colspan="2"|
| 350 | ±0 | |
| colspan="7" bgcolor="#E9E9E9"| | |||
| align="left" colspan="2"| Valid votes
| 23,181,290 | 99.32 | style="color:red;"| –0.18
| bgcolor="#E9E9E9" colspan="2" rowspan="5"| | |
| align="left" colspan="2"| Invalid votes
| 158,200 | 0.68 | style="color:green;"| +0.18 | |
| style="font-weight:bold;"
| align="left" colspan="2"| Votes cast / turnout | 23,339,490 | 68.71 | style="color:red;"| –8.67 | |
| align="left" colspan="2"| Abstentions
| 10,630,150 | 31.29 | style="color:green;"| +8.67 | |
| style="font-weight:bold;"
| align="left" colspan="2"| Registered voters | 33,969,640 | bgcolor="#E9E9E9" colspan="2"| | ||
| colspan="7" bgcolor="#E9E9E9"| | |||
| align="left" colspan="7"| Sources{{cite web |url=https://infoelectoral.interior.gob.es/es/elecciones-celebradas/resultados-electorales/ |title=Elecciones celebradas. Resultados electorales |language=es |publisher=Ministry of the Interior |access-date=15 April 2022}}{{cite web |url=https://www.historiaelectoral.com/e2000.html |title=Elecciones Generales 12 de marzo de 2000 |language=es |website=Historia Electoral.com |access-date=21 October 2021}} | |||
| colspan="7" style="text-align:left; max-width:790px;"| {{hidden|ta1=left|title=Footnotes:|content={{ubl
| 1 United Left does not include Initiative for Catalonia results in Catalonia. | 2 Initiative for Catalonia–Greens results are compared to Initiative for Catalonia totals in the 1996 election, only in Catalonia. | 3 The Greens does not include results in the Valencian Community. | 4 Valencian Nationalist Bloc–The Greens–Valencians for Change results are compared to the combined totals of Valencian People's Union–Nationalist Bloc and The Greens of the Valencian Country in the 1996 election. | 5 Internationalist Socialist Workers' Party results are compared to Republican Coalition totals in the 1996 election. | 6 Basque Citizens results are compared to Popular Unity totals in the 1996 election. EH called for election boycott and urged its supporters to abstain.}}}} |
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|titlebar=#ddd
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{{bar percent|PP|{{party color|People's Party (Spain)}}|44.52}}
{{bar percent|PSOE–p|{{party color|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party}}|34.16}}
{{bar percent|IU|{{party color|United Left (Spain)}}|5.45}}
{{bar percent|CiU|{{party color|Convergence and Union}}|4.19}}
{{bar percent|EAJ/PNV|{{party color|Basque Nationalist Party}}|1.53}}
{{bar percent|BNG|{{party color|Galician Nationalist Bloc}}|1.32}}
{{bar percent|CC|{{party color|Canarian Coalition}}|1.07}}
{{bar percent|PA|{{party color|Andalusian Party}}|0.89}}
{{bar percent|ERC|{{party color|Republican Left of Catalonia}}|0.84}}
{{bar percent|IC–V|{{party color|Initiative for Catalonia Greens}}|0.51}}
{{bar percent|EA|{{party color|Eusko Alkartasuna}}|0.43}}
{{bar percent|CHA|{{party color|Chunta Aragonesista}}|0.33}}
{{bar percent|Others|#777777|3.18}}
{{bar percent|Blank ballots|#DDDDDD|1.58}}
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|title=Seats
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{{bar percent|PP|{{party color|People's Party (Spain)}}|52.29}}
{{bar percent|PSOE–p|{{party color|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party}}|35.71}}
{{bar percent|CiU|{{party color|Convergence and Union}}|4.29}}
{{bar percent|IU|{{party color|United Left (Spain)}}|2.29}}
{{bar percent|EAJ/PNV|{{party color|Basque Nationalist Party}}|2.00}}
{{bar percent|CC|{{party color|Canarian Coalition}}|1.14}}
{{bar percent|BNG|{{party color|Galician Nationalist Bloc}}|0.89}}
{{bar percent|PA|{{party color|Andalusian Party}}|0.29}}
{{bar percent|ERC|{{party color|Republican Left of Catalonia}}|0.29}}
{{bar percent|IC–V|{{party color|Initiative for Catalonia Greens}}|0.29}}
{{bar percent|EA|{{party color|Eusko Alkartasuna}}|0.29}}
{{bar percent|CHA|{{party color|Chunta Aragonesista}}|0.29}}
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=Senate=
| class="wikitable" style="text-align:right;"
|+ ← Summary of the 12 March 2000 Senate of Spain election results → | |||
| colspan="7"| File:SpainSenateDiagram2000.svg | |||
| style="text-align:left;" rowspan="2" colspan="2" width="525"| Parties and alliances
! colspan="3"| Popular vote ! colspan="2"| Seats | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| width="75"| Votes
! width="45"| % ! width="45"| ±pp ! width="35"| Total ! width="35"| +/− | |||
| width="1" style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|People's Party (Spain)}}"|
| align="left"| People's Party (PP) | 28,097,204 | 45.35 | style="color:green;"| +6.31
| 127 | style="color:green;"| +15 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party}}"|
| align="left"| Spanish Socialist Workers' Party–Progressives (PSOE–p)1 | 16,323,744 | 26.35 | style="color:red;"| –5.35
| 53 | style="color:red;"| –20 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|United Left (Spain)}}"|
| align="left"| United Left (IU) | 4,752,113 | 7.67 | style="color:red;"| –2.32
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Catalan Agreement of Progress}}"|
| align="left"| Catalan Agreement of Progress (PSC–ERC–IC–V)2 | 3,718,949 | 6.00 | style="color:red;"| –1.88
| 8 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Convergence and Union}}"|
| align="left"| Convergence and Union (CiU) | 2,809,367 | 4.53 | style="color:red;"| –0.34
| 8 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Basque Nationalist Party}}"|
| align="left"| Basque Nationalist Party (EAJ/PNV) | 1,022,057 | 1.65 | style="color:green;"| +0.31
| 6 | style="color:green;"| +2 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Galician Nationalist Bloc}}"|
| align="left"| Galician Nationalist Bloc (BNG) | 887,326 | 1.43 | style="color:green;"| +0.45
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Andalusian Party}}"|
| align="left"| Andalusian Party (PA) | 577,849 | 0.93 | style="color:green;"| +0.32
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Canarian Coalition}}"|
| align="left"| Canarian Coalition (CC) | 438,149 | 0.71 | style="color:green;"| +0.14
| 5 | style="color:green;"| +4 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Eusko Alkartasuna}}"|
| align="left"| Basque Solidarity (EA) | 294,145 | 0.47 | style="color:red;"| –0.02
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Liberal Independent Group}}"|
| align="left"| Liberal Independent Group (GIL) | 215,285 | 0.35 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Chunta Aragonesista}}"|
| align="left"| Aragonese Union (CHA) | 186,411 | 0.30 | style="color:green;"| +0.10
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Confederation of the Greens}}"|
| align="left"| The Greens (Verdes)3 | 181,453 | 0.29 | style="color:green;"| +0.15
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Valencian Union}}"|
| align="left"| Valencian Union (UV) | 174,419 | 0.28 | style="color:red;"| –0.13
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Leonese People's Union}}"|
| align="left"| Leonese People's Union (UPL) | 126,859 | 0.20 | style="color:green;"| +0.13
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Aragonese Party}}"|
| align="left"| Aragonese Party (PAR) | 123,176 | 0.20 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Valencian Nationalist Bloc}}"|
| align="left"| Valencian Nationalist Bloc–The Greens–Valencians for Change (BNV–EV)4 | 83,006 | 0.13 | style="color:red;"| –0.06
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Commoners' Land}}"|
| align="left"| Commoners' Land–Castilian Nationalist Party (TC–PNC) | 70,979 | 0.11 | style="color:green;"| +0.07
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Humanist Party (Spain)}}"|
| align="left"| Humanist Party (PH) | 67,228 | 0.11 | style="color:green;"| +0.07
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Democratic and Social Centre (Spain)}}"|
| align="left"| Centrist Union–Democratic and Social Centre (UC–CDS) | 65,024 | 0.10 | style="color:red;"| –0.09
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|The Greens of the Community of Madrid}}"|
| align="left"| The Greens of the Community of Madrid (LVCM) | 55,357 | 0.09 | style="color:green;"| +0.07
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Internationalist Socialist Workers' Party}}"|
| align="left"| Internationalist Socialist Workers' Party (POSI)5 | 51,185 | 0.08 | style="color:green;"| +0.06
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain}}"|
| align="left"| Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain (PCPE) | 50,326 | 0.08 | style="color:green;"| +0.03
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|The Greens–Green Alternative}}"|
| align="left"| The Greens–Green Alternative (EV–AV) | 49,799 | 0.08 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|The Eco-pacifist Greens}}"|
| align="left"| The Eco-pacifist Greens (LVEP) | 49,326 | 0.08 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|The Greens–Green Group}}"|
| align="left"| The Greens–Green Group (LV–GV) | 45,248 | 0.07 | style="color:red;"| –0.03
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|PSM–Nationalist Agreement}}"|
| align="left"| PSM–Nationalist Agreement (PSM–EN) | 44,953 | 0.07 | ±0.00
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Asturian Renewal Union}}"|
| align="left"| Asturian Renewal Union (URAS) | 41,829 | 0.07 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|La Falange (1999)}}"|
| align="left"| The Phalanx (FE) | 35,655 | 0.06 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|The Greens–Green Option}}"|
| align="left"| The Greens–Green Option (EV–OV) | 34,601 | 0.06 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Carlist Traditionalist Communion}}"|
| align="left"| Carlist Traditionalist Communion (CTC) | 32,066 | 0.05 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Pacte Progressista}}"|
| align="left"| Progressive Pact (Pacte–PPM)6 | 30,619 | 0.05 | style="color:green;"| +0.02
| 0 | style="color:red;"| –1 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Majorcan Union}}"|
| align="left"| Majorcan Union (UM) | 26,275 | 0.04 | style="color:green;"| +0.01
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Falange Española Independiente}}"|
| align="left"| Independent Spanish Phalanx–Phalanx 2000 (FEI–FE 2000) | 24,964 | 0.04 | style="color:green;"| +0.02
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Andalusian Left}}"|
| align="left"| Andalusian Left (IA) | 23,688 | 0.04 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Convergence of Democrats of Navarre}}"|
| align="left"| Convergence of Democrats of Navarre (CDN) | 22,952 | 0.04 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Partíu Asturianista}}"|
| align="left"| Asturianist Party (PAS) | 20,005 | 0.03 | style="color:red;"| –0.03
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Riojan Party}}"|
| align="left"| Riojan Party (PR) | 19,667 | 0.03 | ±0.00
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|United Extremadura}}"|
| align="left"| United Extremadura (EU) | 18,937 | 0.03 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Regionalist Unity of Castile and León}}"|
| align="left"| Regionalist Unity of Castile and León (URCL) | 18,387 | 0.03 | style="color:green;"| +0.01
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Estat Català}}"|
| align="left"| Catalan State (EC) | 17,825 | 0.03 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Spanish Democratic Party}}"|
| align="left"| Spanish Democratic Party (PADE) | 17,400 | 0.03 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| bgcolor="white"|
| align="left"| New Force (FN) | 15,452 | 0.02 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Alliance for Development and Nature}}"|
| align="left"| Alliance for Development and Nature (ADN) | 15,378 | 0.02 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| bgcolor="white"|
| align="left"| Party of Self-employed, Retirees and Independents (EL–PAPI) | 15,340 | 0.02 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| bgcolor="white"|
| align="left"| Bounced Public Workers (TPR) | 15,094 | 0.02 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Natural Law Party (Spain)}}"|
| align="left"| Natural Law Party (PLN) | 14,211 | 0.02 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Galician Democracy}}"|
| align="left"| Galician Democracy (DG) | 13,693 | 0.02 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Lanzarote Independents Party}}"|
| align="left"| Lanzarote Independents Party (PIL) | 13,528 | 0.02 | ±0.00
| 1 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Localist Bloc of Melilla}}"|
| align="left"| Localist Bloc of Melilla (BLM) | 13,060 | 0.02 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Spanish Democratic Republican Action}}"|
| align="left"| Republican Action (AR) | 12,531 | 0.02 | style="color:green;"| +0.01
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Independent Candidacy (Castile and León)}}"|
| align="left"| Independent Candidacy–The Party of Castile and León (CI–PCL) | 12,215 | 0.02 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Republican Left (Spain, 1977)}}"|
| align="left"| Republican Left–Left Republican Party (IR–PRE) | 12,207 | 0.02 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Castilian Left}}"|
| align="left"| Castilian Left (IzCa) | 11,921 | 0.02 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Republican Left of Catalonia}}"|
| align="left"| Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC)7 | 11,828 | 0.02 | style="color:green;"| +0.01
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Andalusia Assembly}}"|
| align="left"| Andalusia Assembly (A) | 10,988 | 0.02 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Party of Self-employed and Professionals}}"|
| align="left"| Party of Self-employed and Professionals (AUTONOMO) | 10,863 | 0.02 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Party Association of Widows and Legal Wives}}"|
| align="left"| Party Association of Widows and Legal Wives (PAVIEL) | 9,240 | 0.01 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Andecha Astur}}"|
| align="left"| Andecha Astur (AA) | 8,925 | 0.01 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Regionalist Party of the Leonese Country}}"|
| align="left"| Salamanca–Zamora–León–PREPAL (PREPAL) | 8,691 | 0.01 | style="color:red;"| –0.01
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Party of the Democratic Karma}}"|
| align="left"| Party of the Democratic Karma (PKD) | 8,433 | 0.01 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Zamoran People's Union}}"|
| align="left"| Zamoran People's Union (UPZ) | 7,928 | 0.01 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Andalusian Nation}}"|
| align="left"| Andalusian Nation (NA) | 7,821 | 0.01 | style="color:red;"| –0.01
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Galician People's Front}}"|
| align="left"| Galician People's Front (FPG) | 7,748 | 0.01 | ±0.00
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Spain 2000}}"|
| align="left"| Spain 2000 Platform (ES2000) | 7,258 | 0.01 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Iberian Union}}"|
| align="left"| Iberian Union (UNIB) | 6,760 | 0.01 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Carlist Party (1970)}}"|
| align="left"| Carlist Party (PC) | 6,421 | 0.01 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Self-employed Spanish Party}}"|
| align="left"| Self-employed Spanish Party (PEDA) | 5,985 | 0.01 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Valencian Nationalist Left}}"|
| align="left"| Valencian Nationalist Left (ENV) | 5,837 | 0.01 | style="color:green;"| +0.01
| 0 | ±0 |
| bgcolor="white"|
| align="left"| Iberian Unity (UI) | 5,767 | 0.01 | style="color:green;"| +0.01
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Asturian Left}}"|
| align="left"| Asturian Left Bloc (BIA) | 5,550 | 0.01 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| bgcolor="white"|
| align="left"| Independent Salamancan Union (USI) | 5,018 | 0.01 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Internationalist Struggle}}"|
| align="left"| Internationalist Struggle (LI (LIT–CI)) | 4,624 | 0.01 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Aragonese Initiative}}"|
| align="left"| Aragonese Initiative (INAR) | 4,244 | 0.01 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Madrilenian Independent Regional Party}}"|
| align="left"| Madrilenian Independent Regional Party (PRIM) | 4,204 | 0.01 | ±0.00
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Natural Culture}}"|
| align="left"| Natural Culture (CN) | 4,010 | 0.01 | ±0.00
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Almerian Regionalist Union}}"|
| align="left"| Almerian Regionalist Union (URAL) | 3,951 | 0.01 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Cantabrian Nationalist Council}}"|
| align="left"| Cantabrian Nationalist Council (CNC) | 3,929 | 0.01 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Galician Coalition}}"|
| align="left"| Galician Coalition (CG) | 3,153 | 0.01 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Party of El Bierzo}}"|
| align="left"| Party of El Bierzo (PB) | 2,409 | 0.00 | style="color:red;"| –0.01
| 0 | ±0 |
| bgcolor="white"|
| align="left"| Immigrants with the Right to Equality and Obligations (INDIO) | 2,272 | 0.00 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Pensionist Assembly of the Canaries}}"|
| align="left"| Pensionist Assembly of the Canaries (TPC) | 1,972 | 0.00 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Christian Positivist Party (Spain)}}"|
| align="left"| Christian Positivist Party (PPCr) | 1,911 | 0.00 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| bgcolor="white"|
| align="left"| Spanish New Republicans (NURP) | 1,878 | 0.00 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| bgcolor="white"|
| align="left"| Progressives of Canaries Unity (UP–CAN) | 1,847 | 0.00 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Federal Progressives (Spain)}}"|
| align="left"| Federal Progressives (PF) | 1,787 | 0.00 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| bgcolor="white"|
| align="left"| Liberal and Social Democratic Coalition (CSD–L) | 1,741 | 0.00 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Regionalist Party of Guadalajara}}"|
| align="left"| Regionalist Party of Guadalajara (PRGU) | 1,630 | 0.00 | ±0.00
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|European Nation State}}"|
| align="left"| European Nation State (N) | 1,601 | 0.00 | ±0.00
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|European Green Group (Spain)}}"|
| align="left"| European Green Group (GVE) | 1,532 | 0.00 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Socialist Party of the People of Ceuta}}"|
| align="left"| Socialist Party of the People of Ceuta (PSPC) | 1,511 | 0.00 | style="color:red;"| –0.01
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Balearic People's Union}}"|
| align="left"| Balearic People's Union (UPB) | 1,413 | 0.00 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Independent Initiative (Spain)}}"|
| align="left"| Independent Initiative (II) | 1,374 | 0.00 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Party of Self-employed, Retirees and Widows}}"|
| align="left"| Party of Self-employed, Retirees and Widows (PAE) | 1,087 | 0.00 | ±0.00
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Voice of the Andalusian People}}"|
| align="left"| Voice of the Andalusian People (VDPA) | 1,007 | 0.00 | ±0.00
| 0 | ±0 |
| bgcolor="white"|
| align="left"| Social and Autonomist Liberal Group (ALAS) | 895 | 0.00 | ±0.00
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Cives}}"|
| align="left"| Cives (Cives) | 889 | 0.00 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|New Region}}"|
| align="left"| New Region (NR) | 874 | 0.00 | style="color:red;"| –0.01
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Movement for Humanist Socialism}}"|
| align="left"| Movement for Humanist Socialism (MASH) | 869 | 0.00 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| bgcolor="white"|
| align="left"| Spanish Action (AE) | 817 | 0.00 | ±0.00
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Citizens' Convergence of the South-East}}"|
| align="left"| Citizens' Convergence of the South-East (CCSE) | 699 | 0.00 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Balearic Islands Renewal Party}}"|
| align="left"| Balearic Islands Renewal Party (PRIB) | 687 | 0.00 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| bgcolor="white"|
| align="left"| National Union (UN) | 491 | 0.00 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Spanish Nationalist Party of Melilla}}"|
| align="left"| Nationalist Aprome (Aprome) | 154 | 0.00 | New
| 0 | ±0 |
| bgcolor="white"|
| align="left"| Clean Hands Project (PML) | 0 | 0.00 | ±0.00
| 0 | ±0 |
| align="left" colspan="2"| Blank ballots{{efn|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.}}
| 642,682 | 2.82 | style="color:green;"| +0.85
| bgcolor="#E9E9E9" colspan="2"| | |
| colspan="7" bgcolor="#E9E9E9"| | |||
| style="font-weight:bold;"
| align="left" colspan="2"| Total | 61,955,642 | bgcolor="#E9E9E9" colspan="2"|
| 208 | ±0 | |
| colspan="7" bgcolor="#E9E9E9"| | |||
| align="left" colspan="2"| Valid votes
| 22,799,475 | 97.51 | style="color:green;"| +0.10
| bgcolor="#E9E9E9" colspan="2" rowspan="5"| | |
| align="left" colspan="2"| Invalid votes
| 583,192 | 2.49 | style="color:red;"| –0.10 | |
| style="font-weight:bold;"
| align="left" colspan="2"| Votes cast / turnout | 23,382,667 | 68.83 | style="color:red;"| –8.50 | |
| align="left" colspan="2"| Abstentions
| 10,586,973 | 31.17 | style="color:green;"| +8.50 | |
| style="font-weight:bold;"
| align="left" colspan="2"| Registered voters | 33,969,640 | bgcolor="#E9E9E9" colspan="2"| | ||
| colspan="7" bgcolor="#E9E9E9"| | |||
| align="left" colspan="7"| Sources{{cite web |url=https://www.historiaelectoral.com/e2000comp.html#s |title=Elecciones al Senado 2000 |language=es |website=Historia Electoral.com |access-date=24 September 2017}} | |||
| colspan="7" style="text-align:left; max-width:790px;"| {{hidden|ta1=left|title=Footnotes:|content={{ubl
| 1 Spanish Socialist Workers' Party–Progressives results are compared to Spanish Socialist Workers' Party totals in the 1996 election, not including results in Catalonia. | 2 Catalan Agreement of Progress results are compared to the combined totals of Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, United Left and Republican Left of Catalonia in Catalonia in the 1996 election. | 3 The Greens does not include results in the Valencian Community. | 4 Valencian Nationalist Bloc–The Greens–Valencians for Change results are compared to the combined totals of Valencian People's Union–Nationalist Bloc and The Greens of the Valencian Country in the 1996 election. | 5 Internationalist Socialist Workers' Party results are compared to Republican Coalition totals in the 1996 election. | 6 Progressive Pact results are compared to Ibiza and Formentera in the Senate totals in the 1996 election. | 7 Republican Left of Catalonia does not include results in Catalonia.}}}} |
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{{bar percent|PP|{{party color|People's Party (Spain)}}|45.35}}
{{bar percent|PSOE–p|{{party color|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party}}|26.35}}
{{bar percent|IU|{{party color|United Left (Spain)}}|7.67}}
{{bar percent|ECdP|{{party color|Catalan Agreement of Progress}}|6.00}}
{{bar percent|CiU|{{party color|Convergence and Union}}|4.53}}
{{bar percent|EAJ/PNV|{{party color|Basque Nationalist Party}}|1.65}}
{{bar percent|BNG|{{party color|Galician Nationalist Bloc}}|1.43}}
{{bar percent|CC|{{party color|Canarian Coalition}}|0.71}}
{{bar percent|PIL|{{party color|Lanzarote Independents Party}}|0.02}}
{{bar percent|Others|#777777|5.25}}
{{bar percent|Blank ballots|#DDDDDD|2.82}}
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{{bar percent|PP|{{party color|People's Party (Spain)}}|61.06}}
{{bar percent|PSOE–p|{{party color|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party}}|25.48}}
{{bar percent|ECdP|{{party color|Catalan Agreement of Progress}}|3.85}}
{{bar percent|CiU|{{party color|Convergence and Union}}|3.85}}
{{bar percent|EAJ/PNV|{{party color|Basque Nationalist Party}}|2.88}}
{{bar percent|CC|{{party color|Canarian Coalition}}|2.40}}
{{bar percent|PIL|{{party color|Lanzarote Independents Party}}|0.48}}
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=Maps=
File:2000 Spanish general election map.svg|Election results by constituency (Congress).
File:2000 Spanish election - Results.svg|Vote winner strength by constituency (Congress).
File:2000 Spanish election - AC results.svg|Vote winner strength by autonomous community (Congress).
Aftermath
=Government formation=
{{See|Second government of José María Aznar}}
| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" |
| colspan="3" align="center" bgcolor="#C0C0C0"| Investiture José María Aznar (PP) |
| colspan="2" width="150px"| Ballot →
! 26 April 2000 |
|---|
| colspan="2"| Required majority →
| 176 out of 350 {{tick|15}} |
| width="1px" style="background:green;"|
| align="left"| {{Collapsible list | title = Yes | • PP (183) | • CiU (15) | • CC (4) }} | {{Composition bar|202|350|green|color=#000|text-shadow=no|width=125px}} |
| style="color:inherit;background:red;"|
| align="left"| {{Collapsible list | title = No | • PSOE (125) | • IU (8) | • PNV (7) | • BNG (3) | • PA (1) | • ERC (1) | • ICV (1) | • EA (1) | • CHA (1) }} | {{Composition bar|148|350|red|color=#000|text-shadow=no|width=125px}} |
| style="color:inherit;background:gray;"|
| align="left"| Abstentions | {{Composition bar|0|350|gray|color=#000|text-shadow=no|width=125px}} |
| style="color:inherit;background:black;"|
| align="left"| Absentees | {{Composition bar|0|350|black|color=#000|text-shadow=no|width=125px}} |
| align="left" colspan="4"| Sources{{cite web |url=http://www.historiaelectoral.com/congresovota.html |title=Congreso de los Diputados: Votaciones más importantes |language=es |website=Historia Electoral.com |access-date=28 September 2017}} |
Notes
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References
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Bibliography
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- {{cite act |italics=y |title=Constitución Española |type=Spanish Constitution |date=29 December 1978 |orig-date=version as of 28 August 1992 |reporter=Boletín Oficial del Estado |volume=311 |issn=0212-033X |id=BOE-A-1978-31229 |language=es |url=https://www.boe.es/buscar/act.php?id=BOE-A-1978-31229&tn=1&p=19920828 |access-date=27 December 2016 |ref={{harvid|Const. Esp.|1978}}}}
- {{cite act |italics=y |title=Ley Orgánica 5/1985, de 19 de junio, del Régimen Electoral General |type=Organic Law |number=5/1985 |date=19 June 1985 |orig-date=version as of 22 April 1999 |reporter=Boletín Oficial del Estado |volume=147 |issn=0212-033X |id=BOE-A-1985-11672 |language=es |url=https://www.boe.es/buscar/act.php?id=BOE-A-1985-11672&tn=1&p=19990422 |access-date=28 December 2016 |ref={{harvid|LOREG|1985}}}}
- {{cite book |last1=Carreras de Odriozola |first1=Albert |last2=Tafunell Sambola |first2=Xavier |year=2005 |orig-year=1989 |title=Estadísticas históricas de España, siglos XIX-XX |url=http://www.fbbva.es/TLFU/dat/autores.pdf |language=es |volume=1 |location=Bilbao |publisher=Fundación BBVA |pages=1072–1097 |edition=II |isbn=84-96515-00-1 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924010950/http://www.fbbva.es/TLFU/dat/autores.pdf |archive-date=24 September 2015 |df=dmy-all}}
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