April 2019 Spanish general election

The April 2019 Spanish general election was held on Sunday, 28 April 2019, to elect the 13th Cortes Generales of the Kingdom of Spain. All 350 seats in the Congress of Deputies were up for election, as well as 208 of 266 seats in the Senate.

April 2019 Spanish general election

28 April 2019
All 350 seats in the Congress of Deputies and 208 (of 266) seats in the Senate 176 seats needed for a majority in the Congress of Deputies
Opinion polls
Registered	36,898,883 1.0%
Turnout	26,478,140 (71.8%) 5.3 pp
First party Second party Third party   Leader Pedro Sánchez Pablo Casado Albert Rivera Party PSOE PP Cs Leader's seat Madrid Madrid Madrid Last election 85 seats, 22.6% 135 seats, 32.6% 32 seats, 13.0% Seats won 123 66 57 Seat change 38 69 25 Popular vote 7,513,142 4,373,653 4,155,665 Percentage 28.7% 16.7% 15.9% Swing 6.1 pp 15.9 pp 2.9 pp   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Pablo Iglesias Santiago Abascal Oriol Junqueras Party Unidas Podemos Vox ERC Leader's seat Madrid Madrid Barcelona Last election 71 seats, 21.2% 0 seats, 0.2% 9 seats, 2.6% Seats won 42 24 15 Seat change 29 24 6 Popular vote 3,751,145 2,688,092 1,024,628 Percentage 14.3% 10.3% 3.9% Swing 6.9 pp 10.1 pp 1.3 pp
Prime Minister before election Pedro Sánchez PSOE Prime Minister after election No government formed and fresh election called. Pedro Sánchez remains acting Prime Minister

With a turnout of 71.8%, the controlling party PSOE of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez won a victory—the first for the party in a nationwide election in eleven years—with 28.7% of the vote and 123 seats. In the Senate, the PSOE became the largest party in the chamber for the first time since 1995, winning its first majority of seats in that chamber since the 1989 election.

However, no party won an outright majority and the top three winners of this race had the option for a coalition government. To prevent this, Prime Minister Sánchez ordered a new election to be held seven months later.