2014 European Parliament election in Spain

2014 European Parliament election in Spain

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All 54 Spanish seats in the European Parliament
Opinion polls
Registered	36,514,084 2.9%
Turnout	15,998,141 (43.8%) 1.1 pp
First party Second party Third party   Leader Miguel Arias Cañete Elena Valenciano Willy Meyer Party PP PSOE IP Alliance EPP S&D GUE/NGL Greens/EFA Leader since 9 April 2014 10 February 2014 8 May 2004 Leader's seat Spain Spain Spain Last election 24 seats, 42.1% 23 seats, 38.8% 2 seats, 3.7% Seats won 16 14 6 Seat change 8 9 4 Popular vote 4,098,339 3,614,232 1,575,308 Percentage 26.1% 23.0% 10.0% Swing 16.0 pp 15.8 pp 6.3 pp   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Pablo Iglesias Francisco Sosa Wagner Ramon Tremosa Party Podemos UPyD CEU Alliance GUE/NGL ALDE ALDE EPP Leader since 3 April 2014 3 September 2008 24 January 2009 Leader's seat Spain Spain Spain Last election Did not contest 1 seat, 2.9% 3 seats, 4.8%[a] Seats won 5 4 3 Seat change 5 3 0 Popular vote 1,253,837 1,022,232 851,971 Percentage 8.0% 6.5% 5.4% Swing New party 3.6 pp 0.6 pp
Winner strength by province Winner strength by autonomous community

The 2014 European Parliament election in Spain was held on Sunday, 25 May 2014, as part of the EU-wide election to elect the 8th European Parliament. All 54 seats allocated to Spain as per the Treaty of Lisbon were up for election.

The People's Party (PP) emerged as the largest party overall, albeit with its worst nationwide election result in 25 years with a mere 26.1% of the share and 16 seats, losing 2.6 million votes and 8 seats from its 2009 result. The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) lost 9 seats and 2.5 million votes, obtaining just 23% of the total party vote and 14 seats. This would represent the party's worst election result in recent history until the 2015 general election, in which it scored a new low. Up to 8 additional political forces obtained representation. Pablo Iglesias' newly formed Podemos party (Spanish for "We can") turned into the election night surprise by winning 5 seats and 1,253,837 votes (7.98% of the share), an unprecedented result for a party only 4 months old and contesting an election for the first time. Podemos's surge and the extent of PP and PSOE collapse were not foreseen by opinion polls during the campaign, which had predicted higher support for the two dominant parties and a weaker performance of Podemos.

United Left's Plural Left coalition and Union, Progress and Democracy (UPyD) obtained some of their best historical results, with 10.0% and 6.5% of the vote and 6 and 4 seats, respectively. However, this was far from the major election breakthrough that polls had predicted throughout 2013 and in early 2014. From this point onwards both parties would lose support in opinion polls and in successive regional and local elections. The Citizens (C's) party of Albert Rivera, then marginalised as a Catalonia-only party and after several failed attempts to jump into national politics, managed to obtain 3.16% of the share and 2 seats. Just as Podemos, it would grow in support in the run up to the next general election and become a major political actor by 2015.
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