Spanish legislative election, 2000: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

Legislative elections were held in Spain on March 12, 2000. The incumbent People's Party of Prime Minister José María Aznar was elected to a second term in office, converting its plurality of seats in the Congress of Deputies into a majority, and increasing its lead over the opposition Spanish Socialist Workers' Party.

National summary of votes and seats

Registered voters: 33,045,318 Votes cast: 23,125,773 70.0 ==================================================================== Party Votes % from 1996 Seats -------------------------------------------------------------------- Andalusian Party 205,733 00.9 +00.4 1 +1 Aragonist Front 75,234 00.3 +00.1 1 +1 Basque Nationalist Party 351,816 01.5 +00.2 7 +2 Basque Solidarity 100,570 00.4 -00.1 1 Canary Islands Coalition 243,489 01.1 +00.2 4 Convergence and Unity 964,990 04.2 -00.4 15 -1 Galician Nationalist Bloc 302,726 01.3 +00.4 3 +1 People's Party 10,230,345 44.5 +05.8 183 +27 Republican Left of Catalonia 193,629 00.8 +00.1 1 Socialist Party (PSOE) 7,829,210 34.1 -07.3 125 -16 United Left 1,253,859 05.5 -05.0 8 -13 others 851,399 03.7 1 -2 blank 366,137 01.6 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 22,969,753 350 --------------------------------------------------------------------

Source: Adam Carr's Electoral Archive

See also: Spanish legislative election, 1996, Spanish legislative election, 2004