Spanish general election, 2000
The Spanish 2000 parliamentary elections were held on 12 March 2000. With the elections the 7th legislature began after the end of Franco's dictatorship.
House of Representatives
Against the incumbent Prime Minister José María Aznar of the conservative PP sent the social democratic PSOE its Secretary General Joaquín Almunia as the leading candidate in the race.
It succeeded the ruling since the 1996 elections PP to win an absolute majority of seats in the Congreso. In 1996, she was still dependent on the support of the Catalan and Basque regional parties CiU and PNV to form a government.
Except for the PP and the PSOE was more than the total in Spain An incoming party only the left-socialist IU move into the Congreso, even if this is to be regarded as a great loser of the election (loss of more than half of its mandate). In addition, managed a number of regional parties of the catchment in the Congreso: from Catalonia civil CiU and the left ERC, from the Basque country of bourgeois PNV and the Social Democratic EA, the CC of the Canary Islands, the BNG ( Bloque Nacionalista Galego ) from Galicia, PA ( Partido Andalucista ) from Andalusia and the CHA from Aragon.
Herri Batasuna, the "political arm " of ETA, boycotted the election and had to " active abstention " ( " abstención activa" ) is called. However, the decline in voter turnout in the Basque region corresponded to the total of Spain, only in the province of Guipúzcoa, the decrease was 14% compared to 1996 above the Spanish average. Also just had a very small increase of invalid votes recorded.
Results
- Eligible voters: 33,969,640
- Turnout: 68.71 % ( -8.67 % compared to 1996 )
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Senate
The " Senado " consists of directly elected by the people, members and other senators (Spanish Comunidades Autónomas ) are determined by the parliaments of the individual regions, together. The direct election is held simultaneously with the elections of the deputies of the Legislative. The number of indirectly elected senators depends on the population of each region (one plus another per 1 million inhabitants).
In the 7th legislature of the Senate consisted of 259 members: 208 directly elected and 51 are sent by the regional legislatures.
The direct election takes place in constituencies that are consistent with the provinces (except for the Balearic and Canary Islands, where constituency the individual islands ). In the provincial constituencies respectively - regardless of the population - elected four senators, each voter votes awarded three people and each party may nominate three candidates. The supporters of a party will rule in its votes to three candidates, " his" party. This usually means that the three candidates of the strongest party in the province received more votes than the best-placed candidate of the second largest party. In the vast majority of cases, therefore, will provide one for the province's largest party three senators and the second largest party. In the 2000 elections was the case in all provinces. Consequently, there is a form of majority voting.
The composition of the delegates of the regional parliaments senators may change during the legislative change ( if during the term of new regional parliaments are elected ), so only the composition of the Senate is played at the beginning of the legislature in March 2000 in the following:
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( 1) coalition of PSC (Catalan branch of the PSOE), ERC and IC - V (Catalan branch of the IU ) ( 2) Partido de Independientes de Lanzarote