November 2019 Spanish general election

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The November 2019 Spanish general election was a snap parliamentary vote that followed a political deadlock earlier that year and ultimately allowed acting Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s Socialist Party (PSOE) to remain the largest force in Spain’s Congress of Deputies.

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instanceOf Spanish general election
parliamentary election
appliesToJurisdiction Spain
chamber Congress of Deputies
CitizensLeader Albert Rivera
CitizensSeats 10
country Spain
date 2019-11-10
electionType snap election
electoralBody Congress of Deputies
Cortes Generales
Senate of Spain
electoralThreshold 3%
follows Spanish general election, April 2019
surface form: April 2019 Spanish general election
hasCause political deadlock after April 2019 Spanish general election
largestParty Spanish Socialist Workers Party
surface form: Spanish Socialist Workers' Party
leaderOfLargestParty Pedro Sánchez
legislatureTerm Cortes Generales
surface form: 14th Cortes Generales
location Spain
mainParty1 Spanish Socialist Workers Party
surface form: Spanish Socialist Workers' Party
mainParty2 People's Party (Spain)
mainParty3 Vox
surface form: Vox (political party)
mainParty4 Unidas Podemos
mainParty5 Citizens (Spanish political party)
mainWinner Spanish Socialist Workers Party
surface form: Spanish Socialist Workers' Party
monarchAtTime Felipe VI
surface form: Felipe VI of Spain
nextElection 2023 Spanish general election
numberOfSeatsContested 350
partOf elections in Spain
PPLeader Pablo Casado
PPSeats 89
previousElection Spanish general election, April 2019
surface form: April 2019 Spanish general election
primeMinisterAfterElection Pedro Sánchez
primeMinisterAfterParty Spanish Socialist Workers Party
surface form: Spanish Socialist Workers' Party
primeMinisterBeforeElection Pedro Sánchez
primeMinisterBeforeParty Spanish Socialist Workers Party
surface form: Spanish Socialist Workers' Party
PSOELeader Pedro Sánchez
PSOESeats 120
reasonForDissolution failure to form government after April 2019 election
resultedIn continuation of Pedro Sánchez as Prime Minister of Spain
formation of coalition government between PSOE and Unidas Podemos
significantOutcome rise of Vox as third-largest party in Congress of Deputies
startTime 2019-11-10
turnout 66.23%
turnoutChange -6.79 percentage points
UnidasPodemosLeader Pablo Iglesias
UnidasPodemosSeats 35
votingSystem d’Hondt method
surface form: D'Hondt method

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proportional representation
VoxLeader Santiago Abascal
VoxSeats 52

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Pedro Sánchez election November 2019 Spanish general election
Santiago Abascal election November 2019 Spanish general election
this entity surface form: Spanish general election, November 2019
Spanish general election, April 2019 nextElection November 2019 Spanish general election
this entity surface form: Spanish general election, November 2019