Congress of Deputies (Spain)

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The Congress of Deputies
El Congreso de los Diputados
9th Legislature
Type
Type Lower house
Leadership
President José Bono Martínez, PSOE
since 2008
Structure
Members 350
Political groups PSOE, PP, CiU, PNV, ICV, Mixto
Election
Last election 2008
Meeting place
El Palacio del Congreso de los Diputados, Carrera de San Jerónimo, Madrid
Web site
www.congreso.es

The Spanish Congress of Deputies (Spanish: Congreso de los Diputados) is the lower house of the Cortes Generales, Spain's legislative branch. It has 350 members, elected by popular vote on block lists by proportional representation in constituencies matching the Spanish provinces using the D'Hondt method. Deputies serve four-year terms. The President of the Congress of Deputies is the analogue to a Speaker and presides over debates in Spain's lower chamber of parliament. The composition of the 9th term Congress, to serve no further than 2012, is:

Political party/group Dep.
   Spanish Socialist Workers' Party 169
   People's Party 154
   Convergencia i Unió 10
   Basque Nationalist Party 6
   Republican Left of Catalonia-United Left-Initiative for Catalonia Greens 5
   Mixed Group, composed by: BNG, CC, UPyD, NaBai 6
Total 350
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[edit] Elections

IU and ERC lost their parliamentary groups after their electoral losses left them under caucus threshold.


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Summary of the 9 March 2008 Congress of Deputies election results
Parties and alliances Votes % Change Seats Change
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (Partido Socialista Obrero Español) 11,288,698 43.87 +1.28 169 +5
People's Party (Partido Popular) 10,277,809 39.94 +2.22 154 +6
United Left (Izquierda Unida) 969,871 3.77 -1.19 2 -3
Convergence and Union (Convergència i Unió) 779,425 3.03 –0.20 10 ±0
Basque Nationalist Party (Partido Nacionalista Vasco/Euzko Alderdi Jeltzalea) 306,128 1.19 –0.44 6 –1
Union, Progress and Democracy (Unión, Progreso y Democracia) 306,078 1.19 — 1 +1
Republican Left of Catalonia (Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya) 298,139 1.16 –1.36 3 –5
Galician Nationalist Bloc (Bloque Nacionalista Galego)
  • Union of the Galician People (Unión do Povo Galego)
  • Nationalist Left (Esquerda Nacionalista)
  • Galician Unity (Unidade Galega)
  • Socialist Collective (Colectivo Socialista)
  • Inzar
  • Galician Nationalist Party–Galeguista Party (Partido Nacionalista Galego–Partido Galeguista)
 212,543 0.83 +0.02 2 ±0
Canarian Coalition (Coalición Canaria) 174,629 0.68 –0.23 2 –1
Navarre Yes (Nafarroa Bai) 62,398 0.24 ±0.0 1 ±0
Basque Solidarity (Eusko Alkartasuna) 50,371 0.20 –0.12 0 –1
Aragonese Union (Chunta Aragonesista) 38,202 0.15 –0.22 0
Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain (Partido Comunista de los Pueblos de España) 20,030 0.08 +0.03 0 +0
Ciudadanos en Blanco 14,193 0.06 -0.10 0 +0
Falange Española de las JONS 14,023 0.06 +0.01 0 +0
Democracia Nacional 12,836 0.05 -0.01 0 +0
Els Verds-L'Alternativa Ecologista 12,561 0.05 -0.07 0 +0
Family and Life (Familia y Vida) 9,882 0.04 -0.03 0 +0
Humanist Party (Partido Humanista) 9,056 0.04 -0.05 0 +0
Partido de Almeria 8,451 0.03 - 0 +0
Els Verdes-Los Verdes 7,824 0.03 - 0 +0
Representacion Cannabica Navarra 7,769 0.03 - 0 +0
Partido Obrero Socialista Internacionalista 7,386 0.03 -0.00 0 +0
Alternativa Española 7,300 0.03 - 0 +0
España 2000 6,906 0.03 +0.01 0 +0
Partit Republica Catala 6,746 0.03 - 0 +0
Coalicio Valenciana 5,424 0.02 - 0 +0
Ei Escons Inbubmisos-Alternativa Dels Democrates D 5,035 0.02 - 0 +0
Tierra Comunera 4,796 0.02 - 0 +0
Authentic Falange (Falange Auténtica) 4,607 0.02 +0.00 0 +0
Leonese People's Union (Unión del Pueblo Leonés) 4,509 0.02 -0.04 0 +0
Solidaridad y Autogestion Internacionalista 3,885 0.02 - 0 +0
Alternativa Motor y Deportes 3,829 0.01 - 0 +0
Partido de los Pensionista en Accion 3,050 0.01 - 0 +0
Izquierda Republicana (Republican Left) 2,899 0.01 -0.06 0 +0
Partido Riojano 2,837 0.01 - 0 +0
Alianza Nacional 2,737 0.01 - 0 +0
Alternativa en Blanco 2,460 0.01 - 0 +0
Extremadura Unida 2,346 0.01 -0.01 0 +0
Els Verds-Alternativa Verda 2,028 0.01 +0.00 0 +0
Partido Carlista 1,956 0.01 +0.00 0 +0
Partit per Catalunya 1,919 0.01 - 0 +0
Partido de los No-Fumadores 1,616 0.01 - 0 +0
Union por Leganes 1,566 0.01 - 0 +0
Frente Español 1,539 0.01 - 0 +0
Centro Democratico Liberal 1,503 0.01 - 0 +0
Opcio Nacionalista Valenciana 1,490 0.01 - 0 +0
Centro Democratico Social 1,362 0.01 - 0 +0
Andecha Astur 1,299 0.01 -0.0 0 +0
Partido Regionalista del Pais Leones 1,278 0.0 - 0 +0
Centro Democratico Español 1,047 0.0 - 0 +0
Alternativa Nacionalista Canaria 1,017 0.0 - 0 +0
Partido de las Libertades Civiles 888 0.0 - 0 +0
Unida 848 0.0 - 0 +0
Partido Liberal del Empleo y la Vivienda Estatal 786 0.0 - 0 +0
Lucha Internacionalista 722 0.0 +0.0 0 +0
Unidad del Pueblo 699 0.0 - 0 +0
Per la Republica Valenciana 645 0.0 - 0 +0
Partido Centristas 509 0.0 - 0 +0
Movimiento por la Unidad del Pueblo Canario 497 0.0 - 0 +0
Partido Ciudadanos Unidos de Aragon 475 0.0 - 0 +0
Union Ciudadana Progresistas Independientes de Can 464 0.0 - 0 +0
Identitat Regne de Valencia 449 0.0 - 0 +0
Unidad Regionalista de Castilla y Leon 423 0.0 - 0 +0
Partido Unionista Estado de España 414 0.0 - 0 +0
Gentes de El Bierzo 385 0.0 - 0 +0
Partit Illenc de Ses Illes Balears 360 0.0 - 0 +0
Partido Positivista Cristiano 300 0.0 -0.0 0 +0
Comunion Tradicionalista Carlista 218 0.0 - 0 +0
Convergencia Democratica Asturiana 216 0.0 - 0 +0
Iniciativa Merindades de Castilla 202 0.0 - 0 +0
Unidad Castellana 198 0.0 -0.0 0 +0
Partido de Alianza Iberoamericana Europea 174 0.0 - 0 +0
Coalicio Treballadors per la Democracia 159 0.0 -0.0 0 +0
Partido Regionalista de Guadalajara 152 0.0 -0.0 0 +0
Aliança Balear 145 0.0 - 0 +0
Asamblea de Votacion Electronica 144 0.0 - 0 +0
Union Centrista Liberal 124 0.0 -0.0 0 +0
Alianza por Burgos 123 0.0 - 0 +0
Iniciativa Ciudadana Burgalesa 109 0.0 - 0 +0
Nosaltres Som 105 0.0 - 0 +0
Independentes por Cuenca 100 0.0 - 0 +0
Agrupacion Ciudadana 79 0.0 - 0 +0
Movimiento Falangista de España 69 0.0 - 0 +0
Total (turnout %)   350 0[1]
Source: Spanish Interior Ministry election results database

[edit] History

The allegorical front of the building

The building, Congreso de los Diputados, has a neoclassical style. It was designed by Narcisco Pascual y Colomer, and built between 1843 and 1850. It sits by the Carrera de San Jerónimo, in Madrid.

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