European Parliament election, 2004 (Spain)
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Elections to the European Parliament were held in Spain on June 13, 2004.
Result analysis
The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party polled strongly partially thanks to the wreck of the United Left, who lost half of its seats.
The People's Party lost 3 deputies (although its vote percentage rose more than 1.8%) due to the reduction in the total number of seats.
The newcomer nationalist coalition GalEusCa won 2 seats, but, compared to the results obtained in 1999 by its separate components (both Convergence and Unity and the Nationalist Galician Block were on its own by 1999, and the Nationalist Basque Party was stuck to Europe of the Peoples), it lost 3 seats.
The other nationalist coalition, Europe of the Peoples, comparatively mantained its result (1 seat). In fact, it won 2 seats in 1999, but the Nationalist Basque Party switched allies between 1999 and 2004 and chose GalEusCa this time.
Raw results
Registered voters: 34,706,044 Votes cast: 15,666,507 45.1 Invalid votes: 250,664 1.6 Valid votes: 15,415,843 98.4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Party Votes % Change Seats ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) 6,741,112 43.7 +8.0 25 +1 People's Party (PP) 6,393,192 41.5 +1.8 24 -3 GalEusCa - Peoples of Europe 798,816 5.2 2 -3 (coalition) Convergence and Unity (CiU) (1 -2) Nacionalist Basque Party (PNV) (1 0) Nacionalist Galician Block (BNG) (0 -1) Green Left 643,136 4.1 -1.6 2 -2 (coalition) United Left (IU) (1 -2) United and Alternative Left (EUiA) (1 0) Europe of the Peoples 380,709 2.5 1 0 (coalition) Catalonian Republican Left (ERC) (1 0) Other components of the EotP coalition (0 0) Others 458,878 2.9 - -3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Total 15,415,843 54 -10 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------