Spanish Congress of Deputies

 

El Congreso de los Diputados The Congress of Deputies
Type	Lower house
Houses	Congreso de los Diputados
President	Manuel Marín González, PSOE since 2004
Members	350
Political groups	PSOE, PP, CiU, ERC, PNV, IU, Mixto
Last elections	2004
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 presides over the Congreso de los Diputados, Spain's lower chamber of parliament.

(Absolute majority is 176 seats. Bold: majority. Italic: plurality)

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Latest result

Summary of the 14 March 2004 Congress of Deputies election results |- !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=left valign=top|Parties and alliances !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|Votes !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|% !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|Seats |- |align=left|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (Partido Socialista Obrero Español) |align="right" |11,026,163 |align="right" |43.3 |align="right" |164 |- |align=left|People's Party (Partido Popular) |align="right" |9,763,144 |align="right" |38.3 |align="right" |148 |- |align=left|United Left (Izquierda Unida) |rowspan=3 valign=top align="right" |1,359,190 |rowspan=3 valign=top align="right" |5.3 |align="right" |2 |- |align=left|ICV-EUA

• Initiative for Catalonia Greens (Iniciativa per Catalunya Verds)
• United and Alternative Left (Esquerra Unida i Alternativa)

|align="right" |2 |- |align=left|Entesa

• Valencian Left (Esquerra Valenciana)
• United Left of the Land of Valencia (Esquerra Unida del País Valencià)

|align="right" |1 |- |align=left|Convergence and Unity (Convergència i Unió)

• Democratic Convergence of Catalonia (Convergència Democràtica de Catalunya)
• Democratic Union of Catalonia (Unió Democràtica de Catalunya)

|align="right" valign=top|835,471 |align="right" valign=top|3.3 |align="right" valign=top|10

|- |align=left|Republican Left of Catalonia (Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya) |align="right" |652,196 |align="right" |2.5 |align="right" |8

|- |align=left|Basque Nationalist Party (Partido Nacionalista Vasco/Euzko Alderdi Jeltzalea) |align="right" |420,980 |align="right" |1.6 |align="right" |7

|- |align=left|Canarian Coalition (Coalición Canaria) |align="right" |235,221 |align="right" |0.9 |align="right" |3

|- |align=left|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)

|align="right" valign=top|208,688 |align="right" valign=top|0.8 |align="right" valign=top |2

|- |align=left|Andalucista Party (Partido Andalucista) |align="right" |181,868 |align="right" |0.7 |align="right" |-

|- |align=left|Aragonese Council (Chunta Aragonesista) |align="right" |94,252 |align="right" |0.4 |align="right" |1

|- |align=left|Basque Solidarity (Eusko Alkartasuna) |align="right" |80,905 |align="right" |0.3 |align="right" |1

|- |align=left|Navarra Yes (Nafarroa Bai)

• Basque Solidarity (Eusko Alkartasuna)
• Aralar
• Batzarre
• Basque Nationalist Party (Partido Nacionalista Vasco/Euzko Alderdi Jeltzalea)

|align="right" |61,045 |align="right" |0.2 |align="right" |1

|- |align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total (turnout %) |width="75" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| |width="30" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|  |width="30" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|350 |- |colspan=4|Source: El País Online |}

History

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.

See also

• Spanish general election, 2000
• Spanish general election, 2004

External links

• Congreso de los Diputados - official website (Spanish)

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