Spanish general election, 1979

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Spanish general election, 1979
All 350 seats of the Congress of Deputies and 208 of 264 seats in the Senate
March 1, 1979
		First party	Second party
Leader		Adolfo Suárez	Felipe González
Party		UCD	PSOE
Last election		166 seats	118 seats
Seats won		168	121
Seat change		+2	+3
Popular vote		6,268,593	5,469,813
Percentage		34.8%	30,4%
Province-level units won by PSOE (red) and UCD (blue)
Incumbent PM Adolfo Suárez UCD PM-elect Adolfo Suárez UCD

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General elections were held in Spain on 1 March 1979.

Evolution of popular vote in the Spanish General Elections from the democratic transition until 2008. Voter turnout is usually high.

Party	% of vote	Seats
Unión de Centro Democrático (UCD)	35.08	168
Partido Socialista Obrero Español (PSOE)	30.54	121
Partido Comunista de España (PCE)	10.82	23
Coalición Democrática (CD)	5.97	9
Convergencia i Unio (CiU)	2.70	8
Unión nacional (UN)	2.12	1
Partido Socialista Andalucista (PSA)	1.82	5
Partido Nacionalista Vasco (PNV)	1.54	7
Herri Batasuna (HB)	0.96	3
Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (ERC)	0.69	1
Euskadiko Ezkerra (EE)	0.48	1
Unión del Pueblo Canario (UPC)	0.33	1
Partido Aragonés Regionalista (PAR)	0.21	1
Unión del Pueblo Navarro (UPN)	0.16	1
Total	100%	350

References

• El País official webpage (Spanish)
• Congreso de españa official webpage (Spanish)

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