Elections to the European Parliament were held in Spain on June 13, 2004. Elections to the European Parliament were held from June 10, 2004 to June 13, 2004 in the 25 member states of the European Union, using varying election days according to local custom. ... June 13 is the 164th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (165th in leap years), with 201 days remaining. ... 2004(MMIV) is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

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 Spanish Socialist Workers Party (Partido Socialista Obrero Español or PSOE) is one of the main parties of Spain. ... United Left (Izquierda Unida) is an electoral coalition that was organized in 1986 during the mobilizations in Spain against NATO. It was formed by several groups of leftists, greens, left-wing socialists and republicans, but was always dominated by the Communist Party of Spain (PCE). ...

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. From the left: Mariano Rajoy, Josep Piqué and José María Aznar during the proclamation act of Josep Piqué in September 2003 The Peoples Party (Spanish: Partido Popular) is a large conservative political party in Spain. ...

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. // Nationalism is an ideology which holds that the nation, ethnicity or national identity is a fundamental unit of human social life, and makes certain political claims based on that belief, above all the claim that the nation is the only legitimate basis for the state and that each nation is... A coalition is an alliance between entities, during which they cooperate in joint action, each in their own self-interest. ... 1999 is a common year starting on Friday Anno Domini (or the Current Era), and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... Convergence and Unity (Convergència i Unió, CiU) is a political party in Catalonia, Spain. ... Categories: Politics stubs | Secessionist organizations | Spanish political parties ... The Basque Nationalist Party is a political party in the Basque region of Spain. ...

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. The Basque Nationalist Party is a political party in the Basque region of Spain. ...

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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------