Legislative elections were held in Spain on March 12, 2000. The incumbent People's Party of Prime Minister José María Aznar was elected to a second term in office, converting its plurality of seats in the Congress of Deputies into a majority, and increasing its lead over the opposition Spanish Socialist Workers' Party.
National summary of votes and seats
Registered voters: 33,045,318 Votes cast: 23,125,773 70.0 ==================================================================== Party Votes % from 1996 Seats -------------------------------------------------------------------- Andalusian Party 205,733 00.9 +00.4 1 +1 Aragonist Front 75,234 00.3 +00.1 1 +1 Basque Nationalist Party 351,816 01.5 +00.2 7 +2 Basque Solidarity 100,570 00.4 -00.1 1 Canary Islands Coalition 243,489 01.1 +00.2 4 Convergence and Unity 964,990 04.2 -00.4 15 -1 Galician Nationalist Bloc 302,726 01.3 +00.4 3 +1 People's Party 10,230,345 44.5 +05.8 183 +27 Republican Left of Catalonia 193,629 00.8 +00.1 1 Socialist Party (PSOE) 7,829,210 34.1 -07.3 125 -16 United Left 1,253,859 05.5 -05.0 8 -13 others 851,399 03.7 1 -2 blank 366,137 01.6 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 22,969,753 350 --------------------------------------------------------------------
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A decisive factor in the election was the split of the center-right electorate between the PP and the PAR, which allowed the Socialists to prevail in all three constituencies.
In the 1993generalelection in Madrid, this legal requirement resulted in the exclusion of the Social Democratic Center (CDS) ticket from the constituency apportionment process, as the party - which lost all its seats in the election - fell 438 votes short of the three percent threshold.
This system was drastically altered by the 1982 elections, in which the Socialists, led by Felipe González, won a sweeping victory with 202 seats in Congress, out of 350; AP became the major opposition party, while the UCD collapsed; the PCE also lost considerable ground in the election.
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