Results breakdown of the 1989 European Parliament election in Spain
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This is the results breakdown of the European Parliament 1989 European Parliament election in Spain, election held in Spain on 15 June 1989. The following tables show detailed results in each of the country's 17 Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous communities and in the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla.


Electoral system

The 60 members of the European Parliament allocated to Spain as per the Treaty of Accession 1985, 1985 Treaty of Accession were elected using the D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional representation, with no electoral threshold being applied in order to be entitled to enter seat distribution. Seats were allocated to a single multi-member constituency comprising the entire Spain (European Parliament constituency), national territory. Voting was on the basis of universal suffrage, which comprised all nationals over eighteen and in full enjoyment of their political rights. The use of the D'Hondt method might result in an effective threshold depending on the district magnitude. The electoral law allowed for Political party, parties and Political alliance, federations registered in the Ministry of the Interior (Spain), interior ministry, Electoral alliance, coalitions and Grouping of electors (Spain), groupings of electors to present lists of candidates. Parties and federations intending to form a coalition ahead of an election were required to inform the relevant Electoral Commission within ten days of the election call. In order to be entitled to run, parties, federations, coalitions and groupings of electors needed to secure the signature of at least 15,000 registered electors; this requirement could be lifted and replaced through the signature of at least 50 elected officials—Deputy (legislator), deputies, Senate of Spain, senators, Member of the European Parliament, MEPs or members from the legislative assemblies of Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous communities or from Municipalities of Spain, local city councils. Electors and elected officials were disallowed from signing for more than one list of candidates.


Nationwide


Autonomous communities


Andalusia


Aragon


Asturias


Balearics


Basque Country


Canary Islands


Cantabria


Castile and León


Castilla–La Mancha


Catalonia


Extremadura


Galicia


La Rioja


Madrid


Murcia


Navarre


Valencian Community


Autonomous cities


Ceuta


Melilla


Congress of Deputies projection

A projection of European Parliament election results using electoral rules for the Congress of Deputies would have given the following seat allocation, as distributed per constituencies and regions (note that results are compared with party totals in the preceding general election—held in 1986 Spanish general election, June 1986—for consistency):


Constituencies


Regions


References

{{Spanish elections Results breakdown of European Parliament elections in Spain, 1989 1989 elections in Spain, European Parliament