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Congress of Deputies. Votes. By candidacies Catalonia
2019 2016 2015 2011 2008 2004 2000 1996 1993 1989
Electors 5,615,420 5,519,912 5,516,450 5,396,341 5,324,909 5,308,545 5,293,465 5,099,731 4,846,513 4,697,012
Voters 3,896,974 3,500,965 3,785,924 3,516,310 3,743,360 4,032,589 3,388,128 3,902,547 3,679,280 3,175,907
PSC 794,666 559,870 590,274 922,547 1,689,911 1,586,748 1,150,533 1,531,143 1,277,838 1,123,975
CiU .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 1,015,691 779,425 835,471 970,421 1,151,633 1,165,783 1,032,243
ERC 874,859 632,234 601,782 244,854 291,532 638,902 190,292 162,545 186,784 84,756
PP 287,714 464,538 418,369 716,371 610,473 626,107 768,318 698,400 624,493 336,015
IC-V .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 280,152 183,338 234,790 119,290 296,985 273,444 231,452
ECP 549,173 853,102 929,880 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
CDC .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 483,488 567,253 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
C's 217,935 380,497 490,872 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
JxCat 530,225 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
CUP-PR 246,971 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
VOX 243,640 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Others (1) 104,030 74,897 138,989 217,361 111,468 61,832 124,892 23,066 111,735 330,554
Blank votes 27,019 28,939 25,440 63,884 57,274 35,923 47,526 25,857 24,160 19,252
Void votes 20,742 23,400 23,065 55,450 19,939 12,816 16,856 12,918 15,043 17,660
Source: Ministry of Governance, Public Administrations and Housing; Spanish Ministry of Home Affairs (2019 data).
Note: (1) Includes other candidatures and the parties that did not win any seats and parliamentary forces that did not run in all four of the Catalan provinces.
(..) Confidential data, low reliability or not available.

Last update: March 5, 2020.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Electoral roll
List of all adult people with the right to vote and that are able to fully utilise their civil and political rights. At present, the electoral roll is a state level archive of all people that have the right to vote and its confection and distribution is the responsibility of the National Institute of Statistics (INE). Prior to every consultation, there is period during which it is on display to the general public in order to rectify any possible errors or make any necessary modifications.
Electoral constituencies
Under current electoral regulations, electoral constituencies for referendums, legislative elections or elections to the Parliament of Catalonia, coincide with provinces. In local elections constituencies are municipalities and for elections to the European Parliament, the constituency is the State of Spain as a whole. The official body that regulates electoral operations in each constituency is the provincial electoral junta. In local elections the responsibility is that of the electoral juntas in each zone (which coincide with judicial regions). The zone juntas also have responsibilities in terms of other affairs, such as propaganda and the creation of documentation for those who intervene.
Elector
Person that satisfies the legal requirements to be able to exercise their right to vote.
Blank vote
Vote by an elector who, despite exercising their right to vote, does not select any of the options that are presented in the ballot. A vote for any candidate that has been legally withdrawn from the constituency is also considered a blank vote.
Void vote
Vote issued on an unofficial voting slip, that is not in an envelope or when an envelope contains more than one slip, or when the slip contains any kind of comment or modification or does not satisfy the established regulations for elections.
Voter
Person who really and effectively exercises their right to vote.

Methodological aspects

The chapter on elections provides detailed information about the last time each type of election was held: European Parliament, general elections for the Congress of Deputies, Parliament of Catalonia, municipal elections and referendums. Also, with respect to previous editions, the results are presented for Catalonia as a whole in order to be able to offer comparable series.

In the tables only votes for parties that obtained representation are listed, while other parties, coalitions or groups of electors have been grouped as a single category of "others". The list of the different acronyms and meanings of the parties and coalitions that are included among said "others" in all of the tables have not been included in this Annual.

List of the acronyms and names of the candidates that do appear in the tables
CiU Convergència i Unió
ERC Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya
IC-V Iniciativa per Catalunya-Verds
PP Partit Popular
PSC Partit dels Socialistes de Catalunya
ECP En Comú Podem
CDC Convergència Democràtica de Catalunya
EN COMÚ PODEM En comú podem
DL Democràcia i Llibertat. Convergència. Demòcrates. Reagrupament
C's Ciutadans- Partit de la Ciutadania

It should be noted that the acronyms used in the table headings do not always correspond exactly to the names different parties or coalitions used in officially standing for elections.

For full details of all of the coalitions and groups, we refer readers to specific publications of an electoral nature.

In the county tables, the different candidatures are ordered from the highest to the lowest number of votes obtained for each of the parties in Catalonia as a whole and for each type of election.

When the value is lower than that of the minimum unit to be able to estimate the statistical operation or if it effects statistical confidentiality, the symbol used is "..".