Valencia (Spanish Congress Electoral District)

Valencia is one of the 52 electoral districts used for the Spanish Congress of Deputies—the lower chamber of the Spanish

Spain

Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...

Parliament, the Cortes Generales

Cortes Generales

The Cortes Generales is the legislature of Spain. It is a bicameral parliament, composed of the Congress of Deputies and the Senate . The Cortes has power to enact any law and to amend the constitution...

. It is the third largest district in Congress in terms of the numbers of deputies elected, as it elects sixteen deputies out of the total number of three hundred and fifty. Corresponding to the Province of Valencia, most of the electorate resides in the metropolitan area of Valencia which includes Valencia City and its satellite towns such as Torrent

Torrent, Valencia

Torrent is a city located within the metropolitan area of the city of Valencia, Spain. It is the largest municipality of the Horta Sud comarca, with 79,843 inhabitants . It is situated some 7 km from Valencia city proper, to which it is connected via the...

, Paterna

Paterna

Paterna is a municipality in the province of Valencia in the Valencian Community, Spain. It is located northeast of the comarca of La Huerta de Valencia, 5 km northwest of Valencia, and on the left bank of the river Turia...

, Mislata

Mislata

Mislata is a municipality in the Valencian Community, in Spain. It has borders with the city of Valencia and Quart de Poblet in the west and Xirivella in the south.-Population:...

, Burjassot

Burjassot

Burjassot is a municipality in the comarca of Horta Nord in the Valencian Community, Spain. The footballer José Carlos Cerveró was born there on 11th December 1979....

and Xirivella

Xirivella

Xirivella is a municipality in the Valencian Community, Spain. It borders the city of Valencia and the municipality of Mislata.It is connected to central Valencia by bus routes and a railway station...

.

In political terms, the district has shown a long term shift to the right. Valencia initially favoured the parties of the left and centre left who won nine of the district’s fifteen seats in the 1977 election, an election which was won overall by the centre right Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD). However by 2008, despite the fact that the centre left Spanish Socialist Workers' Party

Spanish Socialist Workers' Party

The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party is a social-democratic political party in Spain. Its political position is Centre-left. The PSOE is the former ruling party of Spain, until beaten in the elections of November 2011 and the second oldest, exceeded only by the Partido Carlista, founded in...

(PSOE) won the election, the centre right People's Party

People's Party (Spain)

The People's Party is a conservative political party in Spain.The People's Party was a re-foundation in 1989 of the People's Alliance , a party led and founded by Manuel Fraga Iribarne, a former Minister of Tourism during Francisco Franco's dictatorship...

(PP) won nine of the sixteen seats in the district. Although smaller parties such as United Left

United Left (Spain)

The United Left is a political coalition that was organized in 1986 bringing together several political organisations opposed to Spain joining NATO. It was formed by a number of groups of leftists, greens, left-wing socialists and republicans, but was dominated by the Communist Party of Spain...

and Valencian Union

Unió Valenciana

Valencian Union was a nationalist political party in the Valencian Community, Spain....

polled over 10% in previous elections and won seats, recent elections have become dominated

Two-party system

A two-party system is a system where two major political parties dominate voting in nearly all elections at every level of government and, as a result, all or nearly all elected offices are members of one of the two major parties...

by the two main Spanish parties, the PSOE and PP, who won all the seats in the 2008 election and together received over 90% of the votes cast.

Boundaries and electoral system

Under Article 68 of the Spanish constitution

Spanish Constitution of 1978

-Structure of the State:The Constitution recognizes the existence of nationalities and regions . Preliminary Title As a result, Spain is now composed entirely of 17 Autonomous Communities and two autonomous cities with varying degrees of autonomy, to the extent that, even though the Constitution...

, the boundaries of the electoral district must be the same as the province of Valencia and, under Article 140, this can only be altered with the approval of congress. At the time of the 2008 election, the largest municipality, Valencia City, had 585,000 voters out of the total electorate of 1,900,000. The next largest municipalities were Torrent

Torrent, Valencia

(56,000), Sagunto

Sagunto

Sagunto or Sagunt is an ancient city in Eastern Spain, in the modern fertile comarca of Camp de Morvedre in the province of Valencia. It is located in a hilly site, c. 30 km north of Valencia, close to the Costa del Azahar on the Mediterranean Sea...

(49,000), Gandia

Gandia

Gandia is a city and municipality in the Valencian Community, Eastern Spain on the Mediterranean. Gandia is located on the Costa del Azahar, 65 km south of Valencia and 96 km north of Alicante....

(48,000), Paterna

Paterna

(44,000), Alzira

Alzira

Alzira may refer to:*Alzira , an opera by Giuseppe Verdi*Alzira, Valencia, a town in Spain, also known as Alcira...

(32,000) and Mislata

Mislata

Mislata is a municipality in the Valencian Community, in Spain. It has borders with the city of Valencia and Quart de Poblet in the west and Xirivella in the south.-Population:...

(32,000). There are no other municipalities with electorates over 30,000.

Voting is on the basis of universal suffrage

Universal suffrage

Universal suffrage consists of the extension of the right to vote to adult citizens as a whole, though it may also mean extending said right to minors and non-citizens...

in a secret ballot

Secret ballot

The secret ballot is a voting method in which a voter's choices in an election or a referendum are anonymous. The key aim is to ensure the voter records a sincere choice by forestalling attempts to influence the voter by intimidation or bribery. The system is one means of achieving the goal of...

. The electoral system used is closed list

Closed list

Closed list describes the variant of party-list proportional representation where voters can only vote for political parties as a whole and thus have no influence on the party-supplied order in which party candidates are elected...

proportional representation

Proportional representation

Proportional representation is a concept in voting systems used to elect an assembly or council. PR means that the number of seats won by a party or group of candidates is proportionate to the number of votes received. For example, under a PR voting system if 30% of voters support a particular...

with seats allocated using the D'Hondt method

D'Hondt method

The d'Hondt method is a highest averages method for allocating seats in party-list proportional representation. The method described is named after Belgian mathematician Victor D'Hondt who described it in 1878...

. Only lists which poll 3% of the total vote (which includes votes "en blanco" i.e. for none of the above) can be considered. Under article 12 of the constitution, the minimum voting age is 18.

Electoral procedures

The laws regulating the conduct and administration of elections are laid out in detail in the 1985 electoral law. (Ley Orgánica del Régimen Electoral General.) Under this law, the elections in Valencia, as in other districts, are supervised by the Electoral Commission (Junta Electoral), a permanent body composed of eight Supreme Court judges and five political scientists or sociologists appointed by the Congress of Deputies. The Electoral commission is supported in its work by the Interior Ministry. On election day, polling station

Polling station

A polling place or polling station is where voters cast their ballots in elections.Since elections generally take place over a one- or two-day span on a periodic basis, often annual or longer, polling places are often located in facilities used for other purposes, such as schools, churches, sports...

s are run by electoral boards which consist of groups of citizens selected by lottery.

The format of the ballot paper is designed by the Spanish state, however, the law allows political parties to produce and distribute their own ballot papers, either by mailing them to voters or by other means such as street distribution, provided that they comply with the official model. The government then covers the cost of all printed ballot papers. These must then be marked by voters, either in the polling station or outside the polling station and placed inside sealed envelopes which are then placed inside ballot box

Ballot box

A ballot box is a temporarily sealed container, usually square box though sometimes a tamper resistant bag, with a narrow slot in the top sufficient to accept a ballot paper in an election but which prevents anyone from accessing the votes cast until the close of the voting period...

es in the polling station. Following the close of polls, the ballots are then counted in each individual polling station in the presence of representatives of the political parties and candidates. The ballots are then immediately destroyed, with the exception of those considered invalid or challenged by the candidates' representatives, which are retained for further scrutiny. The result is that full recounts are impossible.

Eligibility

Article 67.3 of the Spanish Constitution prohibits dual membership of both chambers of the Cortes or of the Cortes and regional assemblies, meaning that candidates must resign from regional assemblies if elected. Article 70 also makes active judges, magistrates, public defenders, serving military personnel, active police officers and members of constitutional and electoral tribunals ineligible. Additionally, under Article 11 of the Political Parties Law, June 2002 (Ley Orgánica 6/2002, de 27 de junio, de Partidos Políticos), parties and individual candidates may be prevented from standing by the Spanish Supreme Court

Supreme Court of Spain

The Supreme Court of Spain is the highest court in Spain for all matters not pertaining to the Spanish Constitution. The court which meets in the Convent of the Salesas Reales in Madrid, consists of a president and an indeterminate number of magistrates appointed to the five chambers of the...

(Tribunal Supremo), if they are judged to have violated Article 9 of that law which prohibits parties which are perceived to discriminate against people on the basis of ideology, religion, beliefs, nationality, race, gender or sexual orientation (Article 9a), foment or organise violence as a means of achieving political objectives (Article 9b) or support or compliment the actions of "terrorist organisations" (Article 9c). Article 55, Section 2 of the 1985 electoral law also disqualifies director generals or equivalent leaders of state monopolies and public bodies such as the Spanish state broadcaster RTVE. Lastly, following changes to the electoral law which took effect for the 2007 municipal elections, candidates' lists must be composed of at least 40% of candidates of either gender and each group of five candidates must contain at least two males and two females.

Presenting candidates

Parties and coalitions of different parties which have registered with the Electoral Commission can present lists of candidates (Article 44, 1985 electoral law). Groups of electors which have not registered with the commission can also present lists, provided that they obtain the signatures of 1% of registered electors in a particular district (Article 169).

Number of members

In the general elections of 1977, 1979 and 1982, Valencia returned 15 members. That figure was increased to 16 members for the 1986 general election and has remained at that level ever since. Under Spanish electoral law, all provinces are awarded an initial minimum of two seats, while the cities of Ceuta and Melilla must be single member districts. The remaining 248 seats are then allocated to provinces

Apportionment (politics)

Apportionment is the process of allocating political power among a set of principles . In most representative governments, political power has most recently been apportioned among constituencies based on population, but there is a long history of different approaches.The United States Constitution,...

according to their population, ignoring the two minimum seats that they were awarded.

The practical effect of this law has been to over-represent smaller provinces at the expense of larger provinces like Valencia. In 2008, for example, Spain had 35,073,179 voters giving an average of 100,209 voters per deputy. In Valencia, however, the number of voters per deputy was 118,704, in contrast to the smallest provinces of Teruel and Soria where the ratio was 38,071 and 38,685, respectively.

Active parties

People's Party
People's Party (Spain)
The People's Party is a conservative political party in Spain.The People's Party was a re-foundation in 1989 of the People's Alliance , a party led and founded by Manuel Fraga Iribarne, a former Minister of Tourism during Francisco Franco's dictatorship...

(PP): formed in 1989. It grew out of the earlier Popular Alliance
Popular Alliance (Spain)
The People's Alliance was a electoral coalition, and later a political party, founded in 1976 by Manuel Fraga along with six other former Francoist ministers.- History :...

(AP). The PP has been described as conservative and a "catch-all pluralistic party with tendencies towards more conservative neo-liberal policies." In regional elections, the PP has held the Presidency of the Valencian region since the 1995 elections
Elections to the Corts Valencianes, 1995
The Elections to the Corts Valencianes, 1995 were the fourth democratic elections to the Corts Valencianes, the Valencian regional parliament, since the Spanish transition to democracy and were held on 28 May of that year...

and the Mayoral position in Valencia city since the 1991 local election.

Spanish Socialist Workers' Party
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party
The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party is a social-democratic political party in Spain. Its political position is Centre-left. The PSOE is the former ruling party of Spain, until beaten in the elections of November 2011 and the second oldest, exceeded only by the Partido Carlista, founded in...

(PSOE)

United Left
United Left (Spain)
The United Left is a political coalition that was organized in 1986 bringing together several political organisations opposed to Spain joining NATO. It was formed by a number of groups of leftists, greens, left-wing socialists and republicans, but was dominated by the Communist Party of Spain...

(IU)

Valencian Union (UV): formed in August 1982, has been described variously as a "centre right regionalist party" and "Valencian nationalist" It opposes pan-Catalanism (the merging of the Valencia region with Catalonia proper) and regards Valencian
Valencian
Valencian is the traditional and official name of the Catalan language in the Valencian Community. There are dialectical differences from standard Catalan, and under the Valencian Statute of Autonomy, the Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua has been established as its regulator...

to be a different language from Catalan
Catalan language
Catalan is a Romance language, the national and only official language of Andorra and a co-official language in the Spanish autonomous communities of Catalonia, the Balearic Islands and Valencian Community, where it is known as Valencian , as well as in the city of Alghero, on the Italian island...

.

Democratic and Social Centre (CDS)

Defunct parties

Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD)

Popular Socialist Party
Popular Socialist Party (Spain)
The People's Socialist Party was a Spanish political party.The origins of the party dated back to 1954 when the University professor, Enrique Tierno Galván published various academic studies of a Marxist character. In 1965, working together with Raúl Morodo, he formed the Castillian Socialist...

(PSP)

Results by municipality

In recent elections the People's Party (PP) has polled best in Valencia City, with the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) polling best in the satellite towns, particularly to the immediate west of Valencia in the region known as "L'Horta Oest

Horta Oest

Horta Oest is a comarca in the province of Valencia, Valencian Community, Spain.-Municipalities:*Alaquàs*Aldaia*Manises*Mislata*Paterna*Picanya*Quart de Poblet*Torrent*Xirivella...

2004 election

While the PP enjoyed a lead of 3.5% overall, PSOE polled strongly in Quart de Poblet

Quart de Poblet

Quart de Poblet is a municipality in the comarca of Horta Oest in the Valencian Community, Spain. It has 25,499 inhabitants .- Geography :...

where they led the PP by over 20%. They led by 15% in the neighbouring municipality of Alaquàs

Alaquàs

Alaquàs is a municipality in the comarca of Horta Oest in the Valencian Community, Spain.-Etymology:The town's name is of Arabic origin, coming from al-quas, meaning the arcs which is believed to be a reference to a bridge of Moorish origin near the town.-Local politics:Alaquàs is located in...

and had leads of 10% in the nearby towns of Aldaia

Aldaia

Aldaia is a municipality in the comarca of Horta Oest in the Valencian Community, Spain.-External links:*...

and Xirivella

Xirivella

. PP led by almost 10% in Valencia City and this was strongly concentrated in the city's central districts. In four districts in particular—Extramurs, L'Eixample, Ciutat Vella and El Pla del Real—PP polled between 60% and 67% and led PSOE by between 31% and 41%.

At neighbourhood level the differences were even more pronounced. While Carmen and Russafa districts were close to the city average, the PP polled nearly 80% of the vote in the central neighbourhoods of Sant Francesc and El Pla del Remei (in the latter they had polled 84.1% against 8.7% for the PSOE in the year 2000). PSOE's best performances came in the outlying neighbourhood of Ciutat Fallera where they led by 20% and they also polled well in parts of Benimaclet

Benimaclet

Benimaclet is a former village which is now part of the city of Valencia, Spain. The placename is of Arabic origin dating from Moorish times. It is located in the north east of the city and borders the districts of Orriols in the west, Alboraia in the north, the University of Valencia district in...

and the Malvarosa area, adjacent Valencia port.

United Left (IU) generally failed to break the 10% barrier in most areas. In the seven largest municipalities, they only polled more than 10% in Sagunt. They polled best in Favara

Favara

Favara can refer to:*Favara, Agrigento, a town in Italy*Favara, Valencia, a town in Spain...

(21.0%), Otos (20.8%), Barxeta

Barxeta

Barxeta is a municipality in the comarca of Costera in the Valencian Community, Spain....

(20.6%) and Bunyol, where they received 18.6% of the vote. Bloc Nacionalista Valencia's best performances were in the Comarca of Safor

Safor

Safor is a comarca within the province of Valencia, Spain. The capital is the city of Gandia, but also includes the towns of Oliva, Piles and Daimús, among others...

, near the city of Gandia. There, their best results came in Potries

Potríes

Potries is a municipality in the comarca of Safor in the Valencian Community, Spain....

(19.6%) Palmera

Palmera

Palmera is a municipality in the comarca of Safor in the Valencian Community, Spain....

(17.6%) Guardamar de la Safor

Guardamar de la Safor

Guardamar de la Safor is a municipality in the comarca of Safor in the Valencian Community, Spain....

(17.5%) and Benifairó de la Valldigna

Benifairó de la Valldigna

Benifairó de la Valldigna is a municipality in the comarca of Safor in the Valencian Community, Spain....

(12.1%). Outside of Safor, their best result came in Albalat dels Tarongers

Albalat dels Tarongers

Albalat dels Tarongers is a municipality in the comarca of Camp de Morvedre in the Valencian Community, Spain.-External links:*...

where they polled almost 12%.

2008 election

The 2008 election saw the PP improve their position relative to the PSOE in most municipalities in the Valencian community. In Valencia City, they extended their lead over the PSOE to 15% and overtook the PSOE to become the most voted party in Burjassot, Mislata, Paterna and Xirivella. In the other satellite towns, PSOE’s lead over the PP was cut to 10% in Quart de Poblet and to 1% in both Aldaia and Alaquas. PP’s highest vote shares came in Castellonet de la Conquesta

Castellonet de la Conquesta

Castellonet de la Conquesta is a municipality in the comarca of Safor in the Valencian Community, Spain....

where they polled nearly 76% and Terrateig

Terrateig

Terrateig is a municipality in the comarca of Vall d'Albaida in the Valencian Community, Spain....

(74%). PSOE’s highest percentages came in Carricola

Carrícola

Carrícola is a municipality in the comarca of Vall d'Albaida in the Valencian Community, Spain....

(77%) and Sempere

Sempere

Sempere is a municipality in the comarca of Vall d'Albaida in the Valencian Community, Spain....

(74%).

United Left (IU) and Bloc Nacionalista Valencia were outpolled by the PP and PSOE in all municipalities. IU’s highest vote shares were just over 16% in Polinyà de Xúquer and Fuenterrobles

Fuenterrobles

Fuenterrobles is a municipality in the comarca of Requena-Utiel in the Valencian Community, Spain....

. Bloc exceeded 10% of the vote in only two municipalities—Otos and Potries. While Bloc and IU’s vote share declined in most areas, IU increased their vote from under 1% in 2004 in Real de Gandia

Real de Gandía

El Real de Gandia is a municipality in the comarca of Safor in the Valencian Community, Spain....

to 8% in 2008. Coalició Valenciana (CVa) were the only other party to exceed the 5% barrier in any municipality which they achieved in Benifla

Beniflá

Beniflà is a municipality in the comarca of Safor in the Valencian Community, Spain....

. As in 2004, Ráfol de Salem had the highest turnout at over 94%. The lowest turnout was in Andilla

Andilla

Andilla is a municipality in the comarca of Los Serranos in the Valencian Community, Spain....

at 73%.

One of the more unusual results relative to 2004 occurred in Puebla de San Miguel

Puebla de San Miguel

Puebla de San Miguel is a municipality in the comarca of Rincón de Ademuz in the Valencian Community, Spain....

which had the lowest turnout in 2004 at 51%. In 2008, the turnout increased to 76% and this benefited the PSOE who increased their vote by 25% with the PP's share dropping by 19%.

Summary of seats won 1977-2011

	1977	1979	1982	1986	1989	1993	1996	2000	2004	2008	2011
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party Spanish Socialist Workers' Party The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party is a social-democratic political party in Spain. Its political position is Centre-left. The PSOE is the former ruling party of Spain, until beaten in the elections of November 2011 and the second oldest, exceeded only by the Partido Carlista, founded in... (PSOE)	7	7	10	9	8	6	6	6	7	7	4
Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD)	5	6
United Left United Left (Spain) The United Left is a political coalition that was organized in 1986 bringing together several political organisations opposed to Spain joining NATO. It was formed by a number of groups of leftists, greens, left-wing socialists and republicans, but was dominated by the Communist Party of Spain... (IU)	1	2			1	2	2	1	1		1
Popular Socialist Party Popular Socialist Party (Spain) The People's Socialist Party was a Spanish political party.The origins of the party dated back to 1954 when the University professor, Enrique Tierno Galván published various academic studies of a Marxist character. In 1965, working together with Raúl Morodo, he formed the Castillian Socialist... (PSP)	1
People's Party People's Party (Spain) The People's Party is a conservative political party in Spain.The People's Party was a re-foundation in 1989 of the People's Alliance , a party led and founded by Manuel Fraga Iribarne, a former Minister of Tourism during Francisco Franco's dictatorship... (PP)	1		5	5	4	7	7	9	8	9	9
Valencian Union Unió Valenciana Valencian Union was a nationalist political party in the Valencian Community, Spain.... (UV)			5	1	2	1	1
Democratic and Social Centre (CDS)				1	1
Coalició Compromís (Compromís-Q)											1
Union, Progress and Democracy Union, Progress and Democracy Union, Progress and Democracy is a Spanish political party founded in September 2007.It is a progressivist party, between social democracy and social liberalism. One of its goals is to build a federal system for Spain and European Union, with clear responsibilities distributed among local... (UPyD)											1
Total number of seats	15	15	15	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16

Seats shown for the People's Party include seats won by their predecessors, the Popular Alliance and the Popular Coalition before 1989 - including those won as part of an electoral alliance with the Valencian Union (UV) in 1982. Seats shown for United Left include seats won by the Communist Party of Spain before 1986.

PP formed an unofficial electoral pact with UV for the 2004 election, under which the UV leader and former Valencia deputy José María Chiquillo was elected to the Spanish Senate

Spanish Senate

The Senate of Spain is the upper house of Spain's parliament, the . It is made up of 264 members: 208 elected by popular vote, and 56 appointed by the regional legislatures. All senators serve four-year terms, though regional legislatures may recall their appointees at any time.The last election...

as part of the PP ticket. This proved controversial with the membership and led to a split in the party.

Vote share summary 1977-2008

	1977	1979	1982	1986	1989	1993	1996	2000	2004	2008
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party Spanish Socialist Workers' Party The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party is a social-democratic political party in Spain. Its political position is Centre-left. The PSOE is the former ruling party of Spain, until beaten in the elections of November 2011 and the second oldest, exceeded only by the Partido Carlista, founded in... (PSOE)	36.7	36.7	53.5	46.8	40.1	37.2	37.0	33.2	42.2	40.8
Democratic Centre Union (UCD)	31.0	33.9	4.4
United Left United Left (Spain) The United Left is a political coalition that was organized in 1986 bringing together several political organisations opposed to Spain joining NATO. It was formed by a number of groups of leftists, greens, left-wing socialists and republicans, but was dominated by the Communist Party of Spain... (IU)	9.8	13.5	5.3	5.1	9.9	11.4	12.1	6.5	5.4	2.8
Popular Socialist Party Popular Socialist Party (Spain) The People's Socialist Party was a Spanish political party.The origins of the party dated back to 1954 when the University professor, Enrique Tierno Galván published various academic studies of a Marxist character. In 1965, working together with Raúl Morodo, he formed the Castillian Socialist... (PSP)	5.4
People's Party People's Party (Spain) The People's Party is a conservative political party in Spain.The People's Party was a re-foundation in 1989 of the People's Alliance , a party led and founded by Manuel Fraga Iribarne, a former Minister of Tourism during Francisco Franco's dictatorship... (PP)	5.6	4.4	29.5	27.5	24.2	37.9	42.0	50.5	45.7	51.8
Valencian Union Unió Valenciana Valencian Union was a nationalist political party in the Valencian Community, Spain.... (UV)			29.5	5.1	11.5	7.5	5.6	3.9
Democratic and Social Centre (CDS)			2.4	8.3	6.5	1.4	0.1	0.1	0.2

2008 Election
Spanish general election, 2008
Legislative elections for the Spanish Cortes Generales were held on March 9, 2008. The elections were for 350 seats in the Congress of Deputies, and the 208 directly elected seats in the upper house, the Senate, determining the Prime Minister of Spain...

The current Deputy Prime Minister and former Madrid deputy María Teresa Fernández de la Vega

María Teresa Fernández de la Vega

María Teresa Fernández de la Vega Sanz, LLD is a Spanish Valencian Socialist politician. From 18 April 2004 to 20 October 2010, she was the First Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of the Presidency and Cabinet Spokesperson in the government of Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero...

headed the PSOE list at the 2008 election. This was interpreted as an attempt to at least gain the United Left seat and possibly advance to nine seats. However the PSOE vote share fell. Controversy over the repeal of a PP plan to divert the River Ebro

Ebro

The Ebro or Ebre is one of the most important rivers in the Iberian Peninsula. It is the biggest river by discharge volume in Spain.The Ebro flows through the following cities:*Reinosa in Cantabria.*Miranda de Ebro in Castile and León....

had been an important issue in the campaign. The National Hydrological Plan, approved by the former PP government in 2001, had planned to divert the Ebro to the Communities of Valencia and Murcia.

For the PP, former President of the Valencian community, Eduardo Zaplana

Eduardo Zaplana

Eduardo Andrés Julio Zaplana Hernández-Soro is a Spanish politician who served as the Partido Popular spokesman in the Spanish Congress of Deputies from 2004 to 2008.-Biography:...

, moved to Madrid district while Vicente Martinez Pujalte, who became the first deputy in the 2004-08 congress to be expelled from the chamber by the speaker, stood instead in Murcia

Murcia (Spanish Congress Electoral District)

Murcia is one of the 52 electoral districts used for the Spanish Congress of Deputies - the lower chamber of the Spanish Parliament, the Cortes Generales. It was first contested in modern times in the 1977 General Election. Murcia and Cartagena are the largest towns and together account for almost...

. Both were reelected. After the Mayor of Valencia, Rita Barberá Nolla

Rita Barberá Nolla

Rita Barberá Nolla has been the Mayor of Valencia, Spain since 1991. She is a member of the National Council of the People's Party of Spain and Representative in the Valencian regional Parliament . She turned down an offer to become a national deputy at the 2008 Spanish General Election.-External...

turned down an offer to head the PP list, Esteban Gonzalez Pons was selected as head of the list.

Isaura Navarro

Isaura Navarro

Isaura Navarro Casillas is a Spanish politician and former member of the Spanish Parliament. She holds a law degree obtained from the University of Valencia and specialises in business and labour law with a focus on worker's rights, due to obtaining the relevant qualifications in 1997...

was deselected by the regional federation of United Left (IU) on 18 November 2007 being replaced by Antonio Montalbán. The Federal Executive Praesidium of IU annulled this result one month later, citing irregularities in membership registration. Following the controversy, Navarro resigned from IU and stood unsuccessfully as part of a multi-party list which included Bloc Nacionalista Valencia. However neither Montalbán nor Navarro were successful with the PP gaining the final seat. Valencian Union, which had previously won seats in the district, decided not to contest the 2008 election.

In the wake of the 2008 election result, the Prime Minister, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero

José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero

José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero is a member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party . He was elected for two terms as Prime Minister of Spain, in the 2004 and 2008 general elections. On 2 April 2011 he announced he will not stand for re-election in 2012...

, highlighted Valencia as one of five areas where the PSOE needed to improve its results.

2011 General Election

People's Party (Spain)

Esteban González Pons

Esteban González Pons is a Spanish politician who belongs to the People's Party .Married with two children, he gained a doctorate in law and constitutional rights and practised as a lawyer. He entered politics in 1993 serving as senator for Valencia province, in the process becoming the youngest...

, Belén Juste Picón, Ignacio Gil

Ignacio Gil

Ignacio Gil Lázaro is a Spanish politician who belongs to the main opposition People's Party .Married with four children, Gil qualified in law. He entered politics in 1980 when he joined the Popular Alliance, the forerunners of the PP. Two years later he was elected to the Spanish Congress of...

, Marta Torrado de Castro

Marta Torrado de Castro

Marta Torrado de Castro is a Spanish politician who belongs to the main opposition People's Party .Married, Torrado holds a degree in law...

, Rubén Moreno Palanques, Belén Hoyo Juliá, Ignacio Uriarte

Ignacio Uriarte

Ignacio Uriarte Ayala, known as Nacho Uriarte is a Spanish politician who belongs to the main opposition People's Party ....

, Vicente Ferrer Roselló

Vicente Ferrer Roselló

Vicente Ferrer Roselló is a Spanish politician who belongs to the People's Party .Divorced with four children, he practised as a lawyer. He entered politics in 1995 when he was designated by the Valencian Community as senator for Valencia province. He continued in that role until 2003...

, Susana Camarero

Susana Camarero

Susana Camarero Benítez, is a Spanish politician who belongs to the main opposition People's Party where she serves on the national executive....

|-
|align=left|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party

Spanish Socialist Workers' Party

Inmaculada Rodríguez-Piñero

Inmaculada Rodríguez-Piñero Fernández is a Spanish politician for the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party . Married with two children, she earned a master's degree in economic theory from the University of Minnesota and served as economic and employment spokesperson for the PSOE.In 2008, she was...

, Cipriá Císcar

Ciprià Ciscar

Ciprià Císcar Casabàn is a lawyer and Spanish politician who belongs to the governing Spanish Socialist Workers' Party and served as federal secretary of the PSOE from 1994 to 2000....

, José Luís Ábalos Meco

José Luís Ábalos Meco

José Luís Ábalos Meco is a Spanish politician for the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party .Ábalos worked as a primary school teacher and was originally a member of the Communist Party of Spain before joining the PSOE in 1981...

, Carmen Montón

Carmen Montón

Carmen Montón Giménez is a Spanish politician who belongs to the governing Spanish Socialist Workers' Party ....

|-
|align=left|United Left

United Left (Spain)

Union, Progress and Democracy

Union, Progress and Democracy is a Spanish political party founded in September 2007.It is a progressivist party, between social democracy and social liberalism. One of its goals is to build a federal system for Spain and European Union, with clear responsibilities distributed among local...

|align="right" valign=top|
|align="right" valign=top|
|align="right" valign=top|1
|align="left" | Toni Cantó
|-
|align=left|Others
|align="right" |
|align="right" |
|align="right" |0
|align="right" |
|-
|}

Turnout=%

2008 General Election
Spanish general election, 2008
Legislative elections for the Spanish Cortes Generales were held on March 9, 2008. The elections were for 350 seats in the Congress of Deputies, and the 208 directly elected seats in the upper house, the Senate, determining the Prime Minister of Spain...

People's Party (Spain)

Esteban González Pons

, José María Michavila

José María Michavila

José María Michavila Núñez is a Spanish politician who belongs to the main opposition People's Party .Married with three daughters and one son, Michavila qualified in law and history. He entered politics in 1993 when he was elected to the Spanish Congress of Deputies representing Madrid region...

^†, Ignacio Gil

Ignacio Gil

, María José Catalá

María José Catalá

María José Catalá Verdet is a Spanish politician who belongs to the main opposition People's Party .Married, Catalá holds a degree in law, a master's degree in Business Administration and is currently studying for a doctorate in constitutional law...

^*, Marta Torrado de Castro

Marta Torrado de Castro

Marta Torrado de Castro is a Spanish politician who belongs to the main opposition People's Party .Married, Torrado holds a degree in law...

, Inmaculada Bañuls

Inmaculada Bañuls

Inmaculada Bañuls Ros is a teacher and Spanish politician who belongs to the main opposition People's Party .Married with two daughters, Bañuls gained a diploma in religious sciences and passed courses in teaching and special education. Her political career began in 2003 when she was elected as a...

, Ignacio Uriarte

Ignacio Uriarte

Ignacio Uriarte Ayala, known as Nacho Uriarte is a Spanish politician who belongs to the main opposition People's Party ....

, Vicente Ferrer Roselló

Vicente Ferrer Roselló

, Susana Camarero

Susana Camarero

Susana Camarero Benítez, is a Spanish politician who belongs to the main opposition People's Party where she serves on the national executive....

|-
|align=left|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party

Spanish Socialist Workers' Party

María Teresa Fernández de la Vega

, Inmaculada Rodríguez-Piñero

Inmaculada Rodríguez-Piñero

^#, Joan Calabuig

Joan Calabuig

Joan Calabuig Rull is a Spanish politician for the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party. Calabuig began his political career as a deputy in the local parliament, the Cortes Valencianas in 1983 serving until 1987. He also served as President of the Union of Young Socialists from 1985-1989...

, Cipriá Císcar

Ciprià Ciscar

Ciprià Císcar Casabàn is a lawyer and Spanish politician who belongs to the governing Spanish Socialist Workers' Party and served as federal secretary of the PSOE from 1994 to 2000....

, Ferrán Bono

Ferrán Bono

Ferrán Bono Ara is a Spanish journalist and politician for the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party .Bono comes from a political family as he is the son of Emérito Bono Martínez, a former Communist deputy for Valencia province. Unmarried, but a father of two daughters, Bono worked as a journalist...

, Carmen Montón

Carmen Montón

Carmen Montón Giménez is a Spanish politician who belongs to the governing Spanish Socialist Workers' Party ....

, Josep Santamaría

Josep Santamaría

Josep Antoni Santamaría i Mateo is a Spanish politician who belongs to the governing Spanish Socialist Workers' Party ....

|-
|align=left|United Left

United Left (Spain)

Union, Progress and Democracy

|align="right" valign=top|10,890
|align="right" valign=top|0.73
|align="right" valign=top|0
|align="left" |
|-
|align=left|Others
|align="right" |32,508
|align="right" |2.20
|align="right" |0
|align="right" |
|-
|}

Turnout=79.1%

^*Catala resigned and was replaced by Teresa García on 14 October 2008.

^#On 16 April 2009 Rodríguez-Piñero was named General Secretary of Infrastructure and was replaced by José Luís Ábalos Meco

José Luís Ábalos Meco

.

^†In August 2009 Michavila resigned his seat, citing "personal and family reasons." He was replaced by Inmaculada Guaita Vañó

Inmaculada Guaita Vañó

Inmaculada Guaita Vañó is a Spanish politician who belongs to the People's Party .Married, with three children, Guaita joined the PP's predecessors, the People's Alliance, in 1983...

on 3 September 2009.

2004 General Election

Summary of the 14 March 2004 Congress of Deputies election results

Spanish legislative election, 2004

Legislative elections were held in Spain on 14 March 2004. At stake were all 350 seats in the lower house of the Cortes Generales, the Congress of Deputies, and 208 seats in upper house, the Senate. The governing People's Party was led into the campaign by Mariano Rajoy, successor to outgoing...

People's Party (Spain)

Eduardo Zaplana

Eduardo Andrés Julio Zaplana Hernández-Soro is a Spanish politician who served as the Partido Popular spokesman in the Spanish Congress of Deputies from 2004 to 2008.-Biography:...

, Joaquin Calomarde

Joaquin Calomarde

Joaquin Calomarde Gramage is a Spanish politician and former deputy who belonged to the People's Party . Now he teaches philosophy.-Early political career:...

^*, Susana Camarero

Susana Camarero

Susana Camarero Benítez, is a Spanish politician who belongs to the main opposition People's Party where she serves on the national executive....

, Ignacio Gil

Ignacio Gil

, Vicente Martínez-Pujalte

Vicente Martínez-Pujalte

Vicente Martínez-Pujalte López is a Spanish politician who is currently a People's Party deputy for Murcia region. A former University Professor of economic sciences at the University of Valencia he is also a technical officer in the Official Chamber of Commerce for the Valencia region...

, José María Michavila

José María Michavila

, María Oltra

María Oltra

María Asunción Oltra Torres is a Spanish politician who belongs to the main opposition People's Party ....

, María Angels Ramón-Llin

María Angels Ramón-Llin

María Angels Ramón-Llin i Martínez is a Spanish politician who belongs to the main opposition People's Party ....

|-
|align=left|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party

Spanish Socialist Workers' Party

Carmen Alborch

Carmen Alborch Bataller is a Spanish politician, actress, writer and former Minister of Culture....

, Maria Antonia Armengol

Maria Antonia Armengol

Maria Antonia de Armengol Criado is a Spanish politician who belongs to the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party ....

, Cipriá Císcar

Ciprià Ciscar

Ciprià Císcar Casabàn is a lawyer and Spanish politician who belongs to the governing Spanish Socialist Workers' Party and served as federal secretary of the PSOE from 1994 to 2000....

, Carmen Montón

Carmen Montón

Carmen Montón Giménez is a Spanish politician who belongs to the governing Spanish Socialist Workers' Party ....

, Margarita Pin

Margarita Pin

Margarita Pin Arboledas is a Spanish politician who belongs to the governing Spanish Socialist Workers' Party ....

, Josep Santamaría

Josep Santamaría

Josep Antoni Santamaría i Mateo is a Spanish politician who belongs to the governing Spanish Socialist Workers' Party ....

, Ricardo Torres
|-
|align=left|Entesa United Left of the Land of Valencia

United Left (Spain)

-Valencian Left

Valencian Left

Valencian Left is a nationalist Valencian leftist party founded in the Valencian Community, founded in April, 1998 a group of ex-members of Unitat del Poble Valencià formed left this party and went to form a new political group using the vacant name of the historical Esquerra Valenciana.EV's...

Isaura Navarro

|-
|align=left|Bloc Nacionalista Valencia-Esquerra Verda
|align="right" valign=top|27,050
|align="right" valign=top|1.86
|align="right" valign=top|0
|align="left" |
|-
|align=left| Greens Ecopacifists (Los Verdes Ecopacifistas)
|align="right" valign=top|11,127
|align="right" valign=top|0.76
|align="right" valign=top|0
|align="right" |
|-
|align=left| Legalise and Normalise Cannabis
|align="right" valign=top|9,604
|align="right" valign=top|0.66
|align="right" valign=top|0
|align="right" |
|-
|align=left|Others
|align="right" |27,763
|align="right" |3.38
|align="right" |0
|align="right" |
|-
|}

Turnout=77.7%

^* Calomarde resigned from the PP in April 2007, and subsequently sat in the mixed group - a group which consists of non-party deputies and those parties unable to form a parliamentary group with at least five deputies.

2000 General Election
Spanish general election, 2000
Legislative elections were held in Spain on 12 March 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...

People's Party (Spain)

Joaquin Calomarde

Joaquin Calomarde Gramage is a Spanish politician and former deputy who belonged to the People's Party . Now he teaches philosophy.-Early political career:...

, Susana Camarero

Susana Camarero

Susana Camarero Benítez, is a Spanish politician who belongs to the main opposition People's Party where she serves on the national executive....

, Gerardo Camps

Gerardo Camps

Gerardo Camps Devesa is a Spanish politician who belongs to the main opposition People's Party .Married with two children, Camps qualified in law. He entered politics in the 1980s, serving as Provincial secretary of the Popular Alliance from 1984–1986 and Regional Secretary 1985-1986...

^§, Francisco Camps

Francisco Camps

Francisco Enrique Camps Ortiz is a Spanish politician belonging to the Partido Popular who served as President of the Generalitat Valenciana, the Valencian regional administration, in the period 2003-2011.-Biography:...

^*, Ignacio Gil

Ignacio Gil

, Guillermo Martínez Casañ

Guillermo Martínez Casañ

Guillermo Martínez Casañ is a Spanish politician and former Member of the European Parliament who belongs to the People's Party ....

, María Martorell

María Martorell

María Martorell Pallás is a Spanish politician who belongs to the main opposition People's Party .Divorced with two daughters, Martorell holds a doctorate in philosophy. She works as a Professor in the faculty of philosophy in the University of Valencia...

^#, Vicente Martínez-Pujalte

Vicente Martínez-Pujalte

, José María Michavila

José María Michavila

^†
|-
|align=left|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party

Spanish Socialist Workers' Party

Carmen Alborch

Carmen Alborch Bataller is a Spanish politician, actress, writer and former Minister of Culture....

, Cipriá Ciscar

Ciprià Ciscar

Ciprià Císcar Casabàn is a lawyer and Spanish politician who belongs to the governing Spanish Socialist Workers' Party and served as federal secretary of the PSOE from 1994 to 2000....

, Ricard Pérez Casado

Ricard Pérez Casado

Ricard Pérez Casado is a Spanish politician and former mayor of Valencia who belongs to the governing Spanish Socialist Workers' Party ....

, Rosa Peris Cervera

Rosa Peris Cervera

Rosa Peris Cervera is a Spanish politician who belongs to the governing Spanish Socialist Workers' Party.Peris qualified in law and first worked as a lawyer...

, Joan Pla Durá

Joan Pla Durá

Joan Pla Durá is a Spanish politician who belongs to the governing Spanish Socialist Workers' Party .Married with one son, Pla graduated in law and also gained a diploma in public administration...

^≈, Francesc Romeu Martí
|-
|align=left| United Left

United Left (Spain)

Presentación Urán González

Presentación Urán González is a Spanish politician and former member of the Spanish Parliament.Married, with two children, she worked as an administrator before being elected in 1993 as a United Left deputy for Valencia region and was re-elected again in 1996 and 2000...

|-
|align=left|Valencian Union

Unió Valenciana

Valencian Union was a nationalist political party in the Valencian Community, Spain....

(Unió Valenciana)
|align="right" valign=top|51,927
|align="right" valign=top|3.87
|align="right" valign=top|0
|align="left" |
|-
|align=left|Bloc Nacionalista Valencia-Esquerra Verda
|align="right" valign=top|39,520
|align="right" valign=top|2.94
|align="right" valign=top|0
|align="left" |
|-
|align=left|Others
|align="right" |23,641
|align="right" |1.80
|align="right" |0
|align="right" |
|-
|}

Turnout=72.1%

^*On 8 April 2002, Francisco Camps was replaced by Inmaculada Martínez Cervera

Inmaculada Martínez Cervera

Inmaculada Martínez Cervera is a Spanish politician who belongs to the main opposition People's Party .Single at the time of her election, she is licensed in pedagogy and worked for the Valencian Youth Institute. In 2000 she was selected as part of the PP list for the Spanish Congress of Deputies...

.

^#José Luis Juan Sanz replaced Martorell on 16 May 2000. Martorell's six week term as deputy is the shortest period of time served by a Valencia deputy since the restoration of democracy.

^†Michavila, who had moved to the district for the 2000 election after representing Madrid for the previous seven years, was replaced by María Oltra Torres on 19 May 2000.

^§On 19 May 2000, Gerardo Camps was replaced by Miguel Albiach Chisbert.

^≈On 2 June 2003, Pla was replaced by Margarita Pin, a former deputy who had lost her seat at the 2000 election.

1996 General Election
Spanish general election, 1996
General elections were held in Spain on March 3, 1996. The Prime Minister Felipe González of Spanish Socialist Workers' Party lost the elections to Partido Popular and their leader José María Aznar....

People's Party (Spain)

Eva Amador Guillén

Eva Amador Guillén is a Spanish politician who belongs to the main opposition People's Party .Married with three children, Amador qualified in information technology...

, Gerardo Camps Devesa, Francisco Camps

Francisco Camps

^*, Ignacio Gil Lázaro, Guillermo Martínez Casañ

Guillermo Martínez Casañ

Guillermo Martínez Casañ is a Spanish politician and former Member of the European Parliament who belongs to the People's Party ....

, Vicente Martínez-Pujalte López, José Pascual Monzo

José Pascual Monzo

José Pascual Monzo is a Spanish politician who belongs to the People's Party .Married, with two children, Pascual qualified as a technical agricultural engineer. After serving as provincial president of the Association of Young Farmers, he entered politics in 1989 when he was elected to the...

|-
|align=left|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party

Spanish Socialist Workers' Party

Carmen Alborch

Carmen Alborch Bataller is a Spanish politician, actress, writer and former Minister of Culture....

, Alfred Boix Pastor, Cipriá Ciscar Casabán, Javier Paniagua Fuentes

Javier Paniagua Fuentes

Javier Paniagua Fuentes is a Spanish author and politician for the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party .After qualifying in philosophy Paniagua received a doctorate in history with a thesis on Spanish anarchism...

, Margarita Pin

Margarita Pin

Margarita Pin Arboledas is a Spanish politician who belongs to the governing Spanish Socialist Workers' Party ....

, Joan Romero González

Joan Romero González

Joan Romero González is a Spanish politician for the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party .Romero studied Geography and History and later became Professor of Human Geography at the University of Valencia. At the 1982 General Election he was elected to the Spanish Congress of Deputies representing...

^#
|-
|align=left|United Left

United Left (Spain)

Ricardo Peralta Ortega

Ricardo Peralta Ortega is a Spanish politician and former member of the Spanish Parliament.Married, with two children, he qualified as a Lawyer specialising in Labour Law. He became a member of the Communist Party of Spain in 1972...

, Presentación Urán González

Presentación Urán González

|-
|align=left|Valencian Union

Unió Valenciana

Valencian Union was a nationalist political party in the Valencian Community, Spain....

José María Chiquillo Barber

José María Chiquillo Barber is a Spanish politician who currently serves as Senator for Valencia province as part of the People's Party ....

|-
|align=left|Bloc Nacionalista Valencia-Unitat del Poble Valencia
|align="right" valign=top|16,850
|align="right" valign=top|1.16
|align="right" valign=top|0
|align="left" |
|-
|align=left|Others
|align="right" |19,447
|align="right" |1.30
|align="right" |0
|align="right" |
|-
|}

Turnout=81.6%

^*Camps was replaced by Fernando Coquillat Durán on 24 February 1997. Coquillat was in turn replaced by María José Mora Devis on 19 August 1999.

^# Romero was replaced by Joan Pla Durá on 12 April 1999.

1993 General Election
Spanish general election, 1993
-Results:-External links:*...

People's Party (Spain)

Eva Amador Guillén

Eva Amador Guillén is a Spanish politician who belongs to the main opposition People's Party .Married with three children, Amador qualified in information technology...

, Gerardo Camps Devesa, José García-Margallo^#, Ignacio Gil Lázaro, Guillermo Martínez Casañ

Guillermo Martínez Casañ

Guillermo Martínez Casañ is a Spanish politician and former Member of the European Parliament who belongs to the People's Party ....

, Leopoldo Ortiz Climent

Leopoldo Ortiz Climent

Leopoldo Ortiz Climent is a Spanish engineer and politician who belongs to the main opposition People's Party .Married with three children, he qualified as an engineer and worked in the agriculture section of the Spanish Embassy in London from 1972 to 1976...

, José Pascual Monzo

José Pascual Monzo

|-
|align=left|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party

Spanish Socialist Workers' Party

Jaume Castells Ferrer

Jaume Castells Ferrer is a Spanish politician for the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party .-Biography:Castells Ferrer was born at Benissa, in the province of Alicante....

, Cipriá Ciscar Casabán, José María Mohedano Fuertes

José María Mohedano Fuertes

José María Mohedano Fuertes is a Spanish lawyer and politician who belongs to the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party ....

, Adela Pla Pastor

Adela Pla Pastor

Adela Pla Pastor was a Spanish politician for the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party. Married, with two daughters, she was the daughter of Vicent Pla, the last Mayor of Sedaví in the Spanish Republican era...

|-
|align=left|United Left

United Left (Spain)

(IU)
|align="right" |156,340
|align="right" |11.42
|align="right" |2
|align="left" | Ricardo Peralta Ortega

Ricardo Peralta Ortega

, Presentación Urán González

Presentación Urán González

|-
|align=left|Valencian Union

Unió Valenciana

Valencian Union was a nationalist political party in the Valencian Community, Spain....

Vicente González Lizondo

Vicente González Lizondo was a Spanish politician and co-founder of the regional party Valencian Union -Early life:...

^†
|-
|align=left| Unity of the Valencian People (Unitat del Poble Valencia)
|align="right" valign=top|27,429
|align="right" valign=top|2.00
|align="right" valign=top|0
|align="left" |
|-
|align=left|Democratic and Social Centre (CDS)
|align="right" |18,844
|align="right" |1.38
|align="right" |0
|align="left" |
|-
|align=left|Others
|align="right" |28,049
|align="right" |2.10
|align="right" |0
|align="right" |
|-
|}

Turnout=81.8%

^*On 10 June 1994, Albero was replaced by Javier Paniagua Fuentes, a former deputy who had lost his seat at the 1993 election.

^#On 27 June 1994, Garcia-Margallo was replaced by Vicente Martínez-Pujalte López

^†On 4 October 1994, González Lizondo was replaced by José María Chiquillo Barber

1989 General Election
Spanish general election, 1989
-Results:-External links:**...

Summary of the 29 October 1989 Congress of Deputies election results in Valencia.
|-
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=left valign=top|Parties and alliances
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|Votes
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|%
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|Seats
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|Members elected
|-
|align=left|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party

Spanish Socialist Workers' Party

Jaume Castells Ferrer

Jaume Castells Ferrer is a Spanish politician for the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party .-Biography:Castells Ferrer was born at Benissa, in the province of Alicante....

, Cipriá Ciscar Casabán, María Juan Millet

María Juan Millet

Maria Juan Millet is a Spanish politician for the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party .After gaining a degree in Economic and Business Sciences, Juan joined the PSOE in 1974 at a time when membership was still illegal under the Franco dictatorship...

, Juan Lloret Llorens

Juan Lloret Llorens

Juan Lloret Llorens is a Spanish politician for the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party .In his University days, Lloret was a member of the Black Flag , an anarchist organisation. After qualifying in law, he joined the PSOE in 1975, becoming a committee member the committee for the Valencian Community...

, José María Mohedano Fuertes

José María Mohedano Fuertes

José María Mohedano Fuertes is a Spanish lawyer and politician who belongs to the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party ....

, Javier Paniagua Fuentes

Javier Paniagua Fuentes

, Adela Pla Pastor

Adela Pla Pastor

|-
|align=left|People's Party

People's Party (Spain)

José Pascual Monzo

|-
|align=left|Valencian Union

Unió Valenciana

Valencian Union was a nationalist political party in the Valencian Community, Spain....

Vicente González Lizondo

Vicente González Lizondo was a Spanish politician and co-founder of the regional party Valencian Union -Early life:...

, Juan Oliver Chirivella

Juan Oliver Chirivella

Juan Oliver Chirivella is a Spanish politician who currently is a member of the People's Party , although he has been a member of several other parties in the past.-Personal life:...

|-
|align=left|United Left

United Left (Spain)

(IU)
|align="right" |118,706
|align="right" |9.89
|align="right" |1
|align="left" | Ricardo Peralta Ortega

Ricardo Peralta Ortega

Joaquín Abril Martorell

Joaquín Abril Martorell is a Spanish politician who currently belongs to the People's Party , although he has been a member of several other parties in the past....

|-
|align=left| Unity of the Valencian People (Unitat del Poble Valencia)
|align="right" valign=top|27,515
|align="right" valign=top|2.29
|align="right" valign=top|0
|align="left" |
|-
|align=left| The Greens
|align="right" valign=top|21,748
|align="right" valign=top|1.81
|align="right" valign=top|0
|align="left" |
|-
|align=left|Others
|align="right" |38,624
|align="right" |3.20
|align="right" |0
|align="right" |
|-
|}

Turnout=75.1%

^* Agramunt was replaced by Juan Albiñana Calatayud on 11 June 1991.

1986 General Election
Spanish general election, 1986
General elections were held in Spain on 23 June 1986. In this election, the Communist Party of Spain merged with other minor left parties to form the coalition Izquierda Unida; in Catalonia they ran as the Catalan Left Union. Similarly, the People's Alliance merged with two other conservative...

Spanish Socialist Workers' Party

Jaume Castells Ferrer

Jaume Castells Ferrer is a Spanish politician for the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party .-Biography:Castells Ferrer was born at Benissa, in the province of Alicante....

, María Juan Millet

María Juan Millet

, Juan Lloret Llorens

Juan Lloret Llorens

, Salvador López Sanz

Salvador López Sanz

Salvador López Sanz was a Spanish politician for the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party .López Sanz entered politics in the early 1980s when he was appointed Minister for Health and Social Security in the Generalitat Valenciana, the Valencian regional administration, in September 1981...

, José María Maravall Herrero

José María Maravall Herrero

José María Maravall Herrero is a Spanish academic and politician of the Spanish Socialist Party . Maravall was Spanish Minister of Education and Science between 1982 and 1988, and was elected to the Spanish Parliament in 1986, representing Valencia Province. Maravall eventually returned to...

, Javier Paniagua Fuentes

Javier Paniagua Fuentes

, Adela Pla Pastor

Adela Pla Pastor

, Francisco Sanz Fernández

Francisco Sanz Fernández

Francisco Sanz Fernández is a Spanish politician for the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party .Married, with two children, Sanz gained a Doctorate in Engineering. He joined the PSOE in 1976 and in 1977 stood in the first democratic elections as a candidate for the Spanish Congress of Deputies in...

^*
|-
|align=left|Popular Coalition

People's Party (Spain)

Carlos Manglano de Mas

Carlos Manglano de Mas is a Spanish politician who belongs to the main opposition People's Party .Married, with three children, Manglano qualified as an architect. His early political involvement came as a member of the Union of the Democratic Centre which he joined in 1977...

, Ángel Sanchís Perales, Ana María Yabar Sterling

Ana María Yabar Sterling

Ana María Yabar Sterling is a Spanish politician, author and academic.Married, with three children, Yabar gained a doctorate in Law from the University of Navarra in 1974 and in Economic Science from the Complutense University of Madrid in 1976...

Joaquín Abril Martorell

Joaquín Abril Martorell is a Spanish politician who currently belongs to the People's Party , although he has been a member of several other parties in the past....

|-
|align=left|Valencian Union

Unió Valenciana

Valencian Union was a nationalist political party in the Valencian Community, Spain....

Miguel Ramón Izquierdo

Miguel Ramón Izquierdo was a Spanish politician who served as the last mayor of Valencia in the Franco era and the first in the modern democratic era.-Early carer and mayoral term:Izquierdo was born in Valencia....

|-
|align=left|United Left

United Left (Spain)

(IU)
|align="right" |60,857
|align="right" |5.09
|align="right" |0
|align="left" |
|-
|align=left| Unity of the Valencian People (Unitat del Poble Valencia)
|align="right" valign=top|28,973
|align="right" valign=top|2.42
|align="right" valign=top|0
|align="left" |
|-
|align=left| Table for Communist Unity (Mesa para la Unidad de los Comunistas (MUC))
|align="right" valign=top|20,095
|align="right" valign=top|1.68
|align="right" valign=top|0
|align="left" |
|-
|align=left|Others
|align="right" |31,611
|align="right" |2.70
|align="right" |0
|align="right" |
|-
|}

Turnout=77.0%

^*On 23 June 1987 Sanz was elected to the European parliament and was replaced by former deputy Daniel Vidal Escartí, the second election in a row on which Vidal was elected as a replacement for another deputy. Another returning deputy at this election was García-Margallo, who had represented Melilla for the UCD from 1977-1982, while CDS member Joaquin Abril Martorell was the brother of Fernando Abril Martorell, who had served in the 1979-1982 legislature as a UCD deputy.

1982 General Election
Spanish general election, 1982
General elections were held in Spain on 28 October 1982.PSOE and PSC presented two different lists of candidates: with the PSOE contesting most of Spain and the PSC only standing in Catalonia...

Summary of the 28 October 1982 Congress of Deputies election results in Valencia.
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!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|Seats
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|Members elected
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|align=left|Spanish Socialist Workers' Party

Spanish Socialist Workers' Party

José Luis Adsuar Ferrando

José Luis Adsuar Ferrando is a Spanish politician for the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party .Born in Riola, Valencia Province, Adsuar worked as a Primary School teacher before standing as a PSOE candidate at the 1982 General Election where he was elected to the Spanish Congress of Deputies...

, Jaume Castells Ferrer

Jaume Castells Ferrer

Jaume Castells Ferrer is a Spanish politician for the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party .-Biography:Castells Ferrer was born at Benissa, in the province of Alicante....

, Francisco Gaviña Ribelles

Francisco Gaviña Ribelles

Francisco Gaviña Ribelles was a Spanish chemist and politician for the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party .Gaviña first stood as a candidate for Valencia Province in the 1977 General Election, however he was placed thirteenth on the PSOE list and failed to win a seat.Two years later he was elected...

, Juan Lerma Blasco^*, Salvador López Sanz

Salvador López Sanz

, Adela Pla Pastor

Adela Pla Pastor

, Joan Romero González

Joan Romero González

^#, Francisco Sanz Fernández

Francisco Sanz Fernández

, Enrique Sapena Granell

Enrique Sapena Granell

Enrique Sapena Granell was a Spanish politician for the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party .Sapena was a railway worker who joined the PSOE in 1951 at a time when it was still illegal under the dictatorship of Franco...

, Vicente Sotillo Martí
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|align=left|Popular Alliance

Popular Alliance (Spain)

The People's Alliance was a electoral coalition, and later a political party, founded in 1976 by Manuel Fraga along with six other former Francoist ministers.- History :...

(AP)- Democratic Popular Party

Democratic Popular Party (Spain)

The People's Democratic Party was a christian-democratic Spanish political party.It was part of the Democratic Centre Union until 1982, when it entered into alliance with the Popular Alliance , which received the second largest number of votes in 1982 and 1986 elections.In 1989 the party, along...

(PDP) -Valencian Union

Unió Valenciana

Valencian Union was a nationalist political party in the Valencian Community, Spain....

(UV)
|align="right" |350,281
|align="right" |29.39
|align="right" |5
|align="left" | Manuel Gallent Nicola

Manuel Gallent Nicola

Manuel Gallent Nicola is a lawyer and Spanish politician.After receiving a degree in International Law from the University of Valladolid, he entered politics, becoming a member of the Democratic Popular Party and in 1982 was elected to the Spanish Congress of Deputies representing Valencia...

, Luis García Forcada

Luis García Forcada

Luis García Forcada is a Spanish chemist, politician and businessman.García graduated in Chemical Sciences at the University of Valencia and then worked as Director General of the company Rodaval. At the 1982 General Election where he was elected to the Spanish Congress of Deputies representing...

, Manuel Giner Miralles

Manuel Giner Miralles

Manuel Giner Miralles is a Spanish doctor, entrepreneur and politician.-Early elections:Giner was one of the founder members of the Popular Alliance in the Valencian Community and was a member of the party's Provincial Executive Committee...

^†, Carlos Manglano de Mas

Carlos Manglano de Mas

, Miguel Ramón Izquierdo

Miguel Ramón Izquierdo

Fuerza Nueva

New Force was the name of a succession of far-right political parties in Spain founded by Blas Piñar, the son of one of the defenders of the Alcázar of Toledo and director of the Institute of Hispanic Culture during the Francoist period...

(FN)
|align="right" valign=top|12,431
|align="right" valign=top|1.04
|align="right" valign=top|0
|align="left" |
|-
|align=left|Others
|align="right" |30,641
|align="right" |2.60
|align="right" |0
|align="right" |
|-
|}

Turnout=83.4%

^*Lerma Blasco was replaced by Daniel Vidal Escartí on 15 February 1983

^#Romero was replaced by José Pons Grau on 19 January 1983.

^†Giner Miralles was replaced by Ignacio Gil Lázaro on 26 May 1983.

1979 General Election
Spanish general election, 1979
General elections were held in Spain on 1 March 1979.-References:* *...

Spanish Socialist Workers' Party

José Luis Albiñana Olmos

José Luis Albiñana Olmos is a Spanish judge and former politician in the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party .Married, with three children, Albiñana qualified as a lawyer. His first political involvement came in the late 1960s when he joined the Democratic Union of the Valencian Country...

^*, Jaume Castells Ferrer

Jaume Castells Ferrer

Jaume Castells Ferrer is a Spanish politician for the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party .-Biography:Castells Ferrer was born at Benissa, in the province of Alicante....

, Juan Lerma Blasco, Juan Pastor Marco

Juan Pastor Marco

Juan Pastor Marco was a Spanish politician for the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party .After graduating in Economic Sciences, Pastor joined the PSOE in 1974 and at the 1977 General Election he was elected to the Spanish Congress of Deputies representing Valencia Province.He then served as Secretary...

, Manuel Sánchez Ayuso

Manuel Sánchez Ayuso

Manuel Sánchez Ayuso was a Spanish economist and politician in the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party and Popular Socialist Party....

, Francisco Sanz Fernández

Francisco Sanz Fernández

, Enrique Sapena Granell

Enrique Sapena Granell

Fernando Abril Martorell

Fernando Abril Martorell was a Valencian Spanish politician and agricultural engineer.-Biography:Born in Valencia, Spain, he studied Agricultural Engineering and Political Sciences in Madrid, later obtaining a doctorate in both...

, Francisco Aguirre de la Hoz

Francisco Aguirre de la Hoz

Francisco Aguirre de la Hoz is a Spanish lawyer and former politician.After qualifying as a lawyer at the University of Valladolid and University of Valencia, together with Emilio Attard, he helped to found the Valencian Regional Party and later, the Democratic Popular Party...

, Emilio Attard Alonso

Emilio Attard Alonso

Emilio Attard Alonso was a Spanish politician.Attard originally became politically active in his youth during the Second Spanish Republic. In this period he worked as a lawyer and a legal adviser to the Bank of Spain in Valencia...

, Joaquín Muñoz Peirats

Joaquín Muñoz Peirats

Joaquín Muñoz Peirats was a Spanish politician.After gaining a degree in economics from the University of Deusto and a degree in law from the University of Valladolid he became involved in politics in the late 1960s...

, José Pin Arboledas

José Pin Arboledas

José Pin Arboledas is a Spanish economist and politician.After gaining a degree in economics from the University of Valencia, he became involved in politics, helping to found the People's Party . That party, not to be confused with the current grouping of the same name, joined with other parties...

, Vicente Ruiz Monrabal

Vicente Ruiz Monrabal

Vicente Ruiz Monrabal is a Spanish lawyer and former politician.Ruiz qualified as a lawyer at the University of Valencia. During his time at University he became President of the Rural Catholic Youth group and a member of Young Catholic Action...

Emérito Bono Martínez

Emérito Bono Martínez is a Spanish academic and politician for the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party , although he previously belonged to the Communist Party of Spain ....

, Antonio Palomares Vinuesa

Antonio Palomares Vinuesa

Antonio Palomares Vinuesa was a Spanish politician for the Communist Party of Spain ....

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|align=left|Democratic Coalition

Popular Alliance (Spain)

The People's Alliance was a electoral coalition, and later a political party, founded in 1976 by Manuel Fraga along with six other former Francoist ministers.- History :...

(CD)
|align="right" |47,017
|align="right" |4.36
|align="right" |0
|align="left" |
|-
|align=left|National Union

National Union (Spain)

The National Union was a right-wing electoral coalition which contested the 1979 election. It linked Blas Piñar's Fuerza Nueva francoist party with the Carlists....

(FN)
|align="right" valign=top|27,447
|align="right" valign=top|2.54
|align="right" valign=top|0
|align="left" |
|-
|align=left|Valencian Regional Union (Unio Regional Valencianista)
|align="right" valign=top|15,694
|align="right" valign=top|1.46
|align="right" valign=top|0
|align="left" |
|-
|align=left|Nationalist Party of the Valencian Community (PNPV)
|align="right" valign=top|13,828
|align="right" valign=top|1.28
|align="right" valign=top|0
|align="left" |
|-
|align=left|Others
|align="right" |67,055
|align="right" |6.20
|align="right" |0
|align="right" |
|-
|}

Turnout=74.8%

^*Albiñana Olmos resigned on 27 February 1980 and was replaced by Adela Pla Pastor, who thus became the first female representative for Valencia after the restoration of democracy.

1977 General Election
Spanish general election, 1977
The Spanish general election of 1977 took place on 15 June 1977. It was the first election since the death of Francisco Franco.Voting was on the basis of universal suffrage in a secret ballot. The elections were held using closed list proportional representation in 52 electoral districts...

Spanish Socialist Workers' Party

José Luis Albiñana Olmos

, Antonio Bisbal Iborra, Jaume Castells Ferrer

Jaume Castells Ferrer

Jaume Castells Ferrer is a Spanish politician for the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party .-Biography:Castells Ferrer was born at Benissa, in the province of Alicante....

, Juan Pastor Marco

Juan Pastor Marco

, Joaquín Ruiz Mendoza, Manuel Santolaya Juesas, Enrique Sapena Granell

Enrique Sapena Granell

Francisco Aguirre de la Hoz

, Emilio Attard Alonso

Emilio Attard Alonso

, Francisco Burguera Escrivá, Joaquín Muñoz Peirats

Joaquín Muñoz Peirats

, José Pin Arboledas

José Pin Arboledas

Emérito Bono Martínez

Emérito Bono Martínez is a Spanish academic and politician for the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party , although he previously belonged to the Communist Party of Spain ....

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|align=left|Popular Alliance

Popular Alliance (Spain)

The People's Alliance was a electoral coalition, and later a political party, founded in 1976 by Manuel Fraga along with six other former Francoist ministers.- History :...

(AP)
|align="right" |60,410
|align="right" |5.59
|align="right" |1
|align="left" | Alberto Jarabo Payá

Alberto Jarabo Payá

Alberto Jarabo Payá is a Spanish lawyer and politician.After qualifying as a lawyer in 1950, Jarabo worked as a Procurator in the Francoist parliament from 1971 to 1977. With the Falange being the only legal party in the one party state he served as the party's national director of press and radio...

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|align=left|Popular Socialist Party

Popular Socialist Party (Spain)

The People's Socialist Party was a Spanish political party.The origins of the party dated back to 1954 when the University professor, Enrique Tierno Galván published various academic studies of a Marxist character. In 1965, working together with Raúl Morodo, he formed the Castillian Socialist...

(PSP)
|align="right" valign=top|58,654
|align="right" valign=top|5.43
|align="right" valign=top|1
|align="left" | Manuel Sánchez Ayuso

Manuel Sánchez Ayuso

Manuel Sánchez Ayuso was a Spanish economist and politician in the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party and Popular Socialist Party....

Fuerza Nueva

(AN18)
|align="right" valign=top|14,275
|align="right" valign=top|1.32
|align="right" valign=top|0
|align="left" |
|-
|align=left|Others
|align="right" |46,574
|align="right" |4.30
|align="right" |0
|align="right" |
|-
|}

Turnout=84.7%
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